May 30
Ps
13-15
Topic:
Your Confession
Text: I Peter 2:13-23
What
you say is what you get. If you say you can, you will. If you
say you cannot, you will not. You have to learn how to align your
words with the word of God. Since your confession goes a long
way in determining what happens to you, you must saturate your
mind with the word of God and verbalize the promises and the principles
of the Scripture.
What
is scriptural confession? It is confessing the word of God regardless
of what you are going through. It is saying the same thing with
God. There is power in the word of God. When you confess the word
of God, He will stand by His word to perform it. When God gives
you a command He will grant you the grace to receive the promises
and carry out His command. Has God given you any command? You
must believe that it is possible to carry it out, as God will
never ask you to do what He knows you can never do without His
grace. It is necessary that we establish this fact because if
you believe that you cannot help but sin, then every other thing
that we have mentioned will be of no consequence to you. If you
are thoroughly convinced within yourself that you must always
sin, then any teaching on absolute purity or perfection will be
a useless exercise.
The
moment you know in your heart that is possible for you never to
sin again and that you can permanently refrain from sin and evil,
then all this teaching will become understandable and exciting
to you. Take tine now to make this confession out loud: “Because
of my faith in Jesus Christ as my Saviour, I am a child of God.
Since God is my Father, I am just like Him. My heavenly father
cannot sin, therefore, as His Holy child, I will never sin again.”
Did you make that confession? I challenge you to expect a new
flow of grace unto your life.
Memory Verse: I Peter 2:21 - “Foe ever hereunto were ye
called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his steps”
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