You sit at the corner of your room.
The atmosphere is covered with darkness;
Almost as painful as death.

You try to catch up with your breath;
...as you relentlessly fight back the pain.

You search for hope, but silence ate it all up;
The living monster in you was unleashed,
Until you heard a Voice that tamed it.

Life is always like that during our darkest hours, somehow the enemy is so good in finding ways to bring us down. We always have our dark corners in our lives, where we hear screams of death wishes, suffering insecurities, rejected hopes, shattered dreams, brokenness, and that weary envelope of sin. These are painful things that always try to take off our guard; these are things we usually battle with. Strongholds. They are the big monsters, big living monsters inside us, ready to eat us up, ready to bring us down to the pit where it belongs. They silence our hopes, they inject poisonous thoughts in our minds, other names that try to deform us, but God's voice scares away these things, and needless to say, these names trembles at His wonderful, powerful, mighty voice.

Why?

Because those strongholds are only names. Names. Nothing more but names. Names that tries to place their identities in our lives. Names that keeps on destroying our real identity in Christ.

But I have a good news for you, friend. We need not be afraid.

Jesus is the Name above all names.

He forgives, He strengthens, He restores, He listens and He hears, and He heals.