Many of us still have idols set up in the high places of our hearts - pet doctrines we're refusing to let go of, areas we're refusing to surrender to the Holy Spirit  - areas we will not allow Him to speak to us about  - tithing, for example.  We each must tear down our own idols  - or idols we allowed devils to erect inside us (some become strongholds).

Any doctrine, philosophy, pursuit, lifestyle,  that opposes Him  - is an idol. A false god. Something we lift up above Him. And it must go. All of them. None of us are exempt.  Ministry can become an idol. A sports team. Music. A secret sin. Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And The Lord was angry with Solomon  - And Amaziah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, howbeit, the high places WERE NOT TAKEN AWAY: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.  And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities  - this refers also - not just to unrepentant hearts, lifted up in pride  - but to churches as well  - "They built them high places in all their cities" - places full of pride - where they do as THEY please - not what pleases The Lord  - where they that which is right in their own eyes,  not in the eyes of the Lord. Almost every city on earth has churches like this. Why does God exalt (lift up) the humble but abase (lower) the proud? Because the proud have exalted themselves.  Far better to lower yourself then have God exalt you than to exalt yourself and have God humble you. Many which are highly esteemed in the world's eyes are lowly esteemed by God, and many that the world lowly esteems are highly esteemed by God. When we  - God's people  - refuse to give God the high places of our hearts,  we are behaving just like the world does - we are emulating the world, not Christ  - who walked in humility all His days. Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places.  We need Apostolic Josiahs - who will put down the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah have ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places round about Jerusalem.  Whom man ordains, God despises. Man ordains  - God anoints and calls, from birth. We need Apostles and Prophets to confront the "idolatrous priests" of our day  - we need to cleanse the "high places" in every city of idolatry and all that rebels against and resists God. We need to give the high places back to Him. The enemy always seeks the high ground.  Whoever possesses, occupies, the high ground, will win the war. It's possible to give our hearts to the Lord -  but not all of them. False priests (pastors) and prophets both seek the high ground  - Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that he might see - If we make a half-hearted commitment to the Lord  - the enemy will occupy our high places. We can see best from there. We can see our enemy approaching from there - from a long way off. False pastors and prophets,  apostles and teachers - all want the high places of our hearts.  They want to be exalted by us, over the Lord, in our hearts. I've met them. They actually told me - their will be done, not God's.  

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