You’ve Been Released, Now What?

As a child of God, you have many concerns since you’ve been released. Peter wrote that you can throw your concerns, worries, and anxieties onto God. Yes, Jesus, wants them off of your shoulders and out of your mind. He knows what you need already. You can trust that Jesus will provide for you.

Since you don’t have to worry, what should you do? Trust, be thankful, and look for ways that God is providing for you. In addition, ask the Father to baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Every day, ask Jesus to fill you with the Holy Spirit, Who is the Promise of the Father. He is your Comforter and Helper. He gives you the resurrection power of Christ. He fills with peace, joy, hope and love.

• “casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].” (1Pet 5:7 AMP)
• “For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.” (Matt 6:8)
• “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Prov 3:5-6)
• “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Phil 4:19)
• “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” (Jn 10:27)
• “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Gal 5:25)
• “Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.” (Lk 24:49)
• “for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” (Acts 1:5)
• “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me” (Acts 1:8)
• “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Rom 15:13)
• “Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Rom 5:5)
• “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [allos = another of the same sort] Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” (Jn 14:16-18)

Helpful Questions:

1. Have you found a place to live, even if it is temporary? Thank God.
2. Do you need a job? Ask God to help you meet people who can assist you in finding a job. Make a note of how the Holy Spirit is leading you to find a job.
3. Are you looking for a local church to attend? God has a local church that He wants you to be a part of. Ask your chaplain, friend, or family member. Look on the internet for churches near you or call Mulberry Tree Ministries. We can do the research for you.
4. Do you need prayer? Ask a pastor, chaplain, friend, or family member to pray. You can call Mulberry Tree Ministries.

Spiritual Decisions You Can Make as God’s Child

We recommend, that even though you have immediate physical needs, trust that God will meet them for you. Begin to commit your life as a living sacrifice and commit all of your efforts to please God. Hallelujah! You have the indwelling Holy Spirit, you have spiritual gifts, and you can use your gifts to bless Christians and others. God has given you purposes to fulfill for Him. And He has created good works for you to do.

1. Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to a local church
2. Commit to seeking God’s kingdom and His righteousness first
3. Commit to hunger and thirst for righteousness
4. Ask God for the knowledge of His will, with wisdom and spiritual understanding
5. Confess that you want to walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him
6. Commit to do good works
7. Commit to grow spiritually as you gain more knowledge of God
8. Commit to ask God for His strength and might as you live in freedom. The Holy Spirit will produce joy, longsuffering, and patience in you.
9. Be thankful that you are in God’s kingdom of love. You can see His kingdom. You are already seated in heaven, spiritually. And you will eventually leave your body and enter His eternal glory.

• “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matt 6:33)
• “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable [euarestos] and perfect will of God.” (Rom 12:2)
• “that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Col 1:10)
• “Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” (2Thes 1:11-12)
• “for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” (Phil 2:13)
• “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works [agathos ergon], which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Eph 2:10)
• “not forsaking [egkataleipo] the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another” (Heb 10:25)
• “But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.” (1Cor 12:18)
• “But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care [merimnao = to be anxious about] for one another.” (1Cor 12:24,25)
• “As each one has received a gift [charisma], minister [diakoneo] it to one another, as good stewards [oikonomos] of the manifold [poikilos] grace [charis] of God.” (1Pet 4:10)
• “But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all” (1Cor 12:7)
• “But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.” (1Cor 12:11)
• “Having then gifts [charisma] differing according to the grace [charis] that is given to us” (Rom 12:6)
• “for the equipping [katartismos] of the saints for the work of ministry [diakonia], for the edifying [oikodome] of the body of Christ” (Eph 4:12)
• “Now concerning spiritual gifts [pneumatikos], brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant” (1Cor 12:1)
• “There are diversities of gifts [charisma], but the same Spirit.” (1Cor 12:4)
• “And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:47)
• “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matt 5:6)
• “to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Col 1:9)
• “being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Col 1:10)
• “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works [agathos ergon], which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Eph 2:10)
• “but grow [auxano] in the grace [charis] and knowledge [gnosis] of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (2Pet 3:18)
• “strengthened with all might [dunamis], according to His glorious [doxa] power [kratos], for all patience and longsuffering with joy” (Col 1:11)
• “And not only that, but we also glory [kauchaomai] in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Rom 5:3-5)
• “giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power [exousia] of darkness and conveyed [methistemi] us into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (col 1:12,13)
• “and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:6)