The Triumphant ChurchPaul is primarily talking about casting down
reasonings, imaginations, and thoughts—not casting
down demonic strongholds over cities and nations.
The meaning comes through more clearly in The
Amplified Bible.
2 CORINTHIANS 10:4,5 (Amplified)
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not
physical (weapons of flesh and blood), but they
are mighty before God for the overthrow and
destruction of strongholds.
5 [Inasmuch as we] refute ARGUMENTS and
THEORIES and REASONINGS and every
PROUD and LOFTY THING that sets itself up
against the (true) knowledge of God; and we
lead every THOUGHT and PURPOSE away
captive into the obedience of Christ, the
Messiah, the Anointed One.
The biggest battle you will ever "fight" is in this
area of the thought life and the mind. It all starts right
there. Fighting the battle of the mind so you can stay in
faith is the way to victory in every area of life.
Well, what are you going to do about that battle? In
order to successfully fight that battle, you're going to
have to renew your mind with the Word and cast down
reasonings, imaginations, and vain thoughts that are
contrary to the Word, because Satan will try to bombard
your mind.
The devil's strategy is to sidetrack believers from
fighting the true spiritual battle, which is taking every
thought captive to the obedience of God's Word.
Satan knows that believers who stay in faith in the
Word are dangerous to him because they can fulfill
God's will in the earth for their lives.
That's why Satan likes it when believers get off into