Dead the Doubt

Mark 11:22-23
Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.

Thank you Lord for your unfailing love and your mercy that endures forever. I thank you Lord for the gift of today and I receive every good thing that you have for me. I magnify your name God. You are worthy to be praised.

Doubt is a blessing blocker. We can pray without ceasing. We can believe and proclaim the word of God over our lives with fervor. But if we hold any trace of doubt when we do so that doubt will act as a neutralizer of our prayers and our proclamations. I am a firm believer in God’s word as written in Proverbs 18:21a (NKJV):
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

I wholeheartedly believe that what we speak we reap. What we sow, we will eventually see. But we can make ourselves say anything we choose. We can speak words that have been scripted for us. We can speak God’s word from memory. We can recite prayers and proclamations daily out of habit. God not only hears our words, but He hears and knows our hearts (Hebrews 4:12, 1 Samuel 16:7, Romans 10:9). When our words do not reflect the belief of the promise of God’s word in our hearts, that doubt cancels it out. No matter how fiery we are about what we declare, a slight doubt can be the water that puts the power of our declarations completely out.

My encouragement for you today is to dead the doubts in your heart so that your declarations can produce what you are praying and proclaiming. The Bible says in Proverbs 4:23 NKJV:
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.

Your mouth may hold the script for what you desire to bring to life, but your heart is the producer. I encourage you to go to God in prayer asking Him to reveal to you any doubt in your heart. It is important for you to take a truthful account of what you believe in your heart if you are to bring to life what you are praying for and proclaiming the promises of God about. Remember the words of Jesus to his disciples in Matthew 17:19-20 NKJV when they wondered why they tried but could not heal an afflicted boy:
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

In the account of the same incident in the Mark 9:14-29 NKJV, we can read the words of Jesus to the boy’s father and we learn that despite all of his fervent attempts to get help for his son by way of seeking out the disciples of Jesus, he too had an issue of doubt. The man said to Jesus in verse 22b, “But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” We know that the man only partially believed that Jesus could heal his son because he used the word “if”. Jesus confronted the father of the boy’s doubt by saying in verse 23, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” The father then confessed his doubt by asking God to help him with his unbelief, and then declaring that he does believe in verse 24:
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

When this happened, Jesus commanded the spirit afflicting the boy to come out of him and he was immediately healed.

What unbelief in your heart is causing your words and your belief in Jesus Christ’s power to fail? You must confront that doubt and dead it with a truthful confession of unbelief, and a declaration of faith.

What you are praying for and declaring are not impossible if they are aligned with God’s word. But they can only come to pass by faith and without doubt. I am believing and declaring today that we will each surrender our hearts to God and confess our unbelief so that we may see the fruit of our words to do even greater things in our lives.
John 14:12-14
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
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With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).

Be Blessed!
~Nina

Declaration: Lord I believe and do not doubt.