We are continually affirming something, and that affirmation and the reactions of the affirmation upon our lives are sometimes very disastrous. You know the effect the words of loved ones have upon you, well, the effect of your own words upon you is just as strong. You continually say, “Well, I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. I haven’t the strength to do it,” and you feel your physical energy and your mental efficiency oozing away and leaving you weak and full of indecision and doubt, and your efficiency is gone. You see, an affirmation is the expression of our faith: whether we have faith in ourselves, in loved ones, in the Bible or its Author; or whether we have faith in disease, failure and weakness.
Some people are always confessing their faith in diseases, their faith in failure and calamity. You will hear them confessing that their children are disobedient and that their husband or wife is not doing what is right. They constantly confess failure and doubts. They little realize that that confession robs them of their ability and efficiency. They little realize that that confession can change the solid, hard road into a boggy, clogged mire, but it is true. The confession of weakness will bind and hold you in captivity. Talk poverty and you will have plenty of it. Confess your want, your lack of money all of the time, and you will always have a lack.
Your confession is the expression of your faith, and these confessions of lack and of sickness shut the Father God out of your life and let Satan in, giving him the right-of-way. Confessions of failure give disease and failure dominion over your life. They honor Satan and rob God of His glory. Here are a few good confessions: “The Lord is my shepherd, I do not want.” You say this in the face of the fact that Want has been your master. A new Master has taken over the kingdom and you whisper it softly at first, “The Lord is my shepherd,” then you say it a little stronger; you keep repeating it until it dominates you.
When this becomes true in your life, you will never say again, “I Leant,” or “I need,” but you will say, “I have… “He that believeth, hath.” Believing is having. Here you whisper, “My Father is greater than all.” What a confession that is! My Father is greater than want, greater than disease, greater than weakness, greater than any enemy that can rise against me. Then you sat with deliberate confidence, “God is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?” God is on strength. How much strength have I? God is the measure of it. There are two types of affirmations that I wish you to notice, First, there is the affirmation with nothing behind it but my own will to make it good. It is based upon a philosophy born of Sense Knowledge. That Sense Knowledge is a product of my own mind. If it be in regard to sin, I deny the existence of it. If it be in regard to sickness, I deny that sickness has any existence. We see this in Christian Science.
If it is a problem of ability to meet a financial obligation, I affirm with all of my might that I have the ability to meet it. All that I have to make these affirmations good is something that I am, or have, of myself. The Word of God has no place in this affirmation. I cannot say that greater am I than disease, or greater am I than this demand upon me, consequently, my affirmation becomes a failure. The second type of affirmation is based upon the Word of God. The Word says, “If God be for you, who can be against you.” I know that He is for me. I know that this disease that was laid upon me has been defeated, that it was actually laid upon Christ, and “y His stripes I am healed.”
That affirmation is based upon the Word of God, upon the Word that liveth and abideth and cannot be broken. Jesus said, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but my Word will never pass away.” You see the vast difference between an affirmation based upon your own will or philosophy and an affirmation hacked up by God Himself. The affirmations based upon Sense Knowledge philosophy have no more value or ability to make good than is in the will and mind of the maker of the affirmation. But the affirmation that is based upon the living Word has God back of it to make it good.
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