YOU BECOME WHAT YOU CONFESS, Pt 1

"I believed, and therefore have I spoken;
we also believe, and therefore speak"
(2 Corinthians 4:13).

Did you know that your walk with God is called "the confession"? Even Jesus
is called "the Apostle and High Priest of our confession" (Hebrews 3:1).

There are some people who think that their belief in God is a very private
thing. Yes, it is an intimate and private relationship but it is also an
outward confession. We cannot even be born again without making a
confession.

Matthew 10:32 says: "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him
will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall
deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in
heaven."  

Romans 10:9, 10 says: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness and with the mouth confession if made unto salvation."

BELIEVING AND CONFESSING
How are we born into God's family? By believing in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died for our sins, and that He rose again. But it is not enough to believe! We must confess it with our mouth! Believing and confessing equals salvation. This is the way we came into God's family. This is now the way we continue to walk in God's kingdom. We believe and then we confess. Believe and confess. Believe and confess. Yes, you are getting the message! But to make sure, let's read some more Scriptures:

1 Timothy 6:12: "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called, and have confessed the good confession in the
presence of many witnesses."

Hebrews 4:14 (NKJV): "Let us hold fast our confession."

Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV): "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful."

The word confession in the Greek is the word homologeo meaning "to publicly acknowledge, to confess, to consent to, to say something in agreement with, to speak agreeably to fact and truth." In other words, it means to agree with God and to say the same thing that God says in His Word.

Our walk with God is a homologeo walk. We don't live by our feelings. We agree with what God says rather than how we feel. We do not confess the
negatives. Instead, we speak what God says about us. It may be different to how we feel but we go with what God says.

Dear mother, can I invite you to a higher plane of living? Could you change your words from confessing the way you feel to acknowledging what God says about you? I know this takes faith. But are you either a believer or a non-believer? We are one or the other.

Tomorrow I will share with you a Scripture that changed my life.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell
www.aboverubies.org

PRAYER:
"Dear Jesus, please forgive me for clamming up. I don't want You to deny me before the Father. I want to confess Your name boldly so you will confess me before Your Father in Heaven. Please help me to be a confessing believer.
Amen."

AFFIRMATION:
I will no longer keep silent. I will speak out what I believe! Amen!