It doesn’t matter how crazy you’re life is. It doesn’t mater what your history or your background has been; God is still up to something good. “He works all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose”...They didn’t have the complete Bible like we do; they didn’t have the New Testament. But if they could just fast-forward to when Matthew wrote his Gospel...Jesus came from the line of Judah, Judah from the mother Leah, whom Jacob didn’t even want. The Savior of the World was born out of a relationship of rejection. And if you’re ever feeling like a failure, if you feel like a reject, like no one cares about you; God has a plan to bring forth Jesus out of your life...the presence of God is with you. The presence of Jesus is with you out of your rejection, out of your frustration, out of your failure—God turns rejection into blessing.

If God doesn’t become your Father you’ll never know who you are, and you’ll live with this mindset, this mentality, that you’re an orphan—you don’t have a father. Jesus paid a price to establish God as your Father. Jesus came to reveal a new name of God...Paul said, “He’s your Abba Father,”—your Daddy Father. You are already loved; no matter what’s happened in your past, you are already accepted. You are already called a beloved child of God.

Declarations of Peace and Joy—2016-04-17

Peace Declarations

• I speak to any worry, stress or anxiety; and I say you cannot stay. Peace reigns in this temple.

• Because I trust in God, I am kept in perfect peace.

• I am known as a peace carrier at home, in the work place and in all areas of my life.

• I have a unique ability to remain peaceful, even as responsibilities increase.

• I do not have to strive for peace, as God has already given it to me.

• I bring peace to extremely intense situations.

• Those who experience anxiety claim it leaves when they come in contact with me.

Joy Declarations

• I am filled with unspeakable joy and glory as I live in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• My joy level is increasing daily, and I have been created to experience fullness of joy.

• Even in the midst of uncertainty, I live from a place of unshakeable joy.

• My joy levels do not depend on circumstances or how I feel.

• I am a carrier of infectious joy, and I release joy to others.

• My joy and laughter are powerful weapons of spiritual warfare and help create breakthrough in my own life and the lives of those around me.

Testimony Declarations:

• I am well able to overcome all challenges—There is always a solution.

• Every day I make the choice to walk in the freedom Jesus paid for me.

• Even when I feel like quitting, I push on towards the goal.

• I live a life of excellence.

• I am free from condemnation, and during temptation I find God's strength working mightily in me.

• When I declare my testimony, I release the same power of God that was released in the original healing to be released in myself.

More of your dreams than not are from God...Acts, 2:16-18 says, “But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy’ (Acts 2:16-18, NKJV). And so the package that the Lord has promised us from that powerful day of Pentecost, from that point on, is that the package is given not just to the believers, but to the whole earth, that they will have visions and dreams and that they will prophesy.

A serious past requires a serious encounter. Jesus simply says, “Fix your eyes on me, I don’t look on your past...I don’t put it on a pedestal for the world to see; I erase your past and I give you a future.” God doesn’t look at your past. That’s the point of Easter; that’s the point of the Cross. Your past is covered by the blood of Jesus on the Cross. And so, when God sees you He doesn’t see your mess and your sin; He sees Jesus—He sees the blood of Jesus covering your life.

When we live in constant relationship, we start to become transformed and we begin to have wisdom. As we begin to have wisdom, then God puts us into a place where He can pour into us and sew into us, so when there’s a need, we’re there, we’re His vessel...There’s not a question of lack in the Kingdom. Someone has a need and you’re in a position, because of your margin, and because you’re in that relationship, you’re able to give and to do in the moment as He would have you give or do, because there’s never an issue of lack.

“The tense of the Greek for ‘be filled’ makes clear that such a spiritual condition does not stop with a single experience, but is maintained by ‘continually being filled’ as commanded here. A normal response to having received the fullness of the Holy Spirit is to gain a deeper compassion for the lost, a greater readiness to serve, or a more heightened hunger for spiritual pursuit” (Jack Hayford).

“The way to make room for Him is to expect Him to come, but not in a certain way. No matter how well we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that He may break in at any minute. We tend to overlook this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way” (Oswald Chambers).

What does it mean to decree truth over a situation? This is how we can begin to be a blessing. Pray blessings that overshadow these other things—to replace the darkness that has overcome us. Read Isaiah 59 and 60: we bring light into darkness. We were meant to engage, and it happens; we were meant to engage. That’s what Papa would have us to do. We can begin to nullify and neutralize the effect of bad decisions and tough circumstances by making decrees of the solution over the situation...It is the responsibility of the church; it is the responsibility of the children of the Kingdom and the God of the Kingdom to make a difference and to engage.

When we fail to communicate boundaries, and establish them, and live in those boundaries, we feel like we’re no longer powerful. Well, that’s not the truth. We are powerful people; we’re not victims. And just because you’re a follower of Jesus—just because you’re a Christian—doesn’t mean you get to be a doormat. Sometimes we have this idea that, “I’m a Christian, so I’m going to do the Christian thing,” whatever that means. But, you’re not a doormat; you can say “No”; it’s OK.