"Be Freed"

And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.
And when Jesus saw here, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your sickness."
And He laid His hands upon her; and immediately she was made erect again, and began glorifying God.

I love the way Jesus always got to the root of a problem. In the synagogue, he encountered a woman who for eighteen years had been bent over; doubled-up and unable to stand straight. But her problem wasn't a bad back. She didn't have osteoporosis. A doctor or a chiropractor couldn't help her. The Bible says she had a sickness caused by a spirit. This was a spiritual attack.
When Jesus called her over, His words reveal the fact that He recognized the spiritual root. He said, "Woman, you are freed from your sickness." Not "You're healed" but "You're freed." The KJV says "You are loosed from your infirmity."
Loosed. Freed. She stood up straight up and began to glorify God, something she hadn't been able to do for eighteen long years.

There is a spiritual root to many of our adverse circumstances and situations. Many of the trials that keep us "bent over" are spiritual. Financial situations. Relationship problems. Various addictions. All of these have spiritual roots. Many of God's people need to be loosed today.