Casting Down Imaginations

With all prayer and petition pray [with specific requests] at all times [on every occasion and in every season] in the Spirit, and with this in view, stay alert with all perseverance and petition [interceding in prayer] for all God’s people.

This is exactly what the Lord is expecting from us as the body of Christ and with the help of His Spirit we can actually get to a place of coming against every lie of the devil and be victorious in life to his glory.

God is a good God and faithful to his promises.

The word records this in 2 Corinthians 10:5

We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ. (AMP)

Some translations records it this way

And we tear down every proud idea that raises itself against the knowledge of God. We also capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ .(ERV)

Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. ( NKJV)

We all have a part to play in all this and that is to know the word of God and do what it says. The word of God says faith without works is dead in James 2: 14 - 26

Faith Without Works Is Dead

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was [e]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

And in 2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

We are born of God - 1 John 5:1 and we are called to be like God, calling those things that are not as if it were - Romans 4:17.

Therefore, we are to cast down every evil imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God in our lives by bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ in his name. And how do we achieve this?