The Oppressor is Defeated!

April 2026.

Celebrations of Passover and Easter are getting underway this week, and it’s a great time to pause and reflect on their significance. Both holidays commemorate God bringing deliverance from slavery for His people. Passover was a foretelling of the ultimate deliverance that would come through Christ.  

In the Passover, it was deliverance for the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt. In the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it was deliverance from our slavery to sin, and eternal separation from God. 

What does this have to do with coaching? Everything! 

The topic of anxiety comes up more frequently than any other in my coaching practice. And I am no stranger to it, myself. And anxiety sure feels a lot like slavery, doesn’t it? 

 I came across this Bible verse in Isaiah that speaks about our fears:

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass, that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor? The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread. For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar- the Lord Almighty is His name.” Isaiah 51:12-15

Here is the truth: Jesus has overcame the oppressor by His sacrifice on the cross, and by His bodily resurrection. Satan has no power over anyone who puts their faith in Christ. We don’t have to live like captives in the dungeon of anxiety. 

Those who are in Christ have no reason to fear anything or anyone!  Do we need reminders of this all the time? Yes! The devil will always try to distort truth and sow doubt about what God has said.

If you haven’t ever investigated who Jesus is…I encourage you to read His words in the Bible, in the Gospel accounts…and ask Him to show you the truth. The truth sets us free…from sin, death, and anxiety.