God called David \u2018a man after My own heart.\u2019<\/i> (Acts 13:22 NKJV) But David struggled with a weakness in his life. What was it? A lustful spirit that surfaced from time to time, and the people closest to him knew about it. When he grew old and his body cold, they brought a young girl to lie beside him in bed so he could \u2018get warm.\u2019<\/i> (1 Kings 1:1 NKJV) They figured if that didn\u2019t get David\u2019s circulation moving he had<\/i> to be dying! <\/p>\n
That\u2019s a sad indictment. But there\u2019s something even sadder going on here. David had passed on his weakness to his son Amnon, who\u2019d ended up raping his sister. And although David was angry about it, he didn\u2019t confront or punish him. After all, what could he say? Like father, like son? <\/p>\n
Lust isn\u2019t just a whim or a passing fancy, it\u2019s a sin. And when it passes from one generation to the next it becomes a \u2018stronghold\u2019.<\/i> Today psychologists refer to it as \u2018a genetic predisposition\u2019. Maybe somewhere in your family tree there\u2019s a workaholic father, a mother who was emotionally unavailable, or a brother or sister who drank too much, and now you\u2019re wrestling with the same issues. Don\u2019t be discouraged! Paul says, \u2018The weapons we fight with\u2026 have divine power to demolish strongholds.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n
So before you run off to a divorce court or a rehab centre, name your stronghold, then pray, believing God to break its stranglehold on your life. Do it before it infects the next generation. Don\u2019t pass it on\u2014call on the power of the Cross and say, \u2018This stops with me!\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
God called David \u2018a man after My own heart.\u2019 (Acts 13:22 NKJV) But David struggled with a weakness in his life. What was it? A lustful spirit that surfaced from time to time, and the people closest to him knew about it. When he grew old and his body cold, they brought a young girl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}