The ‘Mind’ is the main battlefield of the human personality and is the centre of consciousness that generates thoughts, feelings, ideas, and stores knowledge and memories. The devil’s subtle way of affection  affects our concentration, thinking capacity, and desire. 

The battle  mainly starts from our ‘Mind’. As we get closer to God, Satan will come immediately to defeat our Minds with the negative things which become a stronghold in our mind. In an attempt to defend ourselves, we build strongholds in our mind.The mind is also kept under slavery. By the victory on the cross those who would deserve to live in freedom of mind can do so by keeping the cross in the centre of our will and mind. The only reason for  slavery and bondage in our minds is  only because we  are not coordinating and cooperating with Christ.

Strongholds are areas of thinking not based on truth but lies. Instead of protecting us, it actually is imprisoning us.

Unless we renew our mind, we risk continuing to believe those lies and making important decisions based on deception. So, how can these strongholds be torn down? 

We should be willing to receive the light of Truth in our minds. Our search for Truth begins in God’s Word in John 8:32 which says that “The Truth will set us free.”  This means we can be free from bondage, sin and strongholds in our minds. But just ’searching for Truth’ won’t set us free. We must be courageous enough to also ’believe the Truth’. 

Even when the Truth illuminates what is inside of us, it is sometimes hard to accept it. It is a painful process to face our deceptions and deal with them. It is so easy to allow our past to affect us negatively for the rest of our lives. Our past may explain why we are suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.