READ: 2
CORINTHIANS 10:3-6
The passage
we have for today reveals a very important issue we must deal with if we do not
want to miss our Promised Land. Of course we do not fight against fellow humans
beings. It is a spiritual battle. The battleground is the mind. We fight
against strongholds built into our thoughts and imaginations. If we do not cope
with them properly, they will derail our walk with God.
For a sick person to be healed, he has to pull down the stronghold of sickness established in his mind that he cannot be healed. At on time or other we have gone through some form of indoctrination on what the ideals of life should be. Certain value systems had been inculcated in us even before many of us believed in Jesus. After our conversion we still allow some such beliefs and ideas, which conflict with our present faith, to guide our day-to-day activities. No wonder many of us find it difficult to move forward.
Until those beliefs have been displaced from your mind, they will hold you spell-bound. Unbelief can be a stronghold. The children of Israel, years after leaving Egypt, could not enter the Promised Land just because they refused to see God as more powerful than the giants that inhabited Canaan. “And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:18-19)
The bane of prosperity for some is their refusal to accept that they can rich in the midst of poor people. They believe that since nobody has been able to make it in their family; since all their pregnant women have stillbirths due to a curse operating in the family; since they do not live beyond 40 years, it most likely will happen to them in the same way. As a result of not pulling down those strongholds that have been erected in their minds, they see it all happen to them as feared. Hence Romans 12:1-2 says not to conform to such wrong, unprogressive ways and thoughts. Renew your mind by erasing unbiblical ideologies and imbibe the Word of God to help you succeed.
For a sick person to be healed, he has to pull down the stronghold of sickness established in his mind that he cannot be healed. At on time or other we have gone through some form of indoctrination on what the ideals of life should be. Certain value systems had been inculcated in us even before many of us believed in Jesus. After our conversion we still allow some such beliefs and ideas, which conflict with our present faith, to guide our day-to-day activities. No wonder many of us find it difficult to move forward.
Until those beliefs have been displaced from your mind, they will hold you spell-bound. Unbelief can be a stronghold. The children of Israel, years after leaving Egypt, could not enter the Promised Land just because they refused to see God as more powerful than the giants that inhabited Canaan. “And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:18-19)
The bane of prosperity for some is their refusal to accept that they can rich in the midst of poor people. They believe that since nobody has been able to make it in their family; since all their pregnant women have stillbirths due to a curse operating in the family; since they do not live beyond 40 years, it most likely will happen to them in the same way. As a result of not pulling down those strongholds that have been erected in their minds, they see it all happen to them as feared. Hence Romans 12:1-2 says not to conform to such wrong, unprogressive ways and thoughts. Renew your mind by erasing unbiblical ideologies and imbibe the Word of God to help you succeed.
MEMORIZE:
2 CORINTHIANS 10:5 -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.
