“So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.”
— Isaiah 10:27

We have all at one time or another felt weighed down by something, as if a burden is around our neck or on our shoulders pressing down on us. This is a picture of the yoke of oppression the prophet was referring to in Isaiah 10:27. That yoke may be fear, worry, or depression. It may be something you have been dealing with so long that you think it will never go away. But Isaiah 10:27 gives us hope.

The verse says the yoke is broken because of fatness, or “because of the anointing,” as the King James Version puts it. In other words, the fatness is the anointing, and the anointing breaks the yoke of oppression. Now consider the fact that 1 John 2:20 says you have received an anointing from the Holy One. This is not the anointing on your pastor or on your prayer partner. John is saying you are anointed. That means you have what you need to break free of everything in your life that is keeping you bound.

Jesus wants you to be free. You have to believe that. Jesus said, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:31–32). Beloved, you were created and saved to stand up and break every yoke that is preventing the Spirit of God from being fully manifest through your life. Don’t stop a quarter of the way up the mountain. Continue on to the top of the mountain.

God wants to break every yoke off our lives by His anointing. The Bible says Jesus has come to make us free (Gal. 5:1), and “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). I pray that you will believe this and that you will set your mind to overcome in this world. Freedom and liberty are your portion. Don’t settle for anything less. Keep on pressing in and pressing on. It often happens little by little, but you are being changed day by day. Keep your eyes set on Jesus.

Father God, help me to stand boldly in the truth that I can be free of every yoke of bondage. I declare that I am anointed, and I resist every device of the enemy to keep me bound by oppression. I declare freedom over my life in the name of Messiah Jesus.

Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider, Rivers of Revelation (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2020), Used by permission.