Say Of The Lord
In the last four days, we’ve talked extensively about the secret place and how to access it. I have shown you that God’s secret place – the covering cloud of His protection – is another term for God’s presence. If we want to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, then we must learn to dwell in God’s secret place.
To dwell in the secret place of God, we must:
Understand and develop a consciousness of God’s presence every day of our lives.
Wake up our personal prayer lives and devotion, and Recognize the ministry and fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Today, let’s deal with the second command from Psalm 91 designed to invoke promises into reality. It is found in verse two, which says:
“I will say of the Lord…”
That is, I will declare, I will confess, I will speak, I will proclaim, I will broadcast, I will announce, I will publicize…
One of the most powerful ways to activate the presence and power of God is
3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
There is a method used by witches and the occult world to command evil powers to do their bidding. It is called incantations. They chant recommended or learned words over a long period, in addition to some rituals, and use that to command evil spirits to carry out specific assignments.
The sad thing about this practice is that it works. Unfortunately, this is simply a copy and abuse of the true power of declarations.
“Any method of influence that the devil uses in his agents is simply a copied and abused the scriptural principle of power and control”
You can activate God’s divine presence, power, and nature by reading out loud and declaring His promises. If you like, you can call this a positive incantation. The good thing is that this is a powerful way of commanding the presence of God to protect against evil.
Moses openly declared Psalm 91 and invoked God’s protection over death, plagues, and destruction. We do the same thing when we read and proclaim the Psalm (and other of God’s promises). We invoke His presence and power to activate the promises.
When we make scriptural declarations of faith, we do not deny the facts on the ground; instead, we are confronting the facts with God’s Words.
Read It, Believe It, Then Declare It
“.. .He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
While declaring the Word and promises, however, we must trust God to make His promises come to pass. Your confessions and declarations become more effective when you truly believe in the things you are saying. People sometimes declare scriptures but don’t believe them deep down in their hearts.
If you want the Word to activate the presence of God for you, then you must come to a point where you believe it wholeheartedly. You may not understand the dynamics, but you believe it, nonetheless.
Yes, we live in an uncertain world. Every day, you will see bad things happen. You may even see nice Christians suffer untold hardships. These things have a way of trying to challenge what you believe, especially what you believe about God and His promises.
The devil has no problem with you reading God’s promises; He reads and knows them too. What he doesn’t want is for you to believe them and declare them boldly in faith. So he will show you every reason to think that the promises are nothing serious to rely on.
There’s hardly a day that passes that I don’t read someone say something like, “But if God is good, why didn’t He protect that brother? Why did He allow that evil to happen to that Christian sister? If that scripture is working, why was that Church attacked and those fine Christians killed?”
“You have to make up your mind upfront to believe God’s promises irrespective of what you see in the world; otherwise, you will find yourself jostling between unbelief and fear.”
There are many things I don’t understand about life and its events. I do not also have answers to everything, but one thing is sure: God’s Words are true, and they are working and will continue to work.
“You must choose whether to go the way of faith in God and in His promises or go the way of questioning the promises.”
Don’t be carried away with the bad things that you read and see that you stop seeing and believing in the goodness of God.
Yes, we’re bombarded with so many negative stories in our world. But God is still a good God. He cares for us and preserves us amid the evil. Our faith must be strong in His promises, and we must boldly declare it to get it working for us.
“But Brother Daniel,” you say, “I’ve been declaring scriptures upon scriptures over my life and family, and I don’t see them working.”
“Really? You think they’re not working?”
Just because you are not seeing some physical manifestations right now does not mean that the promises you are declaring in faith are not working. They are, indeed, creating and recreating your world. Sometimes the Word first works in you before He works for you. Continue believing, continue declaring, and continue trusting.
Prayer
Heavenly Father,
I declare today that I believe in Your Word and precious promises for my life and family.
I believe the entire promises in Psalm 91 and every other of Your promises in the scriptures.
I believe that Your Words are Yeah and Amen.
1 believe that heaven and earth will pass away, but Your Words will never pass away.
O Lord, there are times I struggle with my feelings and my senses; those times when I look at things the way they are, and Ym pressured to question and doubt Your Word.
Please, Lord, when I struggle with believing, help my unbelief Remind me always when I need to stand firm in Your Word irrespective of physical symptoms and situations, in Jesus’ name.
Amen.