FREED Magazine

22/10/2025

Let these verses be gentle reminders for your heart this week—when life feels heavy, return to what’s unshakable: His Word💛

God’s truth still speaks, still comforts, and still restores.

17/10/2025

“I would feel miserable, pretending all was well when I knew it wasn’t. All the while, I was promising myself that I would not drink anymore, beating myself up about my constant drinking. Convinced that I was through with drinking, until around 2:00 in the afternoon, when I started feeling better. The next thing I knew, I would be formulating in my mind which store I was going to go to after work to buy wine, which had become my drink of choice. I stopped using ma*****na years before and became a connoisseur of wine. I would rotate stores daily so as not to appear to be the drunk that I was. I had people fooled about my secret life, everyone but me.“
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Comment “MORE”💬 below to read more of Doris’ testimony titled “God’s Timing.” We pray it blesses you and encourages you to believe there’s nothing God can’t do! Thank you for sharing your story with us Doris!

15/10/2025

Give the enemy no room.

“Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
-Ephesians 6:14-17 (NIV)

07/10/2025

“I remembered sleeping on a homeless shelter floor, a couch, and a twin-sized mattress, all while grasping my baby, who was less than a year old, and my 4-year-old. Life was hard. The poor choices I made out of simply wanting to be loved led me down a dark, lonely road. All I could think about was how I wanted an address, my own furniture, and nice clothes. At the time, I would envy the women I saw in passing because they always looked so put together. Meanwhile, I was deeply insecure because I could not afford to purchase nice form-fitting clothes. So instead, I’d dream about the day when I would have a closet full of fashionable items.”
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💬Comment “MORE” below to read the rest of Tarah’s testimony “From Homelessness to Freedom.” We pray it blesses and encourages you to believe that God is able to do far above what we could ask, think, or imagine!

22/09/2025

FREED DEVO📖

Have you ever fallen into the trap of believing that joy is meant to be experienced at the end of the journey?

If so, you and I are a lot alike. For a long time I believed that celebration, delight, and goodness needed to remain out of the picture if I was going to make it out on the other side of a rough season. As if sadness and sorrow deserved more of a center stage than they already had in my life. As if I needed to appear beat down, wrecked, and battered to prove that I was indeed not okay. As if I couldn’t enjoy the day to day glimmers of light that God offered me.

But it wasn’t until God opened up my eyes to the revelation of this text that I came to know that there is no making it through a rough time without joy leading the way.

See friend, the joy of the Lord IS your strength. It’s your fire, your fuel, and the wind beneath your wings. It is God’s breath, God’s presence, and God’s love when you’re IN the storm that gets you THROUGH the storm. But if you don’t stop to acknowledge that God is indeed trying to give you the gift of it? It’s possible you’ll miss it.

It is true that some days feel heavier than others, and it’s okay to acknowledge that. And yet it is also okay to acknowledge that you and I have access to a steady, unmovable, unchangeable God who shows himself faithful, true, and real every. single. day.

So how are you going to embrace joy this week? In the right here and the right now? What practical steps will you take to make sure you don’t miss His light?

Reading your responses in the comments below!⬇️

We love you!🫶🏽

17/09/2025

“It’s so important not to fall into the temptation of seeing God’s delay or His quietness as denial or disregard. We serve a compassionate and gracious God who isn’t withholding good things from those who walk with integrity (Psalms 84:11). He simply works in ways and in timing outside of our realm of understanding.

When we can release our will and our desires to Christ, we can trust in Him to align those things with His perfect plan and deliver them to us in His perfect timing. There is no need to try to manifest or manufacture things on our own. We simply can trust in God to be who He has always been and who He continues to be.

I’m so grateful God knew enough to know when I was truly ready to embrace and appreciate my husband for who he is. My husband is a man I would have waited a lifetime for because this life we live together is better than I could have ever imagined. We now get to build and create a life together in the most beautiful way, according to the will of God for the glory of God.“
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💬Comment “MORE” below to read the rest of ’s testimony about “Waiting on His Will”. We pray it blesses and encourages you!

03/09/2025

Hey Freed Family!

This is your reminder that in September, you’re free to begin again.

Whether that means you are picking up the idea again, taking up your devotional time with God again, or setting aside intentional time for rest again; you can do it.

Why? Because God’s not done, and if God’s not done; you shouldn’t be either.

Be encouraged, there’s still time to run YOUR race here🫶🏽

03/09/2025

27/06/2025

Your Friday reminder: Trust in the Lord with all your heart❤️

Choose to lean and depend on the One who has never failed and never will.

He’s already given you everything you need for the journey.

Will you receive it?