Pray Scriptures over and over until you experience lasting freedom. WORD OF GOD PRAYERġ6 Next Steps Ask God to fill your mind with His thoughts instead of yours. Satan is most effectively rebuked when a believer takes his or her stand on the Word of God. Our strongholds don’t require more power than it takes to raise the dead.ġ5 Weapons of Choice There isn’t a more powerful way to demolish strongholds than by praying Scripture. 2 God applies the same power to our need that He exerted when He raised Christ from the dead. That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead.”ġ4 Two Awesome Truths 1 God wields incomparably great power for those who choose to believe. Galatians 5:1 says, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” Ephesians 1: says, “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints and His incomparably great power for us to believe.
What is a stronghold free#
It is God’s will for us to be free of strongholds. We are thinking God’s thoughts about our situation rather than our own. When we pray and use Scripture in our prayers, we are in intimate communication with God. We take our thoughts captive making them obedient to Christ every time we choose to think Christ’s thoughts about any situation or stronghold rather than our thoughts or the devil’s thoughts. The primary strength we have is godliness which is achieved only by intimacy with God. The fastest way to lose balance in warfare is to rebuke the devil more than we relate to God. It is never the will of God for warfare to become our focus. The ultimate goal God has for us is not power but personal intimacy with Him.
Prayer keeps us in constant communication with God. Ephesians 6:17 tells us, “Pray in the Spirit on all occasions.” Our two weapons for demolishing strongholds are the Word of God and Prayer. It is the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. They are associated with the “knowledge of God.” The purpose of our warfare is to take our thoughts captive.ġ0 What are our weapons? Only one piece of armor in Ephesians 6 is actually an offensive weapon. Our weapons are not the weapons of the world. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”ĩ What are our weapons? II Corinthians 10:3-5 tells us: On the contrary – they have divine power to demolish strongholds. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. Strongholds have to be demolished.Ĩ What is our goal? II Corinthians 10: 3-5 says,
We cannot use carnal weapons like pure determination, secular psychology or denial. Nothing in our Christian life is more powerful than a stronghold. I am too emotionally handicapped to ever be Ok. God can’t possibly fill the void in my life. I’ll just have to wait until heaven to get over this. God may work for other people, but He doesn’t work for me. Everyone thinks these kinds of thoughts most of the time. There’s nothing wrong with this relationship. After all I’ve been through, I deserve this. I am absolutely worthless – nothing but a failure. I’m caught and there’s nothing I can do about it. I can never be victorious over this compulsion. Satan is the father of lies – he twists lies until they seem to be true. That is the enemy’s precise goal.ĭeception is the glue that holds every stronghold together – since nothing is bigger than God, anything mastering the Christian’s life keeps its grip only through deception. When we are under the power of a stronghold, it consumes so much of our emotional and mental energy that abundant life is strangled – our calling remains unfulfilled and our lives ineffective. The most effective way to influence behavior is to influence thinking. In any warfare waged by the enemy against the believer, the primary battlefield is the mind. A stronghold is anything that steals, kills or destroys the abundant, fruitful life of a believer.ĭepression Pride Idolatry Unbelief Unforgiveness Addictions Feelings of guilt Feelings of Despair Sexual sins Food addictions Feelings of Insecurity Feelings of Rejection
It steals our focus And causes us to be overpowered. It steals our focus."- Presentation transcript:ġ What is a stronghold? A stronghold is anything that exalts itself in our minds, pretending to be bigger and more powerful than our God. Presentation on theme: "What is a stronghold? A stronghold is anything that exalts itself in our minds, pretending to be bigger and more powerful than our God.