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    What's Got a Hold On You?: Gods' Principles for Tearing Down Strongholds
    What's Got a Hold On You?: Gods' Principles for Tearing Down Strongholds
    What's Got a Hold On You?: Gods' Principles for Tearing Down Strongholds
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    What's Got a Hold On You?: Gods' Principles for Tearing Down Strongholds

    By Victor J. Close

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    A man and I worked together several years ago. Every morning when he woke up the first thing he would do was reach for his can of chewing tobacco. He told me that he wished that he could quit using it. He said that he was scared that he would get cancer. He even had a couple of sores in his mouth. He admitted that he had tried to quit chewing tobacco many times but he couldn’t do it.

    About that same time I was actually in process of writing this book. Sometimes, when I finished a chapter or two I would bring them with me while I was on the road and work on them. I would let my friend read what I had completed and we would talk about it.

    When the contractor we worked for ran out of work we both got laid off and we went our separate ways. But, as God would have it, our paths crossed about a year later. He could hardly contain himself as he told me that he no longer was chewing tobacco. I’ll never forget his answer when I asked him how he did it. He smiled and said, “It was easy, I just did what you said in your book.”

    On one of my trips to the local super center, I met a man who had a table set up at the entrance to the store. He was part of a ministry that worked with recovering alcohol and drug addicts. There goal was to get them saved and free from their addiction. As I spoke to this man I felt like the Holy Spirit was telling me to give him my book. I gathered up all the books that I had with me and gave them to this man.

    A couple of years later, I saw this same man there at the store entrance once again. He recognized me immediately, even though we had only met briefly that one day. I asked him how he liked the book. He said that he loved it. They had been using it for the last two years at the ministry for a teaching tool, when they ministered to the addicts they worked with. They were having great success using Gods Principles For Tearing Down Strongholds, in getting people free from their addictions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 17, 2012
    ISBN9781623097509
    What's Got a Hold On You?: Gods' Principles for Tearing Down Strongholds

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    What's Got a Hold On You? - Victor J. Close

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    Chapter 1

    Gods’ Principles for Tearing Down Strongholds

    Has this ever happened to you? You went to a church service and the preacher gave a real good message. The conviction of the Holy Spirit came on you about some vise in your life that had been coming between you and your relationship with God. Or perhaps an evangelist gave an altar call and you went forward to the altar to Surrender it All to God. Or, you went forward and got prayed for by the pastor for freedom from that problem that you just couldn’t seem to give up or be free from? Have you ever been anointed with oil by the pastor or preacher to get free from that thing which just keeps dogging you? Have you ever gone to a revival and been slain in the Spirit, and had some spirit that had kept you bound for years cast out? Has a man or woman of God ever prophesied over you that you were freed from that thing which had you bound? Have any of these things ever happened to you? Did you go home praising God and thanking Him because you had been set free. But, the next day you woke up you found yourself in exactly the same condition you were in before you stepped out in faith? Have any of these things ever happened to you? If they have, did you stop and ask God what happened? Perhaps you said something like this; I thought I was free from this thing, what’s the deal? HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?

    I must be perfectly honest with you. I cannot count the times I have found myself in similar situations. And just like you my personal results were about the same. I think it would be safe to say that almost everyone has had things in their lives they want to be free from at one time or another. Some people want to be free from cigarettes, some want freedom from alcohol. Others need to be set free from an addiction to drugs or pornography or some other stronghold.

    I didn’t write this book to compile a list of things you shouldn’t do. However, these things I mentioned are prime examples of the kind of strongholds that can enslave you. There will be some folks who read this book and say a person is set free from these things the moment they accept Christ as their Savior. But in reality there are untold numbers of born again, Spirit filled, Children of the Living God who are enslaved to one thing or another even after they are saved. And no matter how hard they have tried, or how many times they got prayed for or anointed with oil or Gave it to God, they simply are unable to get free.

    WHY? That question had plagued me for years. Namely, because I couldn’t get free myself. I got anointed with oil, I got prayed for, and I got slain in the Spirit. I got all those things, time and time again. And yet, I still wasn’t free. And I asked the question, WHY?

    In 2 Corinthians 6: 14-18, we are told that righteousness has no fellowship with unrighteousness, and that light has no communion with darkness. And, We are the temple of the living God. Verse 17 commands us to come out from among them, and be separate, and touch not the unclean thing. This is wonderful advice from the apostle Paul, but how do we do it? Christ tells us that if we thought it in our minds that we committed the act.

    Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Herein lays the crux of our problem. The Bible tells us to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. We need to trust in God. But how do we do these things if you’re addicted to cigarettes or alcohol or drugs? Unless God supernaturally removes the desire for these things from you, the lust for them still remains in your heart, and therefore you have already committed the act.

    If you are still lusting after that thing, then, you are still enslaved to whatever you are lusting for! It doesn’t matter how much self-control you’re able to put forth. Regardless of how long you have resisted the temptation to give in to that stronghold, if you still think after that thing, and lust for it, you’re still in bondage to it.

    Psalm 37:4-5 Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

    Several years ago I was talking with a man and he shared something that God had done in his life. He told me that he had been addicted to Marijuana for years. After he had gotten saved he had tried time and again to quit without success. The urge was just too strong and each time he attempted to quit it ended in failure. No matter how hard he tried to put it down, the desire for it was stronger that his will and he was never able to overcome his temptation.

    Then one day God did something supernatural in his life. God took the desire for Marijuana from him. He told me, One day I was smoking Marijuana just like I had done for the past 20 years, and the next day I just didn’t want it. He went on to say, And not only that, I don’t even have a desire for it anymore!

    Now that was a miracle! He readily admitted that he had tried and tried to overcome this stronghold in his life, but he had never had the strength to do it. For this man to stop smoking Marijuana with the snap of a finger (so to speak) was nothing less than a miracle.

    As this man shared what God had done for him, I found myself thinking, Now that’s the way it’s suppose to be. Not only did God give him victory over his addiction, but he no longer had that deep down desire and lust that had been torturing his mind. God had literally caused Psalm 37:4 to come into existence in this mans’ heart. God supernaturally changed this mans’ innermost desire which was, his lusting for Marijuana. God removed those desires that were in this mans’ heart that didn’t line up with the desires that God had planned and purposed for this man. And, God simultaneously replaced those old desires in this mans’ heart with a new set of desires. The desires that this man now had were Gods’ desires. God had given this man the desires of His heart.

    In my spirit, I saw it clearly for the first

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