How to Plot Your Victory Over Strongholds like Shame, Fear & Control

I have been immersed in a very important study recently - The overcoming of strongholds and taking our thoughts captive. These strongholds include shame, fear and control which lead to false beliefs/identities and could very well result in a forfeiture of your divine inheritance in this life.

The Lord has said, "My people perish for a lack of knowledge or understanding" (Hosea 4:6). In its proper context, that verse is pregnant with so much meaning, and I feel its significance and urgency for today more than ever.

If you are like me, or the other 80 - 90% of Americans that wrestle mightily with these strongholds, I urge you to look into what it will take to confront and fully overcome shame, fear and control. Life is too short to remain fettered in any way to things that Jesus gave us Himself to be free from now.

The following PDF is a great starter resource to take an inventory of your life in order to determine to what degree we have allowed shame, fear and control to steal, kill and destroy our destinies in the Lord.

Crush shame, fear & control under your Feet

2014 is the year to cast off every form of bondage known to man. For those in Christ, our minds and bodies are destined for renewal (Roman 12). Submit yourself to this goal and experience the exhilaration of an unchained life in Jesus.

Spiritual warfare is so real, whether you believe it or are actively engaged in it or not! I have so much to say on this topic, but I will let a dear mentor, Derek Prince, who although he has long been departed (went to be with the Lord in 2003), yet he still speaks…

Jesus Paid it All and Would Have You Be Totally FREE!

If anyone has any questions or stories about spiritual warfare or anything else for that matter, please feel free to share those in the comments section here. I would love to hear from you! I only ask that your comments come from a place of sincerity.

I am in the midst of deep research into these matters, and the Lord is teaching me many things. I readily admit that I don't have all the answers, but I'm willing to study like a Berean to get to the truth.

The Shemitah Year Has Arrived...

Pay attention to 7 year cycles. These are a signature and calling card of Yahweh. The Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy outline such cycles in great detail.

Consider the most recent cycles witnessed in America:

2001:  9/11 and the sharpest stock market collapse since the Great Depression (see Hebrew calendar for Elul 29)…check out September 17th on Gregorian calendar

2008:  Housing Market collapse and Great Recession (see Hebrew calendar for Elul 29)…check out September 29th

2015:  ???  (see Hebrew calendar for Elul 29)…anticipate something on September 11th (9/11 is a Friday while September 13th is the actual date on the Hebrew calendar for Elul 29)

The world is already burning and America continues to ignore its dire need for deep repentance. The bias of normalcy prevailing in America will not endure (even historical trends and cycles in our nation support this) as we are in no way exempt from divine judgment for our national sins. Sadly, most people will not heed any warnings until grave danger arrives at their doorstep. I suppose I should not be at all surprised though as men do this to their peril all the time in regards to eternity and the security of their own souls. It is only compounded by the fact that so few blessed with an influential platform passionately preach the whole counsel (i.e. repentance, justice, holiness, wrath in conjunction with love, grace and mercy) of God.

When will the apathy end? I believe we might find out as we approach September of next year.

Here is an excellent article (with some intriguing commentary). It is brief and a great introduction to this highly controversial and contentious issue of biblical prophecy.

What Does the Biblical Shemitah Hold for 2015?

Must See Documentary for All Truth Seekers

My #1 documentary for sorting fact from fiction on matters of world history over the last 2k years and where current events are taking us is embedded below. My understanding of the world I live in, much like the narrator of this project, experienced a total systems crash after grasping even some of this information.

Future entries will largely cover how I am now working to put my awakening to our true reality towards positive, useful ends. More than anything, I am now compelled to share the truth and warn others that severe judgment is coming. Though it may be virtually impossible to stem the tide of its coming, there remains great HOPE. Among all the most difficult, harsh judgments decreed by the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Jesus), you will find this unifying theme:  A majestic flow of mercy and hope for Yahweh's elect remnant, His blood-bought adopted sons and daughters. While we may be able to deceive ourselves, the Lord knows those who are truly His (Matthew 7: 21-23). Let us judge ourselves by Jesus' standards. Do we love and desire God more than anything? Do we hate what God hates and love what God loves? Do we hunger for righteousness and thirst for loved ones and even strangers to know His salvation? Are our will, affections and interests radically aligned to His Kingdom coming on the earth? These are some tests to determine if our faith is merely cultural and built on false hope or if it is true and able to stand the coming testing of our souls.

The truth contained in this documentary is so revelatory, it should be required viewing for any truth seeker. It will require an open mind and courage to watch the entire video, because I guarantee that some of your most cherished beliefs about the world you live in will be challenged to their core. 

A New Order of the Ages: Secret Societies and Prophecy

I have to strongly recommend subscribing to Leonard Ulrich's youtube channel. He has to be the most humble, unassuming and talented researcher I have encountered online. The ease and competence with which he handles things that virtually every mainline denomination won't touch with a ten foot pole is inspiring.


Final thought:  Whether we like to admit it or not, America was birthed out of rebellion and a principality of rebellion still rules and grips our national identity. So many Americans are bewitched by this prideful, anti-christ spirit of rebellion which picked up great steam and has gone off the rails since 1963 (which just so happens to be the year the Bible, and more specifically the Mosaic Law, was banished from our cultural institutions). 

Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people. (Ezekiel 12:2)


For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornnessis as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. (1 Samuel 15:23)

The Convergence of the Blood Moons with the Shemitah

Without a doubt, it appears that Yahweh is trying to warn His people, and those far from Him, that treacherous times have arrived for our nation.

Will we have the patience, wisdom and humility to listen (so as to gain understanding) to what He is saying through Messianic prophets, signs in the heavens and in the earth below? I sure hope so because I am convinced that the next 1-2 years will bring forth the greatest tumult America has ever known in her short history. The faithful remnant will either grow to critical mass in awakening and revival born out of deep repentance or judgment will sweep over the land with astonishing speed and severity. Even if genuine repentance were to come to America, our nation appears to have taken on the identity of the daughter of (Mystery) Babylon prophesied in the Scriptures. It may be too late to recover from the evil we have promulgated in the world (legalized abortion since '73, bullying other nations to legalize on-demand abortion, unjust wars of aggression, unjust proxy wars, gross sexual immorality, promoting our immorality to the ends of the earth, financial treachery in the form of $20 trillion national debt, and the list goes on and on).


What is the Shemitah?

Deuteronomy 15 “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. 2 And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the Lord’s release. 3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother, 4 except when there may be no poor among you; for the Lord will greatly bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance— 5 only if you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

7 “If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,8 but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs. 9 Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin among you. 10 You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand. 11 For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’

Deuteronomy 28 describes both the blessings for obeying the shemitah as well as the curses for perverting justice.

Messianic Rabbi Cahn gives multiple evidences and story lines to demonstrate the power and reach of these fixed shemitah blessings/curses. This truly is a mystery, and one that will certainly stretch your mind and view of God's personal fingerprints throughout (recent) history. The 2nd link leads to a video which outlines the 4 Blood Moons, but beyond that and few people realize this, there are 4-6 additional super signs in the heavens to ponder in the next 2-4 years.

Click for Jonathan Cahn on the Shemitah

Click for Blood Moon Super Sign Warnings