We are walking in today: Men Of Torah Day--Men Sent To Dismantle Strongholds
Teaching from the book: Unmasking The Jezebel Spirit, by John Paul Jackson.
Witness prnciples throughout the Bible: G4747 stoicheion any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal
Proverbs 19:27; Hebrews 5:12
2 Samuel 5:7-8
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Tziyon, also known [now] as the City of David. What David said on that day was, “In order to attack the Y’vusi, you have to climb up [from the spring outside the city] through the water tunnel. Then you can do away with those [so-called] ‘lame and blind’” (whom David despises — hence the expression, “The ‘blind and lame’ keep him from entering the house”). - CJB
Revelation 2:18-21
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Thyatira, write: ‘Here is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like burnished brass: I know what you are doing, your love, trust, service and perseverance. And I know that you are doing more now than before. But I have this against you: you continue to tolerate that Izevel woman, the one who claims to be a prophet, but is teaching and deceiving my servants to commit sexual sin and eat food that has been sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to turn from her sin, but she doesn’t want to repent of her immorality. - CJB
H4869. misgab ► Strong's Concordance
Original Word: מִשְׂגָּב
Part of Speech: noun masculine; proper name, of a location
Transliteration: misgab
Phonetic Spelling: (mis-gawb')
Definition--a secure height, retreat, stronghold
lofty stronghold (1), refuge (1), stronghold (14), unassailable (1).
A stronghold in reference to the Jezebel spirit shows its operations. Attaches itself to the mind, a series of systematic events believed and excepted by a Jezebelite. Any thoughts or pattern that is contrary to the original way Yahweh intended for us to think. Such as habitual responses, addictions, fixations, compulsions, obsession, and or inordinate fear.
It serves as a mental or emotional “command post” to which the enemy has access. This mental or emotional word or thought system is designed to create misinformation and thereby affect an individual’s decision-making ability. Consequently, a stronghold keeps a person from embracing true recovery and Torah instructions.
You ever have a conversation with someone and they just do not get what you're saying? No matter how much you take the time to help them comprehend. Yet the person continues to argue with you with rants of foolishness. They never will, because of the stronghold that holds them in bondage by the Jezebel spirit. These strongholds have to be broken. For they are contrary to the word of God. Yahweh's word says whom the son sets free is free indeed!
John 8:36
So if the Son frees you, you will really be free! - CJB
David was considered by Yahweh as a man after His own heart.
Acts 13:22
God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.’ -CJB
What is this 'own heart' mean? David one of my most favorite characters in the Bible. He was bold, brave, and in love with Yahweh from an early age. Oh, these are the good things about David. What about all the stuff that we really don't talk about? Like David going into the temple and eating the bread that was made for the priests to eat because his men were hungry. Or the time where David killed a man for his wife. But one thing that I did notice about David that I love--even though David did all these things he knew how to teshuvah. David recognized influences inside of himself, once they were misaligned with the will of Yahweh, repented and realigned with His righteousness. It is this returning to the mindset Yahweh intended him to walk in. Fearless and bold in the Lord for he trusted not in himself but always consulted Yahweh before doing anything.
So as we go into the story of 2 Samuel 5, we see David finally being anointed as king over the entire nation of Israel. David has to confront the Jebusites enclosed in a city surrounded by secure stronghold. Consulting his Yahweh first, as David always did before any confrontation. This is an example for us all on how to confront the strongholds in our minds. Everything David did he trusted in Yahweh first and foremost. After asking the question should he take the city? Yahweh replied yes. Yahweh gave him a strategic plan into entering into this immovable city. Also even after that, we go into another battle. The Philistines heard that David was now King and sought out to kill him. David went down to the stronghold and prepared for war inquiring first and foremost of Yahweh. Should he war against the Philistines? Not only was an answer given but a strategic plan as to how to destroy the Philistines.
I love this because the fact that David trusted in Yahweh to help him defeat his enemies. Yahweh gave him plan after plan to defeat the strongholds in David's life.
So in like manner Yahweh always has a plan. For breaking the strongholds in our lives. Here is a list of some truths about how strongholds operate and hold people captive:
1. Strongholds are a primary strategy of Satan’s work around the world and in our lives.
2. Strongholds form presuppositions that distort our perceptions of everything we encounter.
3. Everyone has strongholds in their lives.
4. None of us are as free as Jesus’ death on the stake was purposed to make us. Remember, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7). His blood is a weapon that disables strongholds.
5. “If you are as free as you want to be, then you are as free as you’re going to be—until your desire changes.”--Jack Taylor
STRONGHOLDS IN OPERATION
1. Strongholds prevent or retard our emotional and spiritual growth and maturity.
2. Strongholds cause conflict, separation, and divorce in marriage. In the church, strongholds cause division. They provoke bitterness, jealousy, anxiety, and depression.
3. Strongholds empower Satan and his demons while grieving the Holy Spirit and God’s angels.
4. Strongholds keep individuals from accepting what Christ has made them to be and thus keeps them from fulfilling their personal destiny in God.
5. Strongholds are a foothold or a place of operation that the devil possesses in us (Ephesians 4:22).
6. Strongholds produce financial disorder and will bring about spiritual disorientation.
7. Strongholds weaken our body and make us vulnerable to diseases.
8. Strongholds provoke us to respond to others in ways that even we do not understand. They fragment attempted friendships and steal our joy and hope.
9. Strongholds stifle our faith and distort Scripture. They cloud and darken our minds and imprison our spirit.
10. Strongholds can only be killed at the root. They cannot be removed simply by addressing the manifestation.
11. Strongholds allow us to give only a begrudging love, at best. They keep us from forgiving others.
Here’s a prayer that I offer every day for my family and myself. Feel free to adapt it to your daily devotion with the Abba:
Lord, I humbly admit that I have mental strongholds in my life. These strongholds distort my perception of what You are doing. I ask You to tear down these strongholds so that I can perceive clearly. Today, I loose myself in the Ruach Hakadesh (Holy Spirit) and to walk in the fullness of Your purpose for my life. I know that I am capable of doing much more in You than I allow to happen. Therefore, I loose my spirit, soul, and body to be totally yours today! Amen.
Be encouraged this process is a journey. We must remain thankful that Yahweh it's showing as truth within ourselves. So that we can be used for His purpose and His glory! To hear this again click here.
Witness prnciples throughout the Bible: G4747 stoicheion any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal
Proverbs 19:27; Hebrews 5:12
2 Samuel 5:7-8
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Tziyon, also known [now] as the City of David. What David said on that day was, “In order to attack the Y’vusi, you have to climb up [from the spring outside the city] through the water tunnel. Then you can do away with those [so-called] ‘lame and blind’” (whom David despises — hence the expression, “The ‘blind and lame’ keep him from entering the house”). - CJB
Revelation 2:18-21
“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Thyatira, write: ‘Here is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like burnished brass: I know what you are doing, your love, trust, service and perseverance. And I know that you are doing more now than before. But I have this against you: you continue to tolerate that Izevel woman, the one who claims to be a prophet, but is teaching and deceiving my servants to commit sexual sin and eat food that has been sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to turn from her sin, but she doesn’t want to repent of her immorality. - CJB
H4869. misgab ► Strong's Concordance
Original Word: מִשְׂגָּב
Part of Speech: noun masculine; proper name, of a location
Transliteration: misgab
Phonetic Spelling: (mis-gawb')
Definition--a secure height, retreat, stronghold
lofty stronghold (1), refuge (1), stronghold (14), unassailable (1).
A stronghold in reference to the Jezebel spirit shows its operations. Attaches itself to the mind, a series of systematic events believed and excepted by a Jezebelite. Any thoughts or pattern that is contrary to the original way Yahweh intended for us to think. Such as habitual responses, addictions, fixations, compulsions, obsession, and or inordinate fear.
It serves as a mental or emotional “command post” to which the enemy has access. This mental or emotional word or thought system is designed to create misinformation and thereby affect an individual’s decision-making ability. Consequently, a stronghold keeps a person from embracing true recovery and Torah instructions.
You ever have a conversation with someone and they just do not get what you're saying? No matter how much you take the time to help them comprehend. Yet the person continues to argue with you with rants of foolishness. They never will, because of the stronghold that holds them in bondage by the Jezebel spirit. These strongholds have to be broken. For they are contrary to the word of God. Yahweh's word says whom the son sets free is free indeed!
John 8:36
So if the Son frees you, you will really be free! - CJB
David was considered by Yahweh as a man after His own heart.
Acts 13:22
God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.’ -CJB
What is this 'own heart' mean? David one of my most favorite characters in the Bible. He was bold, brave, and in love with Yahweh from an early age. Oh, these are the good things about David. What about all the stuff that we really don't talk about? Like David going into the temple and eating the bread that was made for the priests to eat because his men were hungry. Or the time where David killed a man for his wife. But one thing that I did notice about David that I love--even though David did all these things he knew how to teshuvah. David recognized influences inside of himself, once they were misaligned with the will of Yahweh, repented and realigned with His righteousness. It is this returning to the mindset Yahweh intended him to walk in. Fearless and bold in the Lord for he trusted not in himself but always consulted Yahweh before doing anything.
So as we go into the story of 2 Samuel 5, we see David finally being anointed as king over the entire nation of Israel. David has to confront the Jebusites enclosed in a city surrounded by secure stronghold. Consulting his Yahweh first, as David always did before any confrontation. This is an example for us all on how to confront the strongholds in our minds. Everything David did he trusted in Yahweh first and foremost. After asking the question should he take the city? Yahweh replied yes. Yahweh gave him a strategic plan into entering into this immovable city. Also even after that, we go into another battle. The Philistines heard that David was now King and sought out to kill him. David went down to the stronghold and prepared for war inquiring first and foremost of Yahweh. Should he war against the Philistines? Not only was an answer given but a strategic plan as to how to destroy the Philistines.
I love this because the fact that David trusted in Yahweh to help him defeat his enemies. Yahweh gave him plan after plan to defeat the strongholds in David's life.
So in like manner Yahweh always has a plan. For breaking the strongholds in our lives. Here is a list of some truths about how strongholds operate and hold people captive:
1. Strongholds are a primary strategy of Satan’s work around the world and in our lives.
2. Strongholds form presuppositions that distort our perceptions of everything we encounter.
3. Everyone has strongholds in their lives.
4. None of us are as free as Jesus’ death on the stake was purposed to make us. Remember, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7). His blood is a weapon that disables strongholds.
5. “If you are as free as you want to be, then you are as free as you’re going to be—until your desire changes.”--Jack Taylor
STRONGHOLDS IN OPERATION
1. Strongholds prevent or retard our emotional and spiritual growth and maturity.
2. Strongholds cause conflict, separation, and divorce in marriage. In the church, strongholds cause division. They provoke bitterness, jealousy, anxiety, and depression.
3. Strongholds empower Satan and his demons while grieving the Holy Spirit and God’s angels.
4. Strongholds keep individuals from accepting what Christ has made them to be and thus keeps them from fulfilling their personal destiny in God.
5. Strongholds are a foothold or a place of operation that the devil possesses in us (Ephesians 4:22).
6. Strongholds produce financial disorder and will bring about spiritual disorientation.
7. Strongholds weaken our body and make us vulnerable to diseases.
8. Strongholds provoke us to respond to others in ways that even we do not understand. They fragment attempted friendships and steal our joy and hope.
9. Strongholds stifle our faith and distort Scripture. They cloud and darken our minds and imprison our spirit.
10. Strongholds can only be killed at the root. They cannot be removed simply by addressing the manifestation.
11. Strongholds allow us to give only a begrudging love, at best. They keep us from forgiving others.
Here’s a prayer that I offer every day for my family and myself. Feel free to adapt it to your daily devotion with the Abba:
Lord, I humbly admit that I have mental strongholds in my life. These strongholds distort my perception of what You are doing. I ask You to tear down these strongholds so that I can perceive clearly. Today, I loose myself in the Ruach Hakadesh (Holy Spirit) and to walk in the fullness of Your purpose for my life. I know that I am capable of doing much more in You than I allow to happen. Therefore, I loose my spirit, soul, and body to be totally yours today! Amen.
Be encouraged this process is a journey. We must remain thankful that Yahweh it's showing as truth within ourselves. So that we can be used for His purpose and His glory! To hear this again click here.
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