We know God has integrity and says what He means and means what He says. His words are always true, without exception. When He confesses something we can bank on its validity.
One thing we can assure ourselves of is that what God confesses to be true, is true and what He says will come to pass, will come to pass. God’s confessions can be our reality when we learn what is available and then make our confession line up with His.
God’s Confession
The Bible is God’s declaration of truth. It is His confession. God’s Word is His continual confession of His love, of His ability, of His heart as a Father. God is obligated to perform what He says He will do.
Numbers 23:19:
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
God spoke into being the heavens and earth. His spoken Word brought about all that we know today. He is bound to do what He says He will do, when someone believes. Knowing this opens the door for man to confess God’s Word and have it manifested in his life. There are many wonderful promises awaiting the believer. God honors His Word confessed with believing lips.
Isaiah 55:11:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Our Confession
What we confess opens the door for results as we believe. We can confess our doubts and fears; we can confess our lack of ability, we can confess poverty and sickness. But these confessions only open the door to negative results for what we say. Or we can confess what God’s Word says. We already have the results of our confession of Romans 10:9.
Romans 10:9:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
As a result of this confession we belong to God as His child. We have been given the gift of holy spirit with the capabilities to use all nine manifestations of the spirit. With this salvation comes all spiritual blessings, eternal life, a loving Father-son relationship, along with becoming a new creation in Christ (II Corinthians 5:17).
Our holy privilege is to confess what God’s Word says we are as His sons and daughters. We have Christ within. “Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.” (I John 4:4).
A wonderful axiom is “confession of belief yields receipt of confession.”
We confess that God does supply our every need. We confess by His stripes we were healed.
Philemon 6:
That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
We make our confessions the action of our believing. Our confession comes first, then God can act. We know that what we confess from God’s Word is true and that God is able to make good on what He says. Our confession gives us possession of the promises of God as we believe. Even if we do not see it right away, we stay put with our confession.
Remember the Old Testament story of the Shunamite woman whose son had died? She quickly traveled to get help from Elisha. His servant asked her “How is it with thee?” She answered, “It is well.” And yet her son was dead, but she believed the man of God could raise him up from the dead. And he did!
Remember the Apostle Paul, when he was in the midst of the storm at sea and he said to the crew of the ship which included 276 people, “be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.” (Acts 27:25).
Another key to a successful confession is to stay put with it. Don’t give up if the results do not come right away. We hold fast to the Word of God because it has to come to pass when we believe it.
Hebrews 4:14:
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
The word, “profession” is the word better translated as “confession”. We have the greatest hero to look up to, so we hold fast our confession.
Hebrews 10:23:
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Again the word “profession” is better translated as “confession”. The more we read God’s Word and have it sink into our hearts we will increase our believing (faith). Remember Romans 10:17; “…faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” We simply confess our believing and don’t waver and then we shall see the promise of God come to pass.
- Bob Lindfelt
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