After hearing the report of an ice storm again for the third week in a row, we declared “It will part and go around us” The more we get a bad weather report, the more strongly we prophesy against it. The weather man said today “Michigan dodged a bullet today” as the Winter advisory prediction for Michigan never happened. Holding their breath the weather report still stood all day as they watched the storm split and go around the Detroit area. We do this often. Why do people get mad at weather reporters when it changes for the better? They can only tell us what they see coming. They don’t account for prayer!

Prayer declarations are explained in James 3:4-6 which has been totally misunderstood and misinterpreted in most versions and commentaries. The following is more spiritually sound to my understanding than any other translation. I believe all who believe in the power of words agree with this interpretation:

Behold also ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the captain chooses. So the tongue is small but {has great power to change the course of our lives because God said so in Proverbs 18:21} 

Makes more sense than “the tongue boasts great things” as in the tongue talks big but does not deliver? God says death and life are in the power of the tongue, so it must have some power. Mixed with faith, our declarations are the difference between sickness and health, life and death, poor or wealth. We’ve been seeing more effect to or prayer by this understanding. We continue to learn about believing very day. “According to your faith it will be done”