What is more devastating than having your dreams, your hopes or expectations crushed? How can you recover from that? Declaring God’s Word will release His power into your situation and lift you out of the disappointment, doubt, fear, and discouragement you are experiencing.
00:00 *Know who we’re fighting.
02:34 *Take Heart, Jesus Defeated Satan!
3:02 *Our Faith in Jesus applies His victory over Satan to Our Lives
3:42 Jesus Spoke God’s Word to Defeat Satan – You Can Too!
5:10 The tongue has the power of life. How can that be?
7:18 Speak to the Mountain
7:56 DECLARATIONS
*Know Your Enemy
We have an enemy who hates us and is actively trying to destroy us. We need to fight back. He won’t leave us alone until we force him to.
Satan means “adversary.” Satan is God’s adversary. He opposes God, the things of God, and anyone God loves. He can’t touch God, so he comes after you and I – those whom God loves.
His common name is Devil which means “false accuser” or “slanderer.”
He sows seeds of doubt, deception, confusion, discouragement, depression, temptation, and offense.
Somehow, he is able to place these seeds as thoughts in our minds.
Disappointment is one of his weapons to hurt us. He uses disappointment to create great pain in our lives. Pain that can drag us down and hurt us over a long time. Pain that causes us to give up on dreams and live defeated lives. It’s time to fight back
Human beings are no match for Satan.
*But We Are Not Alone. We Have God – God is infinitely more powerful than Satan. When we unite our lives with God, through Christ, God makes His power available to us.
Joshua 1:9
1 John 4:4
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
*Take Heart, Jesus Defeated Satan!
Satan is a Defeated Foe. Jesus completely defeated him for us. But we have to enforce Jesus’ victory.
Jesus said “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
*Our Faith in Jesus and the Work of the Cross applies His victory over Satan to Our Lives
1 John 5:4-5 NIV
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
*God speaks things into existence. We do too!
Genesis begins with God creating things by speaking them into existence. God’s Words have creative Power.
Jesus Spoke God’s Word to Defeat Satan – You Can Too!
Jesus’ ministry began when he was baptized in the Holy Spirit by John. Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert. Satan came into the desert to tempt Jesus who was weak from 40 days of fasting.
Satan twisted scripture into lies to deceive and tempt Jesus. Jesus had the same answer to every temptation: “It is written” and a Bible verse. Speaking Bible truth defeated Satan every time. (John 4:1-11)
Jesus frequently spoke to problems, commanding them to submit to God’s will. He cast out demons with words. He commanded sickness to leave.
Jesus spoke “Peace, be still.” to calm the wind and waves during a terrifying storm while on a small boat in the Sea of Galilee. (see Mark 4:39)
Jesus said: “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.” John 6:63 NIV
This means The Holy Spirit is at work producing life through Christ’s words. All scripture is God-breathed. 2 Timothy 3:16 Speaking God’s word creates life.
*The tongue has the power of life. How can that be?
Proverbs 18:21
The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Romans 10:17
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Word here in the original language is “spoken word” of God. God’s word is the seed from which all spiritual life comes. It creates faith, which causes us to be born again.
1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Speaking God’s Word plants powerful seeds of life in us. This is the message of the parable of the sower in Mark 4. Those seeds caused us to be born again. Those words, those seeds, bring spiritual life and power to us. They increase our faith and push back darkness.
*Declarations unmask Satan’s deceptions and reveal his schemes for hurting us.
John 8:31-32
… Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
*Speak to The Mountains, The Problems in Your Life.
Mark 11:23 Jesus said:
“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says”