Transcription of PRAYER, DECLARATION, AND “DECREEING PRAYER”
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1 prayer , declaration , and decreeing prayer Position PaperRev. William Hyer, Academic DeanIn recent years, a number of people in the Church have adopted the teaching of decreeing prayer or simply decreeing . This is the belief that believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Church by its very nature, have been given authority and power to decree, and that this can be done in the form of prayer . decreeing prayer is conceived of as an authoritative command or law issued by a believer to cause something to happen, most generally to bring what is in heaven into the earthly realm.
4 Jeff A. Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center 5 Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon 6 Harris, Archer, Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Vol.2, page 708 7 The answer goes on to say, “for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.”
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