WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.000 If it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire or something. 2 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.880 Welcome to another Raising Home Fire Secret Place training session. 3 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:24.800 Those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of 4 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.320 the Almighty. 5 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:31.000 And our prayer and our vision for this time is that you would be further equipped, that 6 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:36.520 you would be taken into a deeper experience of the secret place, into a deeper personal 7 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:41.620 connection with God, and that you would experience what it's like in a deeper way to come under 8 00:00:41.620 --> 00:00:43.240 the overshadowing of God. 9 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:48.000 Bill Johnson says, whatever overshadows you will come out in your shadow. 10 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.880 And you know, the book of Daniel, Daniel writes this, he says, those that know their God shall 11 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:53.880 do great exploits. 12 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:58.520 And so our prayer is that you would grow in your knowledge, not just your knowledge about 13 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:03.980 God, but your intimate, personal, experiential knowledge of knowing God. 14 00:01:03.980 --> 00:01:11.080 And so enjoy this session, God bless you. 15 00:01:11.080 --> 00:01:13.600 Well welcome to another secret place training session. 16 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:16.960 I'm really excited to be sharing with you what I'm going to be sharing with you today. 17 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:22.240 I'm going to be talking about a practice that I practice in my personal prayer life that 18 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:25.760 has really blessed me, that I can trace so much fruit back to. 19 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.560 I want to talk about the practice of declaration. 20 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:32.400 The fact that your words are a weapon and your tongue is a sword. 21 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:37.520 Proverbs 18.21 says this, that the tongue has the power of life and death. 22 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:44.600 When we read through the first couple of chapters of Genesis, we see the first mention of words. 23 00:01:44.600 --> 00:01:50.520 And I don't know about you, but I grew up believing, I grew up being taught that the 24 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:55.760 primary function and purpose of words was to communicate information to other people. 25 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:00.500 And while that is a great benefit and one of the side purposes of words, that is definitely 26 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:04.880 not the primary purpose of words according to scripture or according to God. 27 00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:09.080 We see the primary purpose, the primary function of words in the first couple of chapters of 28 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:15.200 Genesis where God spoke and things came into creation. 29 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:19.260 The primary function of words is to create more than to communicate. 30 00:02:20.140 --> 00:02:21.140 This is true. 31 00:02:21.140 --> 00:02:26.220 The world that we are living in today is the fruit of the words that we spoke yesterday. 32 00:02:26.220 --> 00:02:33.500 And the words that we speak today will somewhat, and I think to a large degree somewhat, determine 33 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:36.760 the world that we live in and the atmosphere that we live in tomorrow. 34 00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:47.260 Words create atmospheres and atmospheres dictate what will naturally grow within that atmosphere. 35 00:02:47.260 --> 00:02:49.100 Our words set the temperature. 36 00:02:49.100 --> 00:02:50.500 Our words set the climate. 37 00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:54.380 Our words set the invisible atmosphere for things to grow in. 38 00:02:54.380 --> 00:02:56.580 Our words are creative by nature. 39 00:02:56.580 --> 00:02:59.620 Our words have the power to pull down or to build up. 40 00:02:59.620 --> 00:03:06.780 Our words are possibly the most powerful weapon we have. 41 00:03:06.780 --> 00:03:09.640 So the first thing I want to say is this. 42 00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:14.660 When you pray, take care what you say because your declaration is powerful. 43 00:03:14.660 --> 00:03:17.140 Your words are powerful. 44 00:03:17.140 --> 00:03:19.740 Your words are creative by nature. 45 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:24.900 Your words take spiritual reality, unseen reality, and they are one of the tools, one 46 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:29.020 of the ways that God has given you to take the unseen and to bring the unseen into the 47 00:03:29.020 --> 00:03:30.020 scene. 48 00:03:30.020 --> 00:03:33.220 Everything that we see, the Bible teaches, Scripture teaches, that everything that we 49 00:03:33.220 --> 00:03:35.460 see in the visible came from the invisible. 50 00:03:35.460 --> 00:03:38.260 Everything that's in the natural now came from the Spirit. 51 00:03:38.260 --> 00:03:42.700 And words are one of the ways that we take spiritual promises, spiritual prophecies, 52 00:03:42.700 --> 00:03:47.140 spiritual substance, spiritual reality, and we translate that into the natural. 53 00:03:47.140 --> 00:03:51.580 And our words are like a gate for spiritual reality to come flooding into the natural 54 00:03:51.580 --> 00:03:55.900 and to be incarnated and made flesh in the world around us. 55 00:03:55.900 --> 00:03:57.460 Our words are powerful. 56 00:03:57.460 --> 00:03:59.420 Your words are powerful. 57 00:03:59.420 --> 00:04:00.780 Write that down somewhere. 58 00:04:00.780 --> 00:04:03.020 That's the first point. 59 00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:05.300 The second thing I want to say is this. 60 00:04:05.300 --> 00:04:10.160 Something powerful takes place when you go from just speaking your words to bringing 61 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:14.840 your language into alignment with what God has already said and what God is already saying, 62 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.880 and when you bring your language into alignment with the language of God. 63 00:04:17.880 --> 00:04:22.140 When you start to speak what God has said and when you start to speak what God is saying, 64 00:04:22.140 --> 00:04:23.140 you go from this. 65 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:27.840 You go from swinging your sword, which is powerful, to swinging God's sword through 66 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:29.480 your mouth. 67 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:37.160 You go from the power of your words, which you just heard me say, Proverbs 18.21 is true. 68 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:39.480 Your tongue has the power of life and death. 69 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:46.680 Your words are powerful to tear down or to build up, to create or to destroy. 70 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.320 But when you go from speaking your words to speaking what God has said and what God is 71 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:54.120 saying and you adjust your language to come into alignment with the language of God, you 72 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.680 go from the power of your words to the power of His words through your mouth. 73 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.440 That is an amazing reality to think on just for a moment. 74 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:07.240 I could just say this, Selah. 75 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:11.360 Let's just pause and think about that for a second and think about how that relates 76 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.380 to your prayer life. 77 00:05:13.380 --> 00:05:15.080 This is amazing. 78 00:05:15.080 --> 00:05:23.440 I love the story of Mary in Luke chapter 1, Luke 1.37, the angel says to Mary, 79 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:25.280 For with God nothing is impossible. 80 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:30.560 Now this statement is spoken in the context of the conversation that this angel is having 81 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.200 with Mary about, the angel comes to Mary and says, you're going to be with son. 82 00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:35.200 She says, it's impossible. 83 00:05:35.200 --> 00:05:36.420 I'm a virgin. 84 00:05:36.420 --> 00:05:40.040 It's impossible for me to be with son. 85 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.760 And the angel says, listen, it's going to happen for with God nothing is impossible. 86 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:49.400 And what it literally means in the original language is this, where God has spoken, there's 87 00:05:49.400 --> 00:05:55.040 the word reimer in there, where God has spoken, the thing that he has spoken is no longer 88 00:05:55.080 --> 00:05:56.080 impossible. 89 00:05:56.080 --> 00:06:00.440 Even if it was possible, if he says it, it's now possible. 90 00:06:00.440 --> 00:06:07.560 And the implication is this, that every time God speaks, the resources, the grace and the 91 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:11.840 power that is required to bring that word to fruition and to bring that word to pass 92 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:15.680 comes in the word. 93 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:20.280 When God gives a prophecy, when God gives a promise, when God speaks, his word doesn't 94 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:21.960 come as a fully grown tree. 95 00:06:21.960 --> 00:06:23.920 His word comes as a seed. 96 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.520 Now the prophecy is like this, when you go to the seed shop, when you go to the plant 97 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:31.400 store and you buy a packet of seeds, at least the plant stores I go to, often there's a 98 00:06:31.400 --> 00:06:37.120 picture of what the tree will look like if the seed is stewarded properly, nurtured properly 99 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:43.880 and looked after it when it's at its, at its, uh, when it's come to maturity, the seed will 100 00:06:43.880 --> 00:06:47.120 end up looking like this tree, the picture on the back of the seed packet, the prophecy 101 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:50.960 and the promise is kind of like the picture on the back of the seed packet. 102 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:55.400 This is what it will, this is what this word will look like if you look after it, steward 103 00:06:55.400 --> 00:07:01.880 it and take care of it in its mature form, it will look, this is the promise, but the 104 00:07:01.880 --> 00:07:03.640 promise comes to you in a seed form. 105 00:07:03.640 --> 00:07:06.560 And when God gives you a seed, when God gives you a word, when God gives you a promise or 106 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.420 a prophecy, he expects you to see the tree and the seed. 107 00:07:11.420 --> 00:07:15.560 And so you receive the seed and then what you do with the seed determines whether that 108 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.800 seed will turn into the picture on the back of the seed packet or whether it will just 109 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:24.120 die and remain a seed and not come to any fruition or any level of maturity. 110 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:30.000 And one of the ways we do that is we water the seed with our words. 111 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:35.280 I love what Paul says in 1 Timothy 1.18, he gives this instruction to his spiritual son 112 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:40.400 Timothy and he's talking to Timothy about taking the promises, taking the prophecies, 113 00:07:40.400 --> 00:07:46.000 taking those things spoken over him and, and, um, and not letting them die, but taking them, 114 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.080 nurturing them, looking after them, stewarding them until they come into fruition. 115 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:52.320 He wants Timothy to reach his destiny. 116 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:56.320 He wants Timothy to achieve and accomplish his purpose on earth. 117 00:07:56.320 --> 00:08:03.240 And he says, he says this to Timothy, Timothy, I charge you this, sorry, in 1 Timothy 1.18, 118 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.880 this charge I commit to you son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously may concern you 119 00:08:07.880 --> 00:08:10.920 that by them you may wage the good warfare. 120 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.560 And what this, if you look into the original language, what this is literally saying, what 121 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:20.120 Paul is literally saying to Timothy is this, as a commander over the word, as a commander 122 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:26.440 over the promises, a commander over the prophecy that you receive from the Lord, um, initiate 123 00:08:26.440 --> 00:08:33.120 military expedition by sending the army, sending the hosts that have been assigned to the word 124 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.520 to battle on behalf of the word. 125 00:08:35.520 --> 00:08:40.059 And this is the truth that that scripture unveils is this, there is an implication and 126 00:08:40.059 --> 00:08:42.620 there is a truth that you can see in that scripture. 127 00:08:42.620 --> 00:08:48.740 And here it is that every time you receive a prophecy, every time you receive a promise, 128 00:08:48.740 --> 00:08:54.220 that promise comes with resources from heaven that are waiting for your leadership. 129 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:59.260 And as you, as you begin to take initiative and as you begin to take responsibility for 130 00:08:59.260 --> 00:09:05.680 the prophecies and the words that you have been given, um, then those resources are released 131 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:11.800 into the earth and, uh, and the, the support and the backing of heaven is released to make 132 00:09:11.800 --> 00:09:16.640 war on behalf of the word that you've received. 133 00:09:16.640 --> 00:09:21.980 Anyone can receive a prophecy, but not many people actually see prophecies and promises 134 00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:23.640 through to their fruition. 135 00:09:23.640 --> 00:09:29.040 And one of the reasons behind that I believe is because people aren't intentional to, uh, 136 00:09:29.040 --> 00:09:32.780 to be responsible, to steward the word that they've been given. 137 00:09:32.780 --> 00:09:36.380 And people don't often understand that they have been given leadership over the word 138 00:09:36.380 --> 00:09:41.060 and that heaven, a lot of people are waiting for heaven, but I think heaven is actually 139 00:09:41.060 --> 00:09:44.980 waiting for people to take initiative and take leadership and take responsibility for 140 00:09:44.980 --> 00:09:47.040 the words that they've been given. 141 00:09:47.040 --> 00:09:51.480 When you declare according to the prophecies you've been given, according to the promises 142 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:56.980 you've been given, when you declare that is, that is making the good warfare, that is 143 00:09:56.980 --> 00:09:57.980 making war. 144 00:09:57.980 --> 00:10:00.060 As you declare the words that God has spoken. 145 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.660 spoken, angelic armies are released, heaven is released, the resources of heaven is released 146 00:10:05.660 --> 00:10:11.120 as you speak what God is saying, heaven is released on behalf of the Word. 147 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:17.220 And that is an amazing, amazing truth, that you literally have the power in your prayer 148 00:10:17.220 --> 00:10:23.480 life to activate heaven's resources on behalf of the words that have been spoken over you. 149 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:28.740 And so one of the things that I do in my prayer life is I, first of all, I keep track of the 150 00:10:28.740 --> 00:10:33.380 things that God has spoken to me, either in dreams, or through prophetic words that have 151 00:10:33.380 --> 00:10:38.320 been given to me, or through revelation, or just maybe I've just been reading the Scriptures 152 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:42.600 and I see a promise that's just in there and it's for all the people of God, it's for all 153 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.060 the children of God, then I'll just take note of all those things that God is speaking to 154 00:10:46.060 --> 00:10:49.080 me and that God is revealing to me, and I'll take note of those things. 155 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:55.000 I even have a file on my phone of, there's probably about 30 or 40 prophetic words that 156 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:59.520 I have on there that I listen to quite frequently, and I just keep in my mind all the time, it's 157 00:10:59.520 --> 00:11:05.620 important to keep in mind and to stay aware of what God has said and what God is saying, 158 00:11:05.620 --> 00:11:08.900 so that you can take what God has said and what God is saying into your prayer life and 159 00:11:08.900 --> 00:11:14.320 begin to declare out loud what God is saying, your words are the power to create, your words 160 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:18.740 are the power of life and death, but when you go from speaking just whatever you want 161 00:11:18.740 --> 00:11:23.740 to say, to speaking what God has said, heaven is released on behalf of the words that you're 162 00:11:23.740 --> 00:11:28.240 saying, you go from swinging your sword to swinging God's sword with God's resources 163 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.320 and with the backing of heaven, and that is truly amazing. 164 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:40.320 One of the things I do is I make war with my words, and I want to encourage you to do 165 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:47.520 the same, and we're going to go to an activation very soon, but one thing I do is I write out 166 00:11:47.520 --> 00:11:53.280 declarations and I speak out declarations that are in alignment with what God has said. 167 00:11:54.260 --> 00:12:01.420 And as I do that, I have so many times now, I've seen dramatic and instant transformation 168 00:12:01.420 --> 00:12:07.060 take place and breakthrough take place, and the words and the declarations have so much 169 00:12:07.060 --> 00:12:12.340 effect in the world around me in relation to what has been spoken, what has been declared, 170 00:12:12.340 --> 00:12:16.460 it's been really, really amazing. 171 00:12:16.460 --> 00:12:22.220 So we're going to go into an activation now, God bless you, and I hope you really enjoyed 172 00:12:22.280 --> 00:12:23.280 that session. 173 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:41.640 Awesome, well hey guys, welcome to the activation. 174 00:12:41.640 --> 00:12:44.480 This is what you're going to need for this activation, again you're going to need a pen, 175 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:50.200 something to write down on, some space, maybe some music, and the first thing I want to 176 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:55.540 ask you to do in this activation is I want to ask you to think about, and let's just 177 00:12:55.540 --> 00:12:57.260 give it a number, let's give it 10 things. 178 00:12:57.260 --> 00:13:02.220 I want you to write a list of 10 things, 10 promises that God has given you, 10 prophecies 179 00:13:02.220 --> 00:13:11.220 God has given you, they can be promises, prophecies, or they can just be truths that you know God 180 00:13:11.220 --> 00:13:12.980 has invited you to walk in. 181 00:13:12.980 --> 00:13:19.740 So I want you to write down a list of 10 different promises or prophecies or realities that God 182 00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:21.800 has invited you to walk in. 183 00:13:21.800 --> 00:13:23.800 I just want you to write down a list. 184 00:13:32.800 --> 00:13:37.520 Okay, thanks for writing down that list guys, and now what I want you to do, if it isn't 185 00:13:37.520 --> 00:13:42.200 in this format already, I want you to write that list into a declaration that you can 186 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.280 declare out in your personal prayer time. 187 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:51.260 So just go write that into, put that into words that can be a declaration that you declare 188 00:13:51.260 --> 00:13:58.260 out in your prayer space, something along the lines of, I declare that, fill in the dots. 189 00:14:07.260 --> 00:14:08.460 Okay, that is awesome. 190 00:14:08.460 --> 00:14:12.260 Now the next thing I'm going to ask you to do, and this is your homework, but this is 191 00:14:12.260 --> 00:14:17.640 really important, is I want you to take that declaration that you've just written out, 192 00:14:17.640 --> 00:14:24.800 and I want you to make a plan to, in your prayer times this week, for the next 7 days, 193 00:14:24.800 --> 00:14:31.160 I want you to faithfully, out loud, declare that out every day for the next 7 days. 194 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:35.160 And I want you to take a note of what begins to shift and change in your life as a result 195 00:14:35.160 --> 00:14:37.600 of declaring that declaration out. 196 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.040 Okay, so that's my homework to you. 197 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:41.040 That's the activation. 198 00:14:41.040 --> 00:14:43.340 God bless you, and we'll see you next week.