Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.

Dr. Tony Evans is experiencing real intimacy with the Lord

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If the only worship God gets out of you is on Sunday morning, you're not near to God. You just visit him

occasionally. This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless

biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Satan knows exactly where to find weak spots that can trip us up or tear us down.

Today, we'll hear from Dr. Evans as he outlines three specific steps we need to take in order to break free from the habits in history that turn us into spiritual prisoners of war.

Let's listen in.

A stronghold is a mindset that accepts a situation as

unchangeable even though we know it's against the will of God as a stronghold.

Something that captures you and you see no way out.

You can't. way out. You're caught, but you want to escape. It is unfortunate that Christians have

been duped in the believing that if you have a stronghold you're supposed to have it.

That there's no way out.

We want to blame people for our strongholds.

People cannot make something a stronghold.

They can set you up for you to make it a stronghold.

Because what makes a stronghold a stronghold is that it's got your mind.

And while people can make it accessible to you, while people can encourage you in it, they cannot force you.

A stronghold is where you are captured in your mind.

People say, well, if they didn't have all that junk on TV and all that junk in the movies,

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