Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, August 29th.

Satan can take advantage of our sinful choices to create strongholds.

Today, we continue the How to Talk with God series by helping you know what to do when it's spiritual warfare.

Now, if you're in a war and you don't even know that you're in a war, more than likely, you're going to get wounded.

And if you're in a war and you don't know who the enemy is, you're working at a terrible disadvantage.

And if the enemy has a power base right in your front door and you're not even aware that it's there, you're bound to be defeated.

Well, that is exactly what Paul is dealing with in 2 Corinthians chapter 10.

In this passage, Paul deals with a basic problem that every lost man has and every Christian has to some degree at some time or the other.

And I'm afraid far too many Christians all of their life.

And that is Satan's strongholds in their life.

So I want to deal with five aspects of this and the first one is to define what we mean and what Paul means here when he speaks of a stronghold.

He says in verse 4, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but rather spiritual but might is strong, powerful through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

Now a stronghold in the Greek is a fortified castle.

And of course when he talks about strongholds, he's talking about spiritual fortifications in our life.

So let me explain what I mean by that.

A stronghold is a power base.

It is, as he says, a place of fortification.

That is, it is an area of weakness in our life or something that we have not yielded to God that he is required and we're yet to yielded to him.

It is an area of weakness or it can be error in our thinking.

Satan is the father of all eyes and if Satan can get you to believing a lie about yourself or about God or about someone else, he can take great advantage of that.

So when he talks about a stronghold, he's talking about a power base that Satan has set up in our life.

Now that can be more than one thing.

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