'Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created. He has also established them forever and ever; He has made a decree which will not pass away. [Psalm 148:4-6]
"So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding (in the matter) for which I sent it." [Isaiah 55:11]
When God decrees something, that decree is settled forever. [Psalm 119:89] The Hebrew word for 'settled' is natsab, which means to fix, establish. One interesting alternate meaning is to be stationed or appointed...His word is stationed as a guard, appointed to accomplish what He sent it for.
‘The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.’ [Isaiah 40:8]
Psalm 32:7 says He surrounds us with songs, or shouts, of deliverance!
Keeping those things in mind, look at 2 Corinthians 1:20: 'For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes...' Every promises of God is fulfilled in Jesus, and we are His joint heirs! He is the Spirit within us--Paul says we have died, and Christ lives in us! [Romans 6:6, Galatians 2:20]
Filled with God
In Ephesians 3:19, the Holy Spirit, through Paul, prayed that we might be filled up to all the fullness of God! In Colossians 1:11, He prayed that we be strengthened with all power in our inner man! We have this treasure in earthen vessels—how is this possible?
Because God said so—He decreed it! Jesus was God in the earth—the Word [Gr. logos—word, decree]. John 1:1 says 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' God is His word, and the totality of all His words is Jesus.
Guess what? It's you, too! Acts 12:24 says 'And the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.' I like the HNV: 'But the word of God grew and multiplied.' We are the Word multiplied! God has filled us with Himself—we are the embodiment of His decrees. We are His temple on the earth, filled with His glory. We are how the whole earth is filled with His glory [Isaiah 6:3]
Stationed
The decrees of the Father about us are established forever—they are stationed around us. They are stationed within us, within our reborn spirits. They are already true and already accomplished, because He decreed it. He decreed that we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ. By His doing, we are in Christ Jesus, Who became [past tense] to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption...[1 Corinthians 1:30]
Let's look at an example. God declared David to be king of Israel while he was just a boy. It took a while for David to realize that this was, in fact, true...'And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.' [2 Samuel 5:12]
That wasn't when it became true...it became true the moment God said it. And if you read the whole chapter, David didn't realize [Heb. yada—to know or perceive] that he was really king until after he was anointed by the elders and took the throne! I think it must have been an aha! moment, sort of like 'Oh, right, this is real! I get it now...'
So What?
What does this mean for us? It means everything God has said about Jesus and those who are united with Him in the Spirit—His Body—is already true! God decreed many things about us, and they are established forever, stationed around us, standing firm in the spiritual realm.
So how do we bring it to pass in the natural? We, like Jesus, are full of God. Jesus said that we should do greater works than He did [John 14:12]—He decreed it—so it is established forever, destined to come to pass. Evidence, however, is a little hard to come by. Christians look just as sick, broke, depressed as everyone else—their kids are dying by the numbers, just like the world's. Even during the plagues in Egypt, the Word says 'Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.' [Exodus 9:26]
Their livestock didn’t die, either, and when thick darkness descended over the land, there was light in the dwellings of Israel! [Exodus 9, 10]
Hallelujah!
So where is the disconnect? What is blocking the decreed word of God from coming to pass? David said we are surrounded by songs of deliverance [Psalm 32:7]...encamped around by the Angel of the Lord and rescued. [Psalm 34:7]
Paul said that we have this treasure in earthen vessels. [2 Corinthians 4:7]
I see it as a bottle full of God with the stopper still in it. How do we take the stopper out?
By faith! Everything is done by faith! Faith—believing in your heart and speaking with your mouth—takes hold of that forever settled word and brings it into the natural realm. Doubt, fear, unbelief, rationality—thinking like the world, not understanding how things really work—these keep the stopper firmly in place.
Hebrews 3:19 says of the Israelites wandering in the wilderness 'So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.' Enter what? Enter into the promise of God—the Promised Land.
Faith—Seeing the Unseen
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ. [Romans 10:17] The decreed Word of God is the forever settled and established unseen. Immerse yourself in the unseen, seeing who you really are in Christ. Mediate on being one Spirit with the Lord, strengthened with all power in your inner man, doing greater works than Jesus did. See yourself walking in love and power, decreeing in the earth what God has already decreed about you. You are the healed, the rich, protected by angels. The well-being of your children is great and they are taught of the Lord. God is love—you are filled with love! And love never fails...
The Holy Spirit said, through Paul, '...for we walk by faith, not by sight...' [2 Corinthians 5:7] and told us to look at the things which are not seen rather than those that are seen [I Corinthians 4:18]. By faith, Moses left Egypt, 'seeing Him Who is unseen.' [Hebrews 11:27]
In Galatians 3:5, we read ' So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?' Faith is how you move mountains [Mark 11:22-24]. Faith is how you take the stopper out and let God move in the earth.
Jesus prayed "Your will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven." We should pray that, too...that the unseen, already established will of God be done in our lives in the earth. When we begin to meditate on these things, sin, doubt and fear will fall away and we will reign in life.
Walk by faith. It is decreed.
