Stand your Ground

…so that you will be able to stand

your ground, and after you have
done everything, to stand.

Ephesians 6:10-18
Stand your Ground
How does God start?
Stand your Ground
What is your ground?
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Work
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Gen 13:14-18

The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him,
“Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and
south, east and west. 15All the land that you see I will give
to you and your offspring forever. 16I will make your
offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could
count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17Go,
walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am
giving it to you.”
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So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the
great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to
the LORD.
 Two steps
1. Walk the land – have a general view,
explore it, get to know your
inheritance;
2. Move to inside your inheritance. Start
with one place, build an altar there,
and then move on to the next
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 Same strategy in Joshua
1. Spy the land and find out the
strongholds
2. Take the strongholds (cities), one by
one
 What is a stronghold?
• Strong + hold – it strongly holds
something from you
• It dwells in a place – our minds

2 Co 10:4-5 - The weapons we fight with are not the

weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have
divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish
arguments and every pretension that sets itself up
against the knowledge of God, and we take captive
every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
 A stronghold makes you
believe that
it is not possible to have
something that was already
given to you

e.g. – the first spies sent to the promised land

 Dealing with the strongholds
in the ground of our adoption
• Choose the strongest
one first
Accusation • Place the arc of the
Emotional wounds covenant in front of you
Rejection • Surround the
Fear
stronghold with praises,
Abuse until it collapses. Our
Unforgiveness weapons have divine
Guilt power – God will act.
• Move in and possess
the place – stand your
ground!