But note the power our weapons possess! We demolish strongholds and demolish worldly arguments and pretensions. The dictionary defines demolish as:
To lay waste to; to utterly ruin
What God is saying is that there
is no room for negotiating with the world and the arguments it makes to us. He
is not saying that we can come against our strongholds, attack our strongholds,
or assault them. We are to demolish them. We are to utterly ruin the
pretensions the world sells us. In the Old Testament King Jehoshaphat was
facing a bad report from the world. Forces from three different nations were
marching against him. He was outnumbered. The worldly argument was that there
was no hope in the situation. Jehoshaphat did not rely upon the weapons of this
world he relied upon the divine ones he knew God provided for him. He called
for a fast throughout
He said: "Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in
And that is what God is saying to
us today as well. Do not be afraid or discouraged for the battle is not ours
but the Lord's. God delivered
Equally important to prayer, we have been given a slice of who God is. His Word provides us with the power to cut through the attacks the enemy comes against us with:
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
God's Word is living and active beloved. It is described as an offensive weapon, a sword. The wars that rage within us are a battle between the flesh and the Spirit; the soul and the Spirit. What we feel is in our soul but what we believe is in our Spirit. What causes fear in our lives is in our soul but what we know is in our Spirit. When we have allowed a stronghold to develop in a particular area of our life, we have allowed our soul to be bigger than our Spirit in that area. What we feel or what we see becomes bigger than what we know and believe. But the Bible tells us how we are to live:
