When you became a Christian no one put your old way of thinking into the “recycle bin” and then permanently deleted it. Everything you learned through life and all the feelings that came along with it were still programmed into your mind even after you accepted Christ as your savior. The battle for your mind continues to this day. Your thoughts can still conform to the pattern of the world; your thinking can still be out of control.
Scripture tells you not to “conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). Your thinking has to be reprogrammed; you have been given the mind of Christ only now you need to learn to use it.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5: For though you live in the world, you do not wage war as the world does. The weapons you fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, THEY HAVE DIVINE POWER TO DEMOLISH STRONGHOLDS.
Within your thinking you have given Satan strongholds. The devil has a vice-like grip on your thinking and won’t let go; Satan has fortified his position and wants to continue to influence your thinking. The devil won’t let go of his stranglehold on your life as long as you continue to follow your old way of thinking.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5: For though you live in the world, you do not wage war as the world does. The weapons you fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, THEY HAVE DIVINE POWER TO DEMOLISH STRONGHOLDS.
Within your thinking you have given Satan strongholds. The devil has a vice-like grip on your thinking and won’t let go; Satan has fortified his position and wants to continue to influence your thinking. The devil won’t let go of his stranglehold on your life as long as you continue to follow your old way of thinking.
Defense mechanisms are the strongholds the enemy will use to control your life. They are the patterns of thinking Programmed Thoughts that are in your mind when you lived independently of God.
Scripture says: the weapons of our warfare have divine power to demolish strongholds! The wrong way of thinking can be reprogrammed. If you believed a lie, then you can renounce the lie and choose to believe the truth. Satan won’t just leave you alone because you are a Christian. He will run Programmed Thoughts or strongholds in your mind that were built up before you came to Christ. The devil still tries to manipulate your thoughts to accomplish his desires. Satan wants to continually penetrate your thoughts with his thoughts, to reinforce the lies you have believed and distort God’s truth. Why? SATAN KNOWS THAT IF HE CAN CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS THEN HE CAN CONTROL YOUR LIFE.
How are you to overcome the strongholds you have allowed Satan to build in your life?
2 Corinthians 10:5: You demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and YOU TAKE CAPTIVE EVERY THOUGHT TO MAKE IT OBEDIENT TO CHRIST.
2 Corinthians 10:5: You demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and YOU TAKE CAPTIVE EVERY THOUGHT TO MAKE IT OBEDIENT TO CHRIST.
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