I’ve always enjoyed making declarations with a body of believers. So I’ve taken to writing declarations for myself. We see the power of words discussed many times in scripture. Here are just two examples: Psalm 18: 21a Death and life are in the power of the tongue. or read James 3! Verse 5 says So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

So, what do I want to give life to? What will I speak that I want to live and breath? Well, I wrote this declaration in my notes a while back, as something that I want to be real, and true, and desire for myself.

I will honor my husband today. I honor him with my thoughts and my mind. I choose him today over all the other stimuli that I’m being offered. I choose him over cheap flirtation. Over a need to be affirmed by other men. The Lord is my affirmer. He whispers in my ear and I choose to listen to his words over me and need not the words of men. I choose my husband over inappropriate movies and media. I honor my husband by guarding my mind and holding my tongue. I will not speak negative over my husband. I declare that he is worthy of my adoration, my trust, my life. I will follow him and give him all I have to offer all the days of my life. My commitment will not be swayed by emotions. Right now, I’m disciplining my emotions so that they do not control me. And in the days of my covenant marriage, I will live with disciplined emotions that are submitted to truth and honor.

This declaration is a work in progress. But I would encourage you to write your own. Who are you becoming for you husband / wife / children that you want to be in the foremost in your mind? This is not an activity just for single people, but for everyone who is growing into someone that is stronger and wiser down the road than they are today. Anyone who wants to declare good things for themselves. This declaration helps because when I am tempted to be distracted from what I want to become, I can recall this declaration and reinvigorate my convictions and beliefs. I remember why I’m doing what I’m doing, that my disciplines are not without purpose. I will read this declaration until all the truths held within it are a reality. Then I will write another one and continue to walk in deeper levels of growth.