Pulling Down Strongholds

Don Calvert ~ April 13, 2025
2 Corinthians 10:1-7a

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Strongholds: Strongholds are both spiritual and physical habitual patterns that have formed in our

and

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through broken

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or from the intensity of

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experiences.
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Results of Strongholds: People are not in bondage to past broken relationships and traumas; they are in bondage to the

they

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about themselves that

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during those times.
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Main Key – Being transformed, becoming like Jesus, takes

and is never done in

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, and it requires us to be in

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discipleship with others.
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Question 1: Do you have any

in your heart and mind that need

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?
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Question 2: Do you have to

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of these strongholds for the rest of your life?
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1st Step – We keep no

strongholds; what God has revealed, we

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and then

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, then we ask those who are spiritually trustworthy for

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.
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2nd Step – The meek are not the

, we never use the

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of this world to

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spiritual strongholds.
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3rd Step –

that you are in a

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and pick up your

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weapons and

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God’s way.
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ὀχύρωμα ochúrōma [stronghold]: A strong fortified

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.
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Meaning of Stronghold: Refers to the kinds of fortresses in which the

is

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in and feels

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.
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Incited in the Hebrew Means: To

, to

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someone to do something through

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.
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Implication #1 – Jesus disciples cannot ignore those

within the church; we must love them, but we must also speak His

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and be ready to act regardless of the

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.
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Implication #2 – When all you can see is the

of your stronghold, have

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that God is using others to help aid you in pulling them down so that you

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Him clearly.
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Implication #3 – The hardest stronghold to pull down in your life is the one of

; ask God to reveal to you where

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has outwitted you, then

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.
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