The Power of Your Confession

Proverbs  18:21-The tongue has the power of life and death,
       and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Your words

This has tremendous power over your life. If you are acutely aware of it, you can change your life instantly. However, most people don’t know or aren’t aware of it, and therefore make things harder on themselves. So what is this powerful tool?

It’s your words! Just the words that comes out of your mouth.

Therefore watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character for they become your destiny!

Creative Power of your words

Yes , the words you speak out of your mouth have amazing power. Why? Because your ears hear what you say and since your mind can never believe you could say anything false, it believes whatever you say to be true. Whatever you believe will materialize in your world. Everything is possible for him who believes (Mark 9:23).

 Secondly, the words you speak come directly from your heart and are spirit and have the potential to manifest itself in your life. All successful people are well aware of this. They know that you can actually create the results you want by speaking them over and over before they happen. Jesus told his disciples in  John 6:63 that his words are spirit and are life. Proverbs 18:21 says the tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.  You will always be judged by your words, even in the court of laws and in our secular settings. So your words can either justify or condemn you (Matthew 12:36-37).

Guard Your Heart

What’s your heart? Your heart biblically isn’t the biological organ in your body that circulates blood. Instead, it is the central part of who you truly are, the core of you. Your heart comprises of your soul(sense of touch, smell, sight, hear, taste and the mind) and the conscience of your spirit. Your heart is very sticky and is important what information you store there, because it sticks for life.

Words are the voice of the heart

 Your heart is the store house of your words. It’s the bank. It is therefore important you keep your heart with all diligence because out of it comes the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23).  Out of the abundance of your heart your mouth will always speak (Matthew 12:34). What you store in your heart is very important. One needs to be careful about what information, one is hearing and feeding on. This is because what you hear or see, gives you faith positively or negatively. Faith comes by hearing over and over again (Romans 10:17). A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings out good things whiles an evil man out the evil treasure brings out evil things (Matthew 12:35).If you want to know people just listen to them long enough and you will get to know them. Because their words will always betray the state of their heart. No good man will speak evil things from a good heart and the reverse is also true.

Your Confession

You can only rise to the level of your confession. You only become what you confess daily (Proverbs 23:7).The spies of Moses’ time saw themselves as grasshoppers compared to their foes (Numbers 13:26-33). It took Caleb of the tribe of Judah and son of Jephunneh to restore their negative mindset. The confession of the believer does several things. First it reveals the heart spiritually. Our words give us away, to whether or not we are in faith or in fear. In order to change our vocabulary, we need to start hearing God’s Word, which will renew our mind, and store the truth in our hearts. As a result, it will become second nature for us to speak God’s Word. What is instinctive for us to do and say is based on what we have stored in our hearts.

Secondly, it fixes the landmarks of our life. We can never receive beyond what we say. If we say we can’t, then we can’t and won’t get anything. But if we say we can, then we can. The reason the majority of Christians are weak even though they are earnest, is that they never dare to make confessions of who they are in Jesus. How do we do this? First, we must realize how God looks at us, and confess it! We should boldly confess what the Word declares we are in Christ Jesus. As we do this, our faith will increase. The reason faith is held in bondage is that we have never dared to confess what God says we are. Faith, then, grows with our confession of God’s Word. There is no faith without confession! Confession is an act of releasing; putting into force our faith- it’s faith’s way of expressing itself. Our faith will rise no higher than our confession of God’s Word. You need to declare a thing, and it shall be established ( Job 22:28).

Positive Confession

If you want to be Rich, speak about yourself as already being Rich. Speak about how you’re just getting started. Speak about all of the wonderful things that will be happening in your life. Make a conscious effort to speak positively about situations even if you don’t believe them to be true. Your mind will begin to believe them. You’ll actually feel better about the situation itself. Think of the worst thing going on in your life right now. Now begin to speak about it positively. If you’re sick, talk about how much better you feel all the sudden. If you have money problems, talk about how you’re getting your finances in order and the problems will pass away. If you have marriage problems, talk about how you’ll be a better spouse and how much your marriage is about to improve and magically, the problems will begin to fix themselves. Be careful of negative confession, because it works too. A good friend of mine told me about his wife. Ever since she was 20 years old, she said she would die of cancer one day. She died of cancer at age 37.

Release The Power Now

God created the universe through the Word of His power. All things are sustained and have their being because of the spoken Word of Jesus. God’s Word that is conceived in our heart, then formed by the tongue, and spoken out of our own mouth, becomes a spiritual force releasing the ability of God within us. The spoken Word of God is creative power. Words are truly magic. Make sure that you think long and hard before you speak. It can literally change the direction of your life.

Prayer

Dear Lord, you created the world by the word of your power, and you have given us the same measure of faith as believers. It is my prayer that you will help us to understand the power behind our words and use them positively to affect our lives, in Jesus’ name , Amen!! Now dear friends, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified (Acts 20:32). May God bless you and keep you, may he cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord turn his ears unto thy prayer and give you peace!!

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