By the use of it one claims and appropriates that which is his in Truth. Page 67 that asserts confidently and persistently the Truth of Being in the face of all appearances to the contrary. The sum total of thought in all its positive aspects composes the affirmations that bring ideas into form. They do not have to be made in set terms, words, or statements. Affirmations of words of Truth realized in consciousness bring the mind into just the right attitude to receive light, power, and guidance from Spirit.
Words are the vehicles through which ideas make themselves manifest.
When spiritual words abide in man's consciousness, the word or thought formed in the human mind must give way to the higher principles of Being. To decree is to command or to ordain. To decree with assurance is to establish and to fix an ideal in substance. The force behind the decree is invisible. It binds with invisible power the one who makes it.