" Let me illustrate this further. Who is powerful enough to enter the house of a STRONG MAN and plunder HIS GOODS ? Only SOMEONE even STRONGER —someone who could tie him up and then plunder his house. " - Mark 3:27

THE LAW OF THE MIND-3

Let's continue from where we left of yesterday Strongholds are also storage places, they get stronger as more stuff—more of that particular thought—gets stored in there.

A stronghold is a way of thinking and feeling that has developed a life of its own in a person. For instance some one can experience delay and set back to the extent that it is now a stronghold, so that even if you pray for the person and he is delivered spiritual, the person still believes there will be a set back, and he tries something and it backfires. It doesn't mean the person was not delivered spiritually but the mind has not being renewed to transport that deliverance into this realms.

So this way of thinking and feeling that has developed into a life of its own could be a rut of depression, addictions or recurring unbelief or habitually bad temper.

It might be a repeating pattern of failure, you know sometimes a stronghold will cause you to provoke others to reject you (without you necessarily knowing you’re doing it).

It might also be a stronghold of resentment or worthlessness. For example, If a child is sexually molested and/or badly verbally abused, a stronghold of worthlessness or low self esteem may build up a stockpile of negative thoughts like: “ I’m guilty. Nobody could really love me. I’m good for nothing . I’m ugly . " She might actually be beautiful — and certainly is beautiful in the eyes of God. But a stronghold gets her filled with arguments like these: " Nobody would like me if they really got to know me. Nobody really knows me. Nobody really cares for me. Nobody really wants me for me ."

Now all these thoughts may be a pack of lies, but they can be a stronghold keeping out the truth of God’s love. Such a person may hear a message about God’s love, whether from a pulpit or a friend, but it goes in one ear and out through the other, bouncing off the walls of a stronghold of rejection or worthlessness.

A stronghold keeps a person from thinking clearly and objectively, accepting the truth, repenting of sin, and receiving deliverance. A stronghold can keep a believer from hearing the fullness of the good news.

So how do you take a stronghold? – before then lets talk about the strong man.

Consider this progression of a chain of events- SENSES➡️THOUGHTS➡️HABIT➡️STRONGHOLD➡️STRONGMAN. [Kindly listen to audio 🔉 for explanation]

What is a STRONGMAN? It is a high-ranking principality spirit. They sit on thrones in the spirit realm and rule over the evil demonic spirits that operate in the earth realm. These demon spirits can rule over certain geographical areas of the earth.

Strongman spirits can even operate in churches as a ruling spirit. They can be passed down through family generations and also dwell within an individual. We must always remember that every fight first happens in the spirit realm. Our fight is not against people or flesh and blood. The battle is against principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Strongmen are the demonic spirit forces that have set up thrones in the second heaven to block to our prayers to God and from receiving our answers. These forces block our prayers, our deliverance and our freedom.

Strongman is a demonic spirit that steals, kills and destroys. A strongman could also be a human agent. A strongman can be somebody who hates you and seeks to harm you or cause trouble. A strongman can be someone who has vowed that you will not be happy. Or a strongman can just be somebody on the OPPOSING SIDE , may be an “ idols of your father’s house, animals or even inanimate objects ”. “

" Our fight is not against people on earth. We are fighting against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness. We are fighting against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly PLACE ”- Ephesians 6:12

HOW DOES STRONGMAN GET ACCESS?

A strongman can gain access when there has been a door left open for them to gain access as a result of a stronghold. As we learnt from our discussions, during our teachings on altars, CONSISTENCY can invite the spirit dimension of anything we practice. [Further explanation is in the audio]

When the enemy has gained entrance to a certain area, a strongman or a ruling spirit will be in control.

Let me simply this for you. Let's say you met someone who told you - you will die. As a result- fear is inspired into your mind and later into your life. You are now afraid, it gets to point your life is literally based on the fear of the unknown. So you now have a stronghold of fear. After operating in this fear for sometime- the consistency in practice invites the spirit of fear. This spirit of fear is then assigned to gaurd your stronghold of fear so you for the rest of your life live in fear. That spirit responsible for giving a spirit dimension to your fear is the strongman.

As a result- lesser evil spirits creating all sort of panic situations will follow in the persons life as manifestations of the strongman, but to get rid of the evil spirits, you must first start at the root by dealing with the STRONGMAN. In order to be free from these strong men, DELIVERANCE must take place and you must bind the strongman and invite the HOLY SPIRIT in.

That's why Jesus has given us the authority to go into the enemy’s camp and bind him up and take away our goods he stole from us. - Matthew 12:29. These goods that the enemy might have stolen could include our health, our marriages, our wealth, our wellbeing, our children, our businesses, our churches and most important lost souls. Anything that the devil has stolen from us is ours -we have the legal right to go in and take it back. The Bible says that the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent people are attacking it. We therefore been allowed to advance upon the enemy and take back the goods under the protection of Jesus Christ.

Permit, me to list some strongman spirits as revealed in scripture …and note that by the POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT and the BLOOD of JESUS we have POWER and DOMINION over them all.

-Spirit of Error – 1 John 4:6;

-Spirit of Divination – Acts 16:16; -Familiar Spirit – Leviticus 19:31;

-Spirit of Jealousy – Numbers 5:14; -Lying Spirit – 2 Chronicles 18:22;

-Perverse Spirit – Isaiah 19:14;

-Spirit of Haughtiness – Proverbs 16:18;

-Spirit of Heaviness – Isaiah 61:3; -Spirit of Whoredoms – Hosea 5:4; -Spirit of Infirmity – Luke 13:11;

-Dumb and Deaf Spirit – Mark 9:25; -Seducing Spirits – 1 Timothy 4:1; -Spirit of Bondage – Romans 8:15; -Spirit of Fear – 2 Timothy 1:7;

-Spirit of Antichrist – 1 John 4:3;

-Spirit of Death – Revelation 6:8;

-The Spirit of Barreness;

-Spirit of Stagnation ;

-Monitoring and Familiar Spirits;

-The Spirit of Lust ;

-The Spirit of Covetousness;

-Spirit of Confusion;

-Ancestral Spirits.

There are so many demonic strongman that stand in our way, we can never exhaust the list, but with the above I believe you have an idea of what am talking about. I encourage you to engage this with the fire of the Holy Spirit and the BLOOD OF JESUS. Until this strongmen are subdued, you may have difficulty succeeding in life.

So we have stated two things so far that are enemies of progress to the MIND and to us. Strongholds and their strong men. The problem has been stated, what is the solution to dealing with strongholds and strong men?

TO BE CONTINUED....

🔥PRAYER POINTS🔥

1. We pray for deliverance from every strongman spirit operating in our lives.

2. We pray for deliverance for our family members and friends who are under bondage of strongmen.

Shalom and God bless you.

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