“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to DEMOLISH STRONGHOLDS. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.”
2 Corinthians 10:3-6 NIV
There are so many BIG things in this passage! There is so much clarity about what life and situations are really about. These verses are proof that the spiritual realm is so much more real than the tangible, five senses world that we live in.
There are earthly weapons. Those weapons can do some damage. However, the true Christian has a different weapon, a spiritual and unseen weapon. This weapon is SO much more powerful than anything this earth has to offer. While earthly weapons can damage the body and the world we can sense, spiritual weapons (the name and authority and power of Christ and our perception and knowledge (truth) of reality) have the ability to DEMOLISH, not just merely injure or knock down the very strongholds of the true enemy we face, the strongholds our enemy tries to set up in our minds.
With this spiritual awareness and power, the Christian can OBLITERATE every argument and pretension that the enemy would present against the truth of God and our true reality. With this weapon, the spiritual awareness of what Christ did on the cross and in His resurrection and the power and authority it gives, the Christian can TAKE captive EVERY thought and MAKE it OBEDIENT to Christ and His Word. The Christian gets to have Spirit over mind (mind over matter). The Christian doesn’t have to fall victim to his circumstance or the patterns of thought and ideals that the world so vehemently pushes.
The enemy of our souls knows that what damage he can do to our bodies is not lasting. He knows that where the real battle is waged is in the mind of the believer. If the enemy can get a believer to doubt who he is in God and the power that he holds by being in Christ, the enemy can set up a stronghold. The enemy knows that if he can get a believer to question things he KNOWS about God, then he has a foothold.
So… when the enemy comes a knocking, take advantage of it! Take the thoughts he would try to plant captive and MAKE them obedient to Christ. Turn the enemies thoughts around on him! Win that battle by demolishing every stronghold the enemy would try to set up, and do it consistently. You have the divine power to do it. Never doubt that!
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