SEPTEMBER 29, 2025

   If you've got pain

He's a pain taker
If you feel lost
He's a way maker
If you need freedom or saving
He's a prison-shaking Savior
If you've got chains
He's a chain breaker

Zach Williams - Chain Breaker Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

ISAIAH 16-18

10You have forgotten God your Savior;

you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.

Therefore, though you set out the finest plants

and plant imported vines,

11though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,

and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,

yet the harvest will be as nothing

in the day of disease and incurable pain. (18:10-11)

EPHESIANS 1

 18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

JOURNAL 

The words from Chain Breaker echo a truth I often forget: “If you’ve got pain, He’s a pain taker. If you feel lost, He’s a way maker. If you’ve got chains, He’s a chain breaker.” It’s more than a lyric, it’s a confession that what I cannot carry, He already bore.

Isaiah warns of what happens when we forget this: “You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress” (Isaiah 17:10). When I try to build a harvest out of my own strength, it withers. My best-laid plans become nothing when disease and incurable pain strike. But when I remember the Rock, my fortress, I am reminded that my life is not sustained by my effort alone.

Paul prayed that the Ephesians would grasp this reality: “that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you…his incomparably great power for us who believe” (Ephesians 1:18–19). That power is not theoretical, it is the same power that raised Christ from the dead.

How can that power live in me? And yet, Scripture insists it does. This is the power that opens blind eyes, shakes prison walls, heals wounds, and breaks chains. If this is true, what then do I fear? What could I possibly shrink back from?

The question is not whether the power is real. The question is: do I believe it? Will I live as though Christ’s resurrection power is actually at work in me? Or will I keep returning to my own strength, my own plans, my own walls?

Nehemiah reminds me who holds it all: “You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens…You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you” (Nehemiah 9:6). The One who breathes galaxies into existence is the same One who breathes freedom into my lungs. He is both Creator and Chain Breaker.

Today, I want to live as though that’s true, not just in my words, not just in my prayers, but in the choices I make, the fears I face, and the trust I place in Him.

 6You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

NEHEMIAH 9:6