Tell Your Troubles Where to Go Your every decree is pregnant with the power and potential to revolutionize your life. Psalm 2:7-8 indicates that God utilizes this prerogative, and grants the same to His earthly ambassadors:I will declare the decree:The LORD has said to Me, You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You... David used his right to decree and declare to turn the tides of Israels unfavorable fate and to defeat their enemy Goliath. In the book of 1 Samuel 17:46-51, David addresses his enemy with conviction and authority:This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORDs, and He will give you into our hands. So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him...David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword...out of its sheath...and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.Since the spirit realm is the causal realm, Goliath was dead long before he was struck by the stone and beheaded by the sword. Remember, according to Proverbs 18:21, Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Choose to use your tongue to bring life and not death, to bless and not to curse—even when it comes to your enemies. Learn the art of blessing, for in blessing a thing or a person, that thing or person must bless you. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse (Romans 12:14). When you bless, blessings will be drawn to you, or as Deuteronomy 28:2 says, blessings shall come upon you and overtake you. Conversely, in cursing a thing or a person, you draw curses upon yourself. Again, as James said: A double-minded man (is) unstable in all his ways (James 1:8). What did he mean? A double-minded person is a person with conflicting thoughts—someone who holds two different opinions at the same time. That person is the pilot who steers his ship towards one port for a while, then reverses to steer it towards another in the opposite direction. He...is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind (James 1:6). At one point your life is headed towards blessings because that is what you have spoken, and the next it is headed towards cursing because that is now what your mouth is proclaiming. James again describes this pilots plight later in his letter: With it (the tongue) we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.—James 3:9-10 I am convinced that Believers tend to live beneath the standard God has ordained for His children because of ignorance. We do not know that our daily declarations and decrees have the power to alter our destiny and change the quality of our lives. Proverbs 13:3 states that He who guards his mouth (watches what he says) preserves his life. Or again as James said, If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect (mature) man, able also to bridle the whole body (James 3:2). If guarding your words causes you to keep your life and grow in maturity, imagine what happens when you do not guard your words? Speak Out Your Blessings
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:01:36 +0000
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