A POSITIVE CONFESSION !

A POSITIVE CONFESSION ! People have said to me, " I've read all the Scriptures come but they don't seem real to me." I always replied, "have you confessed it is so ? One woman said, "Yes, but it isn't in my life." I said, "God says it's so." "Yes, but I know it's not," she said. "Well," I said, "either you or God is lying about it, then. He says it so you say it isn't. You're looking God right in the face, so to speak, and saying, "you're a liar. Your Word is a lie; it isn't so." Many dear believers fail To Make the Word their own. Start confess it is so, because the Bible says it is." She went off mumbling, "yes That, but I know it's not." How in the world can people like that ever be victorious believers ? There are some people who just won't accept things as the Bible says they are. Someone believe even when it happens. It's believing --- it's thinking in line with God's Word --- confessing, talking, saying, affirming, witnessing to what God's Word says -- that counts. That's what will put you over. These things that I am sharing, I have tried them or as we say tested them in my own life and The Word works. There are scriptures that do not have "In Him," In Whom" or "in Christ" in them, yet they infer something that we do have in Him. For example, (Colossians 1:13) says, "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son." In Him we are delivered from the authority of darkness, for the word "who" in this Scripture refers to God. Also, we read over in (1 John 4:4), "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: them who ? The principalities and powers, the rulers of this world, the spiritual wickedness in high places. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." The Old Testament counterpart is found in (Isaiah 41:10), "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee; yes, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." In the New Testament we read in (Romans 8:31), "What shall we then say to these things ? If God be for us, who can be against us ?" Many times we are against ourselves and we allow the enemy to have reign over us through our confessions or through our words ! However, that's the best reason in the world not to be afraid, because He is with us and is in us. Sometimes in trying to help people we say, "The darkest hour is just before the dawn," or "don't worry; things will get better tomorrow." But God gives us the best reason in the world not to fear. Again and again we read in God's Word, "Fear Thou not." God sent a messenger through the prophets, "Fear thou not." Jesus said to Jairus, when he learned his daughter had died, "Fear not, only believe." What was he to believe ? What he had said to Jesus. "I pray thee, come and lay your hands on her, that she may be healed : and she shall live." (Mark 5:23).