Speak Life Over Your Circumstances - Katherine Ruonala

by the way so thankful holy spirit calm thank you for your presence well we say thank you for all that you're doing and all that you're going to do lord I just ask that you'd put your arms around your people right now that you'd encourage them that you'd help them know that you are with them that you are here Lord that you would speak words through me tonight that would wouldn't establish them that would help them that would encourage them it would bring shift and change in their lives father we ask God that you'd help us to apply the wisdom that we have and apply the wisdom that we learn in the name of Jesus everybody said amen well we're speaking life and we're talking about what it looks like to speak life I've been sharing on this for a while now but I really am excited about the testimonies that I'm hearing about what's happening when people are being very very intentional with their words proverbs chapter 18 verse 20 says this a man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth and the produce of his lips from the produce of his lips he shall be filled verse 21 death and life are in the power of the tongue you know you eat the fruit of your words you can create the world around you with your words you say what are you really talking about Bible tells us that we are created in the image of the one who created the world with his words he said light be and it was and he tells us that death and life are in the power of our tongue that we can eat the fruit of our lips so if we're grumbling and complaining moaning and groaning we're not we're not changing anything for good but actually establishing things in the negative that we're not looking to have Romans 4:17 we've read this scripture before says God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did that same God our God calls what doesn't exist as though it already does and he's looking for us to begin to operate in his ways his ways are higher than our ways his thoughts are higher than our thoughts so we need to get with his ways a lot of people have wisdom but unless we apply the wisdom that we have it is nothing more than a knowledge that puffs up but when we actively apply what we know and we begin to use our tongues use our words to call those things that be not as though they are we can prophesy and creatively speak into being what we want to see happen I we've seen that happen over and over again but you know I believe that we need to be very very careful with our words you're walking around saying I'm sick and tired I'm sick and tired this under why I'm so tired all the time I'm always tired you know I can't figure it out I've been to the doctor I've done all the tests there's something wrong with me I know there's something wrong with me the more you talk like that the more you're actually going to eat the fruit of your lips instead why don't you begin to speak out full of power by the Spirit of the Lord I get stronger and healthier and more vibrant every day hallelujah I sleep well I eat well I'm full of energy you might not feel like that but you have power to call those things that be not as though they are and creatively to speak these things into being second corinthians 10:4 tells us that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ now I've applied this in my life so deliberately and so intentionally over the years and I am eating so much of the fruit of what I've done those who've journeyed with me who walk with me know it I make declarations like my books are bestsellers Celes hallelujah i make declarations I remember years ago I developed some nodules on my vocal cords and or a nodule on my vocal cord and it had come I think from preaching I was worship leading preaching ministry over the at the altar over loud music and I died blew my throat and I couldn't talk about me and I couldn't sing blah Blee and I lost all of my rage i was talking like this and I had to get other people in to preach I had to get other people into worship lead and it was a good thing I surprised learning to delegate then other people do some things but let me tell you it was not the will of God for me to be sick faith begins where the will of God is known as but FF Bosworth used to say and the will of God is to give us life and life more abundant to destroy the works of the evil one hallelujah the will of God is that we would be healed by His stripes we are healed bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits who heals all our iniquities and if it gives all our iniquities and heals all our diseases that's the will of God so I knew he wanted me well but it was really discouraging they sent me to a speech therapist I was trained as a speech and drama teacher I was like I'm a Warner Bros pitch therapist I know what to do but I was distressing I don't have to drive and pay all this money for a speech therapist and talking like this and then the Lord challenged me to speak life so in the mornings I'd get up and though my voice hurt my throat hurt I'd say I had a beautiful singing voice and my voice is strong and clear every day I have a beautiful singing voice I have a great range my wife is strong and Lia I give meat I know it's a no-no after three months all of a sudden everything claim came back to normal I had my full range everything was fine and I didn't need the operation they were telling me I was gonna have to have God completely healed me but I learned something I learned that the weapons of our warfare are carnal but they are mighty in God to the pulling down of strongholds that we actually have to begin to recognize I can sit back and be a victim or I can do something about it I've been given this powerful tool and it's called my tongue the word of the Lord the sword of the Lord is his word spoken and our words spoken as it's like a two-edged sword first in his mouth and in our mouth cuts both ways hallelujah we come into agreement with God and we begin to speak life by His stripes we are healed hallelujah I'm the yield of the Lord and you can make these declarations and life comes hallelujah or you can sit back and be miserable I've done both speaking life is a whole lot better hallelujah pity parties are never as good as the enemy cracks them up to be so we need to speak creatively but we also need to be very aware of our self life our self-talk the inner dialogue that goes on in our heads what we're speaking to ourselves it's really important we need to be agreeing with God about what he says about us but thank you God that I'm a new creation old things have passed away thank you God as you are so am I in this world hallelujah and we need to be very deliberate to reckon ourselves dead and dead to sin and alive to God in Christ thank you Lord it's no longer me who lives but Christ who lives in me if you are feeling discouraged you need to get up and you need to actively open your mouth and make sound start to speak the way that's why I like to pray the Bible I like to make declarations I call those things that be not as though they are and I speak it out and the atmosphere starts to shift because I'm actually doing spiritual warfare when I make declarations but you know often also in our inner dialogue fear tries to to camp and worry tries to camp and to to SAP you of your strength and you can have conversation going on in your head continually that is feeding your soul poison that's making you anxious making you afraid you can know better you can know that you shouldn't be worried about it but the voice still comes still tries to tick away in the background Philippians 4 verse 6 says this be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus and in the dream I was walking and talking with this tall man who had dark hair and he was very familiar to me yet I've never seen him and he was my senior pastor and I was walking with him and I was saying what do you think about this person in this position it's a good some really good idea it's a really good idea I think that's good and then he said have you considered this person for this and I went that's an awesome idea yeah let's do that there's no I don't work really well and I woke up but I felt so good and I realized the Holy Spirit spoke to me he said I'm your senior pastor this is so good I'm not doing this on my own I don't have to figure it out you're the one that I can lean on and you know what I loved about it was he'd say things like that's a really good idea that's a good plan and then he'd say what do you think about this what do you think about that because if he considered that person for this position and he wasn't saying you must do this do this or undo that don't do like do this that was what I would have expected God to be like but that's not what the father is like a good father doesn't treat a child that's growing up and and starting to take responsibility as someone that needs to be controlled and dictated to they encourage they empower and they help them in an empowering way to be able to make decisions do you like the Lord trust soon you've been given the mind of Christ he gave it to you he thinks you're awesome you have the capacity to make amazing decisions to make these wonderful choices and he knows it so he doesn't want to take the role of dictating to you he wants to draw out of you what he's already put in you hallelujah and so when we're worrying and stressing the father once asked to begin to access the Holy Spirit the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit there so that we don't walk around anxious thinking about Oh house it's gonna happen what am I gonna do here but instead tell him everything talk to him and then the scripture goes on and says once you've brought your worries and your concerns to him the peace of God will support which surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and mind and he says to do it with Thanksgiving when we talk to him we we bring the different worries the different things that might be lining up in your in your brain then we go oh thanks God thank you God that I'm not doing this on my own thanks God that I don't have to figure this out by myself I'm so grateful that you and I together we've got this awesome God I thank you you've got a great plan and for this even if I don't know all the answers straight away I get this great sense of joy that Oh hooray I'm not doing this on my own I have full trust that you've got this completely this is gonna go well hallelujah he wants that revelation to well up in your heart so Thanksgiving comes and that's where declarations come in when you start to call those things that be not as you brought your worries to him you've talked to him you can get thankful thank you God you've got this then you can start speaking it out creatively and you're doing it not as a formula not as a thing that you're hoping will work you can do it out of a sincere conviction hallelujah this is what's gonna happen I'm gonna call it as it already is and then like it tells us and scriptures sing our Baron you he's not born he's actually wanting us to get emotional about the reality of what's going to happen seeing our Baron that seems mean to instruct someone that's desperately wanting a child and hasn't yet fallen pregnant get really happy get sore that you're thinking about it but that's what God wants us to do he wants us to come to the place oh we're so excited about what he's going to do that we sing and dance that we get genuinely thankful that we get genuinely happy in our hearts what are you looking for what are you hoping for God wants you to get so happy about it that you're declaring those things that be not as though they are and then letting your emotions be paired with it so you're actually celebrating before you even have it in the natural this is the wisdom of God it's foolishness to some they might think well that's ridiculous but I tell you it works for me over and over and over again you can declare those things that be not and I'd encourage you to do it about your family members about your workplace about everything that you're doing instead of grumbling and complaining about it starts speaking life start declaring my children a passionate worshipers of God my children are are full of the Holy Spirit and have divine initiatives all the time that are backed up with the wisdom of God you can creatively speak their future either your spouse instead of saying oh you know you know they just they're just like God you know I know instead of grumbling and complaining why not start declaring those things that benighted so they are take the opportunity to start declaring exactly what you want to see God's put the desire in your heart start speaking it out because you can have what you're saying hallelujah not only do we speak and declare God wants us to see it and say it that's the way we get happy about it where we actually see it in our sanctified imagination Oh God thank you I'm so happy thank you Lord if you if you've got a test coming up a medical test coming up instead of being anxious and concerned about it oh it's alright let it be all right all right you can take that to him bring the concern to him but then picture the results being all clear wonderful and let your emotions go there and get happy about it oh thank you God my results are all clear hallelujah that's what you can do that's what the weapon that you have in your hand or you can let the the worry tick away in the background like an unopened app on your phone that just drains your battery Tom taught me how to close all the apps on my phone I used to have 50 apps open at a time you know and he said you know that's wasting your battery that's why your battery's going flat honey you should just like swipe them away like oh okay I can do that that's what I have to do every morning with my thoughts as to go through it and go what what sticking away in the background am i doing anything ticking away yeah I actually I'm a bit concerned about that father I'm so glad I don't have to do this on my own but bring you this way to bring you this concern and I talked to him when I give it to him and then I often will go and see if he's actually spoken to me about that very issue before I look I pay my journals I think I've talked to you about this before what did you say about it then that's a good word god then I'll begin to speak it out declare it and then the next one there's anything else I'm worried about yeah okay I'm a bit concerned about that I bring you that lord I need wisdom on that think you're gonna give me wisdom is so good I'm so grateful and I'll talk to him and then I'll begin to declare thank you Lord I'm gonna make a great decision about that I've already made a one that's all taken care of hallelujah whatever it is you can go through it like a set of bills and just tick each one off or you can get up and go through your day and let these things suck away your strength in the background God wants you to actively employ your mouth to begin to speak and declare those things that be not as though they already are actively see it and say it picture it what's it going to look like when if you're struggling with sickness can you see yourself well then you need to be speaking out seeing it and saying it I'm the healed of the Lord hallelujah the Bible says let the redeemed of the Lord say so by His stripes we were healed so I've been healed oh nothing healed of the Lord hallelujah I don't they're happy instead of worrying and struggling and complaining get happy about what you haven't yet seen and you open the door for yourself to be able to walk through into it if the word says that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they're mighty in God to the pulling down of strongholds we need to believe what the Bible tells us we can quote it many people you could quote that verse but how often do actually apply it to your life in a practical way no I believe the father is just looking for the simple ones who would humble themselves like little children and take hold of the kingdom who'd actually do what he says to read the word not as information that's puffing me up with knowledge but as an invitation into my everyday life an invitation into what I can do today to see change happen does he change in my family does he change in my circumstance what can I do today you know I I do this even to the point of before I walk into a meeting rather than just blowing in I like to try and take some time to see what's it gonna look like today God thank you lord begin to see them if you're walking into a business meeting and you're really looking for a good outcome you need to be asking the Lord about it in the morning thanking him for his help then declaring the outcome that he's put in your heart the desire that he wants to have and then seeing it and saying it all the way into the meeting picturing it what's it going to be like what's it gonna be like when they receive what I'm trying to bring hallelujah this is this is powerful and we had the power to do something with it all we could leave it sitting at home Dorman God's looking for you to begin to take time I remember reading about William Branham and he would seek the Lord to know what was happening in meetings before he'd walk into the meetings and the Lord had start to show him different ones that would get healed and and he'd see them and what they'd look like in their ailments and he'd see how the Lord wanted to heal Lerman that sure enough he'd go into the meetings and that's exactly what he'd see and that's exactly what would happen I remember reading that and thinking I'm gonna do that it's a good idea so I did it first time before a meeting on a Friday night back when we were still in Springwood I said right Lord you're no respecter of persons show me what you're gonna do tonight show me who you're gonna heal tonight and I saw a lady who had one leg shorter than the other and I saw um as I kept looking I said Lord how do you want to heal up because I already knew you of course he wanted to heal her this is the will of God is to heal how do you want to heal her so I saw myself pray for her she was slain in the spirit I got down on the floor put my hand on her ankle her ankle grew out and I was so happy hallelujah this is all before the meeting began before I even left home I went that night I gave a word of knowledge a little bit new in it so I didn't it was a lady I just said someone here you've got one leg shorter than the other and you need it's affecting your hips and your the way you can walk and lady came out and she had a dress on because in the vision I'd seen this lady with a dress I was so excited I knew what to do next so I laid hands on her she fell on the ground I got down on the ground I put my hand on her ankle ankle her leg grow out she jumped up and running around the building so I've never been asked to do this but then when I went home that night I was like that's awesome god I thought to myself I wonder why I don't ask about more things like I wonder why I don't ask about my day like what do you want to do today God then start to picked her and see it come to pass and I was a bit disturbed by the revelation that I had the reason that I don't ask is because I'm too lazy cuz I just I couldn't I couldn't be bothered taking the time to stop to see it to declare it I was just rushing off into my day you know there's invitations waiting for whoever will pick it up and use it I was so convicted that I began to make shifts and changes in my daily routine started not taking appointments before 10:30 in the morning because I needed time to stop and listen and hear and see what he was going to do make declarations so that when I I came into the business of the day I wasn't just walking through it but I was being intentional and and doing what I'd already seen now this is available to anybody who asked God's looking for you you don't have to even have a prophetic vision about a lot of the things that you begin to decree and say you already know the will of God through the Word of God the Word of God the will of God is for you to be healed so every day picture it see it declare it I'm the yield of the Lord get happy about it get excited about it your family your circumstances your children your spouse your workplace and then take it further pick to your church what is my church look like what do you want to do with my church but ah thank you God pray for it pray for your church pray for but that the last to come in instead of longing for it and wanting it to happen begin to see it and say it thank you God people get saved in our church every week it grows every week more and more people get saved imagine if we had a whole church doing that making declarations like that you know I love our church culture and I'm so grateful for this beautiful bad way churches it's a beautiful culture but I've had people in the past complaining about their churches well you know I don't really like the worship I don't really like this it's like you are not adding anything you are not helping anything why did you stop making declarations the worship without surge is so glorious and people get caught up into the arms of God and they're saved and transformed and healed in the middle of the worship the worship leaders are so engaged I mean they already are here hallelujah praise the Lord but you see the difference you can be a grumbling complaining consumer or you can be a declaring overcomer God hasn't called you to be an onlooker not any of us if you've been born again the Bible says it's no longer you two lives but Christ who lives in you Christ in you is not a victim Christ in you is not complaining Christ in you is not wringing his hands Christ in you he has the wisdom to apply to your life Christ in you wants to speak and declare those things that be not as though they are and he wants to see you walk in victory in power you know I believe as we begin to real who he is and who we are will start to behave differently you're not a little person having problems the Bible says in this world we'll have troubles but take heart he's overcome the world and what he's saying is don't don't sit there and be a complainer don't adopt the mentality of a victim but instead wake up and realized thank you God you've already overcome I'm feeling I'm gonna rejoice you've already overcome in that situation you've seen every trouble that's come my way and you've already declared that I have overcome because you've overcome for me hallelujah thank you for that victory thank you Lord I celebrate your victory in the name of Jesus and happily celebrate worship and rejoice in Jesus name Amen I believe today's you'll pick up this word and use it God wants to do something powerful we've received not the mantle of Elijah Elijah received a double portion the mantel fell from heaven he picked it up and he struck the water and the waters parted you haven't received Elijah's mantle you've received the mantle of Christ he says greater works will you do hallelujah what are you gonna do with what you've got in your hand you've been given power through the power of your tongue to make declarations not as as a orphan on the outside try to make a formula work but it with a revelation thanks from God hallelujah I have power now to make a difference to see change happen hallelujah and I'm not giving this a go we're doing this together at me and God hallelujah amen well father we say thank you for your word Lord let us apply it Oh God I thank you for victorious overcoming church Lord that goes on from glory to glory and strength to strength and I believe there's some people here this week you felt a little bit discouraged there's been even um the circumstances and fears that have started to come your way but I believe the father is wanting you to know I've already overcome take heart I've overcome the world even when troubles come this is what you can get happy about I've already overcome I've already got you I've already got up holding you with my righteous right hand I've already got it hold onto me you're not on your own I'm here with you and let me show you how we're gonna apply the power the authority the victory that I have for you hallelujah you know we're gonna pray for some people in just a few minutes and we're going to have communion together but give me a wave if you've been applying some of this speak life there's awesome I get so happy because if we hear stuff and we don't actually do it then what is the point of the rhetoric applied wisdom is what makes the difference and I'm so proud you know when you start to do that people will want to be around you because instead of being judgmental and critical about people you're going to be seeing them as God wants them to be declaring that they are already who God says they're going to be you're creating a way for them to come into the future that you're already believing and seeing about them people want to be around people who believe in them people don't want to be around people who are judging and condemning them if you framed up in your head I don't like my boss there were agnostic piece of work hi yes yeah whatever you say my last to somewhere they're not gonna want it be with you spend time with you or show you any favor but even if they are a nasty piece of work it can be declaring they are so generous they are so kind they are so patient they showed me so much favor they're very considerate if you start declaring it you know what they're going to want to be showing you favor because instead of picking up that you don't like them and picking up that you are judgmental towards them they're gonna be picking up that you actually believe in them and like them because you will like them because you'll see them for who they're going to be you'll see them not as they are but as who you're declaring them they that they're going to be and everything changes instead in the paper this morning that is talking about stress I read the thing about stress in the newspaper and there they were saying that this people some people are wired as impacts whereas they feel they feel everything and they feel you as well and like I'm one of them I feel all my stuff and I feel all your stuff but they were saying that generally stress is contagious and if you wish if it's actually been scientifically proven that if you're around stressed-out people you'll get stressed as I looked at that I thought wow well instead of being a victim that's always picking up what everybody else's stress you start declaring them thank you god this full of peace they're happy I'm happy instead of being a thermometer that reads the room you get to be a thermostat that changes the atmosphere hallelujah my hot bunky used to say that he'd he'd go into dark places and people say can you feel how dark the atmosphere is brother you don't I can only feel Jesus I love it today if you don't actually know Jesus if you don't know that he came to deliver you from fear and from shame and from sin and from yourself he really wants to be in relationship with you this is the good news of the gospel it's an invitation God is kind but he also respects you he respects your freedom to choose he gave you freedom to choose life or death he says choose life highly recommended please choose life I love you I don't want you to walk in death I don't want you to live without me I want you to have eternal life with me I want you to know life now in life for eternity I'd give it to you I want you to have it but you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink because God wants us to recognize we have the freedom to choose when we make a choice to say lord I need your fat your forgiveness I need your salvation I believe that Jesus is the Son of God that he died and rose again that as I bring him myself my sin my past I can give it to him and receive in exchange his mercy his absolute forgiveness his righteousness in exchange I can receive eternal life hallelujah I can be delivered from everything I don't like about me and receive newness of life this is the great good news of the gospel but it happens when you respond to the invitation today if you're here and you know in your heart that you want to make that choice the Bible tells us that all of sinned and fallen short of the glory of God that means nobody is able to be qualified to be joined to God that's why we need Jesus he became sin so he could become righteousness it's a free gift we can't earn it we've just got to accept it by faith so thank you God I want that it takes humility to receive what you can't earn but if you make that declaration Lord today I want to cross the line and I want to give you my old life and I want to receive your new life into my life I want to be come a new creation I want to be joined to you I want to receive you as Savior and what I'd love to pray with you today before we go on and pray for anybody else if that's you would you just wave your hand at me I'd love to pray with you today so anyone here that says yes god bless you anyone else that says yeah that's me today I want to cross the line from life to death from death to life I want to be born again I want today to be the day that I respond to the mercy of Christ is anyone else that says yeah that's what I want Bible tells I said it when we confess him before men he'll confess hear us before his father who's in heaven that means that we're not ashamed to say I need a Savior it makes your father's heart so happy because he wants to give you life as anybody else that says yes that's me I choose life today today I want to receive Christ to save it let me see hallelujah

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Published: Sun Jul 01 2018