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Praying you have a blessed day!
with a message from God’s word here’s
Charles
Stanley now there are several reasons
that our prayer life is so weak but one
of the primary reasons is this we are
yet to comprehend the promises that God
has given to us as to the release of the
supernatural power of God when his
people begin to pray instead of feeling
weak the body of Christ ought to feel
strong
not strength within ourselves but
strength because of our relationship to
him now prayer is more than asking and
receiving and prayer is more than
expressing Thanksgiving and praise it is
asking and receiving it is thanking him
and praising him but it is more than
that and if you’ll turn to Ephesians
chapter 6 for a moment because in the
sixth chapter of Ephesians as Paul
begins to describe our Warfare he begins
in verse 10 saying finally my brethren
be strong in the Lord and the power of
His might then he says put on the whole
armor of God that you may be able to
stand against the Ws the trickery the
snares of the
devil then he describes what every
believer has to face daily when we’re
tempted daily in our business and our
home life the system in which we face
but we wrestle not against flesh and
blood but against principalities against
Powers against the rulers of the
darkness of this world World against
spiritual wickedness and high places the
body of Christ is in conflict with
spiritual forces that would attempt to
destroy it now if you’re in a war and
you don’t even know that you’re in a war
more than likely you’re going to get
wounded and if you’re in a war and you
don’t know who the enemy is you’re
working at a terrible
disadvantage and if the enemy has a
power base right in your front door
and you’re not even aware that it’s
there you’re bound to be defeated well
that is exactly what Paul is dealing
with in 2 Corinthians chapter 10 In this
passage Paul deals with a basic problem
that every lost man has and every
Christian has to some degree at some
time of the or the other and I’m afraid
far too many Christians all of their
life and that is Satan’s strongholds in
their life
so I want to deal with five aspects of
this and the first one is to Define what
we mean and what Paul means here when he
speaks of a
stronghold he says in verse four the
weapons of our Warfare are not carnal
but rather spiritual But Mighty strong
powerful through God to the pulling down
of strongholds now a stronghold in the
Greek is a fortified Castle now of
course when he talks about strongholds
he’s talking about spiritual
fortification in our life so let me
explain what I mean by
that a stronghold is a power base it is
um as he says a place of
fortification that is it is an area of
weakness in our life or something that
we have not yielded to God that he has
required and we yet to yield it to him
it is an area of
weakness or it can be error in our
thinking Satan is the father of all lies
and if Satan can get you to believing a
lie about yourself or about God or about
someone else he can take great advantage
of that so when he talks about a
stronghold he’s talking about a power
base that Satan has set up in our life
now that can be more than one thing if
it is an area of weakness if it is uh an
attitude or rather a um a stronghold of
an act action or habit that developed in
your life whatever it may be it didn’t
come all of a sudden and I want to show
you the steps by which a stronghold
develops in a person’s life but it is an
area of weakness something maybe that
you have not yielded to God that he
keeps talking to you about or it could
be an area of misunderstanding error in
your thinking that has made it possible
for Satan to set up a stronghold now let
me just illustrate what I mean by that
it can be some definite sin in your life
it can be a stronghold of jealousy it
could be a stronghold of greed it could
be a stronghold of lust it could be a
stronghold of resentment of bitterness
it could be a stronghold of rejection of
a poor of self-image or a
self-esteem it could be a
stronghold that could be take on one of
many forms and there could be more than
one and you see any area of weakness
that Satan discover CS in your life and
Satan is not omniscient he’s tested and
tried all of us to the fact that he
knows where we’re the weakest and when
we’re the weakest and he knows exactly
when and how to hit us so if he gets a
stronghold an area that proves to be
weak he’s going to do what every
military strategist will do discover the
weak point of the enemy and hit him at
that point and if you hit him at that
point and you succeed hit him again hit
him again hit him again that’s why we
discover those areas of our life where
Satan keeps harassing Us in the very
same area he is succeeding why should he
choose some other area so it can be now
listen it can be an area of weakness
that is developed or error in our
thinking and erroneous thinking and
allowing Satan to deceive us
successfully can create a tremendous
stronghold in our life it is a power
base from which Satan begins to harass
and to destroy entire life now when we
talk about uh the design of a parase uh
a stronghold what is Satan’s design and
he is the designer of it what is his
ultimate objective for getting a
stronghold in your life some area from
which he can really foul up your life
well his motivation rather
simple because when you begin to look to
see how he brings us the past he is the
one who designs it he looks at your life
and my life he sees their potential for
God and then he finds a weakness an area
that you’ve not yielded an era in your
thinking some point there that he sees
is is an area of weakness maybe that
you’ve not developed in your spiritual
life and he begins to hone in on that
all right what is his design in all that
first of all his design is to divide
your mind and you and I know that if
Satan harasses us in a particular area
or we discover some area of weakness
that he be begins to work on that can
divide your mind let’s say for example
that you had a stronghold of jealousy
and maybe there is just somebody in your
life or somebody around whom you work
that somehow Satan has just warped your
attitude and you think that person’s
better than you are you think they’re
trying to get the best of you you’ve got
all kinds of attitudes about that person
well Satan can use that one stronghold
in your life to divide your mind you’re
thinking about something else and that
person pops up in your mind you think
about some plan you’ve got you think
about one if they’ll be there and so he
is continuously dividing your mind
through that
stronghold not only will he divide your
mind a stronghold is a power base from
which Satan harasses us and here’s what
he does he lies to us for example and he
attempts to discourage us and that is he
says look what you’ve done there you’ve
gone and done it again what do you think
God thinks about you don’t you know that
God’s ashamed of you don’t you know that
God is disappointed with you listen that
is the devil’s lie let me tell you why
you could never disappoint god well you
just think about this God is omnicient
he sees your whole life from beginning
to end inside and out so that knowing
your life perfectly how could you
disappoint God when he already knows
what you’re going to do you can’t ever
disappoint God because disappointment
requires an expectation which you and I
do not live up to God already knows when
you’re going to blow it he already knows
when you’re going to sin he already
knows when you’re going to be obedient
so you and I cannot disappoint God we
disappoint ourselves and we Heap
condemnation upon ourselves because we
think we don’t live up to God’s
expectation well I want to tell you
something friend God already knows your
weaknesses and he knows when you’re
going to fall then you’re going to fall
it is Satan who lies doesn’t says see
there that we disappoint God that we
embarrass God that we shame God so
therefore we get under Satan’s
condemnation you see he finds an area of
weakness and then he keeps pointing his
satanic finger at you saying see there
look at you look what you’ve done now if
you don’t realize what Satan’s doing you
get all under the load saying yeah
that’s right and you become discouraged
you see what he attempts to do with his
power base is to discourage you in your
Christian Life to harass you
continuously and listen not only that to
bring on you a sense of self-
condemnation and also to involve himself
in your relationships to other people so
that you can’t get along with somebody
else it may be your husband or your wife
or your children or somebody you work
with but if he can get your attitude all
warped and get you down then your
attitude toward the lord is wrong your
attitude toward other people begins to
spill out on them and what happens you
begin to spread your negativism and your
resentment and your bitterness and your
disappointment on someone else and all
Satan’s doing is just clapping his hands
and man he’s just shouting all over hell
because he’s he’s defeating us and he’s
defeating us because he’s found and he’s
set up a power base a stronghold a
fortification and when we’re not aware
of it we keep looking around to ask
ourselves why is it that Satan keeps
getting the best of us at that point
because it is an area of our life we
have not dealt with so he just keeps on
working to discourage us to disillusion
Us and how many people after a while
they said look I don’t I just don’t
think this Christian Life Works why
don’t you think it works well I’ll tell
you why man I’ve confessed this I’ve
repented of it I’ve read the Bible I’ve
been to Revival meetings I’ve been to
seminars I’ve been to Bible conferences
I’ve been to Bible studies I’ve been to
prayer groups and man I’ve got the same
old problem and nothing works I want to
tell you something how many times have
you told God I promise you on a stack of
Bibles I’m not going to think this or do
this anymore it didn’t last 30 minutes
because that’s not the way you get rid
of strongholds Satan’s too smart if it
were that simple he’d come up with
something new and he doesn’t need to
come up with anything new because he
knows exactly how to defeat us a
stronghold is a satanic power base that
he’s moved into our life and he’s taken
advantage of a weakness and he has
deceived us into thinking that after all
listen this is the devil’s lie
everybody’s got weaknesses that’s the
truth in some area of Our Lives all of
us have some weakness some degree of
weakness not everybody the same so he
says everybody’s got weaknesses
everybody’s going to sin you’re not
going to ever be perfect so he lays the
foundation with all that stuff then he
says you might as well just
relax and just enjoy life and not try to
be perfect and not try to be righteous
and try to be all these things because
you’re not going to ever be any better
than you are everybody is really alike
to some degree the devil tells us and so
he says man just relax or he will say to
someone see it’s not working you might
as well quit reading the Bible and going
through all this religious jargon
because it’s not not working proof is
look at your life you’ve prayed and
begged and pleaded and cried and it’s
not working so just forget it and my
friend you’d be surprised of how many of
God’s people have said that’s right man
it just doesn’t work backslide on God
now listen they’re not happy and they
are more miserable than they were when
they were trying and being defeated but
they think it doesn’t work why should I
keep on trying something that doesn’t
work I don’t have time for any more
burdens in the Christian life has become
one big whopping burden in my life and
Satan’s just rejoicing all over himself
because he’s telling lies and we’re
accepting his lies anytime listen
anytime any believer feels that God
condemns him he’s believing the devil’s
lie because God has never condemn one of
his children that is purely from the
devil but you see he designs that
stronghold he moves into our life in a
given weakness and what does he do it
just evolves from there until it
overflows in every single aspect of your
life now the third thing I want us to
notice here and that is how does a
stronghold develop in a person’s life
well there two ways they develop now
watch this the first one is involuntary
the second one is
voluntary let’s look at an involuntary
one an involuntary stronghold is the
result a power base that Satan gets in
our life as a result not of something
that we have chosen or something that we
do but rather something that has been
pre-programmed into our thinking it may
be from childhood from our parents or
the people we associated with or it may
be later on in life but thoughts that
are fed into our mind and and as we
begin to think uh these things these
thoughts whatever they may be sometimes
Satan can get a parab base for example
let’s say that you grew up in a home
where your parents didn’t get along and
your brothers and sisters they fought
and fussed all the time and you were the
object of continuous criticism all the
time until you came along long in your
adult age and you just felt like I’m no
good never can do anything never will
succeed at life I’ll never get the
breaks in life and so you just live in
the negative case all the time Satan
will take advantage of what was what
entered your mind back on involuntarily
the things listen the things you learned
about yourself they were lies told you
by the devil they were lies told you by
somebody else but Satan took advantage
of somebody else’s very poor training
inject them into your mind and he just
takes that little teeny foothold and he
just Builds on that all of your life and
I meet people all the time who have
tremendous potential it is you can see
it on the inside once they begin to talk
but at first they’re all like this I’ll
never be able to amount anything I’ll
never be able to succeed in life I’ll
never get the breaks things just don’t
ever come my way and and they live
almost as if it were emotionally
deformed they just can’t quite
straighten up and face life and believe
that God could do something in their
life well you see that’s just one aspect
and one illustration of how a person can
be pre-programmed and Satan will take
advantage of what parents say to their
children and set up a stronghold that
can defeat them all of their life I mean
live a defeated life because of the lie
that Satan injected into their mind
you’ll never amount anything you’ll
never make it in life you’ll probably
end up in prison
well as you look back in your life and
think about maybe a stronghold even
today that Satan may have in your life
where did it come from is it something
that somebody threed into your mind that
you began to believe and maybe an
attitude in your life that has really
been a problem all of your life okay
that’s an involuntary way but what about
the voluntary way how does a stronghold
develop in a life where is you and I are
primarily responsible now listen all of
us are responsible ible for all the
strongholds in our life whatever they
may be it may be a stronghold of doubt
it may be a stronghold of fear that
somehow you’re always fearing the worst
is going to happen maybe you just can’t
believe in people you just can’t believe
in God you expect the worst to happen
and and and somehow you you just can’t
get it together and when you put all the
pieces to life together somehow they
just never quite fit and you’ve not
quite figured out why they don’t fit
does Satan have a stronghold of fear a
stronghold of doubt
well how does this develop voluntarily
let me just say something here first and
then I want to give you about six words
for you to jot down when you and I
deliberately violate the law of God we
deliberately sin against God and we
think well you know one sin’s not going
to hurt anybody I mean a little bit of
sin never hurt anybody that’s what we
say that’s what the devil tells us and
once in a while we believe that a little
bit more a little bit of poison won’t
hurt
anybody well so young person comes along
and they says look you know I want to be
a Christian but uh I’m going to wait
till I get to be about 25 when I have
really enjoyed myself as if becoming a
Christian you cease to enjoy yourself
but that’s the devil’s lie once I get to
be about 25 then I’m going to turn my
life over to God I want to tell you
something Satan can get a foothold in
your life as an unbeliever and even
after you saved unless you understand
what’s happening and deal with it Satan
will come right back and he will
establish that foothold and that
stronghold in your life and he will
harass you even as a Believer every day
of your Christian Life unless you able
to identify see what’s happening and
learn how to deal with
it so here’s what happens how does one
start this is the way it starts first of
all it starts with a thought every
stronghold begins with a thought it may
be a thought about greed jealousy lust
or whatever it might be but it begins
with a thought the thought moves into
consideration that is once the thought
is your mind you begin to think about it
and you begin to look at all the aspects
of it just like a a jewel you turn it
around see how it reflects in every
angle so a thought becomes a
consideration a
consideration becomes an attitude the
more you think about
it the more you prone to start thinking
in that direction so it becomes an
attitude the attitude becomes an action
you think it long enough and you lean in
that direction long enough the the
attitude is going to become an action
the action if can if repeated over and
over and over again is going to become a
habit and the Habit is going to become a
stronghold so you began with a very
innocent thought which you considered
and you considered carefully and you
considered often it became an attitude
that developed in your spirit in your
mind your heart the attitude became an
action after a while you had to vent
what you were thinking the action
repeated once twice three times 10 times
100 times became a habit and the Habit
before long you understood it was no
longer you that was in control now the
Habit is controlling you Satan has a
power base in your life and when he
really wants to bring you down in the
feet he just calls the play and down you
go and that’s the way a stronghold
develops in a person’s life and it can
develop in a young person’s life it can
develop in an adult’s life but you see
what you and I have to remember is once
CE a thought comes through our mind
listen Watch this once a thought comes
into your mind every single evil thought
carries with it the potential of
becoming a stronghold from which Satan
will harass and defeat and divide and
disillusion your whole Christian
experience ruin your
testimony ruin your usefulness before
God limit your usefulness before God
embarrass you before others that’s why
we have to be very careful what comes
through our mind that we grab and begin
to consider many things come through and
keep going many things ought to come
through and keep going that we often
times grab and say well let me just
think about this it certainly isn’t
going to hurt me to think about it and
all the times we are considering it
what’s happening is it’s like the roots
are beginning to grow if it just comes
through and keeps going nothing happens
but if we grab it and consider it while
we’re consider the little roots that
begin to grow into an attitude the
attitude becomes an all consuming thing
and before long the body has reached out
or we have moved out or have spoken or
done something which is the result of an
attitude the action and then what not
one time but twice 5 10 20 and then
there becomes the habit and then there’s
the stronghold Satan has a power base
that began with a simple thought that
you considered at first simply for
moment you would think about it as you
think about the stronghold or
strongholds and you you see somebody
said stronghold man I got a whole bunch
of you can have a cluster of them not
just one but many you can have several
areas of your life or several situations
where when Satan hits you there it’s
just like you just automatically down
and you may have resistance in some
areas but you think why is it in this
area I have no resistance why is it in
this area Satan hits me and down I go I
promise God I plead I beg I pray I do
all of these things and still to no
avail because you see it isn’t just an
act my brother it is a stronghold Satan
has a power base and when that thing
explodes down you
go so that is the way a power base a
stronghold develops in our life now the
next thing I want us to see is this how
do you detect one of these things anyway
you say well have I do I have one of
these or do I not well I think there’s
several things that you and I I can ask
ourselves first of all listen the area
or the act or the thought in your life
about which you make this statement I
don’t know why I keep doing that I don’t
know why I keep thinking that I don’t
know why I seem to be weak in that area
friends you have identified right then
and there a stronghold or anything that
we do to excess anything that becomes
excessive in our life regard regardless
of what it may be becomes a
stronghold anything that we do to excess
be it can be pleasure can be eating
makes no difference what it is anything
that becomes excessive in our life is an
indication that’s a stronghold and so
Satan he just works us over that
area so when you begin to look at your
life and you think well do I have any
strongholds are there areas that I have
to keep battling areas of weakness that
just keep keep coming up uh things that
I keep on confessing the same old thing
over and over again keep on repenting of
the same thing and listen the 149th time
you repented of it you were just as
sincere as you were the first time and
God knows that now watch this so you
won’t misunderstand what I’m saying
listen God has forgiven his children of
all their sin past present
future so when you and I say Lord I’m
just coming to confess this thing to you
again God understands but listen God
does not condemn us even for our wrong
because we’re his children he knows our
heart he knows how many times you have
bent how many times you have yielded and
in the very process you said God you
know I don’t I don’t want to yield to
sin I want to be obedient to you God
knows your heart God isn’t condemning
you listen the reason that God humanly
speaking gets upset if you and not can
put in those terms is not because of
what we’re doing to him it’s because of
what he sees sin is doing to us God’s
anger is at the the devil God’s anger is
at sin God does not condemn his children
he sees our weaknesses he’s not
disappointed he knows our faults our
failures and God is never going to Heap
condemnation on his
children the thing that disturbs the
heart of God is that he sees that Satan
has a power base in our life and God
sees how effective Satan is in limiting
our reaching the potential that God has
for us he sees sees what sin does to us
he sees what it does to relationships he
sees how it limits us he sees how it
steals our joy he sees how it makes us
miserable and unhappy God sees all of
that and that is what Grieves God’s
heart God isn’t in heaven angry at his
children he’s in heaven grieved over
seeing us allow and continuously allow
Satan to hinder his will in our life
that’s what disturbs God so if you see
an area of your life that Satan keeps on
having the victorine you just put a big
circle around that and write in capitals
across it Satanic stronghold because
that is exactly what it
is now the big question is what do I do
to eliminate that Str strong hoold how
do I get the victory how is it possible
for me to be able somehow to be
delivered from a satanic strong I want
you to go back to this passage for a
moment because I’ve hardly mentioned but
I want you to see
something in verse four he says the
weapons of our Warfare so we’re talking
about spiritual warfare are not carnal
they’re not fleshly but they are
spiritual he says not carnal But Mighty
that is strong through God that is they
are Divine listen they are Supernatural
weapons they are not human weapons
they’re not fleshly weapons they are
Supernatural weapons he says by these
weapons we can pull down demolish
destroy root out those fortifications
casting down same Greek word pulling
down uprooting demolishing listen
imaginations that is wrong reasoning
imagination’s wrong reasoning if I
reason the way Satan wants me to reason
I’m going to reason myself right into
his trap he says that he wants to pull
down the stronghold the wrong reasonings
and every High thing every High thing
that exalts itself against the knowledge
of God now listen watch this often times
Believers have attitudes and thought
Concepts about God that are
erroneous and he says that the weapons
of our Warfare will pull down demolish
and root out these reasonings and wrong
thinkings and wrong attitudes that are
contributing to Satan’s continuing his
power base in our life that is we’ve got
to root out the wrong thinking we’ve got
to see things as they are and Satan has
these often times he has this um uh
stronghold all covered up so we say well
now you know that certainly couldn’t be
the problem I’ve heard people sit and
tell me listen I may have problems but I
know that’s not the problem it’s just
like God saying that is the problem but
you see Satan is so cunning and so
smooth he’s a master at camouflaging the
truth so he says we must pull them down
those things are against the knowledge
of God and bringing every thought listen
every thought that is every every every
human device in obedience to the desire
and to the will of God now listen how is
it possible for a child of God to be
delivered from a stronghold I want to
give you several words here and I want
to illustrate one of them to go back to
show you
something first of all number one I’ve
got to acknowledge that I’m in a Warfare
if you just say well now I don’t see any
war going on then friends you are
deceived we are in a spiritual battle
continuously first of all I’ve got to
knowledge the fact that I’m in a Warfare
Satan is doing everything in his power
to defeat me harass me divide my mind
destroy me he’s trying to do the same
thing to all of us all right secondly I
must
identify specifically and call it by
name identify that stronghold it may be
one or two or three may be Pride it may
be greed it may be a sense of rejection
nobody likes me nobody loves me I don’t
never get anywhere in life whatever it
may be you’ve got to be willing to be
honest and identify if you don’t
identify it Satan will keep on trip you
up so first of all I’ve got to
acknowledge that I’m in a Warfare
secondly I’ve got to be willing to
identify What that
particular uh stronghold is the third
thing is the source now watch this if
you can trace the source of that
stronghold it is absolutely amazing what
will happen let me just give you an
example of something that uh happened to
me some time ago and I was asking just
to show me and to examine my heart and
uh I knew that I had a real problem with
impatience so I I had to begin to
realize Lord that isn’t just me that is
a satanic stronghold in my life so I
began to pray when I thought I’m going
to find out where that comes from I’ve
got to find the source of that so I’ve
been praying for a little while it
hadn’t been too long maybe about 25 35
minutes and so forth and so I finally
decided Well that’s probably one of
those things that you’ll never be able
to trace you know probably been P
impatient my life and so I said I just
ought to chalk that off as one of those
that you never find the
source I started to get
up and about time I started to get up
here’s what I
saw I remember where it was so I know
how old I was I was four years of age I
was dressed in white short pants white
shirt short sleeve I was blonde my hair
was all slick down I had on white shoes
and white socks and my mother said
having bathed me and dressed me and
fixed Me Up Just Right Now Charles don’t
you go outside you sit down here and you
be quiet and don’t you get
dirty so then having got me all dressed
up I had to wait till she started I mean
she had to go take her bath and go fix
her hair and do all those things so in
about 5 minutes I’m saying Mom are you
ready no I’m not ready about 10 minutes
later Mom are you ready now listen an
hour and a half for a 4-year-old is
forever
that’s
forever and I began to see
something that I can remember I can I
get i’ get angry why doesn’t she come on
we were going to town she was going to
buy me something and here I was all
dressed up and besides that I couldn’t
even get dirty and and that was the
thing that made it so bad and I had to
keep waiting and keep waiting and keep
waiting and keep waiting and an hour is
forever for 4 year
old well when when I saw that I thought
Lord I see the source of that I’ve been
impatient when it came to going
somewhere when it comes to going
somewhere I’ve always been ready to go
right
now as soon as I saw where that came
from that came straight out of my
childhood and so I began to see every
time that I would become uh irritated
everybody was ready that’s little
Charles saying Mama let’s go let’s get
on with it you are going to take me to
town to buy me something let’s go on and
get on with it right
now Satan had taken something
involuntary in my life and he’d use that
to harass me irritate my family cause
them to get upset with me because I’ll
tell you there have been times when I’ve
been hard to get along with when they
are 15 minutes late and you see and I
remember what somebody said to me one
time until you learn that you’re going
to keep up with the same problem well
I’m PR to begin to believe that’s
true as soon as I saw that God just
freed me so I thought okay Lord the test
I’m going to get tested within two days
for
sure sure enough about 15 minutes late I
just say praise the Lord praise the Lord
because I knew I knew exactly little
four-year-old Charles want to come out
and say let’s get on with this thing
let’s come on and I want to tell you
something God began to free me of
impatience and irritation about being
late now if I told you that I’m totally
cured I’d be afraid to tell you that but
as I began to do that I I began to
search out some other areas of my life
and I think well Lord if this is the
source of that I want to find out what
else is back there and my friend if
you’ll take the time to get on your face
before God and tell him that you want
him to straighten out your life and you
want him to remove any and every toe
hole foothold stronghold fortified
Castle in your life you want him to do
it I guarantee you you will be amazed
and surprised what he’ll carry you back
to now they won’t all go back to your
childhood some may go back 6 weeks or
two months or 3 months or 6 months or
five or 10 years you don’t have to
always find the source but I’m telling
you that is a tremendous help because
you see the real problem and where it
all started okay the next word not only
must I acknowledge I’m in a Warfare I
must be willing to identify for what it
is is I must be willing to trace it back
to its sources if I can and number four
I need to go to God In Prayer now under
that I want you to put four words
because these are the weapons of our
Warfare and if you just say now Lord
bless me it’s not going to
work he said the weapons of air Warfare
are four number one the word of God and
you find a passage or a series of
passages of scripture that deal with the
stronghold or strongholds that you’re
trying to deal with if you’ll do that
God he’ll just bring the scriptures to
your mind get in the scripture and just
tell the Lord you want to deal with that
area so you want the scriptures to deal
with it so first of all get the word of
God in your heart begin to read it and
search the scripture number two you
recall he said in the name of Jesus the
name of Jesus is a second part of our
Weaponry he said at the gate Peter and
uh John said Silver and Gold Have I None
but such as I have give I unto thee in
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
rise up and walk he said whatever we ask
in his name we’re to come to God and to
face the devil listen with the word of
God and secondly in the name of Jesus
Christ which the devil cannot tolerate
the third part of that Weaponry is the
blood of Jesus which is like a shield to
cover us because you and I are facing
Satan and I want to tell you if you
think Satan’s going to give up the
stronghold in your life EAS if you got
another thought coming he’s not going to
do it man that’s his power base that’s
where he works from
says in Revelation 12 by the blood of
the Lamb they overcame the evil one all
the way back in the Garden of Eden what
did God do the Bible says he gave Adam
and Eve skins which means he killed an
animal but let’s go to the Passover that
first Passover in Egypt when the death
angel came like a fog moving over the
whole nation of Egypt where there was no
blood on the door L the firstborn died
where there was blood the death angel
could not harm them the blood of Jesus J
Christ has always been symbolical of his
protection it is our means of access
Before the Throne of God how do we get
to the throne of God our access he says
is through the shed blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ what is our protection when
we do battle with Satan it is the blood
of Jesus Christ when you and I pray we
pray heavenly father in the name by the
power the authority of the Lord Jesus
Christ under his protection of his shed
blood then we deal with Satan you and I
face Satan in Warfare rooting out
pulling down demolishing strongholds
under the protection of the blood of
Jesus Christ and the last weapon is the
Holy Spirit the power of the Holy Spirit
he says he that is within you is greater
than he that’s in the world so that the
Holy Spirit within us Under The Canopy
of the blood of Jesus Christ in the name
of Jesus Christ and the authority of his
word can demolish pull down uproot and
Destroy any and every single stronghold
in our life and God is willing to do it
when you and I are willing to face Satan
with those four weapons Satan’s going to
run every single time but I’m going to
tell you it’s going to be tough and it’s
going to be difficult and he’s not going
to give up
easy he’s going to fight you to The
Bitter End with with your doubts and
that’s the next word I want to give you
is Faith you’ve just got to believe if
you do what God says listen it is the
will of God not to have strongholds in
your life it is the will of God to root
them out it is the will of God to have
Victory it is the will of God for him to
have his way in your life 1 John chapter
54:15 it is the will of God and you and
I can come to him and plead the blood of
Jesus Christ in his name of the power of
the Holy Spirit based on the word of God
specific word of God about specific
strongholds and praise God and thank him
for their demolishing their overthrowing
and ridding them out of your life the
biggest battle you’ll have is the Battle
of Faith now the next word I’m going to
give you is this and that is Vigilance
because here’s exactly what will happen
you ask God to remove a stronghold I’ve
had it happen to me and many other
people have you ask him to remove a
stronghold in your life and then listen
if you just walk away and say well I’m
glad to get rid of that one praise the
Lord what’s next I want to tell you you
give Satan a few days and he’ll be right
back with a toe hole that’ll fill up
into a foothold that’ll become a
stronghold right in the same place so I
kept asking myself Lord how is it that
Satan can come what is that we must do
here’s what I think he showed me once
you ask God to remove that stronghold
then you must you see then that leaves a
void you’ve there’s got to be healing in
that area how do you heal the place of a
stronghold you heal it with the word of
God so you begin to meditate upon the
scriptures that deal with that
stronghold you begin to F your mind and
your heart what you’re doing is you’re
building up your defense so that you
become sensitive in that area keenly
sensitive in that area so that what once
before Satan would trip you up you can
see him coming a mile down the road and
what happens is little by little as you
and I are diligent and Vigilant in that
area God just heals that area but you
cannot ask him to remove the stronghold
and walk off and forget it the healing
process must take place it takes time
for it to take place and the thing that
heals it is the saturation of the mind
of the word of God about that particular
area and my friend regardless of what
the strong may have been God will move
it out root it out defeat the Devil but
if he’s going to
remain out of your life in that given
area my friend that all hinges upon your
willingness to saturate your mind and
heart and Thoughts with the word of God
until that area in your life is
healed now I can share those things with
you but I can’t make them work you have
to decide if you’re willing to yield
that area of your life and if you
willing for God through you to root out
those strongholds in order to free you
to become the person God wants you to be
father we thank you and praise you that
you’ve not left us to Satan’s tricks his
snares his manipulations his
conniving but you’ve warned us against
him you’ve said we are fighting against
principalities and Powers satanic power
but you said he that is within us is
greater than he that’s in the world the
holy spirit in one believer is more
powerful than all the satanic forces in
all the Earth in all the universe in all
the worlds that there may be one
believer filled with the Holy
Spirit represents more power than all
that Satan can put
together so we want to thank you for the
victory for the liberty for the freedom
that is ours in Christ that we do not
have to yield we do not have to
surrender to him we do not have to give
up we do not have to go down in defeat
but we can live Moment by moment day by
day trusting in the power of the Holy
Spirit of the Living God who indwells us
for he is our Victory he is our peace he
is our strength and as our heart and
mind is saturated with the truth of him
and all of Satan’s lies are
routed then we know that the victory the
peace the joy that we want daily in our
Liv life is available to us I pray
father that you will sink this truth
deep into the heart of every hearer and
give them the initiative to put it into
action in their life for freedom and
liberty and power and usefulness of the
results when Satan is defeated and you
Lord Jesus have freedom and total reign
in every aspect of our life and this is
my prayer in jesus’ name and for his
sake