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Biblically, confession plays a crucial role in spiritual warfare in two primary, interconnected ways:

(1) confessing the finished works of Christ for cleansing from sin, forgiveness, and breaking the enemy's hold through iniquity,

(2) confessing (declaring) God's truth, identity in Christ, and His promises aloud as a weapon to resist the devil, demolish strongholds, and enforce victory.

These align with the broader biblical picture of warfare not being against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces (Ephesians 6:12), where our weapons include truth, faith, the Word of God - the "sword of the Spirit", and prayer (Ephesians 6:10-18).

1. Confession of the finished works of Christ for SIn: Breaking Power Through Cleansing and Light
Unconfessed sin gives the enemy legal ground, foothold, or access (like darkness where shame and accusation thrive). Bringing sin into the light through confession removes that ground, invites God's mercy and cleansing, and weakens demonic influence.

Key scriptures:

1 John 1:9 — "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Confession restores fellowship with God and purifies us, closing doors the enemy exploits.

James 5:16 — "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." Confessing to trusted believers brings healing and breaks isolation/shame, which Satan uses as weapons.

Proverbs 28:13 — "Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy." Hiding sin hinders spiritual progress; confession releases mercy and victory.

In spiritual warfare contexts, frequent confession (including sacramental or personal) is seen as a powerful act that can even liberate from strong oppression, as it immerses us in God's love and removes the devil's accusations (Revelation 12:10-11 — we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony).

By confessing sins, we:

Neutralize accusation and guilt.
Walk in the light (1 John 1:7), where fellowship with God and believers protects us.
Repent and resist the devil effectively (James 4:7 — "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you".

2. Confession of God's Truth and Identity: Declaring Victory as a Weapon

The Bible emphasizes the power of our words aligned with God's Word. Speaking (confessing) truth aloud builds faith, renews the mind, casts down lies, and activates spiritual authority. This is often called "positive confession" or "faith-filled declarations" rooted in Scripture.
Key scriptures:

Romans 10:9-10 — "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart... you will be saved." Confession with the mouth brings salvation and manifests what we believe spiritually.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 — "The weapons we fight with... have divine power to demolish strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion... and take every thought captive to obey Christ." Declaring God's truth tears down mental/spiritual strongholds built by lies.
Hebrews 4:14 & Hebrews 10:23 — Hold fast to our confession of hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. In warfare, steadfast confession anchors us.

Revelation 12:11 — "They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony." Our spoken testimony (confession of Christ's victory) overcomes the accuser.
Jesus modeled this in warfare: In temptation (Luke 4:1-13), He repeatedly confessed Scripture — "It is written" — to defeat Satan directly.

In practice, believers declare truths like:

"Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world" (1 John 4:4).
"No weapon formed against me shall prosper" (Isaiah 54:17).
"I am more than a conqueror through Him who loved me" (Romans 8:37).

This verbal confession:

Aligns our reality with God's promises.
Releases faith (faith comes by hearing — Romans 10:17, including our own voice).
Resists the enemy's lies and temptations.
Enforces Christ's authority over darkness.

Why Confession Matters in Spiritual Warfare
Confession isn't magic—it's biblical partnership with God. Sin-confession removes the enemy's leverage (cleansing + light). Truth-confession wields the sword of the Spirit (Word + testimony) to advance and defend. Together, they enable us to stand firm, resist, overcome, and walk in victory.

Most people who grew up around the protestant/Pentecostal setting will the familiar with this wordings: you must be born again /are you born again? /as a born again. Normal inclination would make one have the assumption that this is the very important position/state to attain in other to be in right standing as a member in the church.
Just as terms are used in every other culture and tradition; the use of the term being “Born Again” within the church congregants seems to have been defined by saying specific confessions in varying words at different places of gathering; but all channeled toward admitting that the Lord Jesus has become the confessor’s Lord and savior.
It is imparative to say that what is not rightly defined cannot certainly to be rightly applied or understood. Like one of my favorite writer would say: when the purpose of a thing/term/action is not rightly known abuse is inevitable.
The knowledge of this term of discuss came from the documentation of the disciple/follower of the Lord Jesus - John the beloved, in the book of John chapter three (3) when he gave an account of the conversations that took place when a Pharisee called Nicodemus, who was a teacher in Israel and came to meet the Lord Jesus at night basically because all of the teaching of the Lord Jesus is centered on the kingdom of God and Heaven. So this man, who has been observing all along, the things that has been happening when the Lord Jesus teaches with miracles following, wanted to know how he, as a teacher could improve himself. The documented conversation from John the beloved went as follows:
John 3:1-11
New American Standard Bible
The New Birth
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;
2 this man came to Jesus at night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus responded and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus responded and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you people do not accept our testimony.

John the beloved in verse 3 recorded the Lord Jesus saying that to see the kingdom, Nicodemus needed to be born again. The pronunced Greek word that the Lord Jesus used when he said born again is gennēthē (Be born) anōthen (from above). This was the condition to see the kingdom. From above was interused with the word again. Some other translations emphasis this to understand properly what the action of the term is about and here are some of them:

John 3:3
Amplified Bible
3 Jesus answered him, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a person is born again [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified], he cannot [ever] see and experience the kingdom of God.”

John 3:3
Expanded Bible
3 Jesus answered, “·I tell you the truth [ Truly, truly I say to you], unless you are born ·again [or from above; this may be a play on words, meaning both “again” and “from above”], you cannot ·be in [experience; see] God’s kingdom.”

John 3:3
Complete Jewish Bible
3 “Yes, indeed,” Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Grace is any word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord Jesus, Thats the essense of the writing.

Dtruthspeaker:
Ok.

But you see, you have still not taken us to what grace is.

You are only saying that Jesus got grace to even full capacity.

Although I see that there is the second view you are looking at it from which is that Jesus is Grace. However, this view does not really explain to our usefulness what grace really is, especially as we are not like Jesus who automatically had the grace even from birth.

So, we are looking for how to get grace

Thanks for the observation, I have changed the highlight to help show the continuations I wanted to make. You have been very helpful. Thank you.

Dtruthspeaker:
You were on track so just try and continue the track without departing from it

Please do well to add your percpective as it is needed for everyone to grow in the knowledge of the Truth

Dtruthspeaker:
Ah! You deviated from this point and rushed to the end and did not finish presenting what grace is

If you search the web or dictionaries, you would find qualifying definations to the term grace; qualified by words like the freely given, unmerited love, favor, and forgiveness of God, a gift to humanity rather than a reward for actions. Having read this many definations, I got the feel that it did not lead to a destination as it were, If it should be freely accessible then there should be an access point, person or place; Just like a miner would not just dig up just any land in search of precious metals. The concept of grace being connected to God makes it more of a spiritual thing that came into being physcical. This explains that the actual concept of grace can not be fully understood except through the lens of the Scriptures.

The key question to ask is this term that is qualfied as freely given, unmerited love, favor,..... etc what really is it in tangible terms: The person that was closest to the Lord Jesus when he walk the earth gave this account of him in John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

this shows that the fullness of grace was found in him. As simple as that sounds its reveals a deeper truth: That grace from God has no other source in the realm of the flesh except from the Word that became flesh - Jesus.

I remember another event in John chapter 7 during the feast at a time when the pharises were looking for ways to arrest and kill him but His time had not yet come. Soldiers were sent to get him but read what they had to say when they returned to their masters

44 And some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45 The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?” 46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken in this way!”
other versions said no man ever spoke like this. He was the source of grace and the only one at that, because he carried it in its fullness. In Ephesians 2 verse 8 Paul speaks about the believer being saved by grace through faith. To understand this better we need to understand how the soource of grace Himself puts it:

John 12:48
New American Standard Bible
48 The one who rejects Me and does not accept My teachings has one who judges him: the word which I spoke. That will judge him on the last day.


So it is about Him and by extension His teaching that defines grace and is grace. The Lord bless and keep you with His teachings (word)

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These people can’t answer the question you asked because they don’t understand what they are worshipping. They will go round and round without giving you a meaningful answer. Even the current Europeans who introduced these jargons can’t answer your questions. Have you read Otem’s book? The writings will answer all your questions, not these people you are asking. The Bible is a book of confusion with many errors because several people in the past edited it. Satan is the same person called Jehovah (Yahweh). Although the name was separated and many references were removed by old scholars, you can still find it in the Bible. 99% of Bible stories are all lies.
Before you read Otem’s book, first compare these two verses in the Bible: 1st Chronicles 21:1-5 and 2nd Samuel 24:1-5. There you will know that Satan is the same person called Jehovah.

Otem's written :

https://www.nairaland.com/2938907/doctrine-ufos

The one online is not complete and some verses were missing , but several people collected soft copy from Otem before he disappeared, you can reach out to me later if you want it.



As much as my intention is not to argue or have a debate, I want to write because of those who share the same believe as I do in Christ, I have said this not to be spiteful but to create an assumption from your writting that you are not a follower of Jesus and as such you would not be able to understand scriptures except by the spirit of scripture as I would not be able to understand your book except by the spirit of your book. A key reason why I dont engage in arguements on that line.

Any believer that has read my last writing would understand that satan is not a person but a personality that can be occupied by persons from my understanding of scriptures, It like seperating presidency from the president. From scriptures, satan is in play when ever the actions of man contradicts the action of the Lord. Also note that all spirit are of and from the Lord because he created all things, both physical and Spititual.

It is important to state that I also do not compare spiritual with contemporary, I only compare spiritual with Spiritual and try to see all other things in the light of the Spirit. Let me now give a spiritual understanding to the 2 verses that he compared because of those that might be gullible to fall from the assersions there.

If you look at 1 King 22, it gives an account that clearifies these class of events where the king of Judah and the King of Isreal were planning and the Lord was angry with them. See vs 21-23 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’ 22 The Lord said to him, ‘In what way?’ So he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the Lord said, ‘You shall persuade him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.’ 23 Therefore look! The Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the Lord has declared disaster against you.”

I hope this helps @ DSC7

DSC7:
You mean Satan was still with God in heaven when he came to tempt Jesus christ??

Let me expantiate it to you, When you say satan its more like a status (read the Lord's conversation with Peter when he said get behind me satan) and not a person as it were, like saying man, Man/male is a status entered into be possessing certain features; mainly having a male reproductive organ, The persons can uses the status of satan like lucifer, the dragon, or the serpent as the bible decribes him even man, satan is a status born from the fall of man. He was not in heaven when he came to tempt the Lord, read the temptation story and you would realize that the bible states that the Devil came to tempt him, it was in the Lord's reponse that he replied by saying get thee behind me satan. that episode makes a distinct differenciation of the two terms (devil and satan) let me stop here not to diviate

Where was he(lucifer) when the Lord commissioned Adam I will tell you that from scriptures too: Isaiah 14:12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! this explains that he was made on the first day of creation during the seperation of light and darkness,

I hope this helps

DSC7:
So when did this incident take place??

Before or after God created the world?

To understand the answer to your question, you first have to understand the difference between the World as you mentioned and the Earth. the Earth came to be at creation while the world came to be at the tranfer of dominion from Adam to Lucifer. I would answer you question in physcality because they are not same with spirituality, the event happened after the Lord Jesus rose from the dead and became the advocate for man thereby denying Satan access to the gathering of the sons of God.

I hope it helps

Brownhypo:
According to Genesis 1:1,The Bible says; In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

So my question now is, where was God's abode before the Creation of the world.

I will be pretty glad if an answer(s) is provided to the aforementioned question.

He lived and lives in Eternity ISH 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,

This is why if you read john 14, Jesus never refer to preparing a place for his disciples in heaven, thats because heaven was already fully created in Genesis, He promised to go prepare a place in His fathers house.

I hope this helps.

Omooba77:
Why does most people fear death; yet the way to heaven?

Death is not the way to heaven (eternal Life); Dying in Christ is the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvQ
This is a story every believer in Jesus the Lord should listen to. The Lord bless us to know more about the schemes of the Devil.

mjuvey3:
So you mean Jesus is a Prophet? Son of God or Prophet? Which one is he?

Also note that Exodus 4 vs 22 which you posted,God called Israel aka Jacob his Son.

Exodus 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

Is Israel same as Jesus or God has many sons

Note that the living God called Israel aka Jacob his firstborn son.

The question is who is prophet. My defination will be from the bible if you permit me

Genesis 20:7
Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
this verse was written concerning Abraham and it was God Himself telling the king here and defining Abrahams status as a Prophet which Abraham never mentioned himself to be.
Nubers12:5-7
5 And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.

6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.

on sonship yes isreal was is son but Jesus christ was his Only begotten son
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

mjuvey3:
Where in the old testament did God said he was going to send his son as a sacrifice for sin?

Okay let's ignore that question right there and move to this - Why did Christianity had to add the Jewish holy book( Old Testament aka Tanakh) to their holy book, the New testament

Imagine Islam adding the Holy bible to the Quran and forming a new religion

Another question is - In the Old Testament, God's name was Yahweh but in the new testament,it changed to Jesus Why?

Let's even imagine Jesus is the way,the truth and the life That means billions of Muslims, Buddists, Hinduists, Atheists, Traditional worshipers etc will rot in hell forever

For Judaism not to believe in Jesus rings a bell because Christianity came from Judaism.

Also, the awaited messiah in Judaism is supposed to be a full human being not a divine being or a god-man.

Why will the eternal God who created the universe,space,ocean etc come to die for his creation? Especially humans who he can recreate If The Mercedes-Benz Group AG (former Daimler AG) can make a G-wagon,then they can make something better than a G-wagon(Already in the works) not to talk of the Creator who created everything.

You have a brain,Use it

Exodus 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

Deuteronomy 18

15 The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

16 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

DREAMHOMES6970:
So many times I hear pastors in different churches tell their members to quit any job that would not give them time to attend church services, expecially Sunday service. I know it's very good for brethren to always come together to worship, but judging from how the economy is right now and how demanding most employers are who would want you to put in extra hours and some organization like restaurants and malls whom Sundays are one of their important days, I feel it will be difficult for some of the employees to attend weekly service and for some the compulsory Sunday service. And my question is should they quit their jobs as demanded by their pastors and devote their time to church since their job doesn't give them time for church programs. Because if that is the case, in so many of these mega churches in Nigeria, I see casual workers like the janitors and security men working on Sundays in the churches. And am like shouldn't this people also be in church listening to the word of God or is salvation segregated?

Please what's ur take?

LUKE 10

38 Jesus and his disciples went on their way. They came to a town. A woman named Martha took him into her home.

39 She had a sister named Mary. Mary sat near the feet of Jesus and she listened to what he said.

40 But Martha was very21- busy doing many things for Jesus. She came to Jesus and said, `Lord, my sister has left me to do all the work. Do you not care? Tell her to come and help me.'

41 The Lord answered her, `Martha, Martha, you are worrying. You are troubled about many things.

42 Only one thing is needed. What Mary has chosen is good. And it will not be taken away from her.'

they might not be putting it as right if their sentences are construed that way. Jesus made us understand that it is not principally about the service to him as Martha was about in verse 40 of Luke chapter 10. It is about the word and learning at the feet of christ. service is important to the Lord but it can be lost (matt 7:21-23) it is you knowing him and him knowing him that makes service worth it.

kunleajao:
Happy Sunday

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oliverjiad:
each of the cars would cost you 1.1m each aside loading of container to warehouse for offloading and also offloading to be paid by you

Whats the shipping line

Regards

Jaid

The shipping line is CMA but I do not understand the loading and off loading thing. are you refering to bringing the container to the place where I wound offload the cars?

Pls Kindly give me pricing for these cars. All in a container

Honda Odessey 2004
Honda Civic 2006
Honda Accord 2005
Toyota Camry 2004

anytexy:
Please, kindly advice. I am experiencing an embarrassment of my life do to shaky-hand while writing or holding microphone to address people. Parkinson's (essential tremor). I have been experience it over the years.

I use to know a person who had the same issue and he was advised to significantly reduce his maggi intake especially the one from indomie which he was used to having and it really worked magic.

Kingjames:
At present i am out of job for the past 1year and 8months having lost my job since 2019 due to Nigeria border policies. I am single @35 and no serious relationship yet after my fiancee left me immediately i lost my job.

Before then, i had spent my last savings on my building project in the village. This is motivated from the income that comes every month (300-450k/months) excluding my salary of 200k.

Now i was left with nothing. I am thinking of relocating to EPE from LEKKI (in a room and parlour selfcon here ) on a job of 150k/month.

Does it worth ? i do photography here in lekki though not professionally just to keep body and soul.

Please fatherly advice urgently needed

If you need a place to stay for a start in Epe you can Reach out to me. I will be glad to help

GladmanGoddey:
So what are you waiting for b4 u post the information

Am waiting for the investigation on my person to be concluded. Please allow the necessary agency to finish their work on me and submit thier findings.

Zither:
elder? no wonder you are blind and can't read

If you had read you won't be focused on the part that tripped your emotions. At least thank God a blind man can respond.

Have a great weekend

[quote author=ProsperoTrading post=95773090][/quote]At least you guys have knowledge of where I am heading and know I have no prior I knowledge of things. I would have posted what I have which any project member has too but nah. For the fact that this clowns dragged me into this means they have other things up their sleves. Make I want for their worse before we move on. Even thief for station get relative wen go being am good. Does that make the relative a thief. Make I wait the result of their childish investigation before we continue

GladmanGoddey:
If you have the full chat, why don't you post it for all to see and use it to make your point

If you don't have it, since you are close to saxy4c ask him to give it to you so you post it here and defend him

saxy4c why send sum1 do defend you

if you believe you are innocent come out and defend yourself with proof no long essay

You stoned blackeurope here and you expect us to give you a pass

If you are guilty come and apologize and repent

If you are innocent come and defend yourself with proof no long essay just as pipbasketing did

@edipan pls answer this for me

Did u make money from the affiliate link people used to open the account for the challenge in your telegram group

Yes I have information that could open up things further and saxy4c did not know I was doing this. And what do I need a pass for as it were since I don't need permits to post. Saxy4c coming to defend himself is his own decision and not mine and to your question I DO NOT OWN THE AFFILIATE ACCOUNT AND HAVE NEVER MADE A DIME ON THAT GROUP. I have posted a pic of the information I have on the affiliate account which everyone on the project has too.

Zither:
Mr, I only see you putting your ignorance in display. Your ignorance is second to none. It appears you are sorely pissed that Pipsbasketings has disrupted your carefully engineered plans to profit from unsuspecting fellows. Every thing he has said he has backed up with proof. Why are you being a nuisance?

Oga you better pack one side and let elders talk. A simple question for him to answer to we can move to the next level was dragged and dragged. Anyway I get their time. Al least I am the focus now and when you have something to say about an issue does it tie you to the issue. No it does not except for low level minds

Feshizzy:
While waiting for that, how about you show us the magic in 5k to 20k in screenshots
Abi ediplan don delete that one too?

Shoo you don shift topic for search tab. Na wa o. Abeg leave the guy as you never finish reason my matter. You are so bitter and inconsistent. Your two left eyes can not seem to see properly.

It like all of them have gone to the other room. Abeg make una mention me tomorrow make we resume work abeg

Feshizzy:
No more business for you,
Shove the evidence into your mouth and chock on it.
You blood fraudster.

You defraud people and when they talk in chat channels, you delete their message and mail them privately not to spoil your fraud business.

How do you want to have evidence when you end up deleting them

are you serious and the people are dead abi, so you are the next of kin for all of them. guy clear road abeg, talk something else, from accomplice to the main person abi? tell your guys to help you more

abeg am waiting for more from you guy or we start again first thing tomorrow. make una vote abeg