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Stop Praying About It - Decree It (Job 22:28, Changes Everything)

There is a kind of speaking that goes beyond prayer. Most believers have never been taught it, and so they spend their entire lives in one mode of communication with the unseen realm. The mode of asking when God has authorized them to operate in a second mode, the mode of declaring. They pray about their circumstances, asking God to change them and then they wait hoping the answer will come. But there is a verse buried in the book of Job that reveals a higher operation. An operation in which the believer does not merely ask God to act but declares the outcome and watches it established. The verse is Job 22:28 and it says, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee, and the light shall shine upon thy ways." 

   Decree a thing, and it shall be established. Not ask for a thing and hope it might come. Decree it, and watch it established. There is a profound difference between praying about your situation and decreeing over your situation. 

And the believer who learns the difference, who moves from merely asking to authorize declaring will discover a dimension of spoken authority that transforms the way they engage every circumstance of life. 

  This teaching is going to reveal the power of the decree and show you the difference between praying about your circumstances and decreeing over them. Now I want to be clear and careful from the outset because sound teaching requires it. The words of Job 22:28 were spoken by Eliphaz, one of Job's friends, whose counsel God later corrected. So, we do not build this teaching on Eliphaz alone. We build it on the consistent witness of all of Scripture, which reveals from Genesis to Revelation that God operates by the decree, that He created by the decree, and that He has authorized His covenant children to operate in the same principle of authoritative declaration. Eliphaz stated a principle that the rest of Scripture confirms, even though his application of it to Job's situation was flawed.

We understood the power of the decree as a reflection of the very nature of God Himself. Note, "God is a decreeing God. He does not ask the universe to obey. He declares and it is established." He said, "Let there be light" and light was. And the believer made in His image and recreated in His  likeness, has been given a measure of this same authority. Not to act independently of God, but to declare the established will of God over his circumstances and watch it come to pass." 

To declare the established will of God and watch it come to pass. That is the power of the decree, exercised not in independence from God but in alignment with His revealed will. 

  Stay with me through this entire teaching, because what you discover about the decree will transform the way you speak over every situation you face. Let us understand the limitation that keeps most believers in the asking mode and never lets them advance to the decreeing mode. The limitation is a misunderstanding of the believer's authority. Most believers see themselves as petitioners, as those who can only ask and must always wait for permission. 

  And so, every engagement with their circumstances takes the form of a request: " Lord, please change this. Lord, please fix that. Lord, please intervene here." And there is a proper place for petition, for asking, for bringing requests to God. Philippians 4:6 instructs us to let our requests be made known to God. But petition is not the only mode of operation God has authorized. 

  There is also the mode of the decree, the mode of authoritative declaration, in which the believer, operating in alignment with the revealed will of God, declares the outcome rather than merely requesting it. The problem is that believers who only know the asking mode treat every situation as though the outcome were uncertain and dependent on persuading God to act. But many situations are not uncertain at all. The will of God concerning them has already been revealed in His Word. When the Word has already declared God's will, the believer does not need to ask whether God will act. Believer needs to declare what God has already said and enforce it over the circumstance. Asking is appropriate when you are seeking God's will. 

  Decreeing is appropriate when God's will has already been revealed and you are establishing it over your situation. And the believer who only knows how to ask, who never advances to the decree, Will spend his life petitioning for outcomes that God has already authorized him to declare. Identified this as a failure to grasp the believer's authorized role. 

Note that the believer who only asks has not understood his position. There are times to ask and there are times to declare. When the will of God is uncertain, the believer asks, seeking direction. But when the will of God has been revealed in His Word, the believer declares, establishing that will over his circumstances.

  To keep asking for what God has already promised is to remain in the posture of a beggar when God has called you to the posture of a son , a daughter who declares the family will. The decree is not arrogance. It is the authorized declaration of what God has already established in His Word. The decree is the authorized declaration of what God has already established. That is the key distinction. The decree is not the believer inventing his own outcomes and  commanding the universe to produce them. It is the believer declaring what God has already revealed in His Word and establishing it over his circumstances by authoritative declaration. There is a particular encouragement in the power of the decree for those in their later years whose voices may feel quieter and whose influence in the world may feel diminished. The decree does not depend on the volume of your voice or your standing in the world. It depends on the Word you declare and the faith behind it. A frail believer, confined to a chair, decreeing the Word of God in a whisper, releases more authority into the spiritual realm than the most powerful person on earth speaking words of unbelief at full volume. The decree levels the field. It does  not favor the young, the strong, or the influential. It favors the believer who knows the Word and declares it in faith regardless of age, strength or circumstance. 

Your decree spoken from your chair, from your bed, from your quiet room, carries the authority of heaven, because the power is in the Word, not in the one who speaks it. 

  Imagine a governor who has been given authority by the king to enforce the king's laws throughout a province. When a situation arises that the king's law has already addressed, the governor does not write to the king asking what should be done. He already knows the king's will because it is written in the law. So, he declares the law, enforces the king's established