3 Keys To Speaking In Faith
By Rachael Taylor
Everyone of us loves to be around positive people. You know the people who always look at things or others and see the best in them; then, there are the negative people who suck the life right out of you. The positive people see the glass half full and the negative people see the glass half empty.
When I was pregnant with my daughter Kyla, the doctor said she would not survive and that she would die within the space of two weeks if nature took its course. At that time positive speaking over that situation would not guarantee that she would have survived. Here is where speaking with faith is a big difference. Being positive comes from the mouth but faith comes from the heart.
Although I think being positive is the way to go, there is a big difference from speaking positive and speaking with faith into a situation. Positive speaking, lets call it positive confession, it does not guarantee it will happen just because you are speaking positive over the situation.
Here are 3 keys to speaking in faith
1. Remember the promises of God
In Hebrews 10 it says, ‘let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful’. It is so easy to be swayed by life’s circumstances. When I was pregnant with Kyla the circumstance that was in front of me was impossible but I knew that my God was the God of the impossible. That is a promise in the Bible in the book of Luke; Jesus said ‘what is impossible with men is possible with God’. God can never lie, every promise in the Bible he is faithful towards it.
2. Meditate on Gods word
In Romans it says, ‘faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ’. How do you get faith? You get faith by meditating on Gods word. A golden nugget from God. One of the times when God gave me that golden nugget was again with Kyla while I was pregnant. I knew in my heart that God was going to heal Kyla, it wasn’t just positive speaking but it was the word of God. The verse in the Bible that God showed me was in Psalm 27 ‘I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord’. Life is full of circumstances that can take you by surprise but by meditating on Gods word when the circumstances do come your way you will be well equipped with the word of God to get through them.
3. Speak the promises of God out.
Every day I spoke the word of God out loud over Kyla with boldness and faith, declaring the promises of God that God would heal her, that he loved her and he had huge plans for her. Because of Gods promises and faithfulness Kyla is with us today, a miracle from God. Never under estimate the power that is in Gods word. It is not experiences that build up your faith it is meditating on Gods word and speaking it out with boldness and declaration.
The 3 points to speaking in faith will help you shift from speaking just positive to speaking with faith and authority and just watch what a difference it will make to your life. Remember God responds to faith and without faith it is impossible to please God.