Month: December 2021

I Want you to note this fact, faith is governed by our confession. If I say I have been prayed for and I am waiting now for God to heal me, I have cast off or repudiated my healing.
My confession should he this: the. Word declares that I am healed, and I thank the Father for It, and I praise Him for it, because it is a fact. You remember Phil. 4:6,7 “In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.”

Why must prayer be made with thanksgiving? That means that I know the thing is done. I asked for it and now I have it, so I thank the Father for it. The seventh verse says, “And the peace of God which passeth all understanding, will fill my heart.” I am not worrying any longer. I have it. I am not going to get the money I need . . . I have it. It is just as real as though it were in my pocket. I am not going to get my healing . . . I have my healing because I have His Word, and my heart is filled with rapture. Your confession solves the problem.
A wrong confession hinders the Spirit’s work in your body. A neutral confession is unbelief. It is just as bad as a negative confession. It is the positive, clear cut confession that wins. “I know in whom I have believed.” “I know that no word from God is void of power or fulfillment.” “I know that He watches over His word to make it good.” These are the confessions of a victor. I want you to notice several facts about the relation of confession to faith. Your confession is your faith. If it be a neutral confession, you have neutral faith. If it is a negative confession, it is unbelief dominating your spirit.
Unbelief grows with a negative confession. A confession of failure puts failure on the throne. If I confess weakness, weakness dominates me. If I confess my sickness, I am held in bondage by it. These negative confessions are acknowledgments of Satan’s dominion over God’s tabernacle. Your spirit always responds to your confession.
Faith is not a product of the reasoning faculties, but of the recreated spirit. When you were Born Again, you received the nature of the Father God. That nature grows in you with your acting on the Word, and your confession of the Father’s perfect dominion in your body, and it causes your spirit to grow in grace and ability.

You remember that your confession is your present attitude toward the Father. In some special testing that may come to you, your confession is either in the realm of faith or in the realm of unbelief. Your confession either honors the Father or Satan … either gives Satan or the Word dominance in your life. Now you can see the value of holding fast to your confession. Your confession either makes you a conqueror, or it defeats you. You rise or fall to the level of your confession. Learn to hold fast to your confession in the hard places. John 8:36, “If the Son has made you free you are free indeed.” The Son has made you free, now stand fast in that liberty.
Gal. 5:1 is of vital importance to every believer. “For freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.” The time to make your confession is when Satan attacks You. You feel the pain coming in your body. You repudiate it. You command it to leave in the Name of Jesus. Romans 8:31-37 “If God is for us, who is against us” Your Father is for you. Disease cannot conquer you, nor can the author of disease. Circumstances cannot master you, because the Father and Jesus are greater than any circumstances. You have learned that in whatsoever circumstance or condition you are, to rejoice in your continual victory.

You know that 1 John 4:4 is true. “Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them.” Notice who you are. “You are of God.” “You are born of God.” You are a product of His, and of His own will He brought you forth through the Word. The rest of the verse reads, “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.” “For it is God who is at work within you, willing and working His own good pleasure.” Phil. 2:13 has been my victory many many times. Now turn to Romans 8:11, “But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwelleth in you.”
You must recognize this fact. All is yours by confession, or all is lost by a negative confession. You get God’s best by the confession that you have it. The secret of faith is the secret of confession. Faith holds the confession that he has the thing he desires before he actually possesses it. Sense Knowledge faith confesses that he is healed when the pain leaves and the swelling goes down. There is really no faith in that.
Faith declares you are healed while the pain is still racking your body. Let me state it again, possession comes with confession.

You are His Righteousness. That gives you access to the Throne at any time. You can stand in His presence just as Jesus did in His earth walk, because Jesus is your Righteousness. There can be no event so great but what His Wisdom and His Righteousness will enable you to meet it successfully. You see, when you become the Righteousness of God, that really makes you a Master of Circumstances. That lets you into the Inner Circle. That gives you the advantage of the Father’s Wisdom and Ability to put you over.

Satan cannot cope with the man who knows he is the Righteousness of God in Christ, who knows that Jesus has been made unto him Wisdom. That man is a Master man. You see, that leads you into the Superman Realm. Take account of stock for a moment. You have God’s very Nature in you. The old life that kept you in bondage has stopped being. The old self that was dominated by circumstances and by Satan has stopped being, and a New Self, a dominant Self, a Righteous Self, a God-filled Self has taken its place. You now have a legal right to the use of Jesus’ Name. Before the Master ascended, you remember He said in Matt. 28:18, “All authority has been given unto me in heaven and on earth.” That authority is for the Members of the Body. Jesus doesn’t need it. He and the Father are one, so all that the Father is, Jesus is. This authority was given to the Church. The ability to use that authority is given to us in the Holy Spirit. We not only have this authority, but we have the great Mighty Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwelling in us, and when He came into us, He brought all His Ability, the Ability that He exercised in the resurrection of the Master, the Ability that He exercised in Christ. It is all in Him. No wonder John said by the Spirit, in John 4:4, “Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.”

You see, we are dominant people. We have the creative Ability of God in us. No limit to where we can go. It is not only these abilities, but there are other abilities that are ours. “Of His fullness have we received.” Perhaps among the most important assets that we have is the new kind of Love. Jesus brought it into the world. When we are Recreated, that new kind of Love becomes our Nature. We become partakers of the Divine Nature, for the Father is Love. When that Love Nature comes in, it brings an element into a man that makes him a Master. When a man loses his temper, the person that caused him to lose his temper is superior to him in some way. He wouldn’t lose his temper if that person hadn’t outwitted him, out-generalled him in some way. Love makes us impervious to these influences, makes us a Master of them. We rise up in God, that is, we rise up in Love; we walk in Love; we live in Love, and that makes us Masters of every person that does not walk in Love. The unpleasant things that he does or says, we know are said by an inferior. Love never becomes irritated. Love never loses its poise; never loses its temper. It is Master of itself, and that makes it Master of every person outside of Love. This Jesus nature makes you a dominant personality, a Master personality. They can’t conquer you any more than they could conquer Christ. They may stone you; they may beat you; they may, because of numbers, take you captive, but you become their Master the moment you become their captive. It is a strange fact, but it is true. His Love Nature makes you a Master.

I want you to learn to believe in Love. I want you to learn to rest in it, to depend on it, to expect great things from it. You will not be disappointed. You remember that passage, “Ye are of God my little children.” That is I John 4:4, and then in John 3:5-8 Jesus said, “Except a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh.” Then He says another startling thing: “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” Well, then you do not belong to the old order of things. You belong to this New Family, this new condition. You are a partaker of the Divine Nature. You are in the realm of Life with God, and you reign as a king in this realm of Life. You are a Master. What makes you a Master? The very nature of the Father that has come into you. This Love gift has made you superior to everything surrounding you.