Decisions and the Spoken Word

UV 3593/10000. Decisions and the Spoken Word You will also decide and decree a thing, and it will be established for you; and the light of God’s favour will shine upon your ways. Job 22 v 28 When we decide a thing in our hearts, we must also proclaim or decree it at least to ourselves. The power of the spoken word or decree is the means by which God created the entire universe. We may not be able to create anything but we can impact creation by the power of decision and decree. The uni-verse rightly puts things in perspective. Whatever we decide and decree can prosper only if God’s grace or favour is upon it. When we acknowledge the Lord in all our ways with prayer, thanksgiving and worship, His favour will shine like the noonday sun upon us and prosper us in our ways even as plants synthesise food and generate oxygen in the warmth and light provided by the sun. If like Job and other biblical characters right through the ages, we fear and honour God, His grace will accompany our decisions and words so that these are neither ineffectual or unproductive. We are to confide our decisions only in the Lord and seek His blessings, guidance and help at all times. Under the new covenant, we can consult actively the Holy Spirit who imparts wisdom to us and understanding so that we do not depart from the ways of God. His power working in us Is able to do, according to St Paul in his letter to the Ephesian church, much more than we can think, imagine or ask. In this manner, the Lord will establish us in our lives and our ways. We will be obedient sheep who do not stray like the wild goats in all directions. Our decisions will take us only on the paths the Lord indicates to us. Our spoken words or decrees will proclaim our faith and our reliance on God’s grace at all times. The power of thought that is behind human decision making, the power of the spoken word and the power of God are aligned and we work in harmony with the Lord and not like everyone else who is worldly, at cross purposes with God.