Quotes About Strongholds

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Implications For Today What do the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights have in common with today? It is interesting that these were the places that Joshua failed to totally exterminate the Rephaim and Anakim (Nephilim); these were the strongholds of Israel's enemies then, and they remain so today!

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds' (2 Cor. 10:3-4). The Greek word translated as strongholds is ochuroma (pronounced oak-EW-ROH-muh), which means to fortify, lock up, or imprison. This is what our enemy tries to do to us. He lies to us until we're convinced that we're stuck and can never escape our problems.

Though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3–5)

Strongholds are developed from our habits (an act repeated so often that it becomes involuntary, there is no new decision of mind each time the act is performed). Strongholds can also be birthed from judgments that have been made when wounding occurs or when the basic needs of life are not met.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 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. (2 Corinthians 10:4–5)

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.

and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylonís homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëAs surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.

The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.