THE WEAPONS OF

YOUR WARFARE

by Jonas Clark

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from the King James Version.

THE WEAPONS OF YOUR WARFARE

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THE WEAPONS OF YOUR

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The devil wants to use your imagination to make

mountains out of molehills to discourage. Mountains are

best built within a corrupted imagination.

od knows you can wander into the

Gstormy sea of vain imaginations. He

provided in His Word, however, ways to calm

every storm. Again He says the weapons of

your warfare are not carnal but mighty through

Him to pull down those corrupted thoughts that

would rise against His Word, will and ways in

your life.

Pulling down negative thoughts is

something that you have to do. It’s like taking

down and replacing old pictures of loved ones.

Others can’t do that for you. “So how often do

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you pull those thoughts down,” you ask? Every

time you have one, God will not take those

thoughts captive for you. You have to do it.

“How do you pull down a corrupted thought or

imagination?” you inquire. You pull them down

by first recognizing that you have one.

You need to be able to see the imagination

coming alive within your soul. Imaginations are

pictures within your mind of thoughts, events or

conversations that are only in the unseen world

within you. They are not real. The devil offers

you corrupted thoughts hoping you will take the

bait and image them as possible.

When a thought conflicts with the

Word of God you must submit

yourself to God's Word and not the

imagination.

Rogue imaginations encourage you to do

things you shouldn’t by releasing fear or playing

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on rejection. We cannot be driven by dread,

insecurity or wandering minds. You can have

the abundant life that Christ said you could

have, scripture says,

And having in a readiness to revenge

all disobedience when your obedience is

fulfilled. (2 Corinthians 10:6).

Until you learn how to cast down

corrupted imaginations you cannot

cultivate the positive ones.

To “revenge disobedience” means stopping

carnal imaginations that are non-compliant to

the Word of God. Notice the Word tells you to

be ready to cast them down through obedience

because imaginations have no power over those

that obey "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ

Jesus.”

When vain imaginations blather on, they

always conflict with God’s Word. That’s how

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you know if your imagination is good or bad.

When a thought conflicts with the Word of God

you must submit yourself to God’s Word and

not the imagination. You can always seek safety

by running into Christ’s covering and away from

corrupted thoughts and imaginations.

LIVING WITH THIEVES

Many Christians are influenced by carnal

imaginations. Vain imaginations are thieves.

Don’t live with them. You never know what

family treasure they will pluck from your

cupboards. When you linger on one, the

triumph of God’s Word is stolen from you.

Don’t flake out and wander into vain

imaginations. Take hold of your mind. Like

traversing a minefield, there is danger when

walking out a corrupted imagination.

When you form, in the spirit of your mind,

a picture or an image of something that might

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happen and act on that image, you give sunshine

to it. Acting on an imagination moves your life

in that direction. To guard yourself, you must

not ponder on the thought. If you act out the

thought, you cross the threshold of safety and

leave the path of life abundant.

When vain imaginations enter the

spirit of your mind, don't dwell on

them, bind them up. Lingering on

hollow thoughts and imaginations

only empowers them.

Every one of us has done this. We've been

manipulated, influenced and controlled by

corrupted imaginations or by something we

thought would happen that wasn’t even real

until we made it real.

There are truths that God speaks into our

lives that are genuine. And there are other

thoughts the spirit of this world speaks that are

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not real. Most the images that randomly come

into your mind are vain imaginations. You can,

however, like the wooden rudder on a mighty

ship, direct your imaginations toward the

positive by using your will. Until you learn how

to cast down corrupted imaginations you cannot

cultivate the positive ones. The devil wants to

use your imagination to make mountains out of

molehills to discourage. Mountains are best built

within a corrupted imagination. They only offer

discouragement, fear, confusion, anger and

defeat. The good news is that you can do

something about them. You can take control of

your thought life.

OUT WITH THE TRASH

Imaginations make believers with mighty

potential spiritually weak and emotionally

immature. Some get carried away by their own

imaginations. Relationships, for example, split

because of vain imaginations.

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One thing that helps everyone is to

stop taking imaginations as fact.

Imaginations are only imaginations.

Vain imaginations can be so serious that

some even leave good churches because of

imaginary offenses. Somebody imagined that

somebody thought something about them.

Before they know it, they’re giving life to

corrupted thoughts, changing churches and

abandoning life-long friends. They find

themselves out of the plan of God and

wondering what happened. Left unchecked this

is the power of vain imaginations.

When an imagination enters your life, you

have to ask yourself if the thoughts line up with

God’s Word. If they don’t, then you need to

place them in a polyethylene trash bag for

pickup. Don’t be afraid to call an imagination

what it is. You need to say to yourself, "That’s a

corrupted imagination and I’m not walking in

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it.” When vain imaginations enter the spirit of

your mind, don’t dwell on them, bind them up.

Lingering on hollow thoughts and imaginations

only empowers them.

Let’s make this more personal. Let’s say, for

example, that you can’t pay your bills. The devil

will try to get into your emotions and torment

you with thoughts that say, "They’re going to

take your car away from you, for example, or

they’re going to put a lien on your home, or

they’re going to file a lawsuit against you.”

Before you know it, you are tormented by an

imagination, a mental picture of things that are

not true.

Imaginations are suggestive and always rise

against the knowledge of God that says, all of

your needs shall be met. So what happens if you

dwell on a corrupted imagination? You will be

mentally troubled and prodded to act out the

imagination. Do you see it? Imaginations are

destroying lives, but you can stop every one by

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subjecting them to God’s written Word.

CHRIST’S FIGHTING INSTRUMENTS

When you form, in the spirit of your mind,

a picture or an image of something that might

happen and act on that image you give life to it.

One of your greatest fighting instruments is

the capacity to judge all thoughts and

imaginations by the written Word of God.

Unbelievers don’t have this ability because their

carnal minds are hostile toward God (Romans

8:7). Using the written law of God as your guide

for truth is the first sign of spiritual maturity. As

you learn to judge all your thoughts you will

discover that fear, insecurity and confusion will

leave your life.

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All your thoughts and imaginations

should lead you closer to God and

life in the Spirit, If they don't they

are vain and corrupted. To embrace

them would only hinder your walk

with Christ.

Some have more problems with debased

thoughts and imaginations than others, but

there is victory for everyone. You just have to

learn how to bind them up. One thing that helps

everyone is to stop taking imaginations as fact.

Imaginations are only imaginations. They dwell

in the unseen spirit of your mind. Thoughts too

are only thoughts. Neither has power unless you

give life to them by dwelling on them and

speaking them.

Judging every thought and imagination will

help you immediately. All your thoughts and

imaginations should lead you closer to God and

life in the Spirit. If they don’t, they are vain and

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corrupted. To embrace them would only hinder

your walk with Christ.

Vain imaginations never lead you closer to

God but away from Him. They are exalted

valleys. Many live, not according to the Word of

God or the ways of God, but according to

blemished imagery within their imagination.

The imagination is the area where the devil

works the most in the life of a believer. Just

remember "the weapons of your warfare are not

carnal but mighty through God to the pulling

down of strongholds.”

Strongholds are those destructive

imaginations created by dwelling on corrupted

thoughts.

Imaginations will talk to you. They have a

voice and are not afraid to mentor you. Vain

imaginations can, and will, laud themselves

against the knowledge of God in your life. They

have an anti-Christ voice and will challenge

Christ truth for your life. An imagination, for

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example, may speak to you saying, “You’re going

to die,” when Christ’s Word clearly declares,

With long life will I satisfy you and

show you my salvation. (Psalm 91:16).

That is how imaginations glorify themselves

against the knowledge of God.

Have you ever felt defeated in the midst of

victory? An imagination may also attack the

Word of God in your life by saying, “You’re

going to be a defeated person all your life.”

When the Word of God says,

Blessed be the God and Father of our

Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us

with all spiritual blessings in heavenly

places in Christ. (Ephesians 1:3).

My God shall supply all of your need

according to His riches in glory by Christ

Jesus. (Philippians 4:19).

An imagination may attack to undermine

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God’s plan and purpose in your life. God may

speak to you saying,

I’ve called you for such a time as this.

(Ester 4:14).

But an imagination may challenge, “Yeah,

but nobody loves you, nobody cares about you,

and nobody will listen to you.” All of these are

simple examples of the lying voice of vain

thoughts that attack the mind. You must learn

how to get control over your thoughts and

imaginations, and you can!

IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS

Within your imagination you can create

supposed conversations with others. Sometimes

people allow imaginary verbal exchanges to take

them into error. Some start foreseeing in their

mind’s eye, for illustration, a presumed dialogue

they’ll have with someone. They may think of

someone they're going to meet at work and

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begin to think about a talk that has not yet taken

place. Their mind begins to drift into the realm

of imagination and they think about what they

are going to say. They even visualize the

person’s response. As they continue to think

about the scene, a voice of fear may be released

into their imagination producing:

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Insecurity.

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Alarm.

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Rejection.

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Unbelief.

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Anger.

When you dwell on corrupted

thoughts you're walking, not after

the Spirit, but after the flesh that

was introduced by the vain

imagination.

Because imaginations produce emotion they

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then find themselves envisaging things that

haven’t even happened. This is the poisoned

fruit of corrupted thoughts and imaginations.

This is why we must take every vagabond

imagination captive. This realm can rob

abundant life from you. Vain imaginations are

“high things that exalt themselves against the

knowledge of God” and attack your mind.

Have you drifted past coral reefs into the

dark blue depths of a vain imagination today?

You may have started thinking what your

spouse might say, what your employer might

say, or how your children might act. Suddenly

your mind is consumed with unseen images that

affect you in a negative way. When you dwell

on corrupted thoughts you’re walking, not after

the Spirit, but after the flesh that was introduced

by the vain imagination. This is another example

of how some live because they harvest

imaginations and lose the victory of the

knowledge of Christ in their lives.

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ACTION EXERCISE

Imagination is a good thing. As mentioned

already it is a gift from God given to you to:

See all things as possible to him that

believeth, (Mark 9:23).

Before you can operate in that seeing gift,

however, you need to discern corrupted

thoughts and vain imaginations. You can do it.

This week try writing them down and practice

identifying every positive and negative thought,

voice and imagination that enters your mind.

The first step to winning the war, like Agatha

Christie’s fictional detective Miss Marple, will be

your ability to rightly discern the thoughts that

attack your soul.

Imaginations speak a foreign language and

exalt themselves against the truth of God in your

life. It is the voice of an imagination, for

example, that says, "You can’t make it. Why

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don’t you just give up and quit?” When you hear

unfamiliar sounds turn away and incline your

ear towards heaven that declares,

I can do all things through Christ

which strengtheneth me. (Philippians

4:13).

Christ gave you powerful fighting

instruments—His Word. Use His sword today

and win every battle.

MEDITATION AND REFLECTION

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Acting on an imagination moves your

life in that direction.

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You can direct your imaginations toward

the positive by using your will.

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Imagination produces emotion.

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Imaginations are pictures within your

mind of thoughts, events or

conversations that are only in the unseen

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world within you.

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When you form, in the spirit of your

mind, a picture or an image of something

that might happen and act on that image

you give life to it.

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How Witchcraft Spirits Attack

Unlocking Prophetic Imaginations

Seeing What Others Can't

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Jezebel, Seducing Goddess of War (Also Available in Spanish)

Exposing Spiritual Witchcraft

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The Apostolic Equipping Dimension

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Document Outline

- The Weapons of Your Warfare

- 1 The Weapons of Your Warfare

- Living With Thieves

- Out With the Trash

- Christ’s Fighting Instruments

- Imaginary Conversations

- Action Exercise

- Meditation and Reflection

Table of Contents

The Weapons of Your Warfare

1 The Weapons of Your Warfare

Living With Thieves

Out With the Trash

Christ’s Fighting Instruments

Imaginary Conversations

Action Exercise

Meditation and Reflection