Trusting and Declaring

If you know me, you know I've been on a kick about making declarations for a while.  Prophetic declarations that initiate and integrate the realities of Heaven into the realm of the Seen.  This is based on the authority we have in Christ and is modeled by Jesus over and over again in the Gospels.  Sometimes we see results immediately and sometimes we have to keep declaring. (A favorite motto the Lord gave me a while back is: "Prophecy yourself out of your gunk!")  Sometimes we have to keep declaring Truth to ourselves so that we even come to really believe the thing we are declaring!

That's why it seemed so important to me when I realized that there is something much greater than declaring and that is TRUSTING.  In fact, just trusting is more powerful, though they could certainly go together. 

Here's the important distinction: 
I Declare because I trust God and believe that His will is being carried out in Heaven.  I do not trust that the thing I desire will come to pass just because I am declaring it.  The first is God-worship.  The second is self-worship.