Our trust in GOD brings down strongholds!
A stronghold is a hiding place for the demonic and is created in a person’s life through their thoughts.
To reemphasize, what Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2 Corinthians chapter 10:
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the True knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Thinking incorrectly not only empowers the enemy, but it also gives him a safe place to hide in our patterns of thought. Incorrect patterns of thought are dwelling places for the demonic. A bad thought is not a hiding place, but the lifestyle of a bad thought is!
The weaponry of GOD HIMSELF is to deal with the hiding place of the enemy in the thought processes of a person’s life. When you are thinking about a problem without the hope of a redemptive solution, you have placed your problem above GOD’S solution. If you present your problem to GOD, HE is prepared to release the solution.
Fear will always attract whatever information is needed to legitimize and validate its existence. This is the classic ploy of the enemy. So does jealousy and resentment. To validate such a mindset, we give it a virtuous name which gives its permission to remain and ultimately shape your personality. Your lifestyle reflects your personality and mindset.
We must be cautious about how we label such situations to rationalize their existence as being acceptable. Nefarious actors will attempt to use this ploy to lead us down a path of destruction. War mongers create an enemy so that we as a nation, will support going to war when in fact, the enemy simply wants to be left alone to pursue their own national interests. The war mongers’ motivations are power and money.
We must place ourselves in a place of absolute sensitivity to the work of The Holy Spirit. We must not forget His sensitivity toward us when we were redeemed from our past. Thankfully, it is the Lamb of GOD that sits on the Throne, not the Lion of GOD. Our thought life with GOD, leads to destruction. Our thought life with GOD leads us to HIS solutions which are superior to any alternative.
We have a need for constant dependency on GOD and not allow any thought that attempts to subvert our mindset away from the Mind of Christ, be tolerated, entertained, or accepted.
What we win in pulling down strongholds in our own mind, positions us to influence those around us to the Glory of GOD. The lies perpetuated by the enemy that have created strongholds in the minds of others will be brought down by the ministry of The Holy Spirit as we interact with those people. The Holy Spirit will provide us with ministry gifts such as a Word of knowledge to break down such strongholds.
Praise is a weapon of warfare. If I need healing, I praise HIM as the Healer. If I need finances, I praise HIM as My Providers. When I praise GOD, I am casting down vain imaginations and every thought and idea that tries to exalt themselves above the True knowledge of GOD. The battle you win in your mind, positions you to win the battle in the external.
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Nahum chapter 1:
7 The LORD is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him.
In this passage, it is a stronghold of the revelation of the goodness of GOD. What we trust in when a problem arises will tell us in what stronghold we rely on.
David wrote by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 18:
1 I will love You, O LORD, my Strength.
2 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.
Our Heavenly Father is our Tower of Strength where the enemy cannot overtake our thought life. Let us protect our renewed minds against all attacks of the enemy.