A POSITIVE CONFESSION !

A POSITIVE CONFESSION !: God has given us His word to get our thinking straightened out. The soulless part of man did not get saved. You and I have two work out our soul salvation ! If my thinking is not in line with God's Word, I'm certainly going to change my thinking. Whenever the word "confession" is used, many people usually think of sin and failure, but that's the negative side of it. There is a positive side as well, and the Bible has more to say about that than the negative. Confessing, as we mentioned earlier, is affirming something we believe. God works through us by His word as we speak it forth. Jesus said, "Go Teach." We carry the Word, and not our traditions. Because the traditions of men make the Word of God will not effect in the lives of humanity. But if we don't get it out; I'm talking about the Word Of God, we won't accomplish anything and our prayers will be in vain. If someone is lost, for example, you would be wasting your time praying for God to save him or her if nobody carries the Word to them. If we could just pray and get people saved, we would need to send missionaries to preach the Word. We could just pray all the heathens into heaven or into salvation. But the Holy Spirit and the father work only in conjunction with the Word. Jesus said in (Mark 16:15 through 20). "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing: it shall not hurt them; they shall lie hand on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following." Notice that the Lord confirmed the Word. He didn't do a thing until they preached the Word. Not their theology, nor was it their seminary training or schooling. Signs don't follow an individual; they follow the Word. Give out the Word, and the signs will take care of themselves ! The Lord said, "you have been praying that I'd confirmed my Word and that signs would follow. But all you have to do is preach the Word and He'll do it ! If you'll preach the Word, then signs will follow. If the signs aren't following, then you're not preaching the Word ! I began to examine my sermons, and to my utter astonishment I found that I was preaching about 60% Word, 30% tradition, and 10% unbelief. I started correcting the way I said things, and sometimes in the pulpit I will stop and say, No, that's unbelief, folks. I take that back or that's tradition. I'm not going to say that. And I found that the more Word I preached or taught, the more signs I had. To be a successful Believer, you must know what you are in Christ. When you know that and think in line with that --- believe and confess that --- then there is no failure in you. As I suggest in the last lesson, find all of the Scriptures about "In Him" and "in whom" begin to confess, this is who I am and what I am. You'll find life will be different for you !