Planting the Heavens: Releasing the Authority of the Kingdom Through Your Words, Prayers, and Declarations by Tim Sheets

Author:Tim Sheets [Sheets, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.
Published: 2017-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

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Decrees create. They can create ideas in your heart. They create things that are not seen with the natural eye. They can create changes in conditions and in the atmosphere physically, spiritually, emotionally, materially, governmentally, politically, vocationally, and provisionally. Decrees are a creative force and they release a creative force that will bless us abundantly.

In Isaiah 42:9 God says, “New things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.” Notice that He says, “I declare them before they spring forth. I pronounce them before they ever are.” Smith and Goodspeed’s translation reads, “New things I foretell—before they spring into being, I will announce them to you.” So God says, “I announce them. I declare without negation first so that they can be seen.”

The New Jerusalem Bible reads, “Fresh things I now reveal; before they appear I tell you of them.” The Knox translation says, “I tell you now what is still to be; you shall hear it before it ever comes to light.” God says, “If it is to be, if I have purposed it to be, I will speak it first before it ever comes to life.” First comes a decree—a declared word that He will not change or negate. The Living Bible reads, “I will prophesy again. I will tell you the future before it happens.” That’s what prophecy is—foretelling something before it happens. Anyone can prophesy after something happens. God says, “I explain with My words what is to be before it ever is, and then it springs forth and materializes. It doesn’t materialize until I speak it. It doesn’t materialize until there’s a decree.” That’s what Hebrews 11:1 is about—faith decreed becomes substantive. Faith-filled words materialize if you don’t negate them.

The word before in Isaiah 42:9 is the Hebrew word tehrem. It is a very important word for believers and the church to understand because it means “suspended in time” or “not yet occurred” (Strong, H2962). So God says, “While its existence is suspended in time, while it has not yet occurred, I decree it.”

The two words spring forth are from one Hebrew word—tsamach. It is an agricultural word that means to sprout, to bud, and to grow to fullness (Strong, H6779). It indicates a process that will come to fullness, to maturity. It first sprouts, then buds, and finally it grows to fullness when it’s decreed or planted. It will not come to fullness until it is decreed. The word tell is the Hebrew word shama, meaning to sound a message, to announce something, to proclaim, or to voice (Strong, H8085). In order to create, you have to voice it. Before it occurs, announce it. While it is suspended in time, while it has not occurred yet, you have to announce it. It will never produce what it is if you don’t plant it and decree it.

This principle is clearly shown in Romans 4. In this chapter, the apostle Paul was talking about words of faith that create, produce promises, and change things.

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