Jesus said that believers should ask God to help but in another text he said that believers are authorised to speak directly to a problem with divine authority.
"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Mk 11:23 NIV
He was telling us, that we are authorised as believers to speak not only to God but to speak a decree, to speak to a mountain.
What does Jesus mean by a mountain? We can command whatever is opposing God’s people and God’s will to be removed.
How can we know what is opposed to the will of God? Through Scripture, through listening prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus also told us we can move the hand of God by asking Him to act.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. Jn 15:7
How are we to know what to do and how to pray?
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God. Rom 8:26-27 NIV
When Christians apply the teaching to speak to a mountain, they often use the words, DECLARE and DECREE.
The meanings can be different but they overlap.
Both can be an announcement with legal force and effect.
A jury declares an accused person guilty or not guilty. This is not a statement of opinion or fact but a legal transaction in the form of words.
When a doctor declares a person to be dead, he or she is legally dead.
A ruler can issue a decree, which then has legal force. An official or ambassador can be authorised to issue a decree on behalf of the ruler.
When Paul wrote parts of the NT, he was authorised to write legally binding declarations or decrees on behalf of God.
There are some conservative Christians who are zealous for the Word of God, but they accuse Charismatics of neglecting Bible truth because we emphasise the leading of the Holy Spirit.
As a Charismatic Christian, I would ask my fellow believers:
If Jesus in one text tells us to ask God to help and in another text, He tells us to speak directly to our problem, how are we to know which bible text to apply unless we are continually supernaturally guided by the Holy Spirit?
"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Mk 11:23 NIV
He was telling us, that we are authorised as believers to speak not only to God but to speak a decree, to speak to a mountain.
What does Jesus mean by a mountain? We can command whatever is opposing God’s people and God’s will to be removed.
How can we know what is opposed to the will of God? Through Scripture, through listening prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus also told us we can move the hand of God by asking Him to act.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. Jn 15:7
How are we to know what to do and how to pray?
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God. Rom 8:26-27 NIV
When Christians apply the teaching to speak to a mountain, they often use the words, DECLARE and DECREE.
The meanings can be different but they overlap.
Both can be an announcement with legal force and effect.
A jury declares an accused person guilty or not guilty. This is not a statement of opinion or fact but a legal transaction in the form of words.
When a doctor declares a person to be dead, he or she is legally dead.
A ruler can issue a decree, which then has legal force. An official or ambassador can be authorised to issue a decree on behalf of the ruler.
When Paul wrote parts of the NT, he was authorised to write legally binding declarations or decrees on behalf of God.
There are some conservative Christians who are zealous for the Word of God, but they accuse Charismatics of neglecting Bible truth because we emphasise the leading of the Holy Spirit.
As a Charismatic Christian, I would ask my fellow believers:
If Jesus in one text tells us to ask God to help and in another text, He tells us to speak directly to our problem, how are we to know which bible text to apply unless we are continually supernaturally guided by the Holy Spirit?
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