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Don’t let anyone or anything outside of you control you. Don’t be anybody’s puppet. Don’t let anyone pull your strings. You are not a puppet or some preprogramed robot. God does not control people. He is not interested in controlling you. More on this later.

Some who are reading this feel like you’re a victim of a lot of things, even in bondage and you don’t know how to break free. The truths shared in this lesson will set you free from all sorts of bondages and controls that other things and people have put on your life. Jesus said the truth will make you free. Here is the truth.

Work your way through the passage and note that Jesus didn’t let His brothers tell Him when to go to Jerusalem or what to do when He got there. He was led by His Father and He chose when to go. Disciples in Jerusalem would not openly acknowledge Him for fear of the Jewish leaders. Thus, fear controlled them.

People tend to be controlled by pretty much anything. Hormones! A mother of two came to my office asking me to pray for her. She was pregnant. She said that with her other two children she was absolutely controlled by her hormones, which made her and everyone else around her miserable. I prayed for her and for the next nine months she gave timely testimonies that she had been delivered from hormone control. Some people are controlled by their emotions. Depressed people are controlled by their depression or chemical imbalances. Fear is a terrible master. Phobias control the lives of many people. Phobia of storms. Rejection. Rodents. Insects. You name it.

Even parents are not to control their kids! Instructing and disciplining them is not the same as control. We wish some parents would control their kids! One lady said, “I just can’t control my kids. They’re just wild.” I felt like saying, “I know, I’ve seen them in WalMart,” but I didn’t. You shouldn’t try to control your kids, but you can lovingly train them to obey. I once witnessed about 30 kids from a black preschool come into McDonald’s and they each went to a seat and sat there without getting out of them while the teachers ordered their food. What they wanted was not discussed in the restaurant. They didn’t fight or run around or talk loudly. They behaved perfectly. I told the head teacher before they left how I admired all this and he said, “It’s all how you train them.” He was right.

Some parents are controlled by their kids. I mean, the whole household is run by what that kid wants and wants to do. Believe it or not, that’s wrong. Meeting their needs is not what I’m talking about. I know a family who desperately wanted to be in church, but they couldn’t come because, “Our kid cries every time we put her in the nursery, and we just can’t stand that.” So, they quit coming. I’m pretty sure the Bible doesn’t say, “Do not forsake assembling together, except in the case of your child not wanting to come.”

People’s jobs control a lot of people. When I worked for GM they were giving out orders to work on Sunday and I told them I wouldn’t because I went to church on Sunday. They told me they could fire me for not coming to work. I told them, “So fire me. There are other jobs; I’m not working on Sunday.” I check

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