Strongholds
A killing Force
Strongholds of the climbing
vine-plant are long, slender, “growing” like shoots rely on their victim
as objects for their support. In addition to winding or twining around
supporting structures, strongholds may use thorns, tendrils, or hooks to
climb and anchor to its victim
and maximize exposure to “light” taking
away expending energy light and air from its supporting victim.
At times they seem to be non-active (retaining real throughout the lives
of its victim) but it shows as results his “fruits”! Strongholds are as
lianas woody parasite with ropelike stems that climb high into “tree
crowns” (deep inside human spiritual live) where they cover and
overwhelm their victim and produce their kind of “fruit”.
Strongholds also spread over the “ground” until they find a suitable
supporting victim. Creeping strongholds lie on the ground, often layering
sending roots into the soil (Worldly origin) and spreading slowly. At the
end strongholds may form an impenetrable thicket known popularly as
jungle. Once into the upper canopy, they may spread “horizontally”,
maximizing precious “light” and weaving together the tops and take away
all the light that still remains!
Cruel strategy
The Jewish people in the ancient times (Old Covenant/Testament) have common things in the Scriptures to refer for illustrations to their occupation, environment and to the scenes with which the Jewish people in ancient times are familiar! Even Messiah Yeshua's teaching's were based mostly on this way! Also this teaching is based on the common things that surrounded us. My designs in these teaching's is to make it simple and in an easy way of understanding!
Strongholds
are growing into your life. They are worldly-connected, long, slender, “growing” like shoots rely on their victim
as objects for "their" support. In addition to winding or twining around
your inner life. Strongholds may use "thorns", "tendrils", or "hooks" (These are
the tricks satan use for his deceiving and cruel strategy, which he can
connect with your life) to
climb and anchor to its victim and maximize exposure to “Light
of G-d” taking
away expending
energy light
and air
from its supporting victim. At the end the "Light of G-d" will vanish and you will find
only darkness instead!
At times they seem to be
"non-active",
(trying to hide their origin, which is strait from the pit of hell!!!)
but slowly and surely they work as a "killing
force", that will kill your spiritual
life.
Steeling, robbing, soaking every life out of you. Like a wronging serpent, it
will show as results his “poisining fruits”! (wrong
attitudes, thoughts, old & wrong pattern of thinking, idea, desire,
beliefs, habits, behavior and all kind of diseases & sickness)
Strongholds are like parasite with ropelike stems that
enter deep inside human spiritual live where they covered and
overwhelming their victim.
At the
end Strongholds, which have their Worldly origin, may form an impenetrable thicket known popularly
like a
"jungle" in your life covering you from the remaining precious “Light”
by weaving together "the tops"!
Our strategy
We have to bind and to
take a stand against
all
kinds of strongholds;
workings of
satan,
his principalities, powers, and demons that
would hinder us,
in the Name of Yeshua Messiah.
We need to take our place with Yeshua
and recognize, by faith that
all
wicked strongholds
and satan
himself
are under our feet as a
subject to the
L-rd Jesus Christ. Repenting of having
wrong attitudes,
thoughts, old & wrong
pattern of thinking, idea, desire, beliefs, habits, and behavior that may
still be working in
our “old nature”!
Tearing down, crushing, smashing, and destroying of
every stronghold
that is
parasite with ropelike stems that was
climbing deep into our lives and taking away
all the Light
that was still there! So that we can
surrender our self to the attitudes and patterns of
Yeshua Messiah or Jesus
the Christ; to
the overcoming behavior and spiritual desires that line up with the fruit
of the Holy Spirit!
Any strongholds
in our life protecting wrong feelings we have against anyone. Forgiving us
as we have to forgive those who have caused us
pain, loss, or grief,
so that the strongholds of bitterness
can not
overwhelmed us! Loosing
all kinds of bondages and strongholds
by resisting the enemy
and so he
will flee from us! Every disease
known to man is under the
curse and we
need to be set free from this curse or
strongholds!
Putting off
the
fleshly
works of the “old Nature”!
Putting on
the new man and stand in all the victory of the resurrection and
the provisions the L-rd has made for us to live above
sin.
Choosing not to be
conformed to
this world,
(Romans 12:2)
but to be transformed by the
renewing of my mind! Our warfare
is mighty through the pulling down of strongholds, to the casting down of
imaginations
and every high thing that exalted itself
against the knowledge of G-d. Binding the
strongholds that satan
planned and formed
against my mind, my emotions, my will, my body and surrendering your mind
to the L-rd G-d
Putting
off
all
fleshly works of the “old Nature”!
Putting
off
all strongholds of
selfishness and putting on the new nature with its
love!
Putting off
all
strongholds of fear and putting on
the new nature with its courage.
Putting
off
all
strongholds
of
weakness and
putting on the new nature with its
strength.
Putting
off
all
strongholds
of
lust
and putting in
the new nature with its righteousness, purity,
& honesty.
Putting
off
all
strongholds
of
every idol
and putting in
the new nature
with a radical worship for the L-rd!
Lifting up the
shield of Faith
against all
the fiery darts of the enemy and its strongholds!
Putting on
the Girdle of Truth, the
Breastplate of Righteousness, the
sandals of Peace, and the
Helmet of Salvation!
Claiming our place in
Yeshua, the Messiah (Jesus Christ)
as victorious
with Him
over all the
enemies and taking the Sword of
the Spirit,
the
Word of
G-d!
Deliverance!
There is a place; there is a way; there is a key!
There
is a place prepared for you,
a place for the chosen of G-d! You can enter it right NOW! You can dwell
in the GLORY of the L-rd Most High! It is prepared for you, a long time ago! It belongs to you and
it is the will of God to show you how to dwell there! It is
the room in the Heavenly places, which will break your
heavy yoke!
(Isaiah 10:27)
There is a place, a higher place
for a higher call!
There is a place where
Ever-changing Heavenly musical melodies in endless scales of indescribable beauty are like a
Spontaneous Well of Living Waters gushing forth from
His Throne that will flow for your refreshment! Where you can receive
victory and liberty! Where
the weight of the burden of the strongholds
will fall from you!
There is a place where
the strongholds of depression will be cut off and you will be transformed into an expression
of great joy!
Come on into this place, His courtyard of His Temple, His
sanctuary, where the ground under your feet is Holy!
There is a place that Angelic
beings have just come from the
Shekinah-Presence of Almighty G-d,
and are singing beautiful songs before
the Throne of G-d!
"Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lamb of G-d!"
There is a place where a
Divine Sound comes from Heaven! Too awesome to describe! An unutterable ecstasy!
There is a place where Angelic
symphonies play continuously free-flowing music! There is no metaphor or
words in earthly language to describe all this... armies of millions of
angels who worship (before) His Holy face with never silent singing!
There is a place where we can
worship together with the millions of angelic symphonies
It is the place where
the Glory of the omnipotent Eternal G-d (YHVH - Adonai) is dazzling beyond description. For with the angel’s song we
also can see His Throne.
The
key is that we will worship Him and we sing
and praise
to
the L-rd of
Host together
with the
Millions of angelic voices! So He will fight our battle!
And
he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou
king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed
by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but G-d's.
(2 Chronicles. 20:15)
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still,
and see the salvation of the L-rd with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not,
nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the L-rd will be with
you. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all
Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem
fell before the Lord,
worshipping the L-rd.
And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of
the Korhites, stood up to praise the L-rd G-d of Israel with a
loud voice on high. (2 Chronicles. 20:17-19)
And when
they began to sing and to praise, the L-rd
set ambushments against
the children of Ammon,
Moab, and mount Seir,
which were come against
Judah; and
they
were smitten. (2 Chronicles 20:22)
Transformation
When we are left to worship
G-d in our own way, we simply will NOT worship Him! For
our flesh
will not allow us to worship Him in the Spirit! We are people of
unclean lips,
and we are dwelling in the midst of
a people of unclean lips:
Our eyes can see
the KING of GLORY, the L-RD
of HOSTS!
People are now to bring themselves
to G-d instead of sacrifices to the altar as of old. They are now to be
wholly
the L-rd's
as were the former sacrifices!
…When
we enter worthily the place of Radical Worship!
Let’s boldly go before the Throne for an impartation of G-d’s grace!
We
can choose to align our sound with the sound of Heaven!
It is so amazing to think that there is nothing that does not catch the ear of G-d,
Whether it is a small voice or a big bang.
Transformed by a supernatural change,
as in
Matthew 17:2; Mark 9:2; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18.
This change is by a renewing of the mind or spirit
(Titus 3:5; cp.
2 Corinthian. 4:16; Col. 3:10; Hebrews 6:6; Ephesians 4:23).
This is what the
Bible tells about "the
old man"
Two Old Things that Pass Away:
1.
The spirit, nature, and power of sin the old man, which is nothing more nor
less than the spirit, nature, and power of
the devil
working in men of disobedience
(John 8:44;
Ephesians
2:2; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 5:18)
2.
Outward sin or transgression of the law
(1 John 3:4; Romans 4:15; James 1:13-15)
(1)The old man
(Romans 6:6; Ephesians
4:22; Col. 3:9)
(2)Sin (John 1:29; John 8:34; Romans 6:4-8:2)
(3)The body of sin
(Romans 6:6)
(4)The power of satan
(Acts 26:18)
(5)The body of this death
(Romans 7:24)
(6)The lusts of the flesh
(Ephesians 2:3)
(7)The lust of the eyes
(1 John 2:15-17)
(8)The pride of life
(1 John 2:15-17)
(9)The works of the flesh
(Galatians 5:19)
(10)The world
(1 John 2:15-17; James 4:4)
(11)Vile affections
(Romans 1:26, 29)
(12)The
lusts of the mind
(Ephesians 2:3)
(13)The lusts of sin
(Romans 6:11-12)
(14)The motions of
sins (Romans 7:5)
(15)The law of
sin and
death
(Romans 7:7-8:2)
(16)The carnal mind
(Romans 8:1-13)
(17)The "god"
of this world
(2 Corinthians 4:4)
(18)Spiritual
wickedness in high places...rulers of darkness
(Ephesians
6:12)
(19)The lusts
of your father
(John 8:44)
(20)Sin
that dwelled in me
(Romans 7:17)
(21)The course
of this world (world system)
(Ephesians 2:2)
(22)The body of the sins of the flesh
(Colossians 2:11;
Galatians 5:24; Romans 8)
PRAYER...
G-d of my Fathers
(the L-rd G-d, of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob; YHVH), I am
grateful that the
L-rd Jesus Christ/Yeshua
Messiah
spoiled all
the principalities and powers and made
a show of them
openly and triumphed over them
in Himself. I am thankful for the Armor You have provided. I choose to use
Your Word against all the forces of evil
in my life. I put on this Armor. I claim all the
victory for my
life, my house, and my family today in the Name of
Yeshua, the Messiah.
I reject all the strongholds of insinuations, accusations,
and temptations of satan. I affirm
that the Word of God is true and I choose to live today in
the light of
G-d’s Word!
Satan, I command you, in the Name of the L-rd Jesus Christ/Yeshua Messiah, to leave my presence with all your principalities, powers and demons! I bring the Blood of the L-rd Jesus Christ/Yeshua Messiah and the Angelic Host between us in the Name of Jesus Christ/Yeshua Messiah.
L-rd,
I repent of
having wrong attitudes and
thoughts. I renounce them now and ask Your forgiveness. I loose every
old, wrong
pattern of thinking, attitude idea, desire, belief, habit, and behavior
that may
still be working in me in
the
Name of Jesus/Yeshua Messiah.
I tear down, crush, smash, and destroy
every stronghold
I have erected to protect
them.
I bind myself to the attitudes and patterns of
Jesus
Christ/Yeshua
Messiah.
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- A killing Force”
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