Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Confession of Faith

Text: 2 Cor. 4:15-18
More Lessons: Josh. 14:6-13
Bible Reading in one Year: 1 Corinthians 10-12

Faith is about having assurance that what God has said will happen. Men who will stand on what God has said with all confidence have the authority to make things happen. So you make things happen by believing the Word of God with all your heart. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation: Rom. 10: 10. In making confessions of faith, the state of the heart should precede the speech of the mouth. The reason many people have made 'confessions of faith' without getting an answer is because they do not realize that the heart precedes and supersedes the mouth. You must believe before you confess. Locate what the Lord has said concerning you and believe it in your heart. It is after you are confident, assured and convinced of what the Lord has said that you can now speak. Don't confess until you are convinced. Stand on what God says, then believe it and keep saying it.

A man of faith is a mountain mover. You can move any mountain if you believe it. You, however, must follow the sequence: find what God has said, believe it and then start confessing it with your mouth. I have seen people insist on what God has said until things that men considered impossible became a reality. Believe in your heart and don't keep shut; confess the Word with your mouth. That is how to activate the promises of God. Caleb the son of Jephuniah believed God’s Word spoken to his life by prophet Moses and kept holding on to the promise for forty five years. One day he went to Joshua, a partner in the promise and said to him, ... Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee...: Josh 14:6. He knew what is said concerning him and confessed it to the appropriate person and he got the promise.
In the midst of Joshua’ s fear that he might not be able to achieve success where his master Moses failed, God spake to him how not to fail, This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth ... for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, ... have good success: Josh.1:8.

Prayer/Action
* Today, make a faith confession by confessing a verse of scriptures in every one hour for the next 10hours.
* Ask God to turn every scripture you confess today to a reality in your life.
* Give God thanks for the expected answer.

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