The Wrong Confession

Few of us realize that our confession imprisons us. The right kind of confession will set us free.
It is not only our thinking; it is our words, our conversation, that builds power or weakness into us.

Our words are the coins in the Kingdom of Faith. Our words snare us and hold us in captivity, or they set us free and become powerful in the lives of others
It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.
We unconsciously confess what we believe.
If we talk sickness, it is because we believe in sickness. If we talk weakness and failure, it is because we believe in weakness and failure.
It is surprising what faith people have in wrong things.
They firmly believe in cancer, ulcers of the stomach, tuberculosis, and other incurable diseases. Their faith in that disease rises to the point where it utterly dominates them, rules them. They become its absolute slaves.
They get the habit of confessing their weakness and their confession adds to the strength of their weakness. They confess their lack of faith and they are filled with doubts.
They confess their fear and they become more fearful. They confess their fear of disease and the disease grows under the confession.
They confess their lack and they build up a sense of lack which gains the supremacy in their lives.

When we realize that we will never rise above our confession, we are getting to the place where God can really begin to use us.
You confess that by His stripes you are healed; hold fast to your confession and no disease can stand before you.
Whether we realize it or not, we are sowing words just as Jesus said in Luke 8:11 “The seed is the word of God.” The sower went forth to sow and the seed he was sowing was the Word of God.

That is the seed we should sow. Others are sowing Sense Knowledge seeds of fear and doubt.
It is when we confess the Word of God, declare with emphasis that “By His stripes I am healed” or “My God supplies every need of mine” and hold fast to our confession that we see our deliverance.
Our words beget faith or doubt in others.
Rev. 12:11 declares “And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony.”
They overcame him with the Word of God that was in their testimony. They conquered the Devil with words.

Most of the sick that Jesus healed during His ministry were healed with words.
God created the Universe with words: faith-filled words.
Jesus said, “Thy faith has made thee whole.”
He said to dead Lazarus, “Come forth.” His words raised the dead.
Satan is overcome by words, he is whipped by words.
Our lips become the means of transportation of God’s deliverance from heaven to man’s need here on earth.
We use God’s Word. We whisper, “In Jesus’ Name demon come out of him.”
Jesus said, “In my Name ye shall cast out demons, in my Name ye shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.”
All with words!
I question whether the hands do more than register to the Senses. It is the Word that heals.
Jesus said, “Whatsoever ye demand in my Name, that will I do.” (In the Greek the word “ask” is “demand.”

We are demanding just as Peter did at the Beautiful Gate when he said, “In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.’
Words healed that man.
Now we make our confession of words. We hold fast to our confession. We refuse to be defeated in our confession.
John 8:32 “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Or John 8:36 “If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
We know that the Son has set us free and we confess it.
Jesus is the High Priest of our confession.
Christ conquered the enemies of humanity Satan, sin, sickness, fear, death and want.
He made them captives and He set man free.
Heb. 4:14 tells us to hold fast to the confession of our faith.
“Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.”

That confession is faith speaking. It is our victory over the enemy. It is our confidence.
Col. 2:5 in one of our translations reads “For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit am I present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.”
That “solid front” means continual confession of victory.
We never confess anything but victory.
Romans 8:37 “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Jesus disarmed the principalities and powers which fought against Him and put them to an open shame. This is Col. 2:15 from Connybeare’s Translation.)
We should stop making the wrong kind of confession, and begin at once to learn HOW to confess and WHAT to confess.

We should begin to confess that we are what He says we are, and hold fast to that confession in the face of every contrary evidence.
We refuse to be weak or to acknowledge weakness.
We refuse to have anything to do with a wrong confession.
We are what He says we are.
We hold fast to that confession with a fearless consciousness that God’s Word can never fail.