Silas
Beloved of All
You are pouring out your heart with a fierce, urgent faith, and that desire to speak life over your family and your circumstances is a powerful thing. It comes from a place of knowing that words have weight and that you are in a battle. But let me gently steer that passion toward an even surer foundation.
There is a deep longing in your words to escape… escape trouble, escape the words spoken against you and your family, escape to a place of safety and uncommon favor. That is a very human response. David himself cried out that he wished he had wings like a dove to fly away and escape the windy storm and tempest. When the pressure is on, the first instinct is often to get away. But trying to escape a problem by our own devices, or by just commanding it to vanish, can be a lapse of trust. David, a man after God’s own heart, sometimes forgot that his true protection wasn’t in a cave or a foreign city. God’s divine intervention had protected him, but in moments of fear, he resorted to his own plans to escape from Saul. We cannot escape God’s presence, nor would we ever want to, for that is where true help is found.
The desire for everything negative to drop to the ground and for a declaration of life to take its place is right, but it’s not a formula. The power isn’t in our forceful command, but in God’s sovereign hand. Think of Joseph, far from his family, unjustly thrown in a pit and then a prison. He didn’t write his own escape plan or make loud declarations against his accusers. He quietly trusted, and God was with him. His deliverance came in God’s way and God’s time. God often allows path through hardship rather than an immediate flight from it, because He is building something in us.
And about that desire to escape safely with your whole family, your children, your pets, your spouses… God sees that. The stories of families being protected are woven all through Scripture. David, when he was a fugitive, made sure to find a safe place for his father and mother. He did not want to expose them to the hazards he was facing. God cares for your whole household. But remember Mordecai’s words to Esther. She was in the king’s house, a place of seeming safety, yet he warned her not to think she would escape the danger more than anyone else. He said that if she held her peace, deliverance would arise from another place. The point wasn’t that her position would save her, but that she needed to trust God and be part of His plan, not just seek her own safety. Your ultimate security is not in a secret escape or a new place with pink flowers, beautiful as that dream of peace is. It is in the Lord Himself.
So, yes, speak life. Pray bold prayers. David prayed fiercely against his enemies because he knew God was his deliverer. But after you have prayed, trust. Don’t rely on a spiritual technique as if you can bring something into existence by your words. Trust the God who commands existence. If you have the favor of the Lord, you don’t need to fight for your own “uncommon favor” with frantic declarations. You have it in Christ. You are safe, not because you’ve found a way to escape, but because He is your refuge. Let your heart find its rest there, knowing that walking before God in the light of the living is better than any escape, and He is the one who keeps your feet from falling. You don’t have to invent a blessing. You just have to receive the One who is the blessing.
There is a deep longing in your words to escape… escape trouble, escape the words spoken against you and your family, escape to a place of safety and uncommon favor. That is a very human response. David himself cried out that he wished he had wings like a dove to fly away and escape the windy storm and tempest. When the pressure is on, the first instinct is often to get away. But trying to escape a problem by our own devices, or by just commanding it to vanish, can be a lapse of trust. David, a man after God’s own heart, sometimes forgot that his true protection wasn’t in a cave or a foreign city. God’s divine intervention had protected him, but in moments of fear, he resorted to his own plans to escape from Saul. We cannot escape God’s presence, nor would we ever want to, for that is where true help is found.
The desire for everything negative to drop to the ground and for a declaration of life to take its place is right, but it’s not a formula. The power isn’t in our forceful command, but in God’s sovereign hand. Think of Joseph, far from his family, unjustly thrown in a pit and then a prison. He didn’t write his own escape plan or make loud declarations against his accusers. He quietly trusted, and God was with him. His deliverance came in God’s way and God’s time. God often allows path through hardship rather than an immediate flight from it, because He is building something in us.
And about that desire to escape safely with your whole family, your children, your pets, your spouses… God sees that. The stories of families being protected are woven all through Scripture. David, when he was a fugitive, made sure to find a safe place for his father and mother. He did not want to expose them to the hazards he was facing. God cares for your whole household. But remember Mordecai’s words to Esther. She was in the king’s house, a place of seeming safety, yet he warned her not to think she would escape the danger more than anyone else. He said that if she held her peace, deliverance would arise from another place. The point wasn’t that her position would save her, but that she needed to trust God and be part of His plan, not just seek her own safety. Your ultimate security is not in a secret escape or a new place with pink flowers, beautiful as that dream of peace is. It is in the Lord Himself.
So, yes, speak life. Pray bold prayers. David prayed fiercely against his enemies because he knew God was his deliverer. But after you have prayed, trust. Don’t rely on a spiritual technique as if you can bring something into existence by your words. Trust the God who commands existence. If you have the favor of the Lord, you don’t need to fight for your own “uncommon favor” with frantic declarations. You have it in Christ. You are safe, not because you’ve found a way to escape, but because He is your refuge. Let your heart find its rest there, knowing that walking before God in the light of the living is better than any escape, and He is the one who keeps your feet from falling. You don’t have to invent a blessing. You just have to receive the One who is the blessing.
