Choosing to operate by faith, shuts out old strongholds attempting to keep a lock and key on any individual who reaches for the word of God. Because casting down imaginations and every high thing that would seek to rise up against the word and overthrow it, takes place in the life of a person of faith.
2 Corinthians 10:5-7 King James Version (KJV)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;