Impregnated

I came across this word in the definition of stronghold. It's a mindset impregnated with hopelessness that leads us to accept as unchangeable situations which we know are contrary to His will. Well, I have always known what is a stronghold but this definition gave me a new level of understanding. It's related to what Pastor Prince always said about how right believing leads to right living. It all starts with the mind, with a simple thought. It is like inception.

Somehow somewhere along the way, the enemy planted a lie in your mind, telling you that your situation will never change. That you are forever stuck in that rut, kept in that bondage. That no matter what you do, how you cry out to The Lord, He won't be able to hear you and save you. As you begin to believe this lie, the enemy starts to have an open door into this area of your thought life that is vulnerable. He will then cause situations to happen according to what he said. Then he will come back and reinforce his message that nothing is ever going to change. And you become more deeply entrenched in this lie, enforcing a viscous cycle. Soon you find yourself feeling hopeless about your situation, wondering if it would ever change.

But the good news is, just as this stronghold starts with a simple thought, it can be overcome by another simple thought. Just as the enemy can impregnate your mind with his lies, God can impregnate your mind with His truth. It is the thought that Jesus saves to the uttermost and there is nothing impossible to Him. But this process of turn around has to start with your act of will. Choosing to think what the word says, what God says about your situation. Whenever you begin to do that, there will surely be resistance from the enemy because he knows if you introduce Christ into your situation, that is the start of his downfall in the area of his lies. He will fight back with a ferocity in your thought life and sometimes in the circumstances of your life. He will cause a storm to rise up and make the situation seem worse than before, making you wonder if the word of God really works.

As you choose to replace those lies with God's word, the process of renewing your mind begins just as the bible says in Romans 12:2. It will not happen overnight but slowly and surely, as you continue and persist on focusing your thought life with what God can do, then you will start to witness His power in your life. When your thoughts are made pregnant with His word, you will conceive incorruptible seed and bear fruit. This fruit will eventually manifest as there will be signs of turn around in your life. Your circumstances will begin to line up with His word. When this happens, hope and faith will rise up within you because God has already proven that nothing is unchangeable. Everything you can see is temporary and subject to change. And you are starting to see these changes in your life which you used to believe are unchangeable.

As God reinforced His message that He has come to change and shift your season, and He backs up His word with the circumstances, your beliefs that there is hope for your situation and that you will see the manifestation of your promise are more deeply entrenched. Soon, you will no longer focus on the enemy's lies about your situation but choose to believe and declare God's word for your life. As time goes on, you will find that the enemy's lies get weaker and less convincing. Every area of your life that glistens with hope in God is an area which is being liberated by Christ, the hope of glory. Eventually the word of God in your heart will bear fruit and that's when you see a breakthrough in your thoughts. One day, you will realize that you are no longer enslaved by negative and hopeless thoughts in that area. The stronghold has already been torn down and you are set free from that bondage.

Very soon, the deliverance in your thought life will manifest in the physical realm. That's when the thing you hoped for came to pass. It has become a reality, no longer just wishful thinking. Your circumstance finally aligned itself to the word of God, which is also His will for your life. Joy has come to abide in places where you used to mourn. Light has penetrated the area of your thought life that was once dark. Hope has replaced the hopelessness that you once felt and change has occurred in the very area of your life which you once thought was unchangeable. Christ has caused you to overcome that area you were repeatedly defeated in and the enemy no longer has any hold on you anymore. Praise Jesus!