Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And the title of today's post is, Because He Said So.

I give you four scripture references here at the beginning.

You can read them all, I'll just paraphrase most of it and maybe read one or two verses. But in Genesis 15,

God said twice, the passage says twice, the word of the Lord came to Abraham. The word of the Lord

came to him twice. Genesis 18, 11 through 14. Sarah is saying, you know, God has come again

and said, you're going to have a child. She says, we're too old. God says, is anything too hard for the Lord?

Is anything too hard for the Lord? Jeremiah 3227 says the same thing. I'm the Lord,

the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? And Luke 137 with God, nothing shall be impossible.

I've written and spoken much in the given 15 posts about the importance of what God says

of speaking his words.

Speaking is how God creates and how he releases his power.

As those made in his image and likeness,

we are to operate in this way also.

There is power in us that must be released from us. And the primary way we do so is with our words.

I'm speaking, of course, of speaking God's words. The word for confession in the New Testament is

homilagia, which literally means say the same. In other words, say the same thing.

God says. Saying what God says is how we, like him, release the faith, the life, the power that is in our spirits.

Jesus told us to say to mountains, be removed, using mountains figuratively to represent adversity.

This is also how we're born again, believing in our hearts regarding Christ's redeeming work and saying so with our mouths.

This is what we're doing when decreeing or declaring in the context of prayer or spiritual warfare.

And it is what is meant by using, quote, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God,

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