Making confessions is one of the ways
by which you as a believer can translate your legal realities into vital
realities in this earth realm, but except you understand the very basics of
confession, these realities will continue to elude you.
The confession of your faith is not
an end in itself, it is simply a means to an end. The goal of your confession
is first to bring you to the realm where the exercise of your faith becomes an
unconscious process as you get your thoughts to align with whatever it is you
are confessing, and secondly, to give voice to your faith as a testimony of
victory before heaven and before hell with respect to where you stand regarding
the situation you are confronted with. The point at which many believers miss
it with respect to their confession of faith is that they think that what they
are confessing will only come to pass if they are able to confess it long and
fast enough. This is a wrong thought and will usually lead to a frustrating
experience because it is contrary to scriptures. Thinking you can receive your
confessions simply by the number of times you make the confessions is an
attempt to receive by works rather than by grace, on the premises of the
finished work of Christ.
Eph. 2: 8 not
of works lest any man should boast.
If the number of confessions you make
is directly equal to the results you get, then it has become by works, so then you
can boast about how often you make confessions to get results, but nothing
could be farther from the truth than this.
Your confessions like we said earlier
is just a means to an end, it is meant to get you to the place where you
believe beyond any reasonable doubt that that confession is yours to possess.
When your confessions gets you to that point where your heart totally agrees
with the confessions of your mouth, then your confession is a done deal. There
are confessions that I stuck with for years before I ever saw the
manifestation, there also confessions that I've been holding unto for years now,
and I haven't yet seen the manifestation, but I'm certain that as surely as the
dawn, they are coming to pass. So don't let go of your confessions simply
because they haven't yet come to pass, hold on fervently and don't let go.
The challenge with many believers is
that they abandon their confessions half way because they have only confessed
so far and have not seen any result yet. Perhaps it could be that your
confession has not yet aligned with your heart to the point that you know that
what you are confessing is yours to possess, so then you must persevere in
staying with that confession and possibly do it more often with some emotions
attached, till you get to that point where your conscience becomes altered by
those confessions, at that point no force on earth can stop the realization.
While we understand the vital place
our confessions hold, you must also understand the vital place of prayers in
fanning the flames of your confessions. When that prayer backing is lacking in
your confessions, it is almost guaranteed that you won’t see those confessions
through to the end, the initial flames will pass out in no time and you will be
left struggling with mere empty confessions devoid of any power to accomplish
them. However, if you take your place in prayers, praying consistently in the
spirit, not only will you continue to fan into flames your confessions, but
those confessions will become more and more robust, and your capacity to
receive what you are confessing will be enlarged. Sometimes our capacity to
hold what we are confessing is really limited but as we keep up those
confessions and continue to spend time in prayers, our capacity to hold the
confessions will be increased.
Let me also quickly emphasize the
place of meditating on the word of God. Sometimes you have to pause your
confession and think deeply about it in line with the word. This will stir up
faith in your heart and help you hold your place in those confessions against
any contrary evidence.
To tie up everything, you must
understand that confessions are what we live by as believers, but we are not
looking up to our confessions to get us the results we want, we are looking
rather to the finished work of Christ Jesus and the power of God to bring those
things to bear in our lives. Our confessions only help to bring us to the place
where our heart is in perfect alignment with the word of God on our lips. Once
we arrive at this point, our confessions are justified and we can move on to
even greater and deeper confessions.
When you understand all these, you
will begin to get more results from your confessions. Remember again the place
of prayer and meditating on the word of God in coming into full possession of
your confessions. I believe you are set for the best days of your life so I
welcome you to an Adventure in faith.
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