Declare God’s Promises: Bible-Based Declarations for Healing, Favor, and Breakthrough
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:5–6 KJV).
God took Abram out and showed him the stars.
He said, “Tell the stars, if you are able to number them ... so shall thy seed be.” Well, you can see three or four thousand stars on a clear night!
“So shall my seed be.” That is what God had in mind. Speak to the stars. Tell the stars, “So shall my seed be.” Abram was told to use an audible voice repeating what God had said to him about the stars.
When you confess the promise of God audibly with your mouth, it does something for the human spirit that nothing else does. I don’t care how many other people say it. Their words will never affect you the way it affects you when you say it audibly with your mouth.
We have a little confession book that came out in 1976 called, God’s Creative Power Will Work for You. Over the years, it has sold millions of copies. But it is a confession book.
Sometimes, people will say, “Oh yeah, I read that book.”
It is not a reading book. It is a confession book. It is a confession book because you say it. You say it audibly.
You need to give voice to God’s Word. When you give voice to God’s Word, that may be the only audible voice of God that you will ever hear. When you hear God’s Word spoken, it has a way of penetrating the human spirit and the human flesh. It will change your flesh. It will change you from the inside out.
The Lord said to Abram, “Tell the stars if you’re able to number them.” The Scripture says in the next verse, “And he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness.”
Did you know there are a lot of people who believe in the Lord, but they don’t believe what He said about them? No, they don’t believe the promises are for them now. They say, “Oh yeah, we’re going to get that when we get to heaven.” Will you need money to buy gasoline when you get to heaven? No, you need money to buy it now.
You see, it says Abram believed in the Lord and it was accounted to him for righteousness. God had to deal with him on his level. He will deal with you on your level as you advance in faith.
God’s Word for You Today
Bless the Lord, you His angels, mighty in strength, who perform His word, obeying the voice of His word! (Psalm 103:20 NASB)
Give Voice to God’s Word
“I am like a tree planted by rivers of water. I bring forth fruit in my season, my leaves do not wither and WHATEVER I DO PROSPERS. Angels go before me and prepare the way” (Psalm 1:1–3).
Produced by Faith, Not Works of the Flesh
The next time the Lord appeared to Abram was after Abram and Sarai got together and decided that they were going to have to help God out.
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai. Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan. So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived... (Genesis 16:1–4).
Have you ever thought God did not understand your situation?
They thought it was through Sarai’s maid that they were going to have the promised child. Abram had a baby through Hagar and they named him Ishmael. Ishmael was not going to be the blessed child God promised them.
Ishmael was not a child they produced by faith. Ishmael was a result of what happened when they got over in the flesh and tried do things without God’s help.
Abraham prayed:
And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!” Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him (Genesis 17:18–19).
He wanted Sarah’s plan to work but God had another plan. When we try to help God instead of waiting for Him to perform His Word, we cause trouble for ourselves and others. Paul shows us that Abraham came to a place where he no longer wavered, “being fully convinced that what God had promised He was also able to perform.” What God has promised you, He is perfectly capable and willing to perform.
God’s Word for You Today
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6 ESV).
Give Voice to God’s Word
“I declare that I will follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and God’s plan and purpose for my life will be fulfilled.” (Jeremiah 29:11; Isaiah 46:10)
Hearing and Renewing Your Mind
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17).
Faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing. Hearing is in the continual tense. Someone would not walk up to somebody and say, “How is your heard.” You might think they were talking about their cows, wouldn’t you? You don’t want to know how he heard last week. You want to know how he is hearing now.
Hearing is in the continual tense, and renewing of the mind is in the continual tense. The Apostle Paul said:
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, … (Romans 12:2).
You renew your mind with the Word of God by speaking the Word over and over and over audibly until the mind is renewed. It is a process that continues throughout your life.
You don’t ever quit renewing your mind because you are rubbing up against people every day who will affect you negatively. You get around some folks for 25 minutes, and you’ll be saying some of the ugly stuff they say. “Oh, we’re just working ourselves to death.” Then you’ll catch yourself saying things like that. You have to renew your mind. Then, you have to keep your mind renewed.
God’s Word for You Today
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you (John 15:3 KJV).
Give Voice to God’s Word
“I am clean through the washing of the water of the Word. My mind is renewed, and I am transformed into the image God created me to be.” (Ephesians 5:26; Ephesians 4:23)
Calling Things That Are Not
God taught Abraham to call those things that were not until they were.
(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 (ROMANS 4:17 KJV).
What does it mean to call things that are not? Not what? They are not evident in the natural realm. They are things you cannot see, feel, taste, or touch.
Anything like a chair or a table is in the natural realm. You don’t have to use faith to believe these things are real. You can touch them and feel them. I guess if you could bite them, you could taste them. They are in the natural realm. It does not matter whether you believe it or not. They are here.
You do not need faith for things you can already see. You use faith to bring the unseen into the realm of physical reality.
Romans chapter four goes on to talk about how Abraham believed in the hope of the unseen promise of God.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be (Romans 4:18 KJV).
Notice it says, “Who against hope believed in hope.” In other words, when there was no hope in the natural, Abraham believed it. When you get to the point where you do not see any natural hope, you need to be like Abraham. Go to the Word of God and get supernatural hope.
You should recognize your need to believe the Word. Look at and listen to the promises of God like Abraham did and allow them to create hope inside of you. Then you call those things that are not as though they were. Call it as though it already exists. By faith, you call yourself saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit. By faith, you call yourself healed, and by faith, you call all your needs met. By calling those things God promised as though they were, you will please God with your faith.
God’s Word for You Today
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).
Give Voice to God’s Word
“I stand on the promises of God’s Word, and I call myself healed. I call myself healthy. Body, listen to me. I am speaking to you. You are healed by the stripes of Jesus! I call my needs met. I do not lack health. I do not lack finances. God supplies my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (1 Peter 2:24; Philippians 4:19).
