Faith Filled Family Magazine September 2016 | Page 16

Many times we hear doubt and
we hear ourselves accusing God
of failing us or not keeping His
promises. This is another reason
why praying aloud is critical.

When we pray the scripture out
loud daily, we build our faith and
begin to believe what we are
saying. In doing so, our thoughts
start to align with the word of
God. Praying out loud makes
it easier to recognize when our
thoughts, beliefs, or words contradict the truth of God. When we
recognize this misalignment we
can cast down arguments and
every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
according to 2 Corinthians 10:5.
A preacher once said, “you don’t
replace a thought with a thought.
You replace a thought with a
word.” We must verbally declare
the word and/or pray when our
thoughts are incorrect.

Growing up my parents always
told me that I was smart. I honestly believe that I did well
in school simply because I
believed my parents. As I grew
older and entered the workforce
I encountered many situations
that required me to learn new
skills quickly. Years ago I was
promoted to operations manager in a sales company, and I
had to learn operations, sales,
office management, and contract negation simultaneously.
I was overwhelmed and then I
began to pray Philippians 4:13,
“I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.” I
would pray this verse everyday
and say it several times per day
when needed. God answered
this prayer by sending me co-

workers who graciously trained
me and helped me whenever
needed.

Later I began managing two locations. Again, I was overwhelmed
and consumed with fear of failure. I kept praying Philippians
4:13 and I also began praying
Daniel 1:17, “Lord I thank You
that You have given me knowledge and skill in all literature and
wisdom, and You have given
me understanding in all visions
and dreams.” The funny part
about this prayer is that when I
first started praying this verse I
was not concerned about understanding dreams and visions,
but then I started thinking that
it would be nice to understand
dreams. For years I have prayed
Daniel 1:17 and the Lord has
faithfully helped me learn many
new things, including interpreting dreams.

Job 22:28 instructs that we
shall declare a thing, and it will
be established for us; so light
will shine on our ways. When
we pray the scripture out loud
we are declaring. Likewise the
Lord says in Isaiah 55:11 that
His word that goes forth from
His mouth, it shall not return to
Him void, But it shall accomplish
what He pleases, and it shall
prosper in the thing for which He
sent it. There is power in praying the word. In Romans 10:9 we
see that we obtain salvation by
confessing with our mouth.

Dilemmas and conundrums will
arise, and when they do we must
choose to pray the word of God
out loud despite peril or disillusionment. I was diagnosed with
a life-threatening heart problem
in November and the doctors

also told me that I should not
get pregnant under any circumstances. I was 32 years old. At
that moment fear and sorrow
consumed me. What if died
before I could marry and have
kids? What if no one wanted to
marry because I could not have
kids? Why was this happening to
me? What if I did have a kid and
they inherited my heart problem?
It was a horrible moment and I
cried…until I remembered what
God had promised me through
the Bible and through prophetic
words. I remembered that He
promised me health, a husband,
and children. I still had to make
a decision though, and I needed
to make it quickly. I chose to trust
God and pray the word. I see my
doctor regularly and follow her
instructions as I pray and trust
God for my health and my children. I have not been healed
yet. Even so, I continue to pray
the word aloud and declare life
to my body because I know that
the Father will fulfill His word and
His promises to me.
In Genesis God speaks the
world into existence. We are
made in His image, and He also
gave us the ability to speak life
and change into existence. We
speak life and change into existence by praying the word of
God out loud.
Bio: Ro Evans is an administrator by day and future best-selling author by night. She enjoys
encouraging others, teaching,
serving at church, and cheesy
jokes.