Dominion is the ability to overcome and defeat the devil,
and his plans for you! This week’s post
is basically part 2 of last week’s post. So, today, I want to post about one
place that dominion can be found in our lives:
The words that we speak! What we
say and how we say it can affect what happens in our lives. Let’s start with our text:
Mark 11:22-23 (NKJV)
11:22 So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Agree with God
Even a cursory look at Genesis, chapter 1 will show you the
power that words contain. The entire
universe was spoken into existence!
Eight times in Genesis, the Bible says, “And God said…” You might say, “Well, that’s God, of course
His words have power!” Today, I want to
show you that your words, spoken in faith, have power, as well.
There are two ways to look at everything you face – every circumstance
– every problem – every sickness! Many
times, we tend to take ownership of the problem. “I have Muscular Dystrophy,” as if I own it –
I possess it – “It’s my MD.” There’s a
different way to think of it and speak it! If you speak the issues, the
symptoms, the disease as belonging to you, you become, what I call “problem
conscious.” You’re thinking about those
things; you’re reinforcing them. Your
thought processes are focused on the suffering.
Speak always what you want the end result to be. In that way you become “God conscious.”
There is the story of the leper that came to Jesus for
healing, in Matthew chapter 8: “If you having a desire you can cleanse me.” Jesus replied, “I am desiring it from all my
heart.” (Matt 8:2-3 Weust) God’s desire to bring healing, comes from all His
heart. So, we need to speak as if He’s
going to do just that! We need to come
into agreement with God.
God told Abraham that he would be the father of nations;
that his descendants would number as the sands on the seashore. Abraham at that time was almost one hundred
years old, and his wife Sarah was barren.
Romans 4:19-21 (NKJV)
4:19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
He believed God; He came into agreement with God. All that God needs to move in your life is
your agreement. God will not override
your will. So often we say things like, “I
believe God for His promises,” but what do the other words we speak say? “I’m so deep in debt!” “I can’t solve this problem!” “Maybe this is God’s will!” It’s not His will! Jesus came to give abundant life. It’s the devil that comes to steal, kill, and
destroy.
Think about this – Every miracle in the Bible involved
words. Jesus healed with words – He rebuked
storms with words. If we want to come
into agreement with God, we need to speak faith-filled words – OUT LOUD - and we need to believe the words we speak!
Abraham was fully convinced that God would perform (notice
that I said would, not could), would perform what He said. Speak of it as if you know that it’ll happen!
Jeremiah 1:12 (AMP)
1:12 Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.
God will perform His word – He’s watching over it so that He
can perform it. God is fully capable and
willing to move in our lives. Usually, we
are the roadblock to miracles in our lives.
It’s us that speak words of doubt and unbelief. It’s us that think our circumstances are
unsolvable. When we can’t see a way for
them to be solved, then we’re not in agreement with God.
We forget that God isn’t bound by the limitations that we’re
bound by. The Bible says, “With man it
is impossible, but with God all things are possible!” Do you really believe that? We have an intellectual belief in that, but
are you like Abraham? Are you fully
convinced that God can perform His word?
Do you live and speak as if you’re fully convinced? Because that’s where the miracles are. That’s how the mountains move – Living and
speaking as if it will be so!
The Power of Your Words
“Years ago, a famous basketball player had a heart attack and died at thirty-nine years old. His collapse on a basketball court during a pickup game was a shock to most people! What most of them didn’t know was that, for years, he’d repeatedly said, “I’ll never live to be forty years old.” That young man was the prophet of his own life.”
Source: 10 Hours to Live, Brian Wills, Whitaker House, page 99
You are the prophet of your life! Here’s a young man, he made a claim that he
would never live to be forty years old.
He said that over and over, and as if it was a prophecy, it came true in
his life. I want to contrast that story
with this one:
“As I lay there on what my doctors called my death bed, I began to say with my mouth, ‘I call my body healed. I call my body whole. I declare that my body functions according to the way God created it to function, and I forbid any malfunction in Jesus’ name!’ I spoke that way to the tumor that measured nine inches across my abdomen. I woke up one morning and the tumor was gone!”
Source: 10 Hours to Live, Brian Wills, Whitaker House, page 101
Here’s a young man who spoke the exact opposite of the words
of the other man. He spoke words of
healing. He spoke words of promise. He spoke faith-filled words – He was in
agreement with God!
What both of these stories have in common is that these men’s
lives were affected by words that they spoke.
You can’t convince me that words don’t have power. When the words that we speak line up with God’s
words, then God “watches over His words to perform them.”
I’m not talking about the words of your thoughts, I’m talking
about the words you speak – out loud! I
pray out loud, so I can hear my words spoken.
Why you ask? Because faith comes
by hearing. If you want to have faith
that God will move in your circumstances, the hear the words of faith spoken
out loud.
When I pray for people, I don’t just put my hand on their
heads and pray silently. Do you know
why? I want them to hear the words that
I’m praying, so that they can believe them.
Then they can apply them to their lives..
Receiving a miracle is an active thing. It’s more than just thinking that God will
heal us. I had a friend that always told
me, “I know God is going to deliver me from smoking,” but he just kept on smoking. He never stopped. He’d been saved for twenty-five years, and
thinking that for twenty-five years. It
never happened. He didn’t speak like it
was something that God was doing. He
didn’t live and act like it was something God was doing. It was always something God was going to do;
never what God was doing! So, he sat
there and smoked and waited – He died of Lung Cancer.
Why didn’t God deliver him?
I think its because he never really thought it was possible. I wonder what would have happened if he put
down the cigarettes and said, “God deliver-ED me from smoking!” Faith filled words of agreement with
God. My thought is that he would have
been delivered.
What problems are you facing in life? What words are you speaking? Are you agreeing with God or wallowing in
unbelief? Are you like the basketball
player, prophesying your death or like the cancer patient, fully convinced that
God will heal? Are you waiting around
for a miracle? Waiting for God to move
in your circumstances, or living like God already did it, and declaring what
God has done?
These are important questions that speak to actions of
faith. We can all say, “Yeah, yeah, I
know God can do miracles,” but do you live
and speak like God can do a miracle in YOUR life?
The world tries to convince us that these things are fake,
or weird. The world has its own system, but
the world’s system is “death oriented”.
It doesn’t take into account a personal, concerned and loving God that
can and will change circumstances. The
world’s system is focused on “science” and medicine, or mankind’s
intellect. There’s no room for a
supernatural move of God, but that’s where miracles are found…in the
supernatural.
Words Move Mountains
I want to close with this:
Matthew 18:18 (NKJV)
18:18 Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
What that means is:
Matthew 18:18 (NLT)
18:18 “I tell you the truth, whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.
This goes back to speaking.
Think about what the cancer patient spoke.
“I call my body healed. I call my body whole. I declare that my body functions according to the way God created it to function, and I forbid any malfunction in Jesus’ name!”
I forbid any malfunction in Jesus’ name. What you permit on earth will be permitted in
Heaven. What you forbid on earth will be forbidden in Heaven. If you don’t speak and forbid those things
then you’re permitting them. The young
basketball player permitted an early death.
My friend permitted an early death.
Think about that cancer patient. even though the doctors were all convinced that he was going
to die – even though the psychologists were warning him to make funeral
arrangements while he still, “had time.”
They told him he couldn’t be healed.
They told him it was hopeless.
They told him death was inevitable, but he didn’t believe their report. He believed the word of God and told them:
Psalms 118:17 (NLT)
118:17 I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the Lord has done.
Whose report will you believe?
Editor’s note: If you
are sick, please go to the doctor and take advantage of their education and
training. I’m not anti-doctor, but also
know that you can influence a supernatural move of God in your life by speaking
words of faith, and living like God has already moved. In my life, I listen to my doctors and also
proclaim God’s word over myself.
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