declarations, testimonies, and LG action…
On Wednesday night we launched another Biosphere at UCSD. It was way coolio. We talked about how as sons and daughters of God we have a legal right to everything that is Jesus’ [Romans 8:14-17]. This includes every testimony that has been written or spoken in all of time. It’s our inheritance, so we can never say we don’t have cool testimonies. We all do. Also, when we minister to people, we can minister FROM our inheritance, which is limitless.
We also talked about the power of declaring the promises of God into an atmosphere. When we declare promises of God into any atmosphere, it is changed. Just as God spoke and it morphed environments and creation happened…and still is, we too, as we declare His words are creating an atmosphere. To close our time we went into a Eucalyptus grove on campus. Every time I have walked through this grove, it just doesn’t feel right. We have found out that voodoo dolls have been found in here and a few students have been raped in this grove recently. So, we went in and for around 20 minutes began to declare the words and promises of God. Things like: we declare students saved, students healed, students delivered, favor, and more. When we finished we all went our separate ways. One student named Sam told me the next day something very interesting happened as he was leaving the grove. He was behind a few students and overheard them talking about the Bible and then they said, “why did we just start talking about the Bible, this is weird”. As we declared the words of God, His presence filled the grove and those students walked right into it. The spiritual reality with which we commune in our hearts is the power released in our declarations.
Then last night we had our monthly large group gathering called Origins LG. It was awesome. Jesus showed up in power and touched students. Students shared testimonies of what God is doing. I love testimonies. Revelation 19:10 says, “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”. Everytime a testimony is shared, a spirit of prophecy is relased into the space so that God will do it again. The Hebrew root word for testimony means, “to repeat, to do again”. God’s words cannot be separated from His works. A testimony is about declaration and demonstration…or rather, re:demonstration.
You see, the less we talk about miracles, the lower our expectations to see them break out around us. The lower our expectations, the less we step into opportunities to see God show up. The less we step out, the less we see the miraculous and the vicious cycle continues. I don’t have time to focus on what isn’t happening around me, I must focus on what God is DOING. So, having a healthy diet of testimonies is good nutrition. Eat up.
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