TO BREAK THE STRONGHOLDS
8/09/21 TO BREAK THE STRONGHOLDS
Every morning for the last few weeks I have been binding the strongholds in my life and my family’s life, commanding them to be pulled down, demolished and then loosing the truth to set us free. I have especially been targeting things regarding infirmity and areas in our bodies that are not aligning with the Lord’s will for our health. Strongholds are mindsets or “strong” opinions that are not true.
CONFIRMATION: This morning I opened the Word to Ponder wesbite and this W2P popped up at random:
WORD TO PONDER: MINDSETS – A SEASON TO BREAK STRONGHOLDS 3/01/13
Beloved child do you trust Me? My Truth shall set you free. I have promised you that whom the Son sets free, shall be free indeed. And when I come even with a hammer, it is to set you free. You have begged and begged to be set free and time is running out dear one. Due to certain mindsets that have locked your way of thinking into a certain pattern and groove, you are unable to be set free in those areas until I break the strongholds within your mind. I certainly do not want to clobber you over the head with My Word. But I love you so desperately, I will do anything needed to answer your prayers and your loved ones prayers to release you from the beliefs that keep you from receiving My truth. Trust My love for you and trust that My truth will set you free.
No sooner will you be set free, but I will use you to set others free. I have not called you to argue and convince. Your weapons are not carnal. Rather present My Word, it is the final authority. They do not argue with you precious one, they are arguing with Me. They are wrapped in a maze of logic, reason and debate that causes them endless patterns and cycles of captivity and endless sidestepping issues. Let Me convince them of their need to change their minds. Simply pray first for their protection and then graciously share what I have spoken in the Word regarding their argument. Place the truth in front of them and then let Me follow up with influence and impact.
2Co 10:3-5
For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)…
Jer 23:28-29
“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord. ” Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
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Here is the rhema that this Word to Ponder came from:
MINDSETS – A SEASON TO BREAK STRONGHOLDS 3/01/13
VISION: I saw a ladder leaned up against a massive semi truck. Wayne was already on top looking around. I had papers regarding the Words of the Lord in my hand and was starting to climb up. However I saw something on top of the truck fall down on one of the workers on the ground level. It hit the top of someone’s head and broke through his helmet. It was a very strange helmet, made of a square concrete block. It looked like a concrete box over his head. The person did not know what hit him and acted stunned and was feeling his head to make sure he was OK. He discovered a large chunk of the concrete had broken off the top and back of his head and he could feel his head and hair. I immediately went to the person and showed him the Word of the Lord, saying it was good that this was foreknowledge and happened in the Spirit and not in the natural. Therefore we could take the foreknowledge the Spirit provided and pray that he would not be literally hurt by this event.
2Co 10:3-5
For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)…
COMMENT: After praying about this, I realized the concrete helmet was a mindset, because when I saw blocks fall away, it exposed his clean, unharmed head. He was stunned and didn’t know what hit him and was touching the top of his head. I was very concerned this could have damaged him and so that is why I prayed for him that he would not be hurt in the process.
CONFIRMATION 3/04/13
I then turned with anointed hands to the following Word to Ponder:
THE MINISTRY OF THE CLOSED DOOR 5/17/12
For decades, I have been knocking on the doors of hardened hearts to yield, become tender and heed My Word. With urgent, loving appeals and strong knocking I have faced these hearts with bold, kind Words and yet they remain blinded by their opinions that gridlock them into unbelief.
Mindsets have locked their ability to receive past their own fortified strongholds and they grow increasingly numb to My knocks. In order to save these from further grieving and quenching My Spirit through their controlling ways, there is coming a day when I will no longer be knocking. Eventually these hardened ones will face the quiet and they will begin to turn towards Me. I AM calling this the ministry of the closed door.
Rom 11:22 AMP
Then note and appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s gracious kindness to you — provided you continue in His grace and abide in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off (pruned away).
1 Sam 16:1 NKJV
Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”
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EXCERPT FROM ANNIE’S VISION REBELLIOUS ONES
Then He took me to another place where He showed me a certain group of people who were His but had risen up in rebellion against Him. I wondered greatly why His own ones had become so rebellious against Him until He showed me the cause of this rebellion.
He showed me that He had set forth a truth to them, but because they were already filled with a truth that they, themselves, had developed and brought forth from their own understandings, they could not receive the truth that He was sending to them. Because they could not receive the truth that He was sending to them. Because they wanted to remain with the truth they already had and did not even desire to receive the truth He was sending them, they had therefore risen up in outright rebellion against Him.
Not only had they risen in rebellion against Him, but they had also risen up in fighting and battle. They I saw that the Lord sent forth and enclosed them like in a solid fence or wall. (This He did in their minds, enclosing their minds in their own errors.) After this He sent forth against them special forces which began to strike and beat against their enclosed minds. Blow after blow these forces beat against the errors that they had brought forth as truth. This process continued until those errors were destroyed in their minds and they were freed from those inhibiting understandings.
This was His way of rescuing His own ones. When this happened, these turned back to Him and received Him. Their rebellions were over.
{End Annie’s Vision}
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QUOTE JOHN PAUL JACKSON: MENTAL STRONGHOLDS
http://www.streamsministries.com/
“Strongholds are not demons. Strongholds are areas of the mind where darkness reigns. Strongholds are a foothold, or a place of access that satan has to us. Are you continually misunderstood, depressed, fearful or find yourself in the same predicament over and over again? The kingdom begins in you. Therefore if the kingdom is going to begin in you, if it’s going to suffer violence, that’s because you are going to have to take something that is trying to be violent against you, and with violence – with that type of ferocity address this issue.”
{End John Paul Jackson quote}
