Breaking Spiritual Strongholds: Fight Back!

“having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.”

When you are coming against the spiritual forces of evil, you need to make sure you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the devil and his kingdom have been defeated. Here we can see in these Bible verses that the Apostle Paul is making it clear that Jesus Christ disarmed and triumphed over the entire demonic kingdom when He died on the cross for our sins.

We need to recognize that He has given us the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy, Luke 10:19. When you are engaging in this spiritual battle come from a place of victory and not defeat. One of his greatest weapons is instilling fear, but God tells us in His Word that we are not to have the spirit of fear but of power and a sound mind, 2 Timothy 1:7.

God has given us one of the most powerful weapons against the schemes of the devil. Some of the verses of Scripture that describe the weaponry that He has provided us with are:

• Ephesians 6:13-17 “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” 
• 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
• 1 John 4:4 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”
• Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
• Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

These are just some of the passages of Scripture out of God’s Word that you can stand on to fight back against the spiritual forces of evil that we are all up against. We need to comprehend that our battle is not carnal and we need spiritual armor if we are going to succeed in this spiritual war.

Some other key verses that we need to get familiar with are:

• 1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
• 2 Corinthians 11:13-14 “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.”
• Matthew 13:19 “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.”

In order for us to fight the devil back we have to get ourselves into God’s Word, our double-edged Sword. Satan’s strategy is to establish spiritual strongholds in our minds because he knows that they are difficult to break. However, the Word of God has the power to make us free from every demonic attack, John 8:32.