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Are there some specific personal situations coming to mind as we share about Jesus’ desire and power to remove bondages from our lives and break the yokes off our necks? You may be thinking about an area of your life where you know you are chained down — where there is a need for the Lord to remove a yoke and break it into pieces. You and I both know He will gladly help us with those areas. All we have to do is ask Him.

Would you like to deal with that matter once and for all right now? Let’s ask Jesus to release us from that yoke by praying the following prayer together.

Lord, first and foremost, I want to recognize and honor you as my Messiah — the Anointed One who has forgiven me, released me from captivity, and chosen me to be used for Your purposes. Thank You, Lord, for pouring out Your grace upon me and making me Your very own. I commit myself afresh to You with this prayer.

Now I want to confess that there are some areas of my life in which I am burdened by a yoke. No one else but You knows how bound up I am, and I need Your help to get free. Lord, please remove these bondages from me that hamper me and hinder me. I also ask You to destroy them completely. Break their hold over me from this point forward.

Thank You, Lord, for bringing complete freedom to me. I give You all praise and all honor. Help me in the days ahead to step into the new liberty You have provided for me. I want to walk in a way that has eluded me until this moment of freedom which You have provided. Thank You for removing and breaking the yoke that has weighed me down.In Jesus name Amen.

As soon as I heard this Word from the Lord, something leaped inside of me. I recognized it as a very powerful, potentially liberating word. I remembered hearing this exact expression over the years from many speakers, so I assumed it was actually a verse of Scripture. It was not.

Checking in a concordance, I found a citation that matched it fairly closely, and what a powerful verse it is! Isaiah 10:27 says: “It shall come to pass in that day that his burden [the burden of the Assyrian] will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed [broken] because of the anointing oil.”

I spent a few more minutes searching through the Word for “the anointing breaks the yoke,” yet never found it. However, what I did find was extremely encouraging. First of all, there are many references to yokes. Secondly, in the references that deal with the Lord’s help with “yokes” or “burdens” or “chains,” most times the Lord first removes them. Consistently, His second step is to break them so they can never again be placed upon us.

We see this pattern clearly in Isaiah 58:6, a verse about the kind of fast which is acceptable to the Lord. “To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens [the bonds of the yoke], to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?”

Removing and breaking every yoke. Extremely good news, wouldn’t you agree?