When you are a listener to the voice of God, there does not need to be any context for what God may speak, but when He speaks and you lean into what He says, it opens up realms of revelation you would have not have known if He had not spoken. This was my reality this morning, the Lord said, “Declarations are for manifestations. What you decree you will see.” No context, no adjoining prayers around the subject, just a phrase God spoke to me this morning, but what it opened up was understanding on the subject about which He spoke. The voice of God is an invitation into relationship and God knows I love to dig into the word to know what He is saying, so for me this was a morning of treasure hunting with God and we struck gold.
Job 22:28 says, ““You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you; And light will shine on your ways.”
Decree has always meant something I said, a declaraton I make, this is what I thought this word meant and it does, but in the Hebrew decree means, to cut, divide, slice off, cut off, cut down, decide, exterminate, quarry, separate. This changes everything, this word decree connected to the word established in this passage is not about a verdict we are making, it is a about seperation, dividing, cutting off that has to happen in order for something to be established. Established in Hebrew means, stand up, arise, perform, come on the scene, appoint. Again, not the definition I assumed it would be. This is why when God speaks we should not assume what He is saying, but should do some research for He knows things we don’t.
What the Lord said was, “Declarations are for manifestations. What you decree you will see.” Now after leaning into these words, here is what that means. A decree will precede a standing, for something has to be cut off in order for something else to arise. Many times we want to arise before we separate, slice off, decree the removal of something. The decree makes room for what God wants to have come on the scene. Decree then you will see for declaration releases manifestation. It’s time to decree so we can see!
Lisa Great 