What Is An Example
Of A Stronghold...

Have you ever wondered what are spiritual strongholds and how can they effect you? Well, spiritual strongholds are something you have been developing your whole entire life since you were a child. Strongholds are a set of ideas, beliefs and understandings that you have developed from your own personal experiences, or by someone else’s experience. You then see the world through this view point, and when a situation comes up you react based on that stronghold idea. Let me give you an example…

You are out at a party with a friend and there is someone who has just arrived. This person is greeting and shaking hands with a lot of people at the party, but they didn’t greet you. Now you are upset because you think this person has ignored you, and you believe they don’t like you because of it. This is what a stronghold can form, an assumption about another individual before knowing the full story. And the full story is the person is actually shy, and is just trying to shake a few hands to get to their friend they are actually there to see.

Strongholds are not just assumptions and misunderstandings, they can really take a great portion of your personal life. Strongholds can be a belief that develops into extreme anxiety, causing panic attacks and social stress. It can exclude people because of skin color, looks, or the way they dress. It can have you thinking in such a negative way that you cant accomplish what you set out to do in life. Strongholds can wreak havoc not only in your life if you have deep ones but also everyone around you as well. It may seem impossible that something like a stronghold would cause that much damage, but it starts in the mind and is triggered by fear or stress. It comes from a traumatic event that you may have seen. Such as a break up, or being turned down, or someone being disciplined. Events from your life can be engraved in your mind, or someones suggestive comments about something or someone else.

How to break strongholds… the best way to break strongholds is to pray to Yahuah, our Heavenly Father for deliverance from your strongholds. Or any belief you may harbor that goes against his will:

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (KJV) 4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; 5. 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.

When you are dealing with strongholds and they become burdensome, or it may just be like a stubborn weed you can’t pull out of your beautiful garden of faith. You need to call on the creator and healer of all things and ask for his help. He will send reinforcements because we are his children and we are made in his likeness.