past traumas. He will bring people into your life who went through what you went through and have not been victorious over it—and soon you’ll be caught up in their lack of victory because misery loves company. A second category of strongholds is made up of problems in the present. What is going on in your life right now may be overwhelming you. If anybody could have been depressed and in bondage to his circumstances, it was the apostle Paul. He wrote about what he had endured for the gospel’s sake: