A Clean Break: Cut the Cords and Walk in Freedom
King of Glory Ministries - June 26, 2026
There comes a point in our walk with Jesus when we have to make a decision:
Am I going to keep revisiting what God delivered me from, or am I going to walk forward in freedom?
During this time of intercession, the prayer kept returning to freedom—freedom from bondage, freedom from old attachments, freedom from fear, freedom from the opinions of people, and freedom from anything that competes with our complete surrender to Jesus.
Some things cannot simply be managed.
Some things must be cut off.
The Lord Is Righteous—He Cuts Us Free
Psalm 129:4 gives us a powerful picture:
“The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.” — Psalm 129:4 KJV
A cord represents attachment. Something has been connected to something else.
And sometimes we can be physically removed from an old season while still being emotionally, mentally, or spiritually attached to it.
We left—but we’re still looking back.
We forgave—but we’re still rehearsing it.
God delivered us—but we continue defining ourselves by what happened before the deliverance.
Jesus did not set us free so we could spend the rest of our lives staring at the chains lying on the floor.
Walk.
There is life ahead.
Stop Living for the Opinions of People
One of the cords God may have to cut is our dependence on human approval.
Jesus said:
“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul…” — Matthew 10:28 KJV
People cannot be our compass.
Their approval cannot determine our obedience, and their rejection cannot be allowed to cancel our assignment.
Joshua was commanded repeatedly to be strong and courageous. God didn’t tell Joshua to wait until everybody understood him. He told him to meditate on His Word and obey what He had been given.
“Be strong and of a good courage…” — Joshua 1:6 KJV
Courage isn’t always loud.
Sometimes courage simply looks like obedience when nobody understands why you’re obeying.
Your Words Are Not Empty
Jesus said:
“The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” — John 6:63 KJV
This is why we must become intentional about what we agree with, repeat, rehearse and declare.
We cannot spend an hour praying for freedom and then spend the rest of the day speaking bondage over ourselves.
“I’ll never change.”
“Nothing ever works for me.”
“I’ll always be this way.”
No.
Bring your words back into agreement with God.
If God calls you redeemed, don’t keep calling yourself rejected.
If God calls you free, don’t build your identity around your former chains.
If God says go forward, stop writing love letters to yesterday.
Sometimes Freedom Requires a Clean Break
Acts 19 gives us an extraordinary picture.
When the people of Ephesus encountered the power of Jesus, those who had practiced occult arts brought their books together and burned them publicly.
They didn’t put the books in storage.
They didn’t save a few “just in case.”
They didn’t try to mix their former practices with their new faith.
They made a clean break.
Acts 19:20 tells us what happened afterward:
“So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.”
That is powerful.
Their separation from the old preceded an extraordinary description of the advancement of the Word.
There are seasons when God may put His finger on something and say:
That cannot come where I’m taking you.
An old practice.
An unhealthy relationship.
A habit.
An offense.
An identity.
A mindset.
A dependency.
An attachment to someone’s approval.
Whatever it is, obedience may require more than reducing its influence.
Sometimes obedience says, “This ends here.”
Don’t Let Bitterness Reconnect You to What Hurt You
Hebrews 12:15 warns us about a root of bitterness springing up and causing trouble.
That’s important because bitterness can keep us connected to something we believe we’ve already left.
You can leave the situation and still carry the offense.
You can stop speaking to someone and still have a daily conversation with them inside your head.
You can move into a new season while continuing to emotionally live in the old one.
That’s not freedom.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean pretending something didn’t happen. It means refusing to allow what happened to become the governing force of your future.
Pull up the root.
Give the wound to Jesus.
And keep moving.
Authority Must Operate Through Love
Spiritual authority is never an excuse for pride, arrogance or cruelty.
Paul makes this unmistakably clear:
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass…” — 1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV
We can pray loudly.
We can understand spiritual gifts.
We can make declarations.
We can know Scripture.
But if love is missing, something essential is missing.
Kingdom authority and Kingdom love belong together.
Our desire for people to be free should come from love.
Our intercession for cities and nations should come from love.
Our desire to see billions come to Christ should come from love.
We’re not fighting people.
We’re praying for people.
Abide Before You Ask
Jesus gives us another important key:
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will…” — John 15:7 KJV
Notice the order.
Abide.
Let His Word abide.
Then ask.
Authority isn’t independent of intimacy.
The goal isn’t learning spiritual formulas so we can make things happen. The goal is remaining so close to Jesus that His Word shapes our desires, prayers, speech and actions.
This is relationship—not ritual.
Come Out and Stay Out
Revelation 18:4 contains a sobering call:
“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins…”
There is still a call to separation.
Not isolation from people—we have been given a ministry of reconciliation.
But separation from the systems, values, compromises and practices that oppose Christ.
We cannot reach people by becoming bound to the very things Jesus wants to free them from.
We are called to carry light into darkness without allowing darkness to take residence within us.
Get right and tight with Jesus.
Not religious performance.
Not empty ritual.
Not habitual Christianity where we know all the language but have stopped surrendering.
Abide.
Obey.
Forgive.
Love.
Pray.
Speak His Word.
Cut the cords.
And when Jesus brings you out of something, don’t keep looking backward trying to figure out whether you should go retrieve it.
Let it burn.
Let it go.
Let Jesus heal the wound.
And walk into the freedom He purchased for you.
Because sometimes the next move of God doesn’t begin with obtaining something new.
Sometimes it begins with finally making a clean break from the old.
“So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.” — Acts 19:20 KJV
Charnette Kay ⚔️
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