Our Father, I decree and declare that thou art in heaven; for had we not done so, Thou mightest have fallen from heaven like lightning I speak forth your kingdom on earth and decree that thy will be done We confess that our daily bread is provided I declare that we are forgiven and we release forgiveness to our debtors We are loosed from temptations, we bind the evil one IN JESUS NAME For we declare that thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever amen.
I once prayed a public prayer, after which a fellow believer commended me for the spiritual growth they noticed in my life. I was bit flattered and I almost blushed, but how did they know I grew spiritually?
The person erroneously believed that I was making declarations because they misunderstood my sentence structure. I was actually petitioning God for all these things, not declaring any of them to be so. Then I wondered, since when is making declarations in prayer a sign of spiritual maturity and growth? They no longer make supplications. Instead they decree something to be so, and they declare it.
A typical prayer might sound like this,. So everything that I wrote regarding Positive Confession also applies here. In that article, I went into details on all the scriptures that are twisted to teach positive confession. Everything you say is technically a declaration.
Declare is an English word and there is nothing sinful or unscriptural about it. I declared my intent to go to work. There are many such declarations in the bible. The difference is that for most of us, declaring my intent to go to work does not actively cause me to get to work.
My intent to go to work together with my effort to drive myself there is what gets me to work. Declaring that intent has absolutely nothing to do with it — it is not the active cause that results in the effect. So there is nothing ever so special about a declaration. Every praise to God is a declaration — God is great. But saying that he is great does not make him great. He is great on his own, and in fact that is why I say it. It is not so because I say it. I say it because it is so.
I believe that declarations are not causative, but they believe that they are … especially when coupled with decreeing. They decree something to be so, by saying it.
Then by declaring it, they cause it to happen. There are some subtle differences. The first one appears to have more authority. On the less extreme end, most decree-and-declarists are just using vocabulary that they learned from others. The modern definition and meaning of declare is based on a misunderstanding of a few scriptures. Their interpretation of this is that we can call decree and declare things which presently do not exist or realities not yet realized as though they did.
We do not as yet have the job, but I decree and declare that I do. Then according to Romans , it will happen. All I need is the entire verse. What else do I need to say? This is an attribute of God not man. Abraham had no ability to make this happen. Instead he trusted God or believed God who had this ability. Very important: the ability or power resided with God not us.
Abraham never confessed or declared anything. God declared it and made it happen. The attributes of God can be categorized as incommunicable attributes and communicable attributes. The incommunicable attributes are what makes God distinct from man. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, etc. We can never be omnipresent. Even the devil is not omnipresent. These are incommunicable attributes. By contrast, decrees are a tool by which we cause the truths of the heavenly realm to be manifest into the natural realm so they become our daily reality.
We decree healing when we are sick. We decree provision and abundance when we are lacking. We decree peace when there is turmoil. Decrees manifest heaven on earth. The English definition of decree is "a statement of truth that carries the authority of a court order. The same is true with decrees in the spiritual realm. When we decree God's provision and blessings over our lives, then anything purposed against our provision and blessing can have no further say in the matter.
When we decree God's peace and unity in our family, then anything purposed against peace and unity has no valid objection or standing to come against us. The biblical context of decrees is that they are the same as the will and purposes of God. Given that serious weight in the spirit, I use only Scriptures as the basis for decrees. Often we can get our own idea of how things could or should be, but it is not uncommon for the way God unfolds His plans to look different than what we expect.
Decreeing our own vision can create confusion. Decreeing His will establishes His purpose. This is a serious point. Consider the Israelites who missed the Promised Land because it did not look the way they expected it to look. Consider also the Jews who missed their Messiah because He did not do what they expected. Decreeing Scripture releases God's purposes into our lives without creating confusion or blinding us to His ways.
In Hebrew, decree means "to divide, separate and destroy. When we decree, "I am blessed" inspired by Psalm , we establish the blessing while separating ourselves from anything purposed against it and destroying the plans of the enemy.
What does it really accomplish? Many of us have been taught to do this or have avoided it because of the possibility that it is not sound doctrine. It is used by custom agents upon your return in the United States. According to Dictionary. Many of us have read this passage without understanding the power of what this Word from God truly means. The word established is defined as:" to set up on a firm or permanent basis; to achiever permanent acceptance or recognition for, to sow, reveal to be true based on the facts.
As Christians, Luke reminds us that Jesus gave us all authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the evil one so that nothing can harm us. Scripture also reminds us in Matthew that Jesus has given us the keys to the kingdom of heaven and whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven when we pray in His Name.
There are many other verses on spiritual authority. Proverbs further reminds us that the tongues has the power of life and death. Just as God spoke everything into existence, we as His children have a powerful weapon in our Words. We can declare blessings or curses upon our lives and others. A great example of this is when you go to court and a sentence or judgment is made.
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