What’s your stronghold? What lie is holding you hostage? What mistruth keeps you from taking a step of faith? What wrong thought pattern robs you of living a life of freedom and joy?

You cannot defeat what you cannot define. You have to identify the lie that has become a stronghold for you. You must realise the negative impact it’s had on you and others.

Do you see how you have become a prisoner of deception, locked up by a lie you believe is true? If you are going to change your life, you have to change your thinking. Demolish your strongholds. If you want to truly change your life, you cannot just change your behaviour. Even if you change your actions for a while, the original issue will just re-establish itself. That’s why Christianity has never been about behaviour modification; it’s about life transformation.

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• How long did it take Noah to build the ark?
• How long was Noah on the ark?
• How many of each type of animal did Noah take on the ark?
• How many people were on Noah’s ark?
• Who was Noah’s wife?
• Was Noah’s flood global or local?
• Had it ever rained before the Flood?
• What is the canopy theory?

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One of the clearest pictures of marriage in scripture is in Ephesians 5:21-33. Earlier in the chapter Paul had been talking about living life filled with the Holy Spirit. He then paints a vivid picture of what that looks like in a marriage. Here’s the starting point, Paul says we all are to “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” – Ephesians 5:21. Then Paul fleshes out what that way of living looks like in marriage. 

First, each partner needs to understand that God is in charge of a marriage, and that it should reflect His nature—His love, His concern, His radical sacrifice. Marriage is not about fulfilling your own wants and needs; it’s about fulfilling someone else’s.

Second, marriage won’t work unless you learn how to love your mate not as you define love, but as God defines it. It also means you must love your mate in a way that he or she is designed to receive it.

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Some “deliverance ministries” and Christian groups teach the existence of hereditary spirits, also called generational spirits or familial spirits. These entities are thought to be evil spirits that attach themselves to a particular family and harass them through multiple generations. They are demons inherited from one’s ancestors.

Usually, deliverance ministries recommend that a person renounce the generational spirits and all the curses his or her family is under, “binding” and “rebuking” all the demons, ordering sickness away, etc.

The teaching of generational spirits has no biblical foundation.

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