# Demolishing Strongholds

## Metadata
- Author: [[Johnny Hunt]]
- Full Title: Demolishing Strongholds
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- The average evangelical church would be a total mess if it were not for godly women stepping up to the plate and taking the lead. ([Location 88](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N78ATH2&location=88))
- The Word of God says that when you get involved in lawlessness, it always leads to more lawlessness. Sin is never satisfied with how much of you it has. It always wants more. An old song says that sin will take you farther than you want to go, cost you more than you want to pay, and keep you longer than you want to stay. It plays for keeps. As evangelist Freddie Gage has said, “Sin thrills and then it kills. It fascinates and then it assassinates. If you play, you’re going to pay.” You get burned every time. ([Location 160](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N78ATH2&location=160))
- Do you realize there’s a difference between forgiveness and consequences? Sometimes people think, You’re just holding this over me. You’re not forgiving. But forgiveness doesn’t always wipe out the consequences. ([Location 176](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N78ATH2&location=176))
- He permitted a thought to become a habit, which became a deed, and then became a stronghold that took him down. Strongholds destroy our marriages, devastate our children, and lay waste to our personal lives. We have a simple but critical choice to make. Either we learn how to dismantle the strongholds in our lives, or they will dismantle us. ([Location 196](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N78ATH2&location=196))
- I doubt the devil hates you in particular, although he certainly has no fondness for you. But it really isn’t about you. Satan hates God, and when God is being glorified through you, the devil wants to do something terrible in your life just so God won’t get the glory He deserves. Satan doesn’t give a rip about you. He just doesn’t want God to be glorified. ([Location 226](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N78ATH2&location=226))