They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish.”…Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.    –Luke 9:13, 16-17 (NKJV)

Saying things like “we decree,” “we speak,” and “we loose” are not Biblical forms of prayer. It assumes the little gods concept of innate psi power. It is like a charismatic form of casting spells. Although it is Biblical to pray healing prayers under the form of a command, such as saying “be healed” with the laying on of hands, all of that assumes the external power of the Holy Spirit has been imparted at some point, and is merely being transmitted by impartation. I believe God answers prayers when faith is mixed in with them; and so even if positive confession prayer forms are mixed into Pentecostal and charismatic prayers, even if they are grammatically and theologically off base, if FAITH for a divine intervention or an answer to prayer is present, I believe that God still answers the faith of such prayers. But if we want to be Bible Christians it would be better to pray in a more Biblical way: and that is to address God the Father personally and fervently ask for his divine intervention in Jesus’ name (see Matthew 6:9-13; James 5:13-18). –J.B.

⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” ⁴² So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees. ⁴³ “Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked. “There is nothing there,” he said. Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.” ⁴⁴ The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’” ⁴⁵ Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. ⁴⁶ The power of the Lord came on Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel. –1 Kings 18:41-46

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Assemblies of God Position Paper, “The Believer and Positive Confession.”

D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel (Hendrickson Publishers, 1995).

Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis (Thomas Nelson, 2009).