Sinful habits are hard to break, but even if you've been in bondage for years, there is hope. This is. Well, today, Nancy Lee-Demoss will tell us how to sow the word of God

into our lives in order to reap a life of freedom. Let's join Nancy as she speaks to a small group

of women. Not too long ago, I was at a picnic, and a young wife, a friend of mine came up to me.

I haven't seen her in a while and she said,

Nancy, I just have to tell you that God has set me free. She said, I had given up hope that it could ever be possible, but God has set me completely free from years of bondage.

Now, she began to tell me about the particular area of bondage in her life, and I'm going to tell

you a little bit more about her story in a few moments.

But when we think about this matter of bondage, I'm reminded that there's a progression that

leads to bondage.

We've been looking at that progression, and we've seen that every area of bondage in our lives begins with a lie. We listen to the

lie, we dwell on it, we believe the lie, sooner or later we'll act on what we believe,

and when we begin acting on lies, we ultimately set patterns, strongholds, areas of bondage in place

in our lives.

In this session, I want us to focus on the steps to freedom.

We've seen the progression that leads to bondage.

The progression that leads us to freedom is really just the opposite.

Instead of listening to lies, we have to commit ourselves to listen to the truth,

to have a constant intake of the truth into our minds and our hearts,

to feed our minds with the truth.

You've heard people who are really into health matter say,

you are what you eat. Well, you are in your mind, what you feed into your mind. And those of us

who are taking a steady intake or diet of the world's ways of thinking into our minds through the things we read, the things

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