Chapter 6: The Power of Declaration (and Its Discipline)
Movement One is written by Apostle Delmar. Movement Two is written by Gary. The Apostle transmits the fire. Gary disciples it.
Movement One: The Transmission (Apostle Delmar)​
The power of life and death is not in a virus. It is not in cancer. It is not in a diagnosis.
It is in your mouth.
Your words are not just sounds. They are containers. They carry power, they carry authority, and they activate things in the spiritual realm your eyes cannot see. When you speak in faith, angels move and demons flee. When you murmur in fear, you hand the enemy legal permission. This is why I declare the Word of God over my life every single day, not only when I am in trouble.
The Word is an alien weapon. It is not from here. When you were born again you became a citizen of heaven, and the Word is your weapon from there that you deploy here. Think of a heat-seeking missile. Once it locks on, the enemy can dodge left, dodge right, hide, and it still finds its target. That is what the Word does coming out of your mouth in faith. Smith Wigglesworth, who raised the dead, said it plainly: "I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe."
Here is the mechanism, because it is not magic. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" (Matthew 12:34, KJV). The Word has to be loaded in the heart before it can fire from the mouth. You cannot skip the heart and go straight to the mouth. Kenneth Hagin taught it for decades: "The heart conceives, the mind reflects, and the mouth operates. Do not try to reverse the order."
I know this in my own body. I was addicted to tobacco and could not quit. Then one day I declared, "I am delivered. I am free from tobacco. I will never go back." My wife looked at the cigarette still in my hand. I said it again. I did not wait until I was delivered to say I was delivered. I said I was delivered until I was delivered. The cravings broke. When COVID filled both my lungs, I declared for three days, "You have no authority in my body," with no wavering. The next X-rays were clean. The doctors called it a miracle. I called it the Word of God.
So guard your mouth like your life depends on it, because it does. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21, KJV). If you are thinking doubt or fear, put your hand over your mouth and do not let it out. And do not settle for breaking even. Make the devil pay the damages, sevenfold restoration for everything he stole.
No more begging. No more religion dressed up as passivity. "We having the same spirit of faith... I believed, and therefore have I spoken" (2 Corinthians 4:13, KJV). We believe, therefore we speak. Open your mouth, declare the Word, and watch everything change.
Movement Two: The Discipline (Gary)​
Everything the Apostle just said is true. I have watched it work in his life and, learning from him, in mine. The Word in the mouth of faith is the most underused power a believer holds.
And it is exactly because it is real power that it needs a discipline. Real power without a governor does not stay a blessing. So this movement adds one distinction, and only one. It does not walk back a word of the transmission. It aims it.
Here is the failure mode. The same tongue that declares a purchased promise can start declaring a future God never handed you. "I will be a billionaire by forty." "This deal closes by spring." "My company will be the next Apple." It sounds like bold faith. Underneath, it is something else. I have caught myself doing it, and this is what pressed on me when I did:
The declaration was not faith. It was my tongue trying to seize a route God had not shown me, which is only overthinking wearing a bolder costume.
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Psalm 119:105, KJV). A lamp lights the next step. It was never a floodlight for the whole road. When I declare the whole road, I am demanding the exact stretch God chose to keep dark, and the demand itself is distrust. "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city... whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow" (James 4:13-14, KJV).
So how do you tell faith-declaration from presumption-declaration? One question. Did God actually give you this?
- The promise already in the Word. "By his stripes ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24, KJV). Healing, deliverance, provision, His presence: these are purchased and named in Scripture. Declaring them is not seizing anything. It is agreeing with what is already yours. When the Apostle declared "I am delivered" over tobacco, he was declaring a deliverance the Word had already promised him. That is faith with a title deed.
- The next obedient step He put in front of you. The move you know to make today, the thing He handed you to do. Declare it and walk it.
Both of these are the oar. Your job is the oar: the next stroke, in the light you have. Declare the oar all day long.
What you do not declare is the wheel. The wheel is the outcome, the route, the timeline, the size of the fortune. That belongs to God, and He holds it on purpose. "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich" (1 Samuel 2:7, KJV). Declaring the wheel does not demonstrate faith in Him. It quietly replaces Him. It appoints you prophet over your own life.
This is the line the whole chapter turns on. Declare the promise God wrote and the step He showed you, with all the fire the Apostle carries. Leave the route you were never shown in His hands, which is the one place it was ever safe.
Notice this keeps "revelation knowledge over sense knowledge" completely intact and only sharpens it. Declaring "I am healed" over a symptom is standing on a revelation you were actually given. Declaring "I will be the richest man in the state" over an empty account is not revelation. It is a wish you are trying to conscript God into. The tongue is the same. The source is not.
Declare the promise and the next step with all your fire. Leave the route you were never shown with the One who kept it dark on purpose.