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    30 Days to Overcoming Emotional Strongholds
    30 Days to Overcoming Emotional Strongholds
    30 Days to Overcoming Emotional Strongholds
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    30 Days to Overcoming Emotional Strongholds

    By Tony Evans

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    Emotional strongholds come in all shapes and sizes—doubt, rejection, poor self-esteem, pride, stubbornness, a victim mentality, or defeatism. Which of these are you battling? Which ones are undermining your confidence and eroding your spiritual strength?

    Tearing down emotional strongholds so they no longer dominate your thoughts and actions can come only through an intentional alignment of your thoughts with God's truth in the Bible. Join Dr. Tony Evans in examining key emotional strongholds and their corresponding biblical truths that you can declare and apply to bring victory into your life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvest House Publishers
    Release dateMay 1, 2015
    ISBN9780736961844
    30 Days to Overcoming Emotional Strongholds
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    Tony Evans

    Dr. Tony Evans is founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, and author of The Power of God’s Names, Victory in Spiritual Warfare, and many other books. Dr. Evans is the first African American to earn a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, as well as the first African American to author both a study Bible and full Bible commentary. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 2,000 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Learn more at TonyEvans.org.

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    30 Days to Overcoming Emotional Strongholds - Tony Evans

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    INTRODUCTION

    Healthy emotions are to the soul what the senses are to the body. They reveal the way we feel about life’s circumstances.

    But some people are imprisoned by negative emotions. These people don’t just have a bad day once in a while—that happens to all of us. Rather, they feel as if they’re trapped, as if they can’t escape, and as if their very life is being choked out of them. When they wake up in the morning, they don’t say, Good morning, Lord. Rather, they say, Good Lord, it’s morning. They struggle to survive and may feel helpless, hopeless, and worthless.

    I use the word stronghold because anger, depression, worry, stress, low self-esteem…these are spiritual issues. They must be overcome spiritually. When we get the spiritual component right, we won’t be enslaved by our emotions.

    Some emotional strongholds can be tied to a physiological cause, such as a chemical imbalance. But most emotional strongholds don’t spring from physiological causes. Rather, they stem from sin—either your own or someone else’s. For example, you might struggle with emotions of guilt, shame, or regret because of wrong choices you have made. Or you may have suffered abuse, rape, betrayal, or rejection. In these cases, the stronghold of fear, insecurity, or worry didn’t come from your own sin but from others’.

    Emotional strongholds can even result from what I call atmospheric sin. This happens when sin clouds the atmosphere around us and affects us regardless of whether we actively participate in it. This is often the case with greed, social irresponsibility, injustice, racism, and so on. These can lead to emotional strongholds just as secondhand smoke can lead to lung cancer. In an environment that is rife with sin, people are more likely to suffer from emotional strongholds.

    People who find themselves enslaved to their emotions may deny the problem exists, or they may use pills, entertainment, sex, or money to distract themselves from the real issues causing their emotional discomfort. But I want to help you discover the root behind what you are experiencing so you can overcome it. I want to look beyond your feelings so you can discover and address the causes of your emotional strongholds—and overcome them.

    God did not create you to be imprisoned by emotional strongholds. Rather, He has promised you a full life in Christ. Jesus said, I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly (John 10:10). He has not called you to live each day in defeat. He wants you to know and trust that He is in control of all things and that He is watching over your entire life.

    If you are not experiencing the abundant life Christ freely gives, now is the time to overcome your emotional strongholds. Turn to Him and ask Him to reveal the areas where an emotional stronghold may have set in. He wants to show you how to see past your sorrow—how to view your life from His vantage point.

    From where you stand right now, life may look dismal. Yet from where God is seated, all is well. When we overcome emotional strongholds, we let go of our need to understand everything right now. We trust God to make a miracle out of what looks like a mess.

    Remember, emotions don’t think—they merely respond. Emotions have to borrow thoughts in order to stimulate feelings from them. Therefore, whatever controls your thoughts also controls how you feel.

    For example, if you were weighed down with worry and stress because your bills had piled up, you had been laid off from work, and you saw no way out of your financial chaos, your emotions would be responding to how you were thinking about your situation.

    But if I handed you a check for $500,000…well, let’s just say your emotions would completely change. That’s because your emotions follow your thoughts. You can overcome emotional strongholds by mastering your thinking. When you align your thoughts with God’s truth, you will be set free. Guaranteed.

    WEEK ONE

    EMOTIONS

    DAY ONE

    The battle to overcome your emotional strongholds is a battle for your mind. Whoever and whatever controls your mind controls your emotions (and your actions). So if you are worrying, stressed out, and depressed, you’re probably thinking things that aren’t true. That’s why the apostle Paul tells us we don’t war against the flesh, but against Satan’s attacks on our mind.

    The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).

    So we’re fighting not only our flesh but also our minds—and Satan’s lies. One of Satan’s favorite strategies is to plant his thoughts in our minds, disguising them as our own thoughts. We accept them as true and begin to act on them. This is the same strategy he used with Eve in the garden when he twisted God’s truth

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