Satan erects every stronghold he can in our minds to keep us from the true knowledge of God. To the degree that he is successful, we will not enjoy an intimate relationship with the Lord. We will not come to know for ourselves the loveliness and excellence of God’s personality. The result is that our emotional lives will not be released into full affection for God.
A stronghold in the mind is a spiritual fortress made of wrong thoughts, a fortified dwelling place where demonic forces can hide and operate in power against us. The ideas and thoughts that make up the stronghold are based on lies that challenge the truth of what God has revealed about Himself.
Wrong ideas about God are not automatically eliminated when we are born again. Paul instructs believers to “put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him” (Col. 3:10, NKJV). We are continually in the process of being renewed by the true knowledge of the personality of God.
Satan’s goal is to keep us in darkness by keeping us deceived about what God is like. His strategy is to distort our knowledge of God’s personality so that what we believe is erroneous and inadequate. Thus we are emotionally weakened and held in spiritual bondage.
How does the enemy construct a spiritual stronghold in our lives? He starts with a foundation of lies, usually about the personality of God or about how God views us in Christ. Continue Reading…
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