Declare your Future

Declare your Future

The creative power of words

Its one thing to believe you are blessed but when you say it

That’s when the blessings come looking for you

The scripture says let the redeemed of the Lord say so

Believing is good

Desiring is good

Thinking is good

But eventually you have to declare it

That’s how you give life to your faith

God didn’t just think things into existence

He had it in his heart

But nothing came in existence

until he spoke them

His words set things in motion

We are created in His image and likeness

We are designed the same way

We are spirit beings

You can believe big things

You can have faith

You can have big dreams

But then what?

What’s the problem

Nothing happens until you speak it

Until you declare it

When you say

I’m coming out of debt

I’m the head and not the tail

God s favor surrounds me like a shield

Then

Opportunities will find you

Good grades will come your way

Promotions will overtake you

It’s good to believe that you are healthy

Its good to believe that you will overcome this illness

That’s good

But you must declare it

That’s when faith is activated

When you declare

I will live and not die

With long live will the Lord satisfy me

Making declarations every day

Will help you live the life you were intended

Declare it every day before you leave the house

Say it

Things shave shifted in my favor

God is about to show me something I have never seen

When you begin to talk like that

Angels go to work on your behalf

They are opening new doors on your behalf

They begin arranging things in your favor

All of us are hoping or believing for something today

But are you giving life to your faith

by speaking it out today

Psalm 91:2-7

 This I declare about the LORD: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; He is my God, and I trust Him.

For He will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.

He will cover you with His feathers. He will shelter you with His wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day.

Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday.

Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.

I will declare

And he will do

The psalmist went around declaring it

And God became his strength

If you are bold enough to declare it

Then God says

I’m bold enough to do it

Have you ever declared

that your dreams are coming to pass

have you ever said

I will pay off my house

I will start my own business

I will loose this weight I will

I will get my degree

I will see my family restored

Whatever God has put in your heart

it has to get into your conversation

we must begin to talk like its going to happen

talk like its already in the way

We cannot speak

IF its going to happen

but WHEN it WILL happen

I had a friend many years ago

Who worked for me

Who was believing for a child

They had tried for years

But one day

They began to speak as if they were pregnant

In fact

He would say things like

Well when my wife gets pregnant

I won’t be able to work the same hours

This went on for many years

Some of our friends

Thought they were deluded

Kind of crazy

They were getting too old

And this talk went on for so long

That most people

Didn’t even want to be around them

This went on for years

After about 9 years of declaring

They got pregnant

And a year and half later

They had another child

They spoke about it for so long

It became a very part of them

The faith became so real

Until

It was manifested in the natural

When we were looking to purchase this building

We didn’t just think about it

And pray about it

Those were important

But we didn’t stop there

We began to declare it

I cannot tell you how many days

We would come here and drive around this building

Or get out and walk this property

Declaring it as ours for the glory of the Lord

It became a part of our daily discussions

We didn’t worry about all the finances

and the difficulties

But in the midst of the trials

we kept declaring it

We said of the Lord

You are bigger than any obstacle

We know that if you are before us

Who can be against us

we declared it and God did it

What are you saying of the Lord today?

What are you declaring in your life?

Most of us are declaring the reality of our life

Pastor

My problems are very severe

My marriage is so messed up it can never be healed

I made so many mistakes my life is a mess

I got us in big financial trouble, and we’ll never get out of it

No, NO NO

Stop what you are saying

don’t talk about how big your problem is

Talk about how big your God is

When you say of the Lord

You are my healer

My way maker

My restorer

My vindicator

My supplier

My dream giver

My stronghold

My victory

That’s when God will show up

Are you declaring victory over your life

Your family

& your career

When you get up in the morning

You need to make some declarations

My children will fulfill their destiny

Our family is healthy and prosperous

We are debt free

And we have great favor

When you declare favor over your life

God will make things happen

That should have never happened

Now I know to many of you

This sounds foolish

And than God for that

Because if I were making sense to you right now

I would be really concerned

Because I am not speaking about natural things

I am not here to give you 3 steps to feeling euphoric

I’m here to day to give you truth

And the scripture says that the truth will what?

It will set you free

We are not free

This society is not free

We are bound up

Bound up in our troubles

In our circumstances

We are all bound up in things

and our lives are not as happy and prosperous

as they were meant to be

God is here this morning to give us a truth

One that can

If you will take hold of it today

It can revolutionize your life

1Co 2:14-15

 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are

foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

You in your natural man

In your natural hearing

In your natural vision

In your natural sense of smell

In your natural sense of touch

You can NEVER understand the things of the Spirit of God

Listen to that carefully

Because too many of the Church is deceived today

We are all looking at our Christianity through the eyes of

The natural man

We get emotional

We are moved emotionally

We have lost the ability to discern the Spiritual intention

Of everything happening in our lives

When things to wrong in your life

What do you do?

You try and figure out what happened

Then you try and fix the problem

That is exactly what society is doing today

Every time we have a new tragedy in this country

Men with good intentions

Rise up and try to implement new laws to stop that tragedy from happening again

In our lives

We say

I will change

I will not act that way again

I am sorry

And you may be

But until you discern the Spiritual Realm

And what is actually happening

You cannot overcome the problem

The first problem we have is we talk about our problems

We glorify our problems

We want to make our problems the center of attention

My back is bothering me

My boss is a jerk

My car is about to die

My wife is a nag

My husband is lazy

The Spiritual man hears these things

And realizes the problem

It is --- what is spoken

We are created to create

What are we creating

We are creating our future each day

I love young children

They have such an ability to see things

Clearly

Because they have yet to be tainted by life

Daddy I’m going to be a doctor

Well daddy is an unemployed hog catcher from

No mansville Florida

And he cannot see that as a possibility

So what does he do

He dashes her dreams with his reality

And not the Spiritual Truth

Mommy I’m going to marry a wonderful man

Who will take great care of me and we will have 3 kids

And 2 dogs and we will be best friends

The problem is Mommy didn’t have that

She met a man who promised her the world and delivered her hell instead

So she hears her daughters dreams filtered through her pain

And dashes her dreams with her reality

We do it all the time

I will be out of debt

Then we go and complain that gas prices are so high

Or milk costs – whatever it costs

Our thinking has been polluted

And so our speech has been polluted

And therefore our life has been polluted

Its time we line up our speech

with what the scripture says

when we do this

We unlock the heavenlies

Listen

I’m in another dimension today

You need to move out of the natural dimension

That your in

and get on over into the spiritual dimension

because that side is much more real

Nobody can stop you when you are in the right dimension

Ask Jonah

You can get on a boat and try to run

But it won’t work

Because if you were meant to do something

Then God will send a huge fish your way

But one way or another

You will

Eventually end up in Nineva

See as Christians

Once we realize that we work in another dimension

No body can stop us

No one can judge us

He that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

Your past has no bearing on your future

Your destiny has nothing to do with your past

Your past actions cannot hinder your future progress

WHY

Because you are in another dimension

And the world cannot judge you

1Co 12:1 

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

This means you can be saved and be ignorant

Uninformed

Unwilling to do what you know you should

The tragedy of being ignorant is that you don’t have to be

The words that you speak are very important

Now here is the catch to all this

This works in the positive as well as in the negative

If you are always saying ‘I m so unlucky

I never get any good breaks

You are moving towards more bad breaks

If you say ‘my back has been bad for a long time

You are moving towards more sickness and pain

If you say

My life is a mess I don’t think  I’ll ever be happy again

You are moving towards more discouragement and unhappiness

If you will change what you are saying

You will change what you are seeing

The scripture says

Romans 4:17 (KJV) 

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Call the things that are not as if they were already were

What we usually do is just the opposite

We call the things that are as if they will always be that way

We describe the situation

The gas prices are so high

I can’t see how we can make it

We are just calling in more lack

Man my boss is driving me crazy

You are calling in more struggles and problems

Don’t use your words to describe the situation

Use them to change the situation

If you want to know what you are going to be like in 5 years

Listen to what you are saying today

For me

5 years from now

I’m going to be stronger & wiser

I will preach better messages than I ever did

Don’t say amen to that

I will be better looking and

Healthier than ever

Pastor mike

When you get old

Your hearing goes

Your legs get tired

Your eyes get weak

Too many people are speaking what the circumstances

Are showing

And not what faith says

When you change what you speak

You change your destiny

Listen

in spite of what has been

Going through your family line

You are a new creation

You have new blood running through your veins

Your youth is being renewed

You are prophesying your future

Beauty for ashes

Joy for morning

New beginnings are in my future

The best of my life is before me

Moving away from self pity and

Moving towards God goodness in a new way

We should make positive declarations over our lives every day

Whatever you want to see changed

Declare it daily

For instance

If you struggle with self esteem

Listen

Declare this instead

I am confident

I am valuable

I have royal blood flowing through me

I am one of a kind

I have favor on my life

I am a child of the most high God

You declare that

And you will go out with a new attitude

If you struggle with past mistakes

Proclaim this

I am forgiven

I am redeemed

I am wearing a robe of righteousness

God is pleased with me

God not only loves me

He likes me

The scripture says

Let the weak say I’m strong

It doesn’t say

Let the weak talk about our weakness

no you cannot talk defeat and expect to have success

you cant talk sickness

and expect to have health

you cant speak lack

and expect to have abundance

In a tough time

When someone asks how your doing

Don’t get into a litany of all the bad things that have happened

Dog hates me

Washing machine broke

Gold fish died

Lost my job

Car is broke

By the end of all that

Both of you will end up depressed

Instead begin to change your words

How are you doing

I am blessed

I am healthy

My life is getting better every day

What you consistently talk about

You are moving towards

Pro 6:2  You are snared with the words of thy mouth……………….

Most of us have spent years saying negative things over our lives

I’ll never get out of debt

My marriage is a mess

Ill never break this addiction

No you have to send your words out in a positive direction

Every day declare that your dreams are coming to pass

Its not enough to just believe it

Nothing happens until you speak

When you say of the Lord

The Lord will do it

I am blessed

I am prosperous

I am strong

I am healthy

I am talented

I am creative

I am confident

I am secure

I am disciplined

I am focused

I am attractive

I am well liked

I have a good personality

The right people are in my future

The right opportunities are heading my way

I will accomplish my dreams

I will overcome every obstacle

This is  my year

Things have shifted in my favor

God is about to show me something I have never seen

It is bigger and better than I ever imagined

I am the redeemed of the Lord

And I declare it today