08/14/2025
STRONGHOLDS MANY OF OUR STRUGGLES ARE CAUSE BY SPIRITUAL STRONGHOLDS ,THESES ARE EITHER WAYS OR PRACTICES WE GREW UP WITH OR LEARNED IN THE WORLD LETS LOOK AT GALATIANS 5:16-21 V19 NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS. IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS (VARIANCE-THE STATE OR FACT OF DISAGREEING OR QUARRELING, EMULATIONS - EFFORT TO MATCH OR SURPASS A PERSON ACHIEVEMENT ,TYPICALLY BY IMITATION) WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENESS, REVELLINGS, AND SUCH LIKE; OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THESE ARE THE WORKS OF THE FLESH AND IF NOT CONFRONTED AND UPROOTED IN JESUS CHRIST NAME THEY BECOME SPIRITUAL STRONGHOLDS IN YOUR LIFE, YOU NEED TO LEARN TO WAGE WAR EPHESIANS 6:10-17 THIS IS YOUR ARMOUR WHICH YOU NEED TO FIGHT THIS WAR! UNDERSTAND THAT THE WAYS AND THE PRACTICES OF THE OLD MAN MUST DIE, AND THE NEW MAN IN CHRIST IN HIS HOLINESS MUST BE RENEWED DAILY , IDENTIFY THE STRONGHOLD IN YOUR LIFE,AND TAKE HOLD OF THE WORD OF GOD PRAYING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, INVOKING HIS WORD UPON THE STRONGHOLD AND IN THE OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST IN HIS NAME BIND IT AND CAST IT OUT , AND LOOSE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ACCOMPLISH THE DEVINE WILL OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE. IT TIME TO CLOSE ALL DOOR WAYS TO FORMER THING AND DEAD WORKS IN OUR LIVES READ 2 CORINTHIANS 12:20-21, ALSO 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10, COLOSSIANS 3: 5-8 . AS WE STAND BEFORE GOD WHO SEES AND KNOWS ALL THAT WE THINK AND THAT WE SPEAK BEFORE WE SPEAK IT HE KNOWS THE MOTIVES OF OUR HEART , LET US EXAMINE OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES AND SEE THE STRONGHOLDS THAT CAN BE LINK TO PASS GENERATIONS . ARE YOU THE GENERATION THAT HAS TURNED FROM THE PRACTIES LEARNED AS A CHILD AND THAT HAS FOLLOWED YOU UNTIL THIS DAY, READ JEREMIAH 7:18-20 . IDOLATRY IS A SIN PASS FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION AND WE SEE THIS EVEN TODAY WHERE IT HAS A STRONGHOLD ON FAMILIES , DRUNKENNESS , DRUGS ,LEWDNESS CHILDREN MODEL WHAT THEY SEE OR ARE TAUGHT BY THEIR PARENTS, LOVE OF MONEY, VIOLENCE, ADULTERY AND FORNICATION CHILDREN LEARN TO LIVE FROM THE EXAMPLE OF THEIR PARENTS. THROUGH THE ANOINTING OF GODS HOLY SPIRIT IN JESUS NAME YOU CAN PULL DOWN THE STRONG HOLDS IN YOUR LIFE IN YOUR FAMILY , YOUR GOAL NOW IS TO BRING EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST 2 CORINTHIANS 10:3-5 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 . TAKE HOLD OF THE WORD OF GOD THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT ,TO BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MINDS ,HIS WORD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL,ITS SHARPER THAN ANY TWO EDGED SWORD,ITS CUTS EVEN TO THE DIVISION OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND OF JOINTS AND MARROW AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF THE HEART (REF- HEBREWS 4:12). THE STRONG HOLDS IN OUR LIVES MUST BE DESTROYED COME TRULY BEFORE CHRIST JESUS RIPPING OUR HEARTS OPEN TO HIM (IT IS WE WHO STAND BEFORE HIM IN NEED OF FORGIVERNESS IN NEED OF CLEANSING IN NEED OF THE RENEWING OF THE SPIRIT OF OUR MINDS , FATHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS I LAY MY LIFE DOWN BEFORE YOUR FEET REMOVE EVERY ROOT PLANTED IN MY HEART THAT BE NOT OF YOU AND , AND I THIS DAY AGREE TO DISAGREE WITH EVERY WAY AND PRACTICES OF MY FATHERS HOUSE THROUGH GENERATION THAT BE NOT OF YOU IN JESUS NAME I TAKE HOLD CHRIST IN MY HEART AND THAT OF MY HOUSE TO SERVICE YOU IN THE OBEDIENCE OF YOUR WORD IN JESUS NAME AMEN. PASTOR DAVID HOUSE OF PRAYER WORLD OUTREACH MY PRAYER POINTS EPHESIANS 4:23-29