When Lazarus was risen from the dead, he walked out bound hand and foot in graveclothes and his face wrapped with a cloth.

Jesus instructed those around to loose him and let him go. (John 12:43-44)

Sometimes we need others to loose the graveclothes that still bind us and remove the cloth that keeps us from seeing the life He’s called us to walk in.

We need people in our lives to help us see places the enemy still occupies, areas we are blind to, lies we are believing, and things in our life that have us bound.

Oftentimes full deliverance is a process that requires relationships with others. We were not meant to walk this Christian journey alone. There’s a need in your life for the knitting together with the Body of Christ.

Jesus came to preach the gospel to the humble, heal the brokenhearted, set at liberty those who are oppressed, open the prison doors to those who are bound, proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind. (Luke 4:18, Isaiah 61:1)

We are called to do the same.

It’s when we knit ourselves with other believers outside the church walls that we begin to see most of us are still oppressed, bound, held captive, blind, and carrying a broken heart. We are all in need of the healing, sight, and liberty that comes from the light of deep fellowship.

The enemy does not want this. He wants us to continue presenting polished versions of ourselves on Sunday mornings and returning home to isolation, cycling through the same strongholds, lies, and sins.

The living shouldn’t be bound like dead men; however, many Christians who still are. I can testify that our family was, even after decades of faithful church attendance and Bible study.

We are now continually experiencing deep deliverance because we are assembled with the Body of Christ, walking in the light of close fellowship, and experiencing His manifestation in our midst.

We must ask ourselves: Am I still bound as a dead man? And whose graveclothes and face covering am I helping to loose and remove?