Heart of the Author Podcast: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds
Praying God’s Word
by
Beth Moore
Overcoming Strongholds
As believers, we can have strongholds in our lives that steal our focus and cause us to feel overpowered, controlled, or mastered. A stronghold is anything that exalts itself in our minds, pretending to be bigger or more powerful than our God. In Praying God’s Word, author Beth Moore lays out some of those strongholds and teaches us how to overcome them.
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The Battlefield
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NIV)
The battlefield is in the mind. If you change your thinking, you can change your behavior. If you’re thinking wrong, your behavior will be wrong.
…be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2
The Strongholds
Idolatry – giving more of our focus to anything other than God
Unbelief – not believing that God is enough, that He is good and knows what’s best for us
Pride – the devil’s attempt to get us to elevate ourselves above God
Deception – how the devil convinces us that we are stuck where we are
Feeling unloved – often stems from lack of loving parental figure
Feelings of rejection – we all have a need and longing for acceptance
Addiction – being driven by something you can’t control
Food – unique kind of addiction/idol because it’s a necessity and we can’t avoid it altogether
Feelings of guilt – keeps us in a vicious cycle of sin
Despair – often from experiencing some kind of deep loss
Unforgiveness – forgiveness is not a one-time event but a continual process
Depression – many of these other things will lead to depression if we don’t guard against it
Sexual strongholds – the root and source of so many sins in our society
The enemy – in ourselves, we are powerless against him, but we are equipped with the weapons of God’s Word
Listen in as Vickie and Jasa talk about Praying God’s Word to overcome the strongholds in our lives.
