Good Afternoon Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
We all want to receive all of God’s best for us. Set religion and the world’s opinion’s aside. Deep inside we all want to receive everything God has for us, and we know everything of God’s is the very best, the top of the line. Religion and the world will tell you having everything God has for us, now, in this life, is sin or is wrong. I’ve already shown you from The Word of God this is thinking and doctrine from Satan. Satan does not want spiritually, physically, financially, and materially prosperous Believers in this earth. Why? Because these Believers know how God’s Kingdom operates and knows the Words with which to overcome and take from Satan.
Leviticus 26:7-9
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Notice in Leviticus 26:7-9 what God has to say about Believers battling their enemies, which includes Satan and his demonic forces. Five shall put a hundred to flight and a hundred shall put ten thousand to flight. This is why Satan doesn’t want Believers understanding The Truth. Once they understand how the Kingdom of God works and how to operate in it by faith, this is the power we have in the spiritual and physical realms. Individually we are very powerful, but when we as the Church come together, the power is magnified exponentially. This is why Satan doesn’t want Believers understanding their God-given spiritual and physical rights. He is the god of this world and wants to control everything. As the sons and daughters of God, we’re here to take that which was stolen by Satan and put it back in the Kingdom of God under the rulership of Jesus Christ through us. When you come to understand this, things become exciting in your walk with your Father and Brother.
Five days ago, during the study of God’s Word, the Holy Spirit told me there are four confessions a Believer can make (an unbeliever can make the first three but not the prophetic declaration):
No confession – say nothing. Just as bad as a negative confession. By saying nothing, you’re agreeing with the curses Satan has declared against you.
Negative confession – a negative confession is one which does not agree with God’s Word for you. By confessing negative things, you’re agreeing with Satan’s curse against you.
Positive confession – a positive confession is one which is in line with God’s Word, but it isn’t God’s Word. For instance, “I am healed” is a positive statement. Anyone, the unbeliever and Believer, can make a positive confession. A positive confession is from the natural or flesh/physical realm. There are a number of secular motivational speakers and teachers as well as cults/religions formed around positive natural/physical/flesh confessions. The good of a positive confession for a Believer is it prepares the soil of your heart for the prophetic declaration. The heart is amoral. It grows whatever is planted in it, good or bad.
Prophetic declaration – is when a Believer confesses The Word of God in their life against whatever mountain (challenge, issue, problem, curse) is coming against them or for a desire of the heart. The difference between a positive statement, “I am healed,” and a prophetic declaration, “I was healed by the stripes of Jesus Christ, (I Peter 2:24)” is the difference between the natural/physical/flesh realm and the spiritual realm. Positive statements cannot operate in the spiritual realm. They have NO authority there. Prophetic declarations can operate in both the spiritual and physical/flesh/natural realms. Prophetic declarations have precedent over positive, negative, and no confessions – the natural/flesh/physical realm.
Let’s further examine “prophetic declarations” according to The Word of God. The Word of God is Spirit and is life (John 6:63) according to Jesus. Jesus tells us The Word of God is the seed sown in the parable of the sower (Mark 4:14). The angels, a Believer’s ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14), only react to the voice of God’s Word (Psalm 103:20) spoken in faith by the Believer. We’re told to speak The Word of God, which is life and blessing, in our lives to bless our seed (our family members and generations to come) and ourselves (Deuteronomy 30:19). We’re told by God He watches over His Word to see it is performed when spoken in faith by a Believer (Jeremiah 1:12). God tells us His spoken/decreed Word in faith never comes back void, accomplishes that which He pleases, and prospers us (Isaiah 55:11). God tells us when we decree His Word in faith, the thing we’ve decreed is established for us and the light of prosperity shines upon us (Job 22:28). Every verse cited in this paragraph has to do with The Word of God. This is why positive statements are good, but they are NOT The Word of God. You might equate positive statements to the plowing of a field, readying it for the planting of the seed. A field without seed will produce NO harvest. We have to plant the seed, The Word of God. Only then will fruit be produced in our life.
Psalm 81:10-12
10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But My people would not hearken to My voice; and Israel would [have] none of Me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Notice what our precious Father tells us in Psalm 81:10-12. God will teach us and fill our mouths with His Word to speak in faith over our lives and the lives of our family. But you have to actively search His Word and participate by studying His Word so you will be a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth – The Word of God (II Timothy 2:15). Sadly, many of our sisters and brothers in Christ fulfill Psalm 81:11-12. They refuse out of ignorance or out of rebellion to listen to God’s voice, His Word. Instead, they do things the way “they” think is right or best. That’s simply pride – the same pride Satan has and caused him to be thrown out of Heaven. God loves us dearly, but He is not interested in our opinions, our feelings, or our interpretations. Anything other than “hearkening to His voice,” The Word of God, is rebellion.
It is imperative we understand when we are addressing mountains or desires, we come before the Throne of Grace (unmerited, unearned, undeserved favor) with Jesus Christ as our Great High Priest, Mediator, and Intercessor. We are to present our case, as in a court of law, to The Father. God only responds to His Word, spoken in faith, as the case law and precedent. When we present our case, based on His Word, His promises to us (II Corinthians 1:20), in faith, and sealed by the name of Jesus Christ, Jesus, as our Great High Priest, Mediator, and Intercessor, agrees with our confession, with our case. God then rules in our favor.
Isaiah 43:26
Put Me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Isaiah 43:26 says it all. God tells us to remind Him of His Word, our case law, the precedent. Jesus, which is God in the flesh, our Great High Priest, will plead our argument with us when we are using The Word of God as our confession. When we declare The Word of God in faith, God, as The Judge of Grace, MUST/HAS TO rule in our favor and grant us our confession. It is covenant backed by the blood of Jesus Christ. God has to answer to His Word (Psalm 138:2) because He has magnified it above all His name. Failure to do so makes God a liar. And we’re told in Titus 1:2 “God cannot lie.”
In closing, if we choose to do our own thing, to confess anything other than The Word of God in faith, the following two verses describes our plight during our time on this earth.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore My people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
God’s Word is very simple and straightforward. Choose to obey, believe, and decree anything other than God’s Word, you will remain in bondage to the effects of the curse and the curse will destroy everything: health, finances, possessions, family, etc. This is NOT God’s will for you, but He has given you free will. It’s up to your believing, your faith in God’s Word, and your confession of God’s Word to receive all of the promises God has given us (II Corinthians 1:20). When we present The Word of God as our faithful confession, God says He will absolutely say “Yes” and “Amen” to our declaration.
In Christ,
Larry