On one of the paths I take when I prayer walk in the hills behind my house is a little dirt berm. A farmer put it there to keep people from dumping their trash on his property.
When I come to the berm I have two choices. I can take the easy but longer way by walking around it. Or, I could take the harder and shorter way by walking directly up and over it. The easy path is flat and takes little effort. The harder path has an incline and takes a little strength.
What are you going to do when your enemy or your current situations draw out the junk thoughts from your memory? Take the easy path and head to your drug of choice? Or will you take the harder path by filtering them out of your head and replacing them with the truth using the FREEdom process? Will you take the easy way in your own strength and lose or will you talk the harder path and ask for help from the Spirit of God and the people of God and win?
The easy path is easy for a reason. You can handle it on your own! How’s that going for you? The harder path forces us to depend upon Someone and someones other than ourselves. It is, however, the harder path that brings victory and makes us stronger. I only wish my friend had walked over the berm and called me.

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“The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior – from violent men you save me. I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.” – David, 2 Samuel 22:1-4
A fortress, refuge, stronghold, and shield are places to get behind when you know you can’t defeat your enemy. A deliverer and savior are when another person defeats your enemy for you. David was a stud soldier. He quite literally defeated giants; and yet, he still had to realize that he needed to get behind someone or something in order to experience victory.
The Bible tells us that when we realize that we’re weak, it is then that we become strong (2 Corinthians 12:9-10). When we realize that we can’t defeat what’s going on in our head or the situations we face, who will we get behind – our drugs of choice or Jesus? We know our way of living doesn’t work. It’s time to give Jesus a shot. Sometimes He will defeat our giants just by strengthening us Himself. At other times, He will use other believers to give us victory. The first step, though, is to realize that we need help! We can be our greatest barrier to victory.
We must get rid of our “buts.” “But I hate letting others know my challenges. But I don’t want to burden others with my problems as they have enough of their own. But I don’t like others knowing I can’t handle life.” The enemy uses these excuses to draw us out into the open where we have no shield, stronghold, refugee or fortress to protect us. He can then rip off our joy and peace.
The Bible contains over 38 one another phrases. Think God is trying to say something? We need to open up, call upon, and have others pray for us if we are going to have a healthy faith that brings victory to our lives. We are to be weak by realizing that we can’t win on our own so He can be strong for us. Being strong in your weakness is the sign of a healthy faith, in only my friend had realized this.

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