Luke 19 Part 1Luke 19 Part 1
Lance Johnson Ministries
Have you ever tried your hand at pottery? If you have, you know it's not as easy as it appears. The clay has a unique consistency—soft, pliable, and easily bendable. In the same way, we are the clay in our relationship with God. Just like raw clay, we a
29:30•6 Jul 2025
Untied and Unused No More: Bishop Lance Johnson on Luke 19 and Freedom
Episode Overview
- God must "untie" and release people from bondage before they can fully step into their purpose.
- Many churchgoers remain bound to old behaviours and addictions despite years of attendance, and are called to deeper freedom.
- God is seeking availability rather than human strength or intellect; He works through surrendered lives.
- Personal history of bondage and deliverance becomes a powerful basis for ministry and testimony.
- Believers are urged to shift from passive spectators to active participants who carry God’s light into dark places.
“God's got to untie you and unloose you before he can use you to the magnitude of why he found you.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This teaching from *Release the Roar* with Bishop Lance Johnson speaks straight to anyone who feels "bound"—by addiction, by church hurt, or by old patterns that just won’t shift. Working from Luke 19, Bishop Lance focuses on Jesus sending his disciples to collect a young donkey that was tied up and had never been ridden.
That picture becomes his message: "God's got to untie you and unloose you before he can use you." You'll hear him connect that image to real-life bondage—temper, resentment, unforgiveness, abuse, pornography, and addictions like alcoholism, methamphetamines, pills and opioids.
He reminds the audience that many have "been coming to church 20 years, but you're still bound to the same thing you was bound to before the Lord found you." The message pushes beyond simple attendance to a life fully given over to God’s will, where people move from spectators to participants. Bishop Lance insists that God doesn’t need anyone’s strengths or intellect: "God don't need your flesh... He needs your availability.
Because what God wants to do is not you. God wants to do something through you." There’s strong encouragement for those who feel disqualified by their past.
He urges them to answer every critic, every inner voice of shame, with one line: "The Lord has need of me." His style is energetic, emotional and direct, blending humour (including a story about his stubborn farm donkey) with urgent calls to break free from "institutionalised Christianity" and live as light in dark places.
If you’ve wrestled with addiction, church disappointment or feeling "not good enough", this talk offers a fiery reminder that your story and your freedom matter, and that you’re meant for more than just sitting on the sidelines. Are you ready to believe that the Lord has need of you?
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