Our thoughts are so powerful. If we don’t control them, they can lead us to believe some pretty crazy lies.
I struggled with this for so many years…especially when it came to fear. Even after I became a Christian, I would watch all kinds of scary movies and then wonder why I had to fight off fear all the time.
Another type of fear that controlled me was the fear of rejection. I didn’t grow up in a Christian family that, honestly, they just didn’t know how to love us. I felt rejected. Like I wasn’t wanted.
I remember thinking that those people who were supposed to love me would eventually leave me. Or the people who were supposed to love me didn’t love me. And I used to think that something was wrong with me. I would tell myself all kinds of lies. I’m not good enough. I will never measure up. Nobody would ever love me.
And those lies caused me to close myself off and put up some pretty big walls around myself.
On last week’s episode of the UncommonTEEN Podcast, we saw how the woman with the issue of blood had taken control of her thoughts and how it lead to complete healing. The same is true for you!
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 says, “Our weapons of warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
"Our weapons of warfare…"
There is a battle that is going on inside of our minds every single day. God has given us His Word, the Sword of the Spirit, to pull down those strongholds…and we’ll talk about what those are in a minute, but He gave us His Word to pull down strongholds, to cast down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
Have you ever heard someone say something like, “You can’t get close to that person, because they have put up so many walls.”
That’s exactly what strongholds do to us. That word stronghold in the Greek means a fortress. Think of a castle from the Middle Ages…those castles has massive walls that surrounded them to keep out the enemy. Only
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