Pulling Down Strongholds

I want to exhort you today on pulling down strongholds.

[2 Corinthians 10:3‭-‬5 KJV] “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”

We know that though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. This suggests that we are all up against something that is higher than flesh and blood. We are wrestling with principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places, serpents, and scorpions. The Bible does not mince words on this (See Ephesians 6: 10-18). The outcomes of our lives is always a result of battles that are fought and won in the realms of the spirit.

These higher powers in the dark realms bound us by taking advantage of the presences of strongholds in our lives and capitalising on our vulnerabilities. They control us by taking advantage of our habitual thought patterns. Strongholds are anything that has a strong hold on us or anyone. They comprise of;

1. Our imagination
2. High things that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God
3. Thoughts that have a strong hold on us or anyone. These are the greatest doors of entry into our lives (See Ephesians 4:17-32¹).

The mind is so central to your behaviour and actions that whatever controls the mind, controls the citadel of your life. Guard your heart with all diligence. I pray that you shall arise and pull down imaginations, high things, and thoughts that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God.

This is the time to receive with meekness the engrafted word, that is able to save your soul. When you know the truth, then and only then can you challenge the faulty foundations with the truth. The truth will help you to challenge your faulty thoughts.

1. Remember from where you have fallen
2. Repent of lying, of idleness, and of anger and un-forgiveness.
3. Renew your mind and
4. Resist every evil fiercely

I pray that you will overcome and succeed in pulling down strongholds. Nothing will stop you. This is your season and that time to say no and take charge of life!

God bless you, I love you!

Kofi Simpe

Prayer:

Father, I pray that You shall activate Your word and liberate us from faulty thinking. I speak against every stronghold that has such a stronghold on any of us to fall in Jesus’s name. Amen!

Referenced Scriptures

1. Ephesians 4:17-32 (KJV): This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. ↩︎