EMANCIPATION CAN BE FOR ALL WHO WANT IT: (Encouraging Freedom Through the Journey of Bible Reading)

By Angelena Smith Floyd

This book is about my journey to become free from ideologies and beliefs that had me and also has others in bondage not knowing they have been set free by the blood of Christ Jesus' ransom sacrifice and not realizing anyone who wants to be set free has been already emancipated from slavery. Shows how God’s Word shows those who have come to this realization can live with this freedom in their present life. No need t wait until you died to go to heaven. Only The Most High God and His Son can give through The Kingdom. Matthew 6:32,33 The freedom of spiritual closest with Our Creator is for us now by examing the Bible for ourselves with the help of The Helper as Christ told us in John 14:26” But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things and bring back to your minds all the things I told you.”(NWT) God’s word needs no interpretation it says what it means. Through prayer and waiting and relying upon and trusting the Son of God who has been given all authority Matthew 28:19,20 anyone can be set free if they want and have the right papers given by the proper Authority. No men are our masters or control our future, Only the One who gave and gives us life every day we breathe and directs our future homes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664282735

Angelena Smith Floyd

I am a woman who loves reading God’s Word. I am thankful for learning how to study at 19 years old. I married very young age 16 my husband was 20, and by 18 years of age, I was praying for help on my bathroom floor, for God to help me and my husband to raise these children. I was pregnant with #3 our third son. We both want to find a way to worship God in a better way than we were both raised by Single Mothers who never married. Not knowing anything about marriage or married life from our upbringing. I was the oldest of seven young siblings so I knew a little about babies because of caring for my siblings. We just wanted a successful and happy family, a Home, nice neighborhood to live in to be able to give our children the life we did not have. We loved each other very much,But, we learned that was not enough to raise a family with no perverse training in to get it ready. I thought my prayers were answered when I started studing the Bible with the religion I was part of it and they were glad to teach me how to study. Sadly this led to a lot of division and dysfunction and my children althought now have what my husband and I could not give them. With many scares from our youthful dysfunction and instability . But every morning I would awake by 5 am or 5:30 am when I did not work nights, to read the Bible. I still have this routine at 64years old now yet with must more benefits. I had no freedom, no peace with all the unstableness, Our marriage end after 21years in divorce, still more dysfunction. My five sons grew up married young not as young as my husband and I in their 20s. One day I prayed for peace with tear supplication, I read Ephesians chapter 2, and by this time I was reading many different translations. Dismissing some translations in this chapter I read in four different translations. I decided I wanted the peace and freedom only Christ Jesus could give, I found it in Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”(KJV) On June 18, 2022, I started writing this book, hoping to explain to my children and family, friend what was happening to me and why I was happy, stable, and at peace, because I have the freedom to praise Our Heavenly Father and His Son for what they have done for Humankind.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Dedicated

June 18, 2022

Acknowledge

About the Author

FOREWORD

I wrote this book to encourage myself and others about the power of The Heavenly Father and His Son’s Love for those who love them and want to be free.

(Merriam-Webster) Freedom is –the quality or state of being free: such as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action. (Merriam Webster) Journey- Something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another: an act or instance of traveling from one place to another. Our Creator and His Son have gone through a great deal to provide a manual. This guidance to provide this freedom and journey has been made possible to shared. Sometimes what we learn may seem necessary only for a time. Emancipation comes when one is free from what has oppressed or controlled them. This freedom can come in any form or many areas of life.

The documentary I will mention at the start of this book started me understanding what was happening in my emancipation from my beliefs and culture. It caused me to wonder if others were in enslavement as I was and did not realize it. Due to my upbringing, culture, and belief systems, I needed to carefully examine this by reading the Bible or Holy Scriptures. Like some who are mentioned in the Scriptures, becoming encouraged, and guided then reading God’s word like the Bereans was necessary. Acts 17:11 (NKJV) "These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica,