ENEMY NO 6 -- FAILURE TO HOLD FAST TO OUR CONFESSION OF FAITH !

ENEMY NO. 6 -- FAILURE TO HOLD FAST TO OUR CONFESSION OF FAITH: (Romans 10:10). "For with the heart man believe unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation." (Mark 11:23-24). "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them." A young minister in St. Louis once said to me, "I am 32. Doctors have said it is impossible for my wife to have children. Will you talk and pray with us ?" As we talked and prayed together, his wife says she will confess that they would have the child. In the past she had always says she would like to have a child. Now she would say that they would have a child. 12 months later I received a letter announcing that they had had a bouncing baby girl. All they needed was to act upon the Word. Just like many of you who are reading and studying God's Word; all you need to do is to put the Word in actions and keep saying the same things God has said ! Faith is measured by our confession. Our usefulness in the Lord is measured by our confession. Eventually we become what we confess, whether for good or bad. (Proverbs 18:21). Says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." There is a confession of our hearts and a confession of our lips, and when these two harmonize, we become mighty in our prayer life. The reason so many believers are defeated is because they have a negative confession. They always are talking about their weaknesses, their sicknesses, and their failure, and invariably they sink to the level of their confession. Many believers do not understand that the mind which is the seat of the soul the emotions and the intellect did not get saved or born again ! So therefore they begin to sink because they are highly developed in the wrong way of thinking and saying. This is a scriptural law I discovered from the lips of Jesus in (Mark 11:22-22-24), which is quoted above. This is the law that our confessions rule us. We are what we say. And we have what we have been saying ! The woman with the issue of blood, who story we find in (Mark 5:25-34), said, "If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole." Jesus said, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague." What she said was her faith speaking -- and it came to pass. What you are saying is your faith speaking and it shall come to pass ! When we fight "the good fight of faith," as the apostle Paul admonished us, we can step out of the narrow place of failure and of sickness and of weakness in which we live into the boundless power of God. "Fright the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses" (1 Timothy 6:12).