“Strongholds are coming down!

My Presence is with you and My Breaker Anointing is upon you.

See yourself as an overcomer in Me.

I give you the victor’s crown that I have won for all time.

Rise up and walk!  Use the weapons I gave you.

They are not merely for show but are mighty to defeat the enemy.

I cannot forget you!  I have not abandoned you.

Your chains are falling away.  Your bondage is being broken.

A new day dawns and rejoicing comes!”

“He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it.  Their king passes on before them, The LORD at their head.”   Micah 2:13.

“Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.”   Psalm 142:7.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.”   2 Corinthians 10:3-6.

Of Strongholds and Soul Ties

Strongholds are things that may or may not be intrinsically evil per se, but which interfere with our relationship with God and in walking unfettered in His truth.  This is going to meander a little, but stay with me.

I’ve written about the lady whose life I had wanted to research.  I wondered if I myself might be able to write her biography.

She wasn’t particularly famous or talented.  There was something about her very ordinariness, faith and resilience in the face of great losses that was inspiring.

And, I’ll be honest, I saw her portraits when I was a little girl and oh how her outfits delighted me!

I wrote about her husband too, whom she loved dearly.  She never remarried and observed the anniversary of his death solemnly for the rest of her short life.

But I didn’t tell you about Nancy.

About twenty years ago, study resources became available online.  I did more research and uncovered sources I hadn’t been able to access before.

But almost everywhere online there was a comment by someone called Nancy.

Nancy was not an historian or researcher.  Nancy wasn’t particularly interested in the young lady, her faith, her resilience, her loyalty or even her pretty clothes.

Nancy was interested in the lady’s husband.

Nancy was surprised there was so little information on him published in English.  She was especially eager to find out if he really had affairs.

If so, were there children and could there be descendants of those children, and therefore of him, surviving to this day?

Around that time the English Wikipedia entry for the gentleman was altered to include this type of information.  You can probably see now what makes me suspicious of the odd focus of that entry.

Nancy kept commenting.  There were normal observations about the historical lady’s husband, such as, “He must have been an expert horseman,” which would have been typical at that time.

There were also very unusual thoughts, such as “I wonder what he would have said about…?”, “Imagine dancing for him,” “I bet he was good at kissing,” “Would he have liked jazz?”, “My driving would have impressed him,” and “I saw such and such on television. He would have found it funny.”

Er no, he wouldn’t, and you can’t dance or do anything else for him either because he’s dead.

He and his wife died centuries ago, before the age of jazz or television.  They have long been part of the great cloud of witnesses giving glory to God and they are beyond all this nonsense.

The rest of us were doing genuine research.  It wasn’t clear what motivated Nancy.  Yet she was obsessing weirdly about some dead chap that, as I’ve said previously, we don’t actually know that much about.

Nancy’s very personal interest in the love life of, and her imagined opinions of, a dead gentleman seemed unhealthy.

Around April this year Nancy suddenly popped back into my thoughts so I have prayed for her and anyone else in the same predicament.

I had already received a warning, around February 2026, to pray about “maladaptive daydreaming“, a type of intense daydreaming that can make people spend hours in a fantasy world of their own.

I’m an imaginative person myself, so I can sympathise, but the imagination absolutely must be consecrated to The LORD.  If set apart for Him, He will make full use of it for His Glory.

This is where this rambling connects with a more recent word The LORD gave me.  Bless you for getting this far!

I now think, for whatever reason, Nancy was unknowingly allowing some sort of soul tie to form.

Usually a soul tie is an attachment, a deep emotional or spiritual connection with a real person, which can be positive or negative.

If negative, the cause is often not knowing just how very much God loves you.

I’ve seen people develop soul ties with pop stars they haven’t met, but at least there is usually some sort of sense of reality.

In Nancy’s case, it was completely imagined, a perception of who this gentleman might have been when he was alive.

The idea itself wasn’t real, but a soul tie formed this way is just as deep and as dangerous.

Before Nancy, I hadn’t understood that such a thing was possible.

There are many other types of strongholds and soul ties.  They can creep in unnoticed and if we are not diligent in searching our hearts, they can become embedded.

I believe The LORD is giving some of us special attention and time during this season, to cast down all kinds of strongholds, throw off the chains and break any soul ties that we have formed.

Many of us have particularly spiritually gifted minds and imaginations.  They are going to be very significant in times to come, so the enemy is targeting them.

Be strong and don’t give up!  You are important to the Kingdom and that is why this is happening.

You already have the mind of Christ. Ask for His help to think His thoughts.

 

~ Iris Maud, UK.

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Iris Maud, UK.

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