Faith Filled Family Magazine September 2016 | Page 69

Confess Your Way
to a Great Future
By Nichel HIllman

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esus once said to His disciples, “The words
that I speak to you are spirit, and they are
life”
(John 6:63). The revealed truth in this statement is that the very words that Jesus speaks
are the essence of His spiritual being. His
words form every physical manifestation—
the spiritual blueprint for everything physical.
God’s words have the power to create. Like
seeds, God’s words enca psulate His creative
will and power. And like seeds, God’s words
are His promises of what will be produced
by them. Since we are created in God’s likeness, our words also possess creative capabilities, according to the power working within
us (Ephesians 2:20). While we are joined to
the Holy Spirit, all things are possible for us
through believing. God’s words retain their
characteristic of being spirit and life as Spiritfilled believers utter them. When we speak
God’s words we are disseminating living spiritual seeds into the creative realm. But, it is
God who brings the increase according to His
will.

Some Christian authors and teachers believe
and advise that confessing God’s promises
on a daily basis cultivates an atmosphere
which is conducive to building faith in a
believer’s heart. Faith is the agent—the spirit
that causes physical manifestations. Confessing the promises sows to the spirit. So then
faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God (Romans 10:17). The belief is that

every promise that is given to us in the Bible
is already established in the spiritual realm—
they already exist. Continually confessing the
promises over our situations causes them to
manifest in the physical realm where they can
affect our current and/or future circumstances.
It is also believed that the promises are the
actual authorities given to every believer and
when they are claimed or declared, God’s
agent (whether the Holy Spirit or His holy
angels) enforces these authorities and brings
about physical manifestations. According to
this theory, faith is the only condition for the
miraculous to happen. When we act in faith we
are calling those things that are not as though
they were—into physical being.

There is also a belief among Christians that the
catalyst for God to move in our situations lies
with praise. The belief is that there is power in
praise, joy, and thankfulness. When believers
accept their situations and submit to praising
God no matter what the situation may be, God
acts supernaturally on their behalf to favorably affect situations. This thought is based
on the Bible command instructing us to give
“thanks always for all things to God the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians
5:20), knowing that nothing happens to us outside of God’s will and that according to the Bible