A StrongholdYour thoughts are like a stronghold that can rule your life for good or evil. Your mind, will and emotions are closely connected. The Scriptures give counsel in Isa 2:3 as it is written, "You will keep him in perfect peace,whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You." NKJV If you use your will to control your thought life you will be able to have perfect peace. A stronghold is spoken about in the Word of God both in a positive and a negative way. For a positive example it says in... Nah 1:7, “The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him”. NKJV. On the negative side, you could be held in a demonic stronghold of lies that need to be broken down to make you free. As spoken about in the Word of God: 2 Cor 10: “ knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.” A physical stronghold was a towering huge thick wall or fortified fortress to keep invading armies from reaching the people. But it also could be built to hold something inside. It can be a place of safety or it can be a prison. It's made of stones cemented together with mortar. The stones represent an accumulation of ideas or beliefs.
OR a Prison to you These beliefs or ideas can be true or false. If these beliefs that you hold strong inside you are truth, they will provide protection and positive benefits for you. But if you believe a lie, your beliefs will be as a prison to you. They will cause much harm to you. (Beware of commonly accepted lies like Horoscopes)The lies will become a stronghold preventing the truth from coming in and making you free.
Your emotional wellness depends on what kind of stronghold is in your mind. To believe lies can bring you anxiety, worry, despair, depression, shame, guilt, and other emotional stresses. The fortified stronghold of truth brings freedom, safety, peace, love, joy, hope, excitement, exhilaration and other positive effects within your emotions.What you believe effects your soul or mind,body and spirit. God uses the word stronghold to give you a word picture of what is happening to you... Imagine yourself in a stronghold of wrong beliefs or lies (of whatever kind), these lies are keeping you captive. Lets say you have had these false beliefs for a long time. You actually believe these lies and even if they make you miserable, you feel that's a norm for you. At least you know what to expect. One day an invading army comes and attacks the stronghold. You get upset, your “normal” is being disturbed. What you don't realize is the invading army has come to set you free. To give you a life of abundance that you have never known. The invading army is the Holy Spirit coming with the Word of God. He wants to make you free with the Word of truth. When this happens, don't fight it, embrace it.
To break down the strong-thoughts of false beliefs the “Truth” must be used which is the “Word of God”. The Word of God is Jesus Himself. John 1:14 says, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” NKJV There are so many bound up like prisoners because of demonic lies. There is so much misery in peoples lives. This is not the will of God for you. There is a way out! The Word of God brings you Hope, earnest expectation of your impending freedom. You can live a life of freedom and abundance in Christ. Don't stay in a stronghold of lies. Go to God and ask Him to deliver you. Refuse to give up hope, become a prisoner of hope as God says in His Word Zech 9:12, “Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.” NKJV. What ever the evil one has stolen from you, let God restore double to you by believing His Word. Go after Him with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength and you will find Him. In Jesus is the answer to all your worries concerns and problems. It's not just a cliché, Jesus is the answer. What I am speaking about here is the pure Gospel. Gospel means Good News. The good news is that Jesus has won the victory for us in every area of life. Apply the Blood of Jesus to your life.
It's not a religion! It's a relationship with a living person. A real person who is alive and well. With the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ came victory for what ever you seek Him for. He is the mighty deliverer. He is the One who comes to break down the strongholds that keeps you a prisoner of lies. He is the Word of God. With man it is impossible but God is a loving Father to those who Believe on His Son and He cares deeply about all things that concern you. You are so important to God that He sent His only begotten Son to die in your place. Don't listen to the lies of the enemy that tell you that you don't matter. He lies as he says, “who cares about you?” I'll tell you, Almighty God cares deeply for you, who else really matters? As it is written, Ps 142:4-5 Look on my right hand and see, For there is no one who acknowledges me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for my soul. I cried out to You, O Lord: I said, "You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.” God Himself will be your treasure and you will be His child.
A Prayer to God gives Him permission to intervene in your life. Ps 141:8 But my eyes are upon You, O God the Lord; In You I take refuge; Do not leave my soul destitute. Ps 86:4-5 Rejoice the soul of Your servant, For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, God has great planes for you. He came that you might have life and have it more abundantly. As it is written in John 10:10-11, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” (he is the enemy, the one who lies to you), “ I (Jesus said) have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” NKJV God inspired men wrote the Word of God as a love letter to you. From beginning to end it is for the purpose of revealing Jesus to you. The Holy Scriptures are a revelation of Jesus Christ. All the stories all the things written in the Word of God are pointing You to Jesus. Hear truth as you read scriptures and let that Lord build for you a stronghold of truth and safety;
Prov 21:21 Whoever guards his mouth and tongue Keeps his soul from troubles. NKJV Watch your words and hold your tongue; you'll save yourself a lot of grief. You know their names — Brash, Impudent, Blasphemer — intemperate hotheads, every one. (from Prov 21:23-24 THE MESSAGE: The Bible) As God says through the apostle Paul ; “We are human, but we don't wage war as humans do. We use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.” 2 Cor 10:3-5, New Living Translation Paul continues with instruction as he says, “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, “ 2 Cor 10:5-6. There is freedom and glorious victory found the Bible. “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deut 4:29-30 “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. “Ps 18:2 NKJV Go To Jesus Himself- Experience God for Yourself. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3John 1:2 KJV
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