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| The Power Of Our Confessions by pressplay411(op): 8:01pm On Nov 03, 2018 |
We all know what I am about to unveil. But do we understand it? I received a major unveiling just today, that God had been leading me into all week. Let us be careful and cautious of the things we say to our selves and others, the things we listen to and the things we share. Basically let's be sensitive to what we Confess and what we Receive. Kindly pray in spirit if you can, to prepare your heart for this. I am equally fearfully praying for more understanding. May the Holy Spirit help our infirmities and unbeliefs. God help us all in Jesus name. The Power Of Our Confessions. This is too deep for me. May the LORD who alone gives understanding give us understanding by the Holyspirit in Jesus name. Amen. The wisest man who ever lived says. A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:20-21 Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour confirms it. When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” Matthew 15:10-11 It is curious, we all want positive things but often times we confess negative things with our mouths. God help us all. Heavenly father help us not to joke with our destinies. Help us not to make jokes while we curse one another. Help us not to negate our own prayers by own unbelief. Help us to only believe your Word and not the World. In Jesus name. Amen. |
| Re: The Power Of Our Confessions by Ihedinobi3: 9:41am On Nov 04, 2018 |
Hello brother. Very happy to see that you are continuing to be zealous for the Lord. This is a very desirable thing especially in this age of lukewarmness. I keep you in my prayers and continue to pray the Lord to grant you Grace in the pursuit of spiritual growth and production for the One Who bought you with His Blood. Zeal is very good and desirable if it is for the Truth. There have been many who have been zealous but not according to the Truth. Such people have often done great harm to those who seek and stand for the Truth. You will remember the Pharisees and the Jews of our Lord's day and those who persecuted the Church of whom our brother Paul was once a part. Romans 10:2 [2]For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. For this reason, I implore you to direct your zeal to the pursuit of the Truth so that you will grow in it and become effective in it. As it is right now, without proper teaching in the Truth, you are apt to at least confuse people about the Truth when they listen to you. I know this very well as my own history on this forum will show. There is an even worse risk you run every time that you are eager to share something you have learned with others people: you can completely mislead them and betray them to the Lie. So, James 3:1 [1]Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. And if you do possess the gift of teaching, then you must first grow to spiritual maturity before you can use it without risking serious damage to the Church. Regarding what you have shared here, you are not wrong that what we confess and what we receive are tremendously important. However, this is often very badly misapplied today. The Scriptures do not say that we are so powerful that all of our words can accomplish anything. They say rather: Matthew 12:36-37 [36]But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. [37]For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." That is, the issue of life is the Truth. Those who submit to it and therefore have their tongues governed by it will be justified by it. Those who do not will be condemned. This is the crux of life. Life and death are in the power of the tongue in the most important way: whether we submit to the Truth or reject it decides whether we gain Eternal Life or lose it. It has almost nothing to do with our material circumstances. The sense in which it has anything to do with our material circumstances is that those who love the Truth and live by it will often find themselves suffering material difficulty because of it and will also experience miraculous sustenance and sometimes deliverance through their tribulations in this life. Those who don't will not often suffer as much as those who do. That is, we do not have the power to shape our material reality with our words. We are not gods in that sense. We are only gods in the sense that we have the power to determine our eternal fate. But we can only determine that in the context of the material circumstances to which the Lord God wills to submit us. So, "being positive" in the sense of speaking out loud the wishes we have for comfort and prosperity in this life will not amount to anything of value. It has no power at all to affect our material circumstances but it does possess the power to trap us in a lie. This is also true with "being negative". The Truth is all that matters and only what God says is true. Our part is to submit to Him and agree with Him. This is what Faith is about. Our material circumstances may be whatever they may be, they are not and never are the issue. The question for us always is: is there anything in this life that is able to make us think that God cannot be trusted? Can poverty or wealth, sickness or good health, popularity or loneliness and any number of other material experiences ever succeed to make us "call God on the carpet"? Or will we trust Him "though He slay me" (Job 13:15)? For us, is He the God Who has power over everything? Or is He the God Who has limits and can fail us in fulfilling all that He has promised? Is He the God Who knows what is best for us? Or is He the God Who needs our advice? Is He the God Whose Love for us is without question given the enormous Price that He paid for our sins in the Lord Jesus Christ? Or is He the God Whose Love for us has limits and we must therefore fend for ourselves sometimes? These questions are what life is about. Our circumstances are our opportunity to answer them in the full view of men and the angels so that our true heart is made manifest to all. So, again, we should be very careful to receive only the Truth and to align all of our thoughts, words and actions with it so that we will stop being those who being evil cannot say anything good (Mt 12:34). But we are not to assume that in our tongues we possess any power at all to alter any material circumstances of ours or other people's. May the Lord's Grace continue to help you, brother. |
| Re: The Power Of Our Confessions by pressplay411(op): 6:45pm On Nov 04, 2018 |
Ihedinobi3:Good evening sir. Thanks. May God give us more understanding. |
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