Believe and Declare

Believe and Declare

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE

It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’ With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak.

2 Corinthians 4:13, NIV.

TODAY’S WORD

I know a man who was believing to pay his house off. It was a standard 30-year mortgage, and he had 23 years left. In the natural, there was no way he could do it. But he was bold enough to say, “Father, I want to thank You that You are Jehovah Jireh; the Lord my provider. I know my job is not my source. You are my source. It may look impossible, but I know You can do the impossible.”

Several years ago, he received an inheritance from a family member that he had never met before. He didn’t even know they were related. He was able to not only pay his house off, but he paid a friend’s house off as well. What was that? Explosive blessings!

Friend, when you believe God, you position yourself for a miracle. When you obey His commands, you set yourself under the open windows of heaven. When you declare His Word, you activate His power. Keep standing, keep believing, keep speaking and see the victory and blessing He has in store for you!

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father, thank You for Your Word which is alive and powerful! I set my mind on Your promises and choose to declare what You say about me. Thank You for Your faithfulness as I move forward in the good plan You have for me in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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Make Your Prayers Other-Centered byJon Walker "He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene ..." (Isaiah 59:16 NIV) Most of our prayers are of the low order, or maybe more like the fast-food order. We pull up to the drive-thru and yell out our requests to God and then expect him to have our order ready by the time we pull up to the window. Yet, God’s view of prayer seems far above the utilitarian. He calls us to a violent form of intercession, where we take on the spiritual forces of darkness on behalf of our race, once invaded, now occupied by the prince of darkness. Paul teaches us to put on the whole armor of God. If you follow the sequence of his instruction, we’re suiting up for battle so we can stand firm in prayer (Ephesians 6). We pray for others like Jesus would pray for them, thinking about them the way he would think, covering them with prayer, protecting them through prayer, and advocating for them in the same way Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father and advocates for us. It is other-centered prayer on the extreme end of “other.” Isaiah describes God as “appalled” that no one was interceding for his people. We have the ability — more appropriately, the duty — to intercede on behalf of our brothers and sisters (Isaiah 59:16 NIV). And we do not do this alone, for the Lord is already interceding, and we are simply joining him. Like the armor Paul describes for us, the Lord is suited for battle. Isaiah says: “He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak” (Isaiah 59:17 NIV). Talk About It Ephesians 6 says to pray "on all occasions." At which occasions have you been more likely to pray? How does it change your confidence and your prayer life to know that God is interceding on behalf of his people?