Speak Life!: Confessions for Every Area of Your Life

By LaFonda A. Bradley

Speak Life! Confessions for Every Area of Your Life was written to help Christians change the landscape of their lives through the words they speak. The bible tells us that death and life are in the power of the tongue. This book helps the reader to speak life concerning different situations in their lives. Scriptures pertaining to various circumstances that one might face, have been researched, penned, and used to decree Gods Word in our lives because there is power in our words. Words are a spirit. Words will have a positive or negative effect on that which they are intended.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512771671

LaFonda A. Bradley

LaFonda Bradley, wife of Senior Pastor Roosevelt Bradley, Jr., co-founder of Life Church International, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker brings nearly 20 years of experience from Corporate America to help build the kingdom of God! She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and her Master of Business Administration from Indiana University Northwest. LaFonda is CEO of Purposely, LLC, Executive Director of Life Center for Education and Development, and Director of Life Changers Early Learning & Aftercare Academy.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Addictions

2 Business and Career

3 Daily Confession

4 Dreams, Visions, and Plans

5 Faith

6 Overcoming Fear

7 Finances

8 Forgiveness

9 Healing

10 Hurt, Betrayal, or a Broken Heart

11 Husband and Wife

12 Marriage

13 Parenting

14 Peace

15 Prosperity (in Every Area of Life)

16 Self-Esteem and Confidence

17 Sound Mind

18 Strongholds and Generational Curses

19 Young Man or Woman

This book is

dedicated with love to my husband, Pastor Roosevelt Bradley Jr.,

whom I love with all my heart. I can begin to understand the breadth and depth of God’s love for me when I consider

how He blessed me with you! Thank you for loving me, supporting me, and saving my life!

Acknowledgments

Thanks be unto God, who causes me to always triumph through Christ Jesus! I am so grateful to God, who has proved Himself over and over again! I am thankful to Jesus Christ, who died that I might live! I am forever indebted to the Holy Spirit, who leads and guides without error!

I would also like to thank and express sincere gratitude to my mother, Sadie Berry. Thank you for sacrificing everything for us!

I would like to express my love and appreciation to my greatest joy, my daughters—Lauryn Allysea and Raegyn Ryanna! Yes, you are definitely Mommy’s girls!

To my Berry family and my Bradley/Robinson family, you mean the world to me!

Thanks to Damon L. Patterson for designing my amazing cover. I am so proud of you! Terry Jones, thank you for taking the time to proofread my manuscript. You’re the best!

Special thanks to my Life Church International family. I love you to life!

Finally, I would like to thank Pastor Bridgette Hilliard! While she doesn’t know me personally, it is because of her stirring up what God put inside of me that this first book is being published. After leaving a Women Who Win conference at New Light Christian Center in Houston, Texas, this book was birthed on the inside of me! Thank you (and Bishop) for your obedience to God in building the kingdom! I pray that you receive a hundredfold blessing because of your contribution to the Body!

Introduction

In Genesis 1:1, the Bible tells us that God created the heavens and the earth. Following the creation, we see in Genesis that on seven different occasions, He gave a command that is recorded by God said. Each time God said, we also see that it was so! This was our first lesson in how to bring things into existence. We speak things into existence!

There are numerous scriptures in the Bible that tell us about saying or speaking something. What the Bible does not tell us is that if we work really hard, think about something, want a thing, or wish for a situation, it will come to pass. Let’s take a look.

In Mark 11:23–24, Jesus says, "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not