Week 8: Chapter 7 — Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom

1.Isaiah 57:14 records God commanding, 'Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle out of the way of My people.' Moore finds enormous encouragement in the fact that this road-clearing is something God commands — it is His active agenda for His people. What does it mean to partner with God in this road-clearing work rather than waiting passively for freedom to arrive?

2.Moore identifies several categories of obstacles to freedom. What are the major categories she discusses in this chapter, and which resonates most with your own experience?

3.She argues that one of the most effective obstacles the enemy deploys is *shame* — not godly conviction that leads to repentance, but the toxic variety of shame that convinces us we are too broken to be truly free. How do you distinguish between conviction from the Holy Spirit and shame from the enemy in your own interior life?