{"id":114,"date":"2019-06-20T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2019-06-20T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:03:24","slug":"i-am-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"I am FREE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am FREE<br>Freedom. This is a recurring theme in my life. I have been held hostage by guilt and held by my own bondage of shame for so long in my life, it can be overwhelming to think about sometimes. What a beautiful truth that I can be and indeed am, free.&nbsp;I am free to worship Him through obedience.<br>I am free to walk, skip, and even run alongside the Creator because it is not about me.<br>I am free to obey because if it is good and right He put it in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am free to repent because He gives me grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am free to be bold because He put His confidence in me.<br>I am free to read His Word because He gives me understanding.<br>I am free to love others because He loves me completely.<br>I am free to live in joy because He has loosed my chains.<br>I am free to run to my\u00a0Abba\u00a0because He draws me to Himself.<br>I am free to stand because He gives me His armor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am free to follow because He leads me.&nbsp;<br>I am free to tell others about Him because He has given me a testimony.<br>I am free to forgive because He has shown me mercy.<br>I am free to help others because He has given me compassion.<br>I am free to praise Him because He has given me His peace.<br>I am free to be His because He died for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My freedom is truly not about me. It is a result of pure, real Love that comes with the expectation of accepting it. Living in it. Growing in it. Telling others about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank You Father for knowing me and loving me anyway. Thank You for putting a desire in me to love You, obey You, worship You. You know I am incapable of even wanting to do any of that without You. May I be putty in Your hands and make You smile as I go where You lead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am FREEFreedom. This is a recurring theme in my life. I have been held hostage by guilt and held by my own bondage of shame for so long in my life, it can be overwhelming to think about sometimes. What a beautiful truth that I can be and indeed am, free.&nbsp;I am free to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathyaddis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}