The Security of Our Refuge

 

These words came into my hearing,

I am your secure place. My name is a tower that is strong and cannot be penetrated by evil. I am your Everlasting Arms, a refuge from every storm and every force forged against you. I am a strong city, not a place that can be entered at the will of your enemies. Those who have entered the strong city of salvation are supplied with weapons that are not carnal but weapons that are mighty through me. These weapons are mighty to the pulling down of strongholds, the casting down of imaginations, the bringing into captivity every thought into my obedience. Allow not your thoughts to run to shelters designed by your enemies. The refuge of God is not as the shelters designed by man. Your enemies are not human enemies, but your true enemies are spirits without bodies. Your enemies are principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. These enemies cannot be fended against using carnal methods of defense, but these enemies can only be defended against by my provision.

Think not that you shall escape the pursuing enemies of the darkness by running to man's shelters. They penetrate all things designed by man. The spiritual dogs are not stymied by a man-made ladder. The spiritual serpents are not cut away by man-made knives. There is no man-made defense against your enemies. I am your only refuge, your only city of refuge. I am the Eternal God, your help and your safety. I am your shield, and only my sword is excellent in battle. I cause you to tread upon the high places of your enemies and triumph through praise.