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Construct - something constructed or built especially in the mind.

God calls us to victory, not defeat; to fly, not to crash, to win not to lose. He did not call us to be in an up and down cycle, winning and losing over and over, or crashing and flying. No, he called us to win.

The devil uses certain tools and devices to rebuild sinfulness in the lives of those who once believed. He also uses these tools to build constructs in the minds of believers or God-seekers, those seeking to serve God, to continue in repeated sin and sinful habits. These are strongholds in the mind that keep people bound in sins they desire to forsake.

Examples of Constructs of the Mind

• Lustful Strongholds - Porn, Continual sexual fantasies and imagination, digital sexual activity

• Bitterness - against God 

• Rebellion - to those in leadership or authority

• Overwhelming Anxiety

• Mental Oppression

• Crippling Fear

Examples of  Constructs in the Body

• Sexual Deviancy

• Substance Abuse

3 Tools of Construction

Guilt

Begins with Lies: 

It is normal to feel guilty after sinning against God. God provides forgiveness through Christ. However, the devil will constantly remind the person of the sin, the multiple failures to repent, and the failed attempts to forsake the sin. The reminders are lies telling the person that they cannot overcome the sin, that the sin is who they are, and there is nothing that can be done about it. This leads to Hopelessness.

Hopelessness - the person then has no hope of growing in righteous living and sees godly living as impossible.

The Bible tells us that through the Spirit, we have the hope of righteousness. We ought to be looking forward to Christ’s coming with the hope of growing to be more and more like him.Galatians 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. However, hopelessness is a lack of faith in God’s atoning work, and his power to change one’s life.

Quitting - with a loss of hope the person quits. Once guilt, and hopelessness sets in, then the person quits pushing to rise up out of sin through the power of Christ.

Demonic Construct - Once the person gets to this place, the devil now solidifies, or completes the construct by coming in and bringing the person into a worse state. The stronghold now becomes established.

Sin

The person’s own enticement to do wrong when giving into that desire leads to sin. A person can build what they once destroyed by going back to what they left, whether it is sin, a doctrine, an idea, a belief. If they go back to it and remain in it, it rebuilds that construct into their lives.

Galatian 2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

A person may have received freedom from sexual uncleanness, porn, substance abuse and other ungodly activities. However, if a person gives in to the temptation to sin in these areas, the stronghold can again be constructed into their life.

James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Drawn Away - by his own desires or lusts. Drawn away from the direction or path of God’s will. Every man is tempted through the flesh, through others, and through temptations from the devil. The enemy tempts so as to lead the person back to a place where he can construct strongholds.

• It starts with the Enticement, the temptation to sin.

• Then sin occurs.

• Then the person continues in the sin - Continuation in Sin

• Then the Demonic Construct becomes set in place.

Therefore, every person must practice resisting temptation by being watchful and prayerful. Believers must never assume that they cannot be tempted to go back into sinful bondage. Rather, remain watchful and alert. Pray constantly to overcome temptation. Resist every form of temptation that may arise in every form; resist the temptation by rebuking the devil with your words, and speaking the word of God like a weapon.

It may be necessary to avoid situations that open the door to temptation. And if all else fails, call on someone to help you in prayer when you are tempted.

Familiar demonic spirit

• A demonic spirit that is familiar to a person because of long previous attachment and involvement in that person’s life. 

• Returns: These familiar spirits seek to return. If the space is available, the door is open, the spirit may return.

• Space Available - The person can open the door for that familiar spirit to return if they allow guilt, and former sin to set into their lives. Whenever a person fails to apply the truth of the gospel, or the truth of the Word of God, then the door becomes open for the familiar spirit to return.  missing being filled with the things of God

• Demonic Construct - the familiar spirit brings along related demonic spirits stronger than himself. The aim is to build a stronghold in the person’s life. The last state of the person becomes worse than before.

Luke 11:24-26 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 25And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

Overcoming the 3 Tools of Demonic Constructs

Power of the Blood to Overcome Guilt

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

We have forgiveness of sins through the blood of Christ, no more guilt.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses you from sin. 

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Power of the Cross to Overcome Sin

Know it: Know Your Old Life Died At the Cross

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Embrace it: Regard Yourself Dead to Sin

Romans 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Resist it: Resist sins push to control your life

Romans 6:12 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Utilize: Use your body to apply God’s word.

Romans 6:13 13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 

Romans 6:14 14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Power of the Spirit to Overcome Familiar spirit

1 John 4:4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Be Filled with the Spirit

Ephesians 5:18-21 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;; 21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Give Thanks

Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Sing unto the Lord

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Kill the Flesh

Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Obey the Spirit

Romans 8:14 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.