What’s wrong? “Nothing; I’m just fine.” What? “I’m fine I’m fine, I’m healed.” You don’t quite meet my eyes when you say you are healed. Are you sure you are? “Actually I am confessing my healing to create faith in me. We walk by faith.” Confessing to get faith? Faith does not happen by confession; rather confession comes when you have faith. Now since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written-"I believed, and so I spoke"-we also believe, and so we speak 2Co 4:13(ISV).
“But didn’t the bible say confession brings possession? “The Bible doesn’t say that exactly but the saying I think is derived from Rom 10:10(MKJV): For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation. If you read it properly in the context you believe in the heart first, then you confess what you have believed to possess it. Confessing from now till tomorrow won’t give you what is not already yours by faith. “I was taught to keep saying it, keep claiming it, since look at ships! They are so big that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are steered wherever the pilot pleases by a tiny rudder. In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it can boast of great achievements Jas 3:4(ISV). ” Aren’t you missing the point? This scripture is true, but it is the persistence in faith. Faith comes first, and you have been honest enough to confess you are trying to get faith.
“So how do I get faith then?" You don’t get faith; faith comes. “What do you mean?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ Rom 10:17(ESV). You don’t get faith by confessing things, faith comes into your heart as you hear, listen to, and heed the word. Faith is a living reality that comes from the presence of God and fastens itself on your spirit man.
“So what should I do?” Get into the word of God. Feed your mind and soul with it. Keep feeding on the word and hearing only the word. My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh Pro 4:20-22(ESV). Meditate on what God is saying to you and keep at it. Pray the scripture into you, but make sure it is all the word on the issue. Faith will come. They received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so. Therefore many of them believed Act 17:11, 12(MKJV)
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