You can't use secular weapons to fight spiritual battles.

Dr. Tony Evans explains why that strategy only produces frustration and failure.

If your problem, your struggle, your need is satanically orchestrated all the effort you spend to fix the problem

that you face is ultimately either a waste of time or a band-aid situation.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

In any war, if your commander isn't smarter than your enemy, you've got a problem.

Today, Dr Evans explains how trusting God's leadership can keep you from becoming a spiritual prisoner of war. Let's join him.

Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 10.

verse 3, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

Some of your versions say strongholds.

Paul says that our methods are not fleshly because our enemy is not fleshly. Now follow this. The source of your

spiritual battles find their root in your mind. Satan has so constructed our thinking that we adopt his thinking about the world

rather than God's thinking about the world, he sets up in our mind,

according to, in the verse four, fortresses.

Or, as some versions translated,

strong holes.

He sets up in our mind permanent residency.

He sets up walls that won't come down. Now how is Satan able to pull this off? It tells you.

Verse 5 says and we are destroying speculations and every lofty thing,

thing, that's key phrase.

Every lofty thing.

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