HOPE

Strongholds

I went on a trip with the youth group of my church a few years back. The main "theme" of the trip was breaking strongholds that the enemy has on us. There are so many strongholds over us, it's insane. There is sexual strongholds, addictive strongholds, being overly critical, being malicious, doubting, worry, there are all kinds of desires and actions that we commit or want on a daily basis. No wonder there are so many people in the world who have given strongholds more power to keep them away from the one who can set them free from their strongholds.

We can't get anywhere by giving power to the strongholds in our lives. We will never be able to get even close to our full potential spiritually, by giving power to our strongholds. Staying in them and giving them power is just like cowering behind something and waving the white flag to the enemy saying you surrender. NO! We should never surrender to our strongholds. We are a country so stuck in our own sin, so stuck in our own strongholds that we can't see how deep we are.

The whole reason in saying this at all is that I've been finding in my own life that the deeper grounded you become in God the more He begins to show you the things that need to be "fixed" in your life. God has been showing me a lot lately in the aea of the strongholds in my life. I've also found that the more God shows me the strongholds in my life, the more I notice strongholds in other peoples lives. I find it incredibly annoying, but at the same time a blessing. Because when I'm being shown the things in my life i see things in other peoples lives that I might be able to offer help or comfort with.

I've been growing a lot lately. I pray that I would never stop. No matter how annoying things may get sometimes!