Identifying and Breaking Strongholds with Eileen Marx Part 1

even though we don't see the enemy he's real even though we don't see the Holy Spirit in us he's in us and we have been given power over the demonic realm and it doesn't matter how old we are [Music] hey friends you're listening to the victor Marx podcast with Victor marks founder of all things possible ministries welcome to the show where we bring you real conversations facing life's hard truth stories of redemption and the latest from the frontlines whether you're on the road getting your day started or finally settling in we've got an exciting new episode plan for you so let's dive into today's show [Music] today's episode is taken from a live message Eileen gave at Calvary Chapel Reno about the importance of identifying mental and spiritual strongholds in this message we dive into Scripture and how to turn from the captivity zhh that root in our lives often from hard experiences and were reminded that Christ lives within us and gives us the power to overcome be sure to stay tuned for more on this message in part 2 next week here's Eileen marks on identifying and breaking spiritual strongholds do you know what the message is about is it about identifying strongholds and I don't think that as a church we talked about it enough because we're afraid to maybe and we're here tonight to to find out and deal with these things and we're gonna ask the Lord to be here with us so would you would you please pray with me Father God thank you thank you for who you are thank you that you love us God you know everything about us and you love us your love never changes God thank you for each a woman that you brought out here tonight God Lord we give you permission to work in our hearts Lord the deepest part of our hearts Jesus when we ask that you would do what only you can do tonight Lord we love you we gave you this time where we ask that you would surround this building with your mighty warring angels we pray a seamless canopy of protection of your precious blood over the sanctuary Jesus and we pray God that we would have ears to hear we love you we commit this time to you in Jesus name Amen I love your verse how many of you went to your women's retreat last weekend I love it because it says that you are complete in him and that is a true statement but many of us were not complete because of what's happening in our heart and God wants us to be complete because he said were complete in him not because of what we think not because of what has happened but because he says that amen amen Isaiah 60:1 oh do you have your three by five cards with you okay wonderful okay we're gonna use those in just a little bit so just hold onto those Isaiah 60:1 I love this because this is Jesus telling the people who he walked in the temple with and opened up the scroll this is why he said he's here and I know many of you know this scripture but when you when we put it in Jesus saying that this is why he here let's let's hear what he says Jesus says the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to proclaim Liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who were bound that's why Jesus said he came here is that just beautiful I love that another thing that Jesus said is he told his disciples in Matthew how they're to live their life and it's very simple we all know the Lord's Prayer don't we our Father who art in heaven hallowed be your name we know that there's six things that Jesus says for his disciples to do and if we're his disciples he's telling us that this is what he wants us to do after he says thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread he says and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespassed again yes this is a matter of fact this isn't if we want to if we feel like it this is what he told his disciples to do and then he says lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one do you think Jesus knew the evil and one was didn't he have confrontation with that evil one face to face he knew from heaven who that evil one was but he tells us these very simple things that we need to do is so simple that sometimes it's so hard because it's so simple ladies if we are being held captive tonight by our anger by our bitterness unforgiveness jealousy pride and on and on and on and on the Lord doesn't want you to leave here holding on to those I know that he wants you to give it to him you just have to be willing to let it out of your heart and your soul and there's a victory that he wants you to live in do you believe that the enemy also has a plan doesn't he and it's simple he came to kill to rob and to destroy just the opposite of what Jesus came or any of you tired of being ripped off of being robbed from what God Almighty has for you are you tired of it listen to what John Trapp says our spiritual weapons are scorned by the world but feared by demonic powers when we fight with truth and righteousness and faith and salvation the Word of God in prayer no principality stand against that amen do we really understand who's in US do we understand as a believer as a child of God do you really understand who's in you and who's giving you the power to overcome evil raise your hand if you believe that awesome amen because that's the truth even though we don't see the enemy he's real even though we don't see the Holy Spirit in us he's in us and we have been given power over the demonic realm and it doesn't matter how old we are we have a ten year old and a 12 year old and a 22 when a 25 and the 26 year old but we teach our little ones that they have this power that is in them because that is the only thing that's gonna help them overcome the wicked one amen we don't have to have a high IQ we don't have to have spiritual gifts we don't have to have a a degree in theology we just have to simply believe it and and here's something interesting ladies if we don't believe it there's somewhere in our heart that doesn't believe it that's an issue because that works against us not for us demons are like bullies Hollywood has done a very good job making people afraid right because they make these demons out to be very very powerful beings that can destroy people right well they can if they're not a believer they do have that power to do that but Hollywood Hollywood unless these people who were making these movies unless they have the mind in the heart of God they don't understand and so people who were in that realm ladies we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit we need to have the Lord in us so we can tell them it's true this unseen world that we see that we don't see it's real sometimes even more real than what we see I believe demons I just said are like bullies right the moment you stop giving the bully your lunch money they have to change tactic the moment you stand up and you take your authority and who God made you guest what they're gonna go to somebody else and ladies we have that power when my husband and I were in Iraq we were in northern Iraq and we went to a hotel that was a formerly Saddam Hussein's casino and you can feel the demonic realms still there you can just feel the oppression and one way that my husband and I kind of broke that is we had our iPhone with our music on there Christian music and we would keep it in a room and we were walk down the hallway to the elevating you can just feel the evil leaving because first of all ego doesn't like praise music doesn't like Christians and when we walk into a place when we walk somewhere it filled with the Holy Spirit guess what we can change an environment it may not change the entire place but we can change the environment and that's what the Lord wants us to do with authority with power that's us that's what he wants us to do not being afraid not trying to figure it out just walk in and take your authority in your workplace in your home in your circles of influence that's what the Lord wants us to do ladies we live in times that you know it's assuring in the Lord coming back please come back soon Lord so when we grasp that greater is He Who is in us then what it changes your world and it really does start with us and then our families and then our extended families and then our friends you know hear me do you know what I'm saying it starts with us we have to believe it amen here's the interesting thing demons don't fear us they don't but they fear the one who's in us when we were in Hawaii my husband do you know have some people they bring home pets and you know you have a new pet my husband would bring home people and they would be like right there in my living room and what am I gonna do and you know what the Lord has used my husband to enlarge my heart because now we have someone in our living room but this this young man is a teenager he was he was demon-possessed he had allowed demons to possess him and when we were teaching karate together every Friday night after we would do a Bible study and my husband to get been saying and then he would teach a Bible study but this young man his name was Greg was sitting next to me and he did not like what was happening with the praise music so he started manifesting and my husband motions for me to take him out of the room thank you me okay so we went out of the room and we were sitting side-by-side I didn't know what to do I just started saying Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus and he this kid turned and hiked his legs up to me like he was gonna kick me but he didn't and you know why cuz he knew it was in me those demons that were in him knew that he couldn't kick me and I wouldn't cry I I actually my faith grew because of that I didn't know what to do our sighted call him that on the name above all names and that demon didn't like it so just that simple thing what happened it changed the environment that young man was delivered but sadly enough the Bible says if you do not fill those places he was I mean it was just a terrible thing we pray that he's he's free now because you know what that means so as children children believe what they're told children believe what they see and what they hear and it's interesting to me that Jesus says you have to become like a child right and he says for such as the kingdom of heaven and then he says don't mess with children it's better that a millstone be hung around your neck if you cause a little one to stumble I believe with all my heart that Satan is the author of child abuse physical sexual emotional because he knows that if he can imprint a child from a young age that the chance of that child coming to know who God is is limited but he doesn't have a final word but that is where he goes to start his work we go to youth prisons and sometimes there's mental hospitals for children that have they've broke the law they've done something crazy but to walk into a mental hospital full of children on drugs is a very sad thing to see they drugged them out and if you hear some of the stories of the children you know why they're in there and so many have been abused so many have been abused that they don't know how to handle things they don't know how to behave they're their trouble becomes bigger than their parents it becomes bigger than their teachers it becomes bigger than Authority so they're just put away that is a plot from the enemy I watched my husband how many of you know my husband's story Victor marks story how many of you have watched okay wonderful so for those who don't my husband has the story on his life he was abused as a child every kind of abuse he was abused and God has used his life amazingly to tell other people that God can heal God can bring healing but I watched my husband newly-married be transformed from this six to black belt strong marine to a little boy by a phone call that he took from his stepfather see cuz his stepfather as a little boy spoke lies to him spoke things that imprinted my husband's mind so he believed them even as a man even as a black belt even as a Marine because it was in his head it became something that he believed and do you know what I'm saying as a new believer then I wondered how that can happen I was still kind of even I'm kind of new to our marriage so I really didn't understand the whole picture was happening with my husband see it's the lies that his stepfather spoke to him that were reinforced again and again so the phone call that was another reinforcement who's the father of lies Satan and he uses people to reinforce those lies again and again so that's why somebody who's strong physically and mentally and all this they can be tormented because of the lies in their head when a person believes a lie Satan goes to working that wife and it doesn't matter how many Bible says you go to it doesn't matter how many songs that you sing it doesn't matter if you believe the lie in your head these are strongholds these lies that you have believed become strongholds so the truth is being washed over you but you're not believing it because you still believe the lie here's how the cycle goes you hear a lie you're told a lie and then you repeat that lie in your mind as though it's the truth the lie is then reinforced by your own mind or other people other people do something to you that reinforce that lie and the cycle continues when you read and you hear the truth again you can't apply it because you don't believe it because you believe in the lie you're stuck in a cycle and it's called being held captive and because we're human beings were all susceptible to it I don't care what the lie is truth is a freedom faith in God's truth believing in God's truth leads to victory but you gotta believe it faith in Satan's lies it leads to defeat when you ask the Lord if you can identify that what's going on in your mind and your soul when you ask the Lord is this the truth he'll tell you you will know the truth and the truth set you free the devil makes it his business to keep Christians in bondage bagged and gagged actually imprisoned in their own grave that's aw Tozer the truth says people free these are some of the lies that people hear why speak you are worthless truth speaks you're valuable and made in God's image you're priceless and you're made for his glory lies speak you were a mistake truth speaks you were thought of even before you were born why speak your ugly truth speaks your fearfully and wonderfully made lies speak everyone's against you truth speaks if God is for me who can be against me are those the truths that triumph over lies yes yes those are truth thanks for joining us for today's episode we'd love to stay connected with you and invite you to the conversation beyond this podcast you can check out more of the work we're doing around the world at victor Marx calm Facebook Instagram and Twitter all linked in the show notes be sure to drop us a comment 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Length: 22min 10sec (1330 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 30 2019