Breaking
Strongholds
TODAY’S
SCRIPTURE
For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.
2 Corinthians 10:4, NKJV.
TODAY’S
WORD
Scripture tells us that
there is a battle going on in our minds. Our thoughts dictate our actions.
That’s why the enemy will do everything he can to get you thinking in the wrong
direction. Sometimes, it’s not our own thoughts that are holding us back;
sometimes it’s that we’ve believed the negative things that other people have
spoken over us. Those words are like seeds. If you dwell on them long enough,
they’ll take root and become a reality.
In life, there will always
be people telling you what cannot be done, speaking negative things. Too often
we latch on to those negative words and develop what the scripture calls a “stronghold.”
That’s a wrong thought or action that keeps us from God’s best. The way you
break those negative strongholds is by rejecting the lie, forgiving the person,
and embracing the truth of God’s Word. In other words, you have to choose to
delete that negative file in your mind.
Today, why don’t you take
inventory of your thought life? Ask yourself, “Where did these thoughts come
from? Do they line up with what God says about me?” Break the negative
strongholds and embrace God’s truth so you can be all that God has called you
to be!
PRAYER
FOR TODAY
Father, today I choose to
reject negative thoughts. I choose to reject lies from the past. I break every
stronghold through the power of Your Word and embrace Your truth which sets me
free in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:19-20 NIV)
You have a mission; we all do. When we become a part of God’s family, our mission is given to us by God himself: to help others join that family, too. Since God loves everyone, there is no one in the entire world he doesn’t want to be in his family.
Jesus said, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:19-20 NIV).
When Jesus tells the Church to go to “all nations,” he isn’t talking about countries; he’s talking about people groups. He tells us to go to every people group and make disciples.
Today, there are 13,000 people groups in the world; 6,350 of those people groups have churches among them, but less than 2 percent of the population is Christian. Christianity has spread to every major language group in the world.
Yet there are 3,800 people groups that, 2,000 years after Jesus’ death on the cross, still have no church in their language. Why? We simply don’t care enough. We’re too busy with our own lives to care about people who are dying spiritually. Instead of telling those 3,800 people groups about the love of Jesus, we tell them by default to “go to Hell.”
Certainly, it’s a huge task. God’s mission is global. But it’s not missionimpossible; it’s mission inevitable. The Great Commission will be fulfilled. It’s a certainty. In fact, the Bible gives us a picture of its fulfillment in Revelation 7:9: “There before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.”
One day there will be people from every language group in the world standing before the throne of Jesus. The only question for us is this: Will our generation be the ones to do it? Or will we give up our responsibility and pass it on to someone else? Will another generation be the ones who get the privilege of fulfilling God’s great mission that he created the whole universe for in the first place?
Talk About It
- What might keep you from fulfilling your mission?
- What is God asking you to do with your life today to help fulfill the Great Commission?
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