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Chapter 5: The Power of Declaration

Written by: Apostle Delmar

The power of life and death is not in a virus. It's not in cancer. It's not in a diagnosis.

It's in your mouth.

I need you to understand something. Your words aren't just sounds. They're not just vibrations in the air. Your words are containers. They carry power. They carry authority. They activate things in the spiritual realm that your eyes can't see.

When you speak, angels move. When you speak, demons flee. When you speak, circumstances shift.

Or they don't. Depending on what you're saying.

This is why I declare the Word of God over my life every single day. Not just when I'm in trouble. Not just when I need a miracle. Every. Single. Day.

The Weapon That Never Misses​

Let me tell you what the Word of God is.

It's an alien weapon.

I don't mean little green men. I mean it's not from here. It's from another realm. When you got born again, you became a citizen of heaven. You're not from here anymore. You're from there. And the Word of God is your weapon from there that you deploy here.

Think about it like a heat-seeking missile. The most sophisticated military technology on earth. Once that missile locks onto its target, it doesn't matter what the enemy does. Dodge left. Dodge right. Try to hide. That missile is going to find its target and destroy it.

That's what the Word of God does when it comes out of your mouth in faith.

The devil might try to distract you. He might throw symptoms at you. He might whisper doubt in your ear. But the Word you spoke is already in motion. It's already hunting down the thing that's coming against you. And if you don't give up, if you don't change your confession, that Word will hit its target every single time.

Smith Wigglesworth—one of the greatest healing evangelists who ever lived—used to say it this way: "I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe."

That man raised people from the dead. And he did it by refusing to agree with what his eyes told him. He agreed with what God's Word told him. And he spoke it.

The Heart-to-Mouth Connection​

Now let me explain how this works. Because it's not magic. It's not positive thinking. It's a spiritual law.

Jesus said in Matthew 12:34: "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

What comes out of your mouth is a result of what fills your heart. That's why you can't just say the right words with your head. The words have to be loaded in your heart first.

This is why meditation on the Word is so critical. Joshua 1:8 says: "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."

Meditation isn't emptying your mind like the mystics teach. That's dangerous. That opens you up to demonic spirits. Biblical meditation is filling your mind with God's Word. It's muttering it. Chewing on it. Rolling it around in your spirit until it becomes part of you.

When the Word is written on your heart, it flows out of your mouth naturally. You don't have to try to believe it. You just speak what's already inside you.

Kenneth Hagin taught this for decades. He said: "The heart conceives, the mind reflects, and the mouth operates. But you must not try to reverse the order."

You can't skip the heart and go straight to the mouth. It won't work. You have to get the Word inside you first.

Saying It Is How You Have It​

Here's what most Christians don't understand: Saying it is how you have it.

Not having it is how you say it. Saying it is how you have it.

Let me give you an example from my own life.

I was addicted to tobacco. Couldn't quit. Tried everything. Nothing worked.

Then one day, I declared: "I am delivered. I am free from tobacco. I will never go back."

My wife looked at me sideways. "You still have a cigarette in your hand."

I said, "I am delivered. And I am never going back."

She thought I was crazy. My body was still craving the nicotine. The physical facts hadn't changed yet. But I refused to change my confession. I held fast to my profession of faith.

And you know what happened? My body lined up with what my mouth was saying. The cravings stopped. The addiction broke. I was free.

I didn't wait until I was delivered to say I was delivered. I said I was delivered until I was delivered.

That's how faith works. That's the mechanism. You speak the end result before you see it in the natural.

God Himself operates this way. Romans 4:17 says He "calleth those things which be not as though they were."

God called Abraham "Father of Many Nations" before he had a single child. Abraham had to walk around calling himself the father of many nations while his wife was still barren. That's not lying. That's faith.

When you say "I am healed" while you still have symptoms, you're not denying the symptoms exist. You're denying their right to remain. You're enforcing a higher law.

Activating Angels​

Here's something that will change everything for you: Your words activate angels.

Psalm 103:20 says: "Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word."

Angels hearken—they listen and respond—to the voice of God's Word. When you speak God's Word, you're giving your angels their marching orders.

I've experienced this personally. The angel of the Lord spoke to me and said, "You are my assignment, and I will never leave you, neither will I forsake you."

When I lay hands on people, the angel of the Lord lays hands on them along with me. I've seen it on video. Blue and white orbs moving through the sanctuary. Going before me during house deliverances. The angels of the living God do His will.

But here's the key: Angels don't respond to your complaints. They don't respond to your fears. They don't respond to your doubts.

They respond to the voice of His Word.

When you declare the Word of God, you're releasing angelic assistance. When you murmur and complain, you're tying their hands.

The Hand Over Mouth Rule​

Now let me give you a warning. Because this works both ways.

If faith-filled words release God's power, fear-filled words release the enemy's access.

Think about Job. The Bible says Job had a hedge around him. Protection from the enemy. But who removed the hedge? Job did. How? With his mouth. Job 3:25 says: "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me."

Job spoke his fears. And his fears came to pass.

You have a hedge around you too. But your mouth can remove that hedge.

This is why I teach the hand over mouth rule. If you're thinking evil, if you're thinking doubt, if you're thinking fear—put your hand over your mouth. Don't let it come out.

The devil is listening. When you say, "I'm never going to get better," or "I'm always broke," or "My family is cursed"—you're giving the enemy legal permission. You're essentially saying, "Thank you for giving me permission to steal everything."

Don't do that. Guard your mouth like your life depends on it. Because it does.

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." — Proverbs 18:21

Daily Declarations: Training for War​

Now here's something most people miss.

You can't wait for a crisis to start speaking the Word. By then it's too late to build the muscle. You have to be speaking the Word every single day—when things are calm—so that when the crisis hits, your first reaction is faith, not fear.

I have a lot of everyday faith declarations that I declare in the morning time. Before my feet hit the floor, I'm speaking the Word over my life.

Why? Because it plans my day. It lays out my day. Whatever plans the devil had are already overturned before I even get out of bed.

I speak it first thing. God's got this idea about being first. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God" (Matthew 6:33). When you give God the first of your day with your declarations, you're setting the atmosphere for everything that follows.

And I don't just do it once in the morning. I have calendar reminders set on my phone every thirty minutes throughout the day. Every half hour, a reminder pops up with a piece of Scripture. And I stop whatever I'm doing and meditate on it. Mutter it. Declare it.

I'm constantly snacking on the Word. Constantly feeding my spirit. Because if you don't feed your faith, your doubts will starve it to death.

John G. Lake—one of the most powerful healing evangelists of the early 1900s—understood this. He would stand in front of a mirror and declare: "God is in me. God's life is my life. God's health is my health."

He called it saturating your being with the reality of God. He wasn't asking God to do something. He was acknowledging what was already true because the Spirit lived inside him.

That's what daily declarations do. They saturate you with truth until truth becomes your automatic response.

Two Kinds of Truth​

Now I need to explain something that will help you understand why this isn't "lying" or "denying reality."

There are two kinds of truth. Two kinds of knowledge.

Sense knowledge is what your five senses tell you. "The bank account is empty." "The X-ray shows a tumor." "My body hurts." That's real. I'm not telling you to deny that exists.

Revelation knowledge is what God's Word says is true. "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory" (Philippians 4:19). "By His stripes ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). That's also real. In fact, it's MORE real because it's eternal.

When you declare "I am healed" while still feeling pain, you're not lying. You're prioritizing revelation knowledge over sense knowledge. You're speaking the legal spiritual truth to supersede the temporary physical fact.

That's not mysticism. That's Scripture. God spoke the world into existence. And He made you in His image. Your words carry creative power when they're aligned with His Word.

The Formula​

Let me give you the formula. This is how it works:

  1. Input: Meditate on the Bible until the Word is engraved in your mind and written on your heart. Read it. Mutter it. Let it get inside you.

  2. Guard: Refuse to speak the "facts" (symptoms, lack, fear). If necessary, put your hand over your mouth. Don't give the enemy ammunition.

  3. Output: Speak the Word. Declare what God says. Call those things that are not as though they were.

  4. Result: The spoken Word acts like a heat-seeking missile. It activates angels. It forces earthly circumstances to align with heavenly truth.

Kenneth Hagin used to say, "It is not that you possess and then confess. It is that you confess and then you possess."

The declaration triggers the reality.

No More Religion​

Let me tell you why this matters so much to me.

No more religion. No more lukewarm religion. That's weak.

Religion teaches you to beg God. To hope God will do something. To wait and see what happens.

That's not faith. That's passivity dressed up in religious clothes.

Faith speaks. Faith declares. Faith takes what God has already provided.

"We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak." — 2 Corinthians 4:13

We believe, therefore we speak. That's the order. That's the mechanism.

The same spiritual law that saves a soul is the law that heals a body. The same heart-to-mouth connection that brings salvation is the connection that brings every other promise.

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." — Romans 10:9-10

Heart + Mouth = Manifestation.

It worked for your salvation. It will work for your healing. It will work for your deliverance. It will work for your provision.

Make the Devil Pay​

Here's what I declare every day: Make the devil pay the damages.

You've been sick too long. You've been broke too long. You've been oppressed too long.

I don't just declare healing. I declare sevenfold restoration. Everything the devil stole—returned with interest. And not just returned. Recompense. He has to pay the damages.

When I got delivered from mental torment years ago, I didn't just thank God for freedom. I declared: "Now you pay the damages for every year you stole from me."

And God has been faithful. Everything the enemy took has been restored—multiplied.

That should be your confession too. Don't settle for breaking even. Declare the overflow. Declare the abundance. Declare that the thief has to pay back everything he stole plus damages.

"But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house." — Proverbs 6:31

It's Your Time Now​

I'm going to end with this: It's your time now.

Everything you believe God for is not in the future. It's now. Always now.

Faith is present tense. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1).

Not "later faith." Not "someday faith." NOW faith.

When you pray, believe that you receive—right then. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Now.

And then speak it. Declare it. Hold fast to your confession. Don't let circumstances change your words. Let your words change your circumstances.

You've got an alien weapon from heaven. You've got angels waiting for the voice of God's Word. You've got a spiritual law that works every time when you work it right.

So open your mouth.

Declare the Word.

And watch everything change.

"Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy." — Psalm 107:2

Practical Application: Start Today​

Here's what I want you to do:

  1. Set reminders. Put alarms on your phone every hour or every thirty minutes. Each reminder is a prompt to declare something from Scripture over your life.

  2. Speak before your feet hit the floor. The moment you wake up, before you check your phone, before you think about the day's problems—declare the Word.

  3. Use the declarations. In the next chapter, I've laid out everyday faith declarations. These are the ones I use. Personalize them. Make them yours. But speak them daily.

  4. Guard your mouth. Every time you're tempted to speak the problem, speak the promise instead. Every single time.

  5. Don't give up. Daniel declared for 21 days before his answer broke through. The enemy fought his answer in the heavenlies. But Daniel held fast his confession. So must you.

"For from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words." — Daniel 10:12

The angels come for your words.

So give them something to work with.