SPEAK
TO THE SITUATION
Pr. James Victor Lubwama
Psalms 8:4-6 (NJKV)
”What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? [5] For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honour. [6] You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet. ”
Created to Reign
After God created man in His own image or likeness, He gave him dominion (supreme authority) to reign over all other creatures (Genesis 1:26). You can therefore speak to any situation or creature as long as you speak in Jesus’ name. You can command your sterile hens to lay eggs, that barren tree to bear fruit, your bank account to appreciate or your brittle hair to grow. When you do that, it means you have discovered yourself in the Lord. You have to discover your position in God - who you are and what you can do; for God is the creator and He placed you on this planet to reign. We reign together with Christ. God didn’t just create you to govern your home but to have dominion over creatures and the surrounding. How do you do it? You use your mouth. There is authority in your mouth that can transform a situation (Prov 18:21).
After God created man in His own image or likeness, He gave him dominion (supreme authority) to reign over all other creatures (Genesis 1:26). You can therefore speak to any situation or creature as long as you speak in Jesus’ name. You can command your sterile hens to lay eggs, that barren tree to bear fruit, your bank account to appreciate or your brittle hair to grow. When you do that, it means you have discovered yourself in the Lord. You have to discover your position in God - who you are and what you can do; for God is the creator and He placed you on this planet to reign. We reign together with Christ. God didn’t just create you to govern your home but to have dominion over creatures and the surrounding. How do you do it? You use your mouth. There is authority in your mouth that can transform a situation (Prov 18:21).
Power of Declaration
Apart from praying to God, take another leap of faith and speak to the surrounding or situation in your life, command it to be what you want it to be. Sometime back, I had a mini fridge which could no longer absorb my increasing family, so whenever I passed-by it in the house, I commanded it to vacate and be replaced by a bigger one. I had no money but I kept on declaring a better fridge (Job 22:28). One evening as I was coming from church, someone gave me a call informing me that he had dropped something for me at home. On getting home, I was greeted by a large double-door bottom freezer on my porch. I never prayed, but only spoke and commanded the fridge to vacate and be replaced by a better one; same thing I did with my previous barren avocado tree, I spoke to it and it flowered.
Apart from praying to God, take another leap of faith and speak to the surrounding or situation in your life, command it to be what you want it to be. Sometime back, I had a mini fridge which could no longer absorb my increasing family, so whenever I passed-by it in the house, I commanded it to vacate and be replaced by a bigger one. I had no money but I kept on declaring a better fridge (Job 22:28). One evening as I was coming from church, someone gave me a call informing me that he had dropped something for me at home. On getting home, I was greeted by a large double-door bottom freezer on my porch. I never prayed, but only spoke and commanded the fridge to vacate and be replaced by a better one; same thing I did with my previous barren avocado tree, I spoke to it and it flowered.
You can use your mouth to have dominion over the world around you. There is power in confession and declaring. The mouth can bind and bless you at the same time. God created this world by speaking (Genesis 1), its only man that was molded by God. Genesis 1:26 – “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
The material used to manufacture something is the same material used to revamp it. The raw material used to manufacture the world is the word of God. That is why you need to store the word of God in your heart so that it becomes part of your life. The bible says in Proverbs 119:11 (ESV) that; “I have stored up your word in my heart…….”
When you see something not going right in your life or around you, speak to it. From the time you became born-again, creatures obey you when you speak, but you must be speak recurrently because things of God require diligence. We must be diligent in praying, fellowshipping, reading the word and also speaking to negative situations. We reign with words - by declaring what we want to see; words have power and they create. If you confess negatively, you create negativity and vice versa.
In the bible, Jesus spoke to;
1. Demons. Mathew 8:28-32 – “When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. 29 And suddenly they cried out, saying, “What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time …....32 And He said to them, “Go.” So when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water.”
2. His Father. Luke 6:12 – “Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God”
3. Situations. Mark 4:39 – “Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said, ‘peace, be still’ and the wind ceased and there was a great calm.”
4. Nature. Mathew 21:18-19 - ”Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.”
Terms and Conditions
There is authority in your mouth. Everything beneath you means you reign over it. All things mentioned during creation (Genesis 1:26-30), are under our feet and we have dominion over them. Everything you desire can happen if you believe and declare to see it forth. You can speak to God, satan, situations and nature just like Jesus did. Who can speak or command and it happens? You, who is in the image of God - born-again. The sign that shows one is born-again is the Holy Spirit; that’s how God can uniquely identify His children.
There is authority in your mouth. Everything beneath you means you reign over it. All things mentioned during creation (Genesis 1:26-30), are under our feet and we have dominion over them. Everything you desire can happen if you believe and declare to see it forth. You can speak to God, satan, situations and nature just like Jesus did. Who can speak or command and it happens? You, who is in the image of God - born-again. The sign that shows one is born-again is the Holy Spirit; that’s how God can uniquely identify His children.
How can you know that you have the Holy Spirit?
- When you have peace in your heart. The peace Jesus gives isn’t concerned with the surrounding situation. Jesus said in John 14:27 - “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” His peace is unconditional. You may be highly in debt or in lack but with a full measure of peace in your heart which yields joy. 2 Corinthians 3:17 says; “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
- You sin, and peace within your heart departs. When you sin and feel peace has departed, and you feel the conviction to repent, know that you still possess the Holy Spirit. However, when you sin and feel no conviction, just know he is no longer in you. Such people become comfortable with sin; they no longer fear God but fear people seeing them in disgraceful situations.
- When you feel a soft-still voice talking to you, especially in your daily life. That voice is always opposed by your reasoning. For example, you might be about to take breakfast and the voice tells you to fast. It always speaks once and from the heart; but at times your mind tries to contradict it by giving excuses. The more you delay to execute that command, peace and joy departs until you obey. That’s the Holy Spirit at work not your conscience.
When you have the Holy Spirit, you don’t do things (give, pray or minister) as you desire but as you are instructed. When you obey, you pay the price for what you want. The price is not fasting 40 days and nights. For God to grant you the desires of your heart, you have to be obedient. When He tells you something, He isn’t suggesting, but commanding – a king’s request is a command. When the Holy Spirit tells you to fast or give something, He isn’t requesting but commanding, and when you obey, you are paying a price. The bible says in Isaiah 1:19 “If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land”
You want to transform the surrounding environment and situations in your life, speak to them. But who is going to speak with authority for things to change? A child of God. Who is a child of God? One who has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and then filled with the Holy Spirit
