Each of us has a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us.
For a while, we're humbled.
Then, if we don't guard our hearts and minds,
we begin to think God is so good to us because we have done something right
(Isaiah 38)
Untying the Cords of the Yoke (Week 1, Day 4)
Breaking Free by Beth Moore 

Be strong and courageous;
do not be afraid nor dismayed
before the king of Assyria, nor before all the multitude that is with him
for there are more with us than with him.
With him is an arm of flesh;
but with us is the Lord our God,
to help us and to fight our battles
- 2 Chronicles 32:7-8

For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness,
and of lawlessness leading to ore lawlessness,
so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness
- Rom 6:19

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels
that the excellence of the power
may be of God
and not of us
- 2 Corinthians 4:7

A reminder of our own guilt should have a tremendous impact on how we treat others who are also "guilty"

...yet often God years for us to ask His help; instead, we look for the aid of human agents

We often don't recognize our captivity until the enemy has a hook through our noses

...the saddest kind of captive, one who refused to be free on God's terms - the only term that exists for authentic freedom.

Untying the Cords of the Yoke (Week 1, Day 1)
Breaking Free by Beth Moore

Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place,
and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged.

It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever.

At no time is our vision more capable of seeing God in His rightful place than when the focus of our former attentions has been removed from our sight


Untying the Cords of the Yoke (Week 1, Day 2)
Breaking Free by Beth Moore

God hates pride because it dethrones Him and puts ourselves at the center of our universe

Our tendency [is] to judge someone's entire life by a brief season of failure

Untying the Cords of the Yoke (Week 1, Day 1)
Breaking Free by Beth Moore