strongholds

14 posts · All categories

The L_RD Rebuke You Usurper Aug 20, 2017 Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the…
Fighting The Unbelief within Us Aug 14, 2017 When my sense of self depends on what others say of me, anger is a quite natural reaction to a critical word. And when my sense of self depends on what I can acquire, greed flares…
Anxiety: Put it Down Child Mar 6, 2017 God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day…
Winter Is Over, Springtime Has Come Feb 7, 2017 When the lion said—but I don’t know if it spoke—‘You will have to let me undress you.’ I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I…
Taking Every Thought Captive: Freedom from Lies Jul 20, 2016 The devil wrestles with God, and the field of battle is the human heart.~Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevski (1821-1881) For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons…
The Devil’s Self-Defeating Strategy Apr 16, 2016 Among the small but endlessly abundant and therefore very effective things that science ought to heed more than the great, rare things, is goodwill. I mean those expressions of a friendly disposition in interactions, that smile…
Vicious Providence Oct 15, 2015 True triumphs are God’s triumphs over us. His defeats of us are our real victories.~Henry Alford (1810-1871) Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And…
Radical Repentance from Our Fears Oct 6, 2015 I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear…
Rebelling Against Fear and Anxiety Jan 15, 2015 You’re just a shell until you decide to rebel.~ Arrested Development Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be…
Amazingly Luminous Beings We Are Jan 2, 2015 It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor…. It is…
Trying to Build A Home on A Lilypad Dec 7, 2014 Winged time glides on insensibly and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.~Ovid (43 b.c.-a.d. 17) “Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does…
Incorrigibly Cheerful! Jun 26, 2014 You are to be incorrigibly cheerful, for you have solid grounds upon which to rejoice!~ Major Ian Thomas Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in…
Understanding And Living in Spiritual Authority Apr 30, 2014 The sovereignty of Christ from the cross is a new sovereignty. It has destroyed forever the formula that might is right. It has put to shame the self-assertion of false heroism. It has surrounded with imperishable…
Strongholds Jan 28, 2014 A spiritual stronghold is a mindset impregnated with hopelessness that causes us to accept as unchangeable something that we know is contrary to the will of God. ~UnknownNow there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate…