Romans 10:9-10(NKJV) provides God’s instructions for receiving salvation. This passage says, “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” We learn in this passage that being saved requires us to open our mouths and confess that we have made Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives. Human beings were created to worship and commune with God and to have a relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. When we make the switch from being a servant that is under the lordship of the world to being a child of God under the Lordship of Christ, confession is the first action we must take.
When our minds are renewed to God’s Word, and our confession lines up with His promises, we can then call forth the resources of heaven. People make confessions all the time, and it is sad to say, but most people make negative confessions. Because of this, they attract, not the resources of heaven, but the substance and circumstances of their negative confession. They receive exactly the negative outcome they have confessed, and then wonder why they are not getting ahead. Heavenly Father made it very clear to us in Proverbs 18:21 that death and life are in the power of the tongue. This is law! There can be no doubt in our minds that our mouths are a powerful instrument. Yes, what comes out of the mouth has power, and this can be very challenging for those who are not interested in being disciplined in this area.
When we make Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives, following his example should become the primary motivation for everything we do, because Colossians 3:4 tells us that our life is in him. Acts 17:28 says that it is in him that we live, move, and have our being. Jesus Christ purchased our lives by paying the highest price that could be paid. Our lives belong to him, and so do our tongues. That’s why we should say only what he says. If we speak and confess things that are contrary to Christ, we cannot expect the beautiful results that occur when his power is at work.
Jesus Christ has shown us how incredibly important our confessions are. When we confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, we are confessing our own identity as his siblings and God’s children. When we confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, we are confessing the truth. We are confessing what God says and we are coming into agreement with what God thinks and has done for us through Christ. By speaking and confessing God’s thoughts about us, we are transferred from death and given eternal life. John 1:14(NLT) tells us, “So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.” Jesus Christ is the living Word of God, and his Spirit lives in us. But so often, even when we receive salvation, we continue to think, speak, and confess the opposite of what God’s Word says. This thinking, speaking, and confessing negativity disconnects us from the truth.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. John 16:13(NLT) tells us, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.” How can a person be guided in the truth if they will not speak the truth? The words we speak demonstrate whether or not we have chosen to be led. Our words are a gateway that allow us to connect with the power of the Holy Spirit, where we can begin to create for ourselves the life that God desires for us.
In Genesis 1, God showed us His thoughts, and He also showed us the power of His Holy Spirit to turn His thoughts into everything we see in the third dimension of earth. He said, “Let there be light!” and light appeared. It had no other choice, because the Source of light spoke it into being. God continued to speak His thoughts, and the power of the Holy Spirit got busy turning those thoughts into reality. These are God’s laws at work. Transferring thoughts from the containment of our minds into words that flow from our mouths is following the pattern God, Himself, has set.
Again, our words create the gateway for us to connect to the power of the Holy Spirit, and his power can then flow through the gateway that our words have created. This will not happen if we don’t speak the truth. The Holy Spirit can only connect with the truth; he can only connect with the mind of Christ, and this is one of the reasons that many of us are not witnessing the dynamic move of his power. It’s because we are not saying what God is saying. We are not thinking what God is thinking, and not confessing what He says in His Word. This is not difficult to change, but it takes practice and commitment.
When God’s Word is spoken and believed, light enters a dark situation. When God’s Word is spoken and believed, chaos is turned to order. When God’s Word is spoken and believed, newness is ushered in. God always has the solution. When we are obedient to confess and live by the truth, He will give us solutions and strategies in order that He can move and employ us as His vessel.
This is the ultimate partnership, it’s the partnership that we have with God in Christ, through His Spirit. Whatever God says, we must obey, and we must confess what He says. If we are in agreement with the truth, we can release God’s power in a situation. We cannot afford to say what the world says, neither can we be aligned with it if we want to become all that God has called us to be. We must not only control our tongues; we must recognize the authority Christ has given us to call those things which are not as though they were.
We expand God’s Kingdom through the power of the Holy Spirit, by thinking, speaking, and behaving like Christ and confessing what he says. We will not be put to shame for doing this, because Christ cannot fail, and our hope should forever be in him. So, we must let God’s transformation take form in us by confessing His Word and believing it in our hearts. This is how we can live powerfully and create the life we’ve been destined to live. It’s all done by confessing the truth and partnering in Christ with the power of God’s Holy Spirit.■
Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
“By the Power of Your Confession ” written by Reverend Fran Mack, edited by Kim Times for Sundie Morning Sistas ©2020. All rights reserved. All done to the glory of God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! SMS is dedicated to inspiring and encouraging Christian Women through the Word of God.