Heard Mac Hammond preach on strongholds recently and it sparked questions that required answers.
What does a stronghold look like
- High walls
- Strong gates
- Strong defensive points
- Ample storage of goods and ammunition
- Plenty of weapons and armor
- Strategically placed
- Various buildings and dwellings
what does God look like as a stronghold?
- Heaven
- 2 Samuel 22:2-3,51 MEV 2 He said: The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; 3 the God of my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my fortress and my sanctuary; my Savior, You save me from violence. 51 He is a tower of salvation for His king, and He acts faithfully toward His anointed, toward David and his descendants forever.
- Psalm 18:2 MEV The LORD is my pillar, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Psalm 144:2 MEV my goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer, my shield, and in whom I trust; who subdues nations under me.
- Proverbs 10:29 MEV The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.
What is in my stronghold, my fortress?
Note: If it can be found in God, it can be found in my stronghold.
- The Trinity – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit
- G4991 Soteria; Deliverance, Preservation, Safety, Salvation
- 2 Samuel 22:2-3,51 MEV 2 He said: The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; 3 the God of my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my fortress and my sanctuary; my Savior, You save me from violence. 51 He is a tower of salvation for His king, and He acts faithfully toward His anointed, toward David and his descendants forever.
- The Armor of God: Ephesians 6:11,14-17 MEV 11 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 14 Stand therefore, having your waist girded with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 having your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace, 16 and above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you will be able to extinguish all the fiery arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- Truth: John 1:17 MEV For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- Spirit of Life: Romans 8:2 MEV For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
- Healing: 1 Peter 2:24 MEV He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”
- Riches: 2 Corinthians 8:9 MEV For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that through His poverty you might be rich.
- Resist the devil: James 4:7 MEV Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- The Blessing: Galatians 3:13-14 MEV 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us—as it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— 14 so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
- The Blood of the Lamb: Revelation 12:11 MEV They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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Visualize your stronghold, your fortress, your high tower.