SPEAK YOUR WAY OUT

A valley has a sound.

The first time a believer finds himself in one, the strangest discovery is not the lowness of the ground or the height of the walls. It is the noise. The valley begins, almost at once, to speak - rehearsing his failure, cataloguing his fears, questioning whether God remembers his address.

Most believers, when they meet that sound, assume their job is to endure it. To stand still. To wait until the noise eventually goes away. They are not wholly wrong. But the man or woman of faith does not survive a valley by becoming mute. They survive it by speaking back.

Speak Your Way Out is a teaching book for the believer whose feet are presently on low ground. Drawing from 1 John 5:4 - this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith - Pastor Adama Segbedji walks the reader through five voices that must be silenced in the valley, and four words that must be spoken to climb out.

In these pages you will learn how to recognise the five inner voices that keep believers low - self-punishment, bitterness, fading hope, the secret accusation against God, and forgetfulness of His mercies. You will discover the four words that turn every valley - comfort, prophecy, blessing, and help. You will stand in the long shadow of Psalm 23 as the Shepherd walks the dark corridor with you. You will trace the path of Joseph from the pit to the palace, and find your own assignment in his story. And at the end of every chapter, you will be handed a faith confession to speak aloud over your own life - fourteen in total, anchored in the Word of God and aimed at the very situation the valley was sent to break you in.

This is not a book of affirmations. It is a manual for the believer's mouth - the most underused instrument in the kingdom of God, and the very instrument the valley was designed to train.

The corridor you are in has a door. The door opens from the inside. The key is in your mouth.

Speak.