READ: 1
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 verbalise the promises and
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 a 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 promise
or a command He will grant you the grace to receive the promise 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 useless exercise. The moment that you
know in your heart that it 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 time now to make this confession 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.
MEMORIZE:
1 PETER 2:21 –For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps.
