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"The Mental Battleground"

"The mind has been called the battleground of satan, and indeed it is! But, you have to remember, your mind is not the real you. YOU are a spirit, YOU have a mind, and YOU live in a body. (1 Thess. 5:23) God has given us weapons that are effective in this battle in the mind. In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, we are told that our weapons are not physical weapons because we are not to do physical battle. Satan is not a physical being, neither are his cohorts. In order to do battle with them we need spiritual weapons. Me not only have these weapons, we are told that they are mighty - through God!

Notice the area of battle it speaks of in verse five, Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.' The word in the Greek translated, "strongholds," is the word "ochuroma," meaning "fortify, holding, castle, figuratively, an argument." Satan tries to establish fortified castles of arguments in your mind. Sometimes these "arguments" are like castles, hard to penetrate! But we can! We have the necessary weapons - the major one being the sword of the spirit, the Word of God! (Eph. 6:17) The word, "imagination" in this text means, "computations, reasoning, conscience and conceit" and the word "thought" means, "perception, purpose, the intellect, disposition" and comes from a word meaning, "to exercise the mind." Why go into this word study? Because we need to see something important. Satan would love to get you involved with deceptive thinking, doubts, fears, worrying, etc., until you are so caught up in it that you are of no use to yourself or anyone else!