THE HOUSE OF PRAYER- DECLARATION OF FAITH-Season 8, Prayer V: BUT GOD

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I come before

you today, believing that you are still God.

You are God over what I understand. You are God

over what I do not understand. You are God over

what is moving. You are God over what appears

stuck. You are God over what I can change. And

you remain God over everything beyond my control.

Therefore, I declare that my present circumstances

are not sovereign. God is sovereign. What I see

does not have the final word. What I hear does

not have the final word. What people have decided

does not have the final word. What circumstances

are predicting does not have the final word.

God has the final word. And therefore, today

I stand upon two words, but God. When everything

says it is impossible but God When the situation

appears finished but God when every natural door

appears closed but God When I cannot understand

how anything could change but God When human

strength has reached its limit but God When I

have done everything I know to do but God I declare

that as long as God remains God The story can

still change. Father, where something needs to

turn according to your will, turn it. Where something

needs to move, move it. Where something needs

to break, break it. Where something needs to

open, open it. Where something needs to close,

close it. Where truth needs to come into the

light, bring it into the light. Where confusion

has taken over. Bring clarity. Where disorder

has entered, establish your order. Where discouragement

has settled, restore hope. Where fear has been

speaking, let faith rise again. Where tears have

been planted. Father, in your time, bring a harvest

of joy. I declare that what looks like defeat

today does not have the authority to announce

my tomorrow. My current chapter is not my entire

story. My present struggle is not my identity.

My disappointment is not my destiny. My delay

is not automatically denial. My midnight is not

proof that mourning has been canceled. And what

appears buried is not beyond the resurrection

power of Jesus Christ. Therefore, I will believe

again. I will pray again. I will worship again.

I will expect again. I will rise again. I will

dream again. I will move forward again. Because

I refuse to allow one difficult chapter to convince

me that God has finished writing. I surrender

every outcome into your hands. I refuse to manipulate

what I have already placed before you. I refuse

to force doors you have not opened. I refuse

to chase what you are asking me to release. I

refuse to become consumed with proving myself.

I refuse to allow revenge to enter my heart.

I refuse to become bitter because someone misunderstood

me. I refuse to fight spiritual battles with

weapons of the flesh. You are my defender. You

are my vindicator. You are my refuge. You are

my god. So where I need to speak, give me wisdom

to speak. Where I need to act, give me courage

to act, where I need to wait, give me strength

to wait, where I need to walk away, give me grace

to release, and where I have done everything

you required of me. Teach me how to stand still

without becoming afraid, because I do not have

to manufacture the reversal. God knows how to

turn what needs to turn. Therefore, I declare.

What was intended to discourage me will not steal

my faith. What was intended to silence me will

not steal my worship. What was intended to make

me bitter will not poison my heart. What was

intended to make me quit will not determine my

future. What was intended to convince me that

God had abandoned me will become another reason

for me to testify he never left me. I declare

that evil intentions do not possess sovereign

authority over my destiny. Human plans are not

greater than divine purpose. Opposition is not

greater than divine authority. Closed doors are

not greater than divine wisdom. And no circumstance

is powerful enough to remove Almighty God from

His throne. So I will not magnify the battle

above my God. I will not magnify the problem

above my God. I will not magnify the opposition

above my God. I will not magnify what people

said above what God has spoken. My God is greater.

My God is faithful. My God is sovereign. My God

is able. And my God is still writing. Turn mourning

into dancing according to your will. Turn confusion

into clarity. Turn fear into faith. Turn weakness

into dependence upon you. Turn wounds into wisdom.

Turn tears into testimony Turn closed chapters

into lessons Turn wilderness seasons into preparation

Turn what tried to pull me away from you Into

something that drives me deeper into your presence

And if the situation itself does not change immediately

Change me while I am inside it Make my faith

stronger Make my prayer deeper Make my discernment

sharper Make my heart softer. Make my dependence

upon you greater. Make my worship more sincere.

Make Jesus greater in me than he was before the

battle began. Because divine reversal is not

only about changing what is around me. Sometimes

the greatest reversal happens inside me. I entered

afraid, but I will come out trusting. I entered

wounded, but I will come out healed. I entered

depending upon myself, but I will come out depending

upon God. I entered asking, why me? But I will

come out declaring, God was with me. And today,

I release yesterday. I will not spend tomorrow

trying to recreate yesterday. If you restore

what was lost, Father, I will thank you. If you

open something new, I will follow you. If you

close a chapter permanently, I will trust you.

If your reversal looks different from what I

imagined, I will still trust you. Because I do

not need you to return me to where I was. I need

you to take me where you are going. So I declare,

yesterday will not control tomorrow. Past failure

will not control tomorrow. Past rejection will

not control tomorrow. Past disappointment will

not control tomorrow. Past betrayal will not

control tomorrow. Past mistakes will not control

tomorrow. Past fear will not control tomorrow.

Jesus Christ is Lord over my tomorrow. And therefore,

I speak over every place in my life where hopelessness

has whispered, it is over. No, God has the final

word. Where fear says, nothing can change. I

answer, Where disappointment says, stop expecting.

I answer, but God. Where circumstances say, there

is no way. I answer, but God. Where my own understanding

says, I cannot see how. I answer, I do not need

to know how. I know who and where the enemy tries

to use yesterday as evidence against tomorrow.

I declare, God is still writing. I declare that

my tears will not be wasted, my prayers will

not be wasted, my waiting will not be wasted,

my obedience will not be wasted, my faithfulness

will not be wasted, my wilderness will not be

wasted, my midnight will not be wasted, and even

the things I cannot understand today I surrender

into the hands of the God who redeems. Father,

Redeem what can be redeemed. Restore what you

desire to restore. Remove what must be removed.

Expose what must be exposed. Heal what must be

healed. Close what must remain closed. Open what

no man can shut. And lead me forward, not backward,

forward, into your purpose, into your will, into

greater faith, into deeper prayer, into stronger

obedience, into greater intimacy with Jesus Christ.

And I declare today the battle can change. The

direction can change. The atmosphere can change.

The door can open. The answer can come. The tears

can become songs. The prisoner can become free.

The broken can become restored. The discouraged

can rise again. The weary can receive strength

again. The one who almost stopped believing can

believe again. Because my hope is not in circumstances

changing. My hope is in the God who never changes.

And even if I am standing in Friday, Sunday still

belongs to God. Even if I am walking through

midnight, morning still belongs to God. Even

if I cannot see the road, the road still belongs

to God. Even if I cannot understand the chapter,

the book still belongs to God. and even when

I cannot see his hand, I will trust his heart.

Therefore, I will not write the ending. I will

not bury my expectation. I will not surrender

my worship. I will not allow fear to become my

prophet. I will not put a period where God may

have placed a comma. I will keep believing because

there may still be a but God waiting in my next

chapter. So today I declare, my story belongs

to God. My future belongs to God. My family belongs

to God. My purpose belongs to God. My calling

belongs to God. My unanswered questions belong

to God. My victories belong to God. And even

my battles, I place them in the hands of God.

Turn what you desire to turn. Stop what you desire

to stop. Move what you desire to move. and change

in me whatever must change. I surrender, I trust,

I believe, I expect, and I worship, because you

were God before the battle. You are God in the

battle, and you will still be God after the battle.

Therefore, I declare, the enemy may have an intention,

but God, circumstances may have a prediction,

but God, people may have their plans, but God.

The situation may look finished, but God, and

as long as God is still God, the story can still

change. I declare it. I believe it. I receive

it by faith, in the mighty, sovereign, victorious

resurrection name of Jesus Christ. Amen, amen,

and amen. Hallelujah.