Your Confessions are Fighting for You!

By Pam Sailor

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Table Of Contents

Contents

Your Confessions are Fighting for You!

Table Of Contents

About The Author

Author’s Introduction

Foreword

First Things First “Know the Truth”

Confession Is

The “Already” Factor

The Revelation of This Principle Begins

Know the Language of the Flesh

Mouth in Training

For Wives Only

Wait to Speak, God’s Protection

Watch What You Say, but Say Something!

Making God’s Word My Own

When My Prayers Became My Confession

Worship is the Fuel for Confessions

Confession is one of the Highest Levels of Prayer

The Power of Confession to Save and Change Lives

My Confessions are Fighting for Me

About The Author

Pam Sailor is the host of a television program entitled “Believe” born from the scripture John 6:28-29. Pam has been given and accepted the charge to leap over the walls of religion and get this needed message around the world before the King returns.   She has pioneered Restoration by His Glory Ministries, located in Bloomfield, CT. She also owns a consulting business Restoring the Strength of the Families, Inc., designed to bring hope and healing to the masses.

This woman of God was converted over 25 years ago and has stayed the course.   She has also worked in ministry for over 25 years and has overcome many of life’s trials and troubles.  If not for this principle of watching what she says and saying something the trials and troubles may have been her demise.

Pam’s passion is the unity of the believers, the life of a believer, being loved by God and blessed in Christ.  She has been married for 29 years to a wonderful and loving man of God, Raymond Sailor, Jr. and they are the proud parents of Ambyr, Randell and Karraine. They are proud grandparents of two handsome grandsons, Elijah and Nobel.

Author’s Introduction

Speaking is the most powerful and supernatural force in the world. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. With our words we can produce death and with our words we create and manifest life. Yet, many today are very careless with their words. They are framing their worlds creating lives they don’t really want—even hate—by the words of their own mouth.  Many have even cursed themselves and others with their words. Curse means to call evil or injury upon, to damn, to afflict, to doom by speaking, to pray against, calling down calamity upon someone or something, formal utterance of condemnation by ecclesiastical authority. Many of us knowingly and some unknowingly curse our families, children, friends, sheep, leaders etc. Why? Because we have not been attentive to our words. We should be doing the opposite; we should bless! God said to bless even our enemies.  More importantly, many have not been taught how to talk and the divine responsibility we have as speaking spirits. God has said in His Word that we would give an account to every idle and inoperative word we speak. So, I ask you this question: who taught you how to talk or should I ask who do you talk like? What language do you speak? Do you speak the language of Heaven or of the world, of Truth or of lie, of good or evil?

There is a better way you can speak with Truth, faith and authority. The world’s language is of the natural realm of fact and fear. As this book unfolded before me, I realized that my “Abba Father” was and is still teaching me how to talk as a Kingdom citizen. He has instilled in me this mandate to “Watch what I say, but say something.” This mandate enforces the power and responsibility of every word spoken: thus, speak purposefully and even greater than that, speak Kingdom purpose. Why? Because our words are very important to God. Words express our nature and our heart. Because our words will be judged, the proof of our conversion is partly in our conversation.  As it was with our elder brother, Jesus, so is it with us the believers: we must only say what the Word of God says. This book reveals some basic and powerful revelations, lessons and experiences of how the Holy Spirit of God will navigate you through life by the language of Spirit and help you to be an overcomer in Christ.

There is a battle that we, as believers, are in; however, it is not our battle! The battle is the Lord’s. We must not be afraid, but have faith in our God, trust in Him, be of good courage, and stand our ground. Then, fight the good fight of faith by putting on the whole armor of God. We fight with the blessed assurance/confidence that our God will always cause us to triumphant in Him and will not allow our enemies to triumphant over us. In John 16:33 Jesus said that He has overcome this world (He has conquered this world and deprived it of power to harm us). Finally, knowing this we are assured that He will deliver us out of ALL of our troubles.

This book is about more than the fight, it is about the relationship of believers and our God and how we choose our level of intimacy with Him. It is about how we are living and how we can live when we know and trust Him. I invite you to get ready to grasp a powerful revelation—a mighty weapon that combats the spiritual assaults of the evil one and makes us overcomers—our confession!

Pam Sailor

Bloomfield, CT

Foreword

If you want to take your marriage, ministry, or your life to move from where you are right now to your greatest place, Your Confessions are Fighting for You will help get you there and faster than you believe. This book provides the launching pad you have been looking for.

Reverend Pamela, has taken the principle of confession and skillfully written in simple language, the mind of God for His people. The truth is that God wants us to prosper. He wants us to be above and not beneath. The problem is that we don't always agree with God's plan for our lives and consequently, our words entrap us, keeping us from realizing the good things of God.

Your Confessions are Fighting for You will help you to believe again. God's word is true and He will bring it to pass in your life. You do not have to throw in the towel. As you read, you will realize that exactly what God has promised is within your grasp if you would speak it.

I have known Reverend Sailor for many years. What you are about to read is surely a true reflection of her life. She is living this principle and seeing results. My prayer is that you too would read and realize that your confessions are fighting for you. You will have what you say.

Apostle Ann Marie Alman

People of Destiny Ministries International

4506 Church Avenue

Brooklyn NY 11203

First Things First “Know the Truth”

We must know that we are in a battle and we must know that our weapons are not carnal; our weapons of warfare are mighty, divine and supernatural, they are the very power of absolute truth. Absolute truth is God’s Word, and it is greater than any earthly or worldly facts. This weapon of truth brings down all demonic lies, thoughts, arguments and reasoning.  It is the truth and the truth that you know (believe) that can take down, silence, make ineffective, every thought and every imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (Eph. 6:10-17). On the battlefield of our mind a thought is presented that states something opposite to what God has said in His Word. For example, God said nothing shall separate us from His love, which is in Christ Jesus. However, a thought comes and says that God is not with us, that thought is exalting itself against the knowledge of God. It goes further and gives reasons and situations that are at work to convince us to believe that lie; this is the imagination at work to cause us to doubt the truth. We must know the truth and bring every thought under Christ and the promises of God.

When Jesus came on the scene to establish the Kingdom of God, it was the absolute truth that released and is still releasing the authority of God over any and every kind of earthly situation. The absolute truth of God’s Word will change facts. Consider the following examples from the Word of God and its Kingdom authority to change earthly facts:

         It was a fact that Lazarus was dead, but the truth was that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. The truth triumphed over the fact that Lazarus was dead and raised him up.

         It was a fact that there were only a few fish and pieces of bread to feed the thousands of hungry listeners, but the truth was that Jesus was the maker and creator.

Our heavenly Father wants us to know and not doubt that His Word is truth and that truth is greater than any fact of sickness, disease, lack, occupational crisis or any evil deed.

The revelation of the power of our confession is born out of understanding that God’s Word is truth, and this truth is the will of God. Everything that is not of God must submit to the authority of the truth, this is how Jesus walked in signs wonders and miracles. He had Kingdom authority in the Spirit of Truth.   The Greek definition of truth as found in John 17:17 is al-oy’-thi-a (true, verity, to be true, speak (tell) the truth.  When believers have the knowledge of the truth of God’s Word, the power of their confession ignites, unleashes and sends forth the quickening power to manifest the Word of God. This is how believers live by faith and overcome this world.

As I received understanding of the power of His truth, I sensed that it is a revelation for a time when there is not just a battle, but an onslaught on every side, end-time troubles. I realized that we are in this world, and we experience the rumbling and shaking in the world, but we are not of this world. The truth is that we find our strength and stability in the power and faithfulness of God. Confession of our faith is just one of the many powerful weapons for those that will live and walk in great faith. But the mouth, which is how we declare our confession, is a weapon that can work for or against us. James 3:5 reminds us that the tongue is the smallest member but can cause a forest fire. This is why the principle of our confession of faith must be grasped in its entirety. We are to use His word of promise—that is Spirit and Life—and with our mouths we ignite faith in our hearts to overcome the battle of this world.

God wants to encourage us to trust that His Word is “the spoken truth” and that if He said it, it is already done! Why? Because we know and believe that He watches over His Word to perform it, causing it not to return to Him void, but accomplishing what He sent it to do. Here’s the key to this revelation: He is watching, looking for, and waiting for us to speak the Word that He might quicken it! The word of God that you confess is God Himself. That Word is at war on your behalf at all times, and you can expect it:

         To do you good, to help you, to protect you

         To intervene on your behalf

         To disrupt and stop the plans of the evil one

         To manifest the promise

         To perfect those things concerning you

         To fight for you

         To contend for you

This principle like any other principle will work if you work it. This principle is for the diligent, tenacious, and steadfast, the unmovable, and the sold-out. It is for those that believe the truth, the only truth and nothing but the truth! It is for the uncompromisingly rigid, not the lazy, doubtful, double-minded, the fearful, or the half in the Kingdom and half in the world. It is for those that know that God IS, that He cannot lie—if He said it He will do it. It is for those who believe that He is The Way, The Truth, The Life and there is NO lie in Him. It is for those that have only one God and for them there is no other. You must know that you know that you know.

God said that those that come to Him must BELIEVE that He is God and that He rewards those that diligently seek Him out. He said that the TRUTH that we know will set us free. The key to our confessions is to KNOW: know Him and know what He has said, know that He is ABSOLUTE TRUTH and that He, the Truth, is greater than any fact in or of this world. Moreover, if He—the Truth—has spoken it then that word is already done. Remember, He has finished it and the battle is already won. God is exalted, Jesus is Lord and the Devil is a defeated foe. You and I are more than conquerors. John 8:32: And you will know the Truth and the Truth you know, shall set you free.

Key Concepts:

1.        Know and do not doubt that the Word of God is the Truth—the absolute Truth

2.       Know that the Truth is what freed the believer from the prison of Satan who is the Father of Lies.

3.       Know that the Truth of God’s word has the authority and power over all facts in the world.

4.      Know that we must take God at His Word.

5.       Know that He watches over this word to bring it to pass.

6.       Know that He promises to do us good and He is a promise keeper!

Confession Is

Words are containers of spiritual power released by the speaker to do what he or she is saying, to make it happen, whether he or she wants it or not. God's word is loaded with Kingdom purpose, and Jesus said the words he speaks are spirit and are life. The definition of confession in the Greek is: Homologos which means: spoken by agreement, to agree with God by confession. Additionally, it means:

         To acknowledge one’s faith in anything, as in the existence and authority of God.

         Confession is agreeing with God and saying what God said.

         Confessing is believing and thus saying it in agreement.

         Confession is reiterating what God said.

         Confession of God’s Word is a law/principle, of the redeemed of Lord saying so.

         Confession is to repeat, copy, reaffirm, echo, regurgitate, imitate, confirm that which you have grasped, taken hold of, seized, become acquainted with, taken advantage of, cash in on, make use of, and profit from.

         Confession is speaking life or death, good or bad, right or wrong.

These scriptures confirm these truths in a powerful way: Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Psalm 141:3 “Set watch over my mouth and keep the door of my lips.”

Confession is the language of the Kingdom; in heaven we only agree with what the Sovereign Lord has said. Confession is also simply how we talk, what comes out of our mouth. Things we mean to say, things we don’t mean to say, truth spoken and lies spoken. Confession is the tool we use for framing our world and our circumstances. Our confession will create our destiny to where we say and what we say. When we understand that words are containers of spiritual power, then our confession should be speaking God’s Word. God’s word is not just any word, it is Spirit and Life. So confessing God’s Word is releasing God’s Spirit and Life concerning whatever situation. Using Jesus as our example (He only said what He heard the Father say), as believers we need to only say what the Father said. In all we say we need to speak the Word of God by agreeing with what God said. Moreover, when we agree with the word of God and say what God says we will experience abundant life.

In order for us to speak God’s word we must be transformed by renewing our minds and not to conform to this world. Have you noticed the world does not weigh it before saying it? The world is controlled by the carnal or unregenerate nature. We, the believers have a new nature, the nature of God. We must avoid harsh joking, flippant comments, and yes—even aggressive body language. Why? Because they all speak! Consider, when it comes to body language, that God said He hates a proud look. Also, agreeing with a comment that exalts itself against the truth of God’s word is a confession!

Our lives are at stake; we can either agree or disagree with a fatal comment. I have seen people agree with deadly comments because it was a social gathering. God watches over only His Word to perform what He has said. Then there is the Devil, the adversary of God’s word who is watching for every word we speak that is contrary to the word of God causing us to have what we say. In other words, choosing death out of ignorance! Any word spoken from our mouth that does not agree with God’s word is the word the Devil waits to hear to fatally work against us.

When we know the truth and our hearts are equipped with the promises of God it will be easier for us to respond in any situation with the Word of God. God’s word is His promises to the believer and He has given us these promises for everything that pertains to life and godliness.  In

2 Cor. 1:19b-20 we are reminded that “…in Christ it is always the divine Yes. For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes (answer) in Christ. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him (in His Person and by His agency to the glory of God).”

The promises that God made to believers has a divine Yes answer. The promises are signed and sealed by the blood of Jesus. When the promise is found, it must be mixed with faith that comes into your heart by hearing, and hearing the Word of God. Not the world’s view, or man’s opinion and ways that seem right, because there many things that seem right but the end of can physical and spiritual death. We need to know what God has promised concerning every aspect of life and that truth is what must come out of our mouth. We have promises of victory, prosperity, divine health, healing, protection, help, wholeness, soundness, peace, joy, purpose, forgiveness, and every good and perfect gift. Then, we have a God that can do anything except fail, there isn’t anything that is too hard for our God, if He said it He will do it. It is His good pleasure to give us the Kingdom. Find the promise you need, and receive it with the  amen!

Take this principle and change the way you talk, talk like Jesus and change your world your family, your health, and your finances.

Key Concepts:

1.        What we are confessing is not just any word or merely a religious act.

2.       We are confessing God’s promises—the Word that He has spoken concerning His will and goodness towards us.

3.       God wants us to receive these promises with confident assurance in His faithfulness and ability to do what He said.

4.      These promises are received by believing and confessing what we believe.

The “Already” Factor

The “Already Factor” is the knowledge of the finished work of the cross of Christ Jesus. God finished the work of redemption and restoration. Finish means to bring or come to an end, to bring to completion, perfect, end, conclusion, and implies accomplishing the final act or stage in perfecting something. This “Already Factor” is received and experienced by study of the Word of God and understanding what past tense means. Past tense is the usage of a verb tense that expresses actions or states something in the past. It is saying something that has already happened rather than what is happening at the time or moment. The already factor is the spirit of understanding working in believers to help them get what has been given to them, thus belongs to them.  Throughout the scriptures, old and new, God spoke in the past tense except for the conditional promises. The already factor is vitally necessary when making our confessions of faith. Why, if we don’t know that something has already been provided, already done, already given we will ask for something that we should, by faith, that we already have. Instead of requesting, we must be expecting! We should not wonder if God will do it, we should expect and thank God for what He has promised and already given.

When Jesus said “it is finished,” that was the “Already Factor” established.  When Jesus overcame the temptations of the Devil in the wilderness, He triumphantly declared and decreed God’s Kingdom is present.  Jesus established God’s rule, reign, authority and power in the earth.  God was providing access into His Kingdom and all that it possesses to all that will believe in Jesus and received Him as Lord.  This access into God’s Kingdom makes us citizens of heaven and qualifies us to become heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus.  Becoming a part of God’s Kingdom qualifies us to every promise the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has promised.  We have heavens riches in glory “already” for our every need, hope and dream. We have victory already over every evil and all that evil brings. The “Already Factor” must be grasp by revelation and understanding to live by faith, please God and purposefully receive all that has “already” been provided for you.

Key Concepts:

         We have a multitude of blessings that are “The Already Factor.”

         I(God) have given you all things that pertain to life and godliness. 2 Peter1:3

         And with His stripes we were healed. Isaiah 53:5

         He sent His Word and healed them and delivered them out of all destruction. Psalm 107:20

         For I have overcome the world (I have deprived if of power to harm you and have conquered it for you. John 16:33

         God is exalted Jesus is Lord and the Devil is a defeated foe.

         God has placed us far above all principalities and powers and has given us the Name that is above all names. Philippians 2:9

The Revelation of This Principle Begins

Many years ago I receive an instruction from Holy Spirit, to “watch what you say.” Watch is defined with the following two definitions: watch: be careful, and watch: see what you said. I began to notice that I was having what I said, bad or good, right or wrong. This experience encouraged me to be careful as I spoke, to think before I spoke, to weigh my words—so to say—before I said them. Every judgmental comment began to come back to me. For two years, I was on a new road of trying to say what I knew would benefit me and the hearer. This was not an easy task because I am a talker!

I stopped agreeing with flippant comments and course jesting. I stopped participating in gossip and tried to interject something positive to change the course of the conversation. Again, this was not easy and I did not always succeed. In the midst of leaders (those of influence), I had to work hard not to agree with negative, critical, and hypocritical comments. I had to work at not being “a yes woman.” I had a very solid conviction regarding what I said and because the conviction was so strong, I found myself crying out to the Father to help me, because I often missed it.

I had one life changing experience that caused me to know just how powerful, judgmental, opinionated, critical and faultfinding words, empty of compassion, could be. Many, many years ago neighbors of mine loss their home through foreclosure. When I received the news from another neighbor of the misfortune, out of my mouth, like a quick draw, came “how could they let that happen, how could they lose their house?” Well, exactly one year to that date we lost our home.  During this painful process I was reminded of my comment concerning our neighbors’ loss and those words came back and slapped me in my mouth. That was the beginning of the solid revelation of the power of our words and their motives. Following that experience I realized that this was a matter of the heart. I began to pray, “Father, create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit in me so that my words edify the hearer and glorify You.” After a couple of years on this journey of watching what I said and getting a handle on my tongue, and learning about the language of the flesh, the Lord added on another and most important and powerful instruction taught through these scriptures:

         James 1:19: Be quick to hear, slow to speak and quick to forgive.

         Psalm 141:3: Set a watch O Lord before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

         Proverbs 6:20: You are snared with the words of your mouth and you are taken with the words of your mouth.

         Psalm 19:14: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, Oh Lord.

         1 Timothy 5:13: Moreover, as they go about from house to house, they learn to be idlers, and not only, but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not mention.

         Hebrews 4:12: God’s word exposes, sifting, analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.

Key Concepts:

1.        The bible instructed us to be slow to speak for a reason: If we speak too fast we will not take time to consider the consequences.

2.       The Word of God warns us that on judgment day we will have to give an account for every idle (negative, nonworking and inoperative) word that we speak.

3.       God hears what we are saying, why and how.

4.      We will answer to God for every faithless, destructive and godless word we speak.

5.       Judge not, so that you will not be judged.

6.       No coarse jesting; be careful with even your jokes, comments, and agreements.

Know the Language of the Flesh

This truth that I am about to share with you was the first and most necessary dimension of truth that I needed before I could begin to effectively confess God’s Holy Word. This principle was a key factor to establishing a right heart to speak God’s Word.  Holy Spirit began to teach me to “know the language of the flesh.” He began to teach me to listen to what the flesh sounded like. I listened by being attentive to my thought life and its attitude. I needed to begin to recognize the Spirit of God from the flesh (the carnal, unregenerate mind). I became aware of the war that was going on: the Spirit of Truth warring against that carnal, sinful, lower nature of the flesh (The Old Man, The Liar).

I began to learn the attitude and language of the flesh. The flesh will sound contrary to the Word of God by the Holy Spirit. Consider these differences between the flesh and the Spirit:

         The Holy Spirit is love, peace, and joy. The flesh is always—and cannot help but be—hateful, agitated, and unhappy.

         The Spirit of God is always Truth and hopeful. The flesh is fearful and doubtful.

         The Spirit wants to comfort and celebrate. The flesh wants to hurt, gossip and slander.

         The Holy Spirit does not notice when another gets it wrong. The flesh wants to retaliate.

         The Holy Spirit must encourage. The flesh wills to discourage.

         The Holy Spirit leads us to mercy, forgiveness, and reconciliation. The flesh promotes resentment and unforgiveness.

         The Holy Spirit gives, share and helps and believes the best. The flesh wants to lie and steal, and believe the worse.

         The Holy Spirit is ever so ready to lead and guide us to please God!  The flesh is at work attempting to dictate to us to do opposite of God’s will.

The flesh must be mortified and crucified so that out of the mouth can only come the nature of God. When the word says “to cast down every thought and every high imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bring it captive and bring it to the obedience of Christ,” it was to teach us to resist the Devil and submit to God.  The battle begins in several areas of our souls: our mind, our will, our emotions, our imagination, and our intellect, and ends with our mouth.  It is the flesh warring against the Spirit, the Spirit warring against the flesh, The Truth against a lie and good against evil finally darkness against light.  The Holy Spirit of God is ever fighting for us to agree with the truth, and the evil one is ever fighting using deception for us to believe a lie. Remember these scriptures that clearly explain this war: John 10:10 The Thief comes only but to steal, kill and destroy, Jesus said, but I have come that you may have life and have life more abundantly to the full to overflow. Romans 8:5-8: Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Here is a good example of what I experienced during my first experience of being attentive to recognizing the language of the flesh and the war. I was walking past a fellow sister in the Lord. The sister jokingly made a comment that was very insulting. It caught me off guard. I kept walking, but then the internal war began! I heard retaliation demanding to speak, wanting to repay insult for insult. I immediately began to speak out scriptures that I thought would silence the flesh, crucifying it. Scriptures like “we overcome evil with good,” and “love doesn’t notice when another one gets it wrong,” and “love is not easily offended.” This is what He gave me. Well, I still heard the flesh talking back. I kept crying out to Holy Spirit, my helper, to help me. WOW! This is what He gave me. 1 Peter 2:23: When Jesus was reviled and insulted, He did not revile or offer insult in return; When He was abused and suffered, He made no threats (of vengeance); but He trusted (Himself and everything) to Him Who judges all things fairly.” That was it—the truth that crucified that old ugly flesh; that was the word that set me free and stopped corrupt communication from coming out of my mouth.

This experience taught me several lessons: (1) to slow down and (2) not to allow my flesh to dictate to me what to think or say. Holy Spirit later taught me by experience that if you sow to the flesh, you will reap destruction. I continued to experience intervention like this as I began to allow Holy Spirit to teach me and help me get victory over the flesh (the attitude of my mind). God’s Precious Holy Spirit—the Great Teacher and Helper—was leading me and guiding me into all Truth. I began to pray this daily and I encourage you to do the same: “May the Spirit of Truth rule and reign in the Spirit of my mind and may I have a fresh mental and spiritual attitude.”

The war of the Spirit and the flesh was evident in the every area of word, thought and deed, and it was confirmed by scripture: Romans 8:3: “For God has done what the Law could not do, (its power) because weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin. God condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accepted the sacrifice].” Romans 8:6: “Now the mind of the flesh (which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit) is death (death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter). But the mind of the Holy Spirit is Life and (soul) peace (both now and forever). Matt. 12:34, out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” We hear the voice of the Good Shepherd, the voice of a stranger we shall not follow.

Key Concepts:

1.        We can be habitually controlled by God’s Holy Spirit who is our Comforter, Teacher, Helper, The Spirit of Truth.

2.       Do not allow the flesh to dictate to you to live like an unregenerate individual in word, thought and deed.

3.       You have a choice whom to obey: the Holy Spirit or your flesh.

4.      Remember, the old nature is of Satan and the new nature is of God in Christ Jesus

5.       We who have been born again have a new nature—that of our Heavenly Father who is Holy and good.

6.       Slow down and listen to whom you.

Mouth in Training

During this season of intensive training in watching what I said, I was helped with another level of understanding of the power of our words when Holy Spirit allowed me to come across one of Kenneth Hagin’s books. In this book he told a story about a young man who always and jokingly stated most of his young life that he would not live to see 40. Then at age 39 plus, something happened to this young man that put him in a coma.

Dr. Kenneth Hagin, known for moving in signs, wonders and miracles, was called to come to the hospital and pray for the young man.  Dr. Hagin prayed several times and the young man did not respond to the power of the prayer of faith.  Finally, troubled by the young man not responding, Dr. Hagin questioned the family and friends about this young man.

Everyone knew him as a nice guy with a great sense of humor. Then they all quoted one of his favorite all-time statements to whatever was being discussed: he would say jokingly, “You know, I will not live to see 40.” This confession may have begun in his late teens or early twenties. He probably quoted it several times a day, day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year. Now, at 39 he was in a coma, unable to change those words and choose life, and he died.

Following those two years of that powerful instruction to “watch what you say” I needed to see an example like that to get this principle rooted and grounded in my heart, getting it, understanding just how powerful our words are—sincere or not.

Two years after the assignment to “watch what I say,” while still disciplining myself to be slow to speak, careful and purposeful of what I said and what was said to me, I was called to teach bible study. I had just begun to master disciplining my mouth. As I sought the Lord on what would He have me teach about, Holy Spirit gave me this instruction: teach about “Watch What You Say,” and He added on to that statement, “but, Say something.” So now in addition to watching what I was saying, now I was to be purposeful to say something.

Here are few of my personal examples to further illustrate this lesson.

For Wives Only

In my early years of my Christian walk, my husband was struggling with a drug addiction. It was a very strange season in our lives; we both were introduced to cocaine as this new bourgie activity to engage in during fun activities. We were a part of the in crowd. This began to really take hold of my loving hubby. Every day after work a friend of his would come to pick him up to go get drugs. The friend would never come into our home, he would blow the horn; and hubby would leave happily.

At this time I was on fire for God, I had rededicated my life to Christ and had such a holy boldness. I was interceding for my husband. One day I had an unction from the Holy Spirit. With a peaceful and loving countenance, I allowed him to leave. Once the door shut and he went down the stairs I began to speak—declaring with my right hand violently aimed at the door, saying; you will not get any drugs, every door will be shut, every connection is cut off, you will not, you will not get any drugs today in Jesus name. In less than an hour he was back looking very confused. Day after day he would run after the drugs and day after day I would speak against the destructive spirit of addiction. He was on a mission and I was commissioned. I was operating in my overcoming Kingdom authority without really understanding it at the time. I never told him what I was doing until years later. I was taught to use the authority given to me in Christ Jesus; and not allow circumstance to dictate our lives.

Wait to Speak, God’s Protection

Our relationship was struggling with strife and dissention. I wanted to release my right to give him a piece of my mind, so to say, I wanted to tell him a thing or two or more. I wanted to repay insult for insult but I was instructed to shut my mouth. So an argument would arise and I wanted to respond, but was told no. To avoid responding, I would run into our guest bathroom, lock the door and sit on the floor and cry out for God’s help.

I sought God’s peace and help. There were many arguments day after day, week after week and month after month. The bathroom became my safe refuge. I would lock myself the bathroom, hold my peace and wait on the Lord. One day as I avoided responding to hurtful words, I went into the bathroom, sat on the floor praising my God when I had a life changing vision. In the vision I saw on one side a large ball, lumpy and grey resembling clay. Then on the other side I saw an extremely extra-long pointy needle, with the tip of the needle a hair length away from the very large lumpy clay like ball. Then the vision advanced to the outcome where the needle pierced the ball; the lumpy clay like ball exploded and splattered everywhere. It looked messy and the ball and needle were no more.

Then Holy Spirit spoke in my heart revealing that the ball was my husband’s pride and the needle was my tongue that represented my hurt and the splattered ball represented the destruction of our relationship and marriage. If my mouth spoke piercing insults to my husband my marriage would have been destroyed and utterly devastated. God asked me to trust Him to work out every disagreement. I was comforted and obeyed. He did it every time. I held my peace and He worked it out; so much that is was strangely obvious. My husband or I would humbly apologize, talk about it and let it go. It was so obvious to both of us that God was working in every disagreement. It was more than a year later when Holy Spirit spoke to me and released me, He said, you can respond to a disagreement. He knew that in that season I would unknowingly say something destructive and my husband would have responded in a devastating way.

My Heavenly Father is our very present help in times of need; He is the Alpha and the Omega knowing the end from the beginning. I learned from yet another lesson that an instruction followed is wrapped with miracle working power. Trust and obey Him!

Times and time again, I experienced God’s divine intervention on behalf of our marriage; and each time I had to say or not say something.

Key Concepts:

1.        Words we say whether we mean them or not contain power to make things happen.

2.       We will have what we say.

3.       If this can work in the negative; it will work in the positive.

4.      We really can choose life or death and we choose with our confessions.

Watch What You Say, but Say Something!

I received a greater understanding of this new principle of “saying something” as I studied David and his fight with Goliath, the Philistine giant. I noticed how David told the enemy what he (David) was going to do, how he was going to do it and why he was going to do it. Everything he declared happened exactly as he said. So, the journey changed from watching what I said, to now also “saying something!”

I was well aware of my words and the words of everyone around me. My discernment to carnal and spiritual speaking was keen.  I became very concerned about family, friends and associates even strangers who were speaking death and destruction concerning their lives and the affairs of life.   I began encouraging people, believers and even non-believers, to be careful what they said.

I remember one incident in particular while riding the city bus to my job. I was on the bus when a group of people boarded the bus. The people were noisy and seemingly handicapped. One of the men, who was extremely tall, stood up yelling over and over again “we are all going to die!” He kept repeating this frantically, which caused the group that got on the bus with him to become hysterical. His words were so destructive, and I felt that they could affect us all. A righteous indignation rose up in me and I firmly, but quietly, commanded him to shut his mouth. It was not loud enough for anyone else to hear but me. Immediately the man’s mouth was shut, sealed up, lips locked tight as he was still trying to speak, but could only make muffled sounds.

You see, this man was speaking death and doom over all on the bus including me. I took authority over the situation and stopped it. I was amazed that the man could not speak out. He appeared confused, and even frightened. Soon he calmed down and the people began to settle down and sit down. As I got off the bus at my designated stop that day I realized the authority we have as believers. Moreover, I realized that people perish for the lack of knowledge and what we don’t know will hurt us.

It was during this season of my Christian walk that I began to create scriptural prayer journals. I recorded the precious promises I found in God’s Word and began praying, saying, and confessing them. These are the promises of our inheritance as heirs of God and joint heirs in Christ Jesus. They are the promises that make us overcomers in this world. There are promises that cover every area of life. During this time I discovered many of the promises that I stand on today. Those wonderful promises have guided and helped me in the revelation that birthed this book.

One day in a grocery store, I stopped at the pharmacy, a very pleasant pharmacist came out, and while walking past me, put her hand on my shoulder and said to me quite nicely, “Just one more day, huh?” I sensed Holy Spirit urging me not to agree with that statement. I opened my mouth and unapologetically said “With long life will my God satisfy me and show me His salvation.” I now try my best to watch what I say, what I agree with, while saying what God has said and promised.

Our Heavenly Father loves us and wants to help us to be victorious.  He will give you what you need—especially revelation.  Revelation is the Word of God revealed by God’s Holy Spirit.  He put the icing on the cake when He caused me to stumble upon a book about a man that spoke himself from hobo to multi-millionaire.

He was a man that lived under a highway, and slept outside under a cardboard box.  One morning he woke up and a neighboring hobo greeted him, “Good morning. How are you?” His answer was the confession that changed his life.  He said, “Oh, every day in every way I am getting better and better and better.”  Where did he get this statement from? The book did not reveal it, but that simple confession gave him a new lease on life.  This was his new daily confession to whomever he came in contact with: “Oh, every day and in every way I am getting better and better and better.”  The story went on to tell that the man was picking cans out of the garbage behind a factory.  The owner came out, and after observing the hobo for a few minutes, asks him if he would like a job keeping the back of the factory clean.  Of course, he said yes, and began cleaning the yard happily and doing an excellent job.  The owner helped the man get off the streets and into a boarding room.  Eventually, the man was hired as janitor of the factory.   In the factory when the workers greeted him, his confession was the same “every day in every way I am getting better and better and better.”  One day the owner shared with the man that the company was not doing well and that they may be forced to close.  The man made a suggestion to the owner that helped the business, and caused the company to triple revenues.   The man was promoted to partner.

Consequently, the owner did so well that he turned the company over to the man that began with the confession: “every day in every way I am getting better and better and better.  This principle like gravity went to work in this hobo’s life and took him from having nothing but his mouth to becoming a multi-millionaire and owner of a huge cooperation.  He used his time to go to hospital and communities and teach people this powerful principle.

The women with the issue of blood was a great example of what can happen if in faith, you speak to yourself God’s faithfulness, goodness and His power to save. She heard that this Jesus heals the sick, feeds the hungry, raises the dead and drives out demons. She heard and believed that if He can heal them He will certainly heal me.  If Simone’s handkerchiefs healed the sick, if a disciple’s shadow healed the sick, my sickness is a breeze for Jesus.

She began to sow her faith, by speaking her hope and expectation to herself. She could not tell anyone, maybe if she told her friends and family they would have told her, you have been sick too long or there’s no healing for you, or it runs in your family so deal with it. Maybe someone would have reminded her of all the money she spent paying the many physicians—the experts. This story was recorded to help those of us, The Church, with long lived issues.  God wanted us to know that we don’t always need a prayer partner, we need hope and faith.   Speaking to ourselves with faith in our God who can do anything except fail, we become confident that there is nothing too hard for God! We know that all things are possible to the one that believes.

We all struggle with our things, anything, stuff that has been with us for a very long time, but I believe God is revealing a deliverance strategy for those long term battles. We must begin to say to ourselves, building our faith and expectation for our miracle. Speak the supernatural power of God over a situation, speak the Anointed One, speak the Word, sing heavenly songs, and make melodies unto the Lord.

If you have a long experienced issue that has been wearing you out, begin to confess the promises with faith “say to yourself” and get ready, your miracle is in your mouth.

Remember these scriptures to help you grasp the “say something” principle:

         Prov. 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”

         Psalm 107:2: “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.”

         Deuteronomy 30:19 NIV: “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curses, NOW choose life, so that you and your children may live.”

Key Concepts:

1.        We have been given the responsibility to choose death or life, blessing or curses through words.

2.       Life is activated and proceeds from the Word of God.

3.       Speaking should be purposeful and positive.

4.      You will have what you say, make sure you want it.

5.       We can change our world with our words.

6.       God taught us, to speak things as if it they were, even though they are not.

Making God’s Word My Own

During times of study and devotion I began to find and record God’s promises and blessings that are His will for believers. It was here that I realized just how much our Heavenly Father loves us.  I discovered the rich promises He made to those that belong to Him, believe Him, trust Him and obey Him. Promises such as 1 Peter 1:3-5 which declares that His divine power has granted us all things that pertained to life and godliness. He has already given us all things that have to do with life and all things that have to do with godliness!  What a promise, especially when we seek to know what are “all the things that pertain to life and godliness” and then receive them. Understanding this allows our confessions to become the vehicle for taking that which has been given to us.

There are promises that are my abiding word—some by revelation, some by study and discovery, some taught by great generals of the faith and prophetic messengers and some by experience. One of the very first promises I received by revelation was: “My God will never leave me nor forsake me.” While reading the Gospels, every time Jesus mentioned God the Father He always referred to Him as “Father.” Jesus was on the cross dying for our sins, and as Jesus hung on that cross, something happened—God turned His back on the sins of the world that was upon His Only Begotten Son.  Jesus cried out, “My God, My God why hast thou forsaken me?” This was when I recognized that Jesus referred to His Father as “God” for the first time. The Father did not turn His back on His Son, but the Maker and Creator turned His back on the sins of mankind! That day I got an understanding of the confident assurance that Jesus experienced being forsaken, so that you and I will never experience being forsaken by our Heavenly Father. So, when I pray and say, confessing that my Heavenly Father will never, no never leave me nor forsake me or let me down, I know it. People will forsake me and forsake you, but not our Heavenly Father. Because of the revelation that Jesus experienced being forsaken for us, it’s my abiding word and this promise will remain in me. I am confident, knowing without a shadow of doubt I will never experience God forsaking me.

Rom. 10:8: “For the word of God is near thee even in your heart and in your mouth.”

These are some of the promises/rhema words that belong to me, my abiding word and I confess them faithfully. No situation, crisis, trouble, the world, or lie can take them away from me.  You should have your own abiding words as you walk with God and grow intimately with Him, for example:

         My God loves me with an everlasting love; nothing will separate me from His Love.

         I will never leave you nor forsake you.

         Jesus came that I may have Zoe life abundantly, overflowing life.

         Will thou be made whole? Yes, Lord, I will be made whole.

         Jehovah Shamah, God is my very present HELP in the time of need; He is right here.

         I will not allow your enemies to triumphant over you.

         By His stripes I was healed, and because I were healed, I AM healed and made whole.

         I will deliver you out of all of your troubles, and always cause you to triumphant in Me.

         I will warn you of things to come and will not allow you to be ignorant of the devices of the enemy.

         Blessed is the man that trusts in the Lord; cursed is the man that puts his trust in man.

         I will perfect those things that concern you and will contend with that which contends with you.

         I know my God. I am strong and I shall do great exploit for Him.

         He is my Jehovah Gmolah, my recompense, compensation, my just and sure reward; Justice

         My God shall supply all my need according to all the riches of glory.

         Because I believe, all things are possible to me.

         I have my warring angels and ministering spirits.

         There is nothing too hard for our God.

         If my God be for me who and what can be against me?

         I will live and not die and declare the works of the Lord and with long life will He satisfy me and show me His salvation.

         Judge not and you shall not be judge.

         Abel’s blood cried vengeances, Jesus blood cried mercy! Declare the power of the blood.

         I leave everything into the hands of Him who judges all things fairly.

         I dwell in the secret place of the Most High, and abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

         He told us not to neglect so great a salvation.

         To him that has more will be given, to him that have not, what he has will be taken.

These are just some of the promises that are my abiding words. Remember, the word abide means to remain. You and I must allow God’s word to remain in us through all of life’s situations.

Key Concepts:

1.        You are in a relationship with your heavenly Father, not a religion

2.       When we make God’s word our confession it allows those confessions to become the vehicle for taking that which has been given us.

3.       We must take what has been done for us in Christ as our very own.

4.      The word becomes your own when you get a revelation and/or have an experience.

When My Prayers Became My Confession

What was once a prayer request has now become my confessions of faith. I was not asking for My Father to do it, instead I began to confess that it was already mine. I found myself confessing the Word of God as my rightful possession. Confessing God’s word is a level of faith that guarantees the promises because of the confident expectation and firm belief. When I need His help I call on Jehovah Shammah and confess who He is in my life: my very present help in times of need! I AM your Jehovah Shammah.  I Am there—not coming, but there. I can depend on Him because He is I AM There. There is not a time that He does not show up for me.  He who promised is faithful!

Worship is the Fuel for Confessions

Worship is the attitude of the heart that creates an atmosphere for the Holy Spirit of God to inhabit. A heart saturated with sincere praise and thanksgiving creates such an atmosphere, and where the Holy Spirit of God is there is peace, healing, joy and revelation. Worship is where relationship is established, not prayer, not praise, and not even study of scripture, but when He inhabits our praise, there is something called communion. When you have experienced a relationship with the Living God, by revelation and understanding, your worship becomes intimate. Through this intimacy you come to know you are loved by your Heavenly Father, the Living God and realize three important truths:

         When you know that He cares for your every need—small and great—when you know that He is good and glad to be good to you, your worship will be pure and tender.

         When you experience His longsuffering and tender mercies your worship becomes intimate.

         When you confess your sins and know that He is faithful and just to forgive you and then cleanse you from that sin your worship is intimate.

The believer whose worship is pure and tender will have a reverential fear and awe of the Sovereign God. To experience this kind of intimate worship because of a relationship is the key to the supernatural. What is the supernatural? It is God’s divine intervention, God’s manifested presence, God’s providential care, God’s loves kindness, and the realization of His Word being performed in our lives.

As you grasp the promises of God, and experience His Word your worship will become intimate, tangible, and personal. This is the only kind of praise and worship that will transform your prayer life into a life of prophetic prayer and productive confessions of faith. This revelation of our confessions fighting for us is not about some empty repetitive scriptural quoting. Rather, it is the principle of confessing the promises that come from revelation and relationship to experience the supernatural. Our relationship births worships that bring forth this explosion of powerful, prophetic confessions of faith. Without a life of worship confessing the Word would be void of the Spirit and Life of God. 2 Corinthians 3:6b: Jesus said the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.

God seeks those that worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.  If you worship Him in spirit and in truth He is coming after you, seeking you in the crowd, in your home, in the midst of the congregation. He’s looking for you because He loves to be worshipped. He is worthy of your worship! He knows it! He appreciates that you know that He is worthy!   When He finds you (and He will) He will fill you with revelation to help you.  He is God and He promised to reward those that diligently seek Him out.  It is in worship that God will reveal Himself to you. Psalm 22:3: “God inhabits the praises of His people.” Psalm 16:11: “In His presence there is fullness of joy.”  Psalm 100:4: “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving His courts with praise, be thankful unto Him and bless His Holy Name.”

Key Concepts:

1.        Worship is the deepest and most powerful expression of prayer.

2.       Worship is born out of a relationship with God.

3.       Relationship is built upon the revelation of the Word of God.

4.      To cultivate your relationship, you must believe that God is, and you must open up your heart with gratitude, thanksgiving and sincere praise for who He is and what He has done in you and for you.

5.       There are promises that are guarantees that should change your prayer life from a life of constant and repetitive requesting to a life of your confessions of faith.

6.       God told us to draw near to Him and He would draw near to us.

7.       If we worship Him, He will find us and reward us.

Confession is one of the Highest Levels of Prayer

Praying is asking for what has already been promised to you. However, confession is receiving what is yours by agreeing with what was promised to you by God in Christ. Confession is saying what God has said knowing that His Word will not return to Him void, it will accomplish what He sent it to do.  Confession is understanding that God is watching over His Word to perform it—not only for us but also for His Glory.

After receiving the promise that God would warn me I began to confess that promise. I appreciated the warnings. Many, many years ago I received a prayer assignment to cover our marriage and our relationship with the blood of Jesus. I had already been confessing that “What God joined together, let nothing and no one divide or separate it.” Almost every time I prayed I would do as He had instructed:  declaring and applying the blood of Jesus over our marriage and our relationship. I didn’t really understand why, but I heard and obeyed. This happened for almost two years. I obediently applied the Blood of Jesus over our marriage and relationship. It was a divine prophetic prayer assignment. Midway through this assignment, I began to notice that many marriages in our congregation were having problems. Couples were divorcing, wedding engagements were broken, ministers and lay members were calling it quits, one after another. A violent attack against the family was again on the rise, but because of the constant confession that “God will warn me of things to come and will not allow me to be ignorant of the devices and schemes of the enemy,” these attacks were thwarted. The prayer assignment was the warning alarm to proactively combat the forces of darkness, making us overcomers by faith.

Well, just after the second year of this prayer assignment something powerful happened. I was listening to the news and they were discussing a major tornado that hit some part of the country, yet went over a certain church in that community. The news reporter was awestruck that this tornado did not touch this particular church, its members, or their possessions. The news reporter questioned the pastor. He wanted to know how was it that this tornado did not touch one of the homes of the pastor’s church members or the church building itself. “Why sir?” he asked.

The pastor of the church answered, the only thing that he could think of was that he had been teaching on the power of the blood of Jesus for a couple of years. Then he said that the congregation had been taught to individually and collectively cover their families, homes, etc. with the precious and powerful blood of Jesus. The power of the blood causes any destruction to pass over.

When I heard these words it hit me in my stomach. POW! That’s when I realized what had happened, the spirit of separation and divorce passed right over our marriage! It could not touch us—not because we were not having problems—we had problems. However, it was the blood of Jesus Christ! We were covered with the blood of Jesus. I received the prayer assignment because the Omega knew what was coming down the road, and the confession called for the “Divine Passover Assignment.”

I realized then that my Heavenly Father had warned me of this and did not allow my enemy to triumph over me. I later thought about this assignment and asked why marriage and relationship? Holy Spirit said, if the enemy can destroy the relationship then he can steal the covenant of marriage and that is what he is after. If he gets it, he considers it a trophy won. I only regret that I didn’t share this prayer assignment with other couples. Over 15 years later I continually apply the blood of Christ Jesus over our marriage and relationship. Because of that experience when I declare and plead the blood of Jesus, I rest in the assurance that nothing can touch the powerful blood of Christ Jesus. This Word abides in me and I abide in this Word, because of experience, because of evidence. Revelations 12:11a Amplified: “And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the blood of the Lamb, and by the utterance of their testimony….”

Key Concepts:

1.        Confession comes when you reach a place of confident assurance that these promises are yours.

2.       Obeying Holy Spirit’s assignment will save your life, marriage, family, etc.

3.       You don’t have to beg for God’s promises. You don’t have to earn them, and you don’t have to manipulate God for them. If you KNOW HIM and you know His Word is true, then you can expect His Word to come to pass.

4.      Boldly use the sword of the Spirit and overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony.

The Power of Confession to Save and Change Lives

This powerful life changing word came to me from Holy Spirit after an attack of fear from the evil one. I sensed that the spirit of fear and dread was pouncing on me. I was assaulted   with an onslaught of hearing and seeing one story after another about sickness, disease, and death seasoned with hopelessness. During this time, I began to notice defeat and hopelessness seemed to be everywhere and in everyone’s conversation with an expectation for agreement.  At first I took it as information or news. It began to grieve my spirit. These stories were in movies, songs, commercials and TV programs. The stories where full of defeat and death while presented to have an acceptable or even happy ending. I sensed Holy Spirit saying that these kinds of stories or impressions are of the spirit of the anti-Christ. He is using the media to influence the world; this spirit is attempting to prepare the hearts of men to receive and believe him (the anti-Christ) and his lies. If one believes a lie they will be unable to receive the truth. Just turn on the evening news and you will see stories and documentaries of human life experiences told without hope and without the burden removing, yoke destroying, life giving power of Christ Jesus. I discerned the spirit of fear and although it was subtle, it was vicious and overbearing.

I began to cast down the thoughts that the spirit of fear brought. Yet, the enemy continued to pounce on me. It seemed that I could not shake his aggressive confrontation to get his thoughts of fear off and quench the fiery darts. It was the fiery darts of the evil one trying to penetrate my mind to establish a stronghold of fear. I fought with the Word of God, casting down every thought, and every high imagination that was attempting to exalt itself against what the Word of God has said was so. I was reminded by Holy Spirit, of whose job it is to bring back to our remembrance what Jesus said, that the Devil is a liar and there is no truth in him. Everything he suggests is a lie. So, I bound up that lying spirit and began to worship my God for yet again being my very present help in times of trouble.

Strength came because the Greater One lives in me and He is Greater than the enemy.  God didn’t give me a spirit of fear, so I resisted the Devil and submitted to God and the enemy fled.  I began to praise my God, thanking Him and worshiping Him, lifting up the blood stained banner of Jehovah Nissi that declares me victorious and triumphant in every area of life.

For years I had been meditating and confessing the promises of God concerning health and healing. I had been confessing, “He sent His Word and Healed me. My body is the temple of the living God, the fullness of the God head dwells in me, I am Healed Ground, no sickness and disease has any right in and on me. Keep out!”” I took communion on a regular basis recognizing the Lord’s body, that he suffered that I might not suffer. I prayed every prayer in the scripture for health, healing and wholeness.

After overcoming the attack of the spirit of fear I experienced a God encounter that was profound. During my morning time of prayer, I entered into a breakthrough realm of prayer as I was confessing that by the stripes of Jesus I am healed. I heard Holy Spirit say to me, “Because you were healed you are healed already.” I knew how powerful this was and began to worship my Heavenly Father, with much gratitude for His goodness, and I warred with this confession. This became my new daily confession. It wasn’t a prayer it was a confession. I was agreeing with what God has said. I understood that over 2,000 years ago Jesus took away my sickness and disease when He died for my sins. He blotted out all my transgressions.  The proof is His declaration “It is Finished”. I knew that it was already done for me and all I had to do was receive it, take it!

He sent His Word and delivered me out of my trouble. God’s Holy Spirit gave me a rhema Word, a now word, that gave me the admonition with a righteous indignation to fight the GOOD fight of faith. He said, “Because you were HEALED you are HEALED.” The Holy Spirit took me to a new level exactly when I needed a greater revelation of His truth. There He was again—Jehovah Shammah, my very present help when I need Him, not allowing my enemy to triumphant over me, but causing me to triumph in Him. 2 Corinthians 10:4: “For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood] but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds.”

When you have at least a mustard seed of faith to take God at His word: step over every fact, lie, even symptoms, and stand on God’s promises, you will activate those promises and you will see them manifested on your behalf.

Once again I had a new confession that was from the Holy Spirit. I had been confessing every scripture concerning health, because of the Spirit of infirmity that is in the world. When He gave me this word I knew faith had triumphed in my life. I sensed that Holy Spirit wanted me to take hold of this promise and begin to confess it, adding to it the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

A couple of days after receiving this word, “Because I were Healed I am Healed,” I began to declare a confident assurance that it is nothing that I have to want for, pray for, beg for, but believe, receive and own. I understood what Holy Spirit wanted me to grasp and walk in. I was so excited to receive the revelation of God’s Word.  Listen to this! A couple of days later I was watching Paula White’s morning show and Darlene Bishop was her guest. Darlene shared a story about her sister who had passed away. She was a woman of God, intercessor and pastor’s wife. Darlene shared that she cried out to God because she could not understand what happened; why did her sister die? She stated that as she walked through the room, the Spirit of God responded to her cry, that her sister was waiting for God to heal her. However, he had already healed her and she did not receive what was already done for her! I went into a time of worshipful praise and thanksgiving for our Father’s love to help me. I was supposed to hear her testimony because it encouraged me that my Heavenly Father was speaking to me and confirming the revelation. His Love is so amazing!

Key Concepts:

1.        Discern the spirit that may influence you to speak contrary to God’s Word.

2.       Resist the devil or you may fall victim to what he came to do: kill, steal and destroy.

3.       Meditating and praying God’s Word will bring about a greater revelation.

4.      There is power and access to the supernatural through a Rhema word.

My Confessions are Fighting for Me

As I reflected on my relationship with my Heavenly Father and my relationship with Holy Spirit and the consistent prayer assignments and confessions of faith, I saw His divine intervention to build my faith up in an area before I would need it. I was so thankful for My God’s love toward me that I began to praise and worship Him for His goodness. It was in His presence, in worship that Holy Spirit gave me this supernatural word: “Your confessions are fighting for you.”

This word has changed my life forever. I know without a doubt that I have a failsafe truth that empowers me to know that I can’t lose when the word of God is fighting for me. Our heavenly Father wants us to have a deeper understanding of the power of our confessions. He wants us to be confident and trust that our confessions are our supernatural weapons to help us. The promises that I had been confessing by faith were in the realm of the Spirit, fighting on my behalf to bring to past what I had been confessing. It was the work of faith bringing to past what I was hoping for. When truth is conceived and the rhema Word is born then the will of God is manifested. When this word came to me I could literary see the Words of my confessions knocking out things, blocking and stopping things for me. The word of God was in combat for me. I can’t imagine where I would be if I had not had a relationship with Holy Spirit.

I saw Him as my Alpha and Omega, who knows the end from the beginning and who is ever-present and all-wise and whose thoughts and plans for you and me are for good and not for evil. He revealed that He is proactive, powerful, and precise, and so are His Words that reside in our hearts and come out of our mouths. This was a powerful word to build my faith for anything that might try to come my way now or in the future. God gave me a faith-filled, power-packed now word. When I received it I understood. Before I received this word, I had already begun to make regular health, prosperity, healing, life, and long life confessions over myself and my family. That Word was the knockout punch, it was the annihilator, born out of the Truth and put to work by my confessions.

He was telling me to know and be confident that when I stand on His word, declaring and confessing His promises, that His Word is full of Power, Spirit and Life and will do what He said. He said my confessions are fighting for me. The Word I was confessing for health, protection, provision, deliverance, wholeness, prosperity, wisdom, etc. was bringing it to pass in my life and giving me all things that pertain to life and godliness. Additionally, other promises that I had been confessing were literally creating a force of protection and intercepting the schemes of the enemy.

Our heavenly Father wants those that belong to Him, those that are in Christ Jesus to know and understand the power of our confessions. Our confessions are packed with a supernatural punch. This revelation that “my confessions are fighting for me” helped me get a comprehensive understanding of the good fight of faith. My confessions are fighting for me means God Himself is fighting for me! He is Jehovah Saboath—the God of Battle.

The confessions are His Word, His promises, His will, and His way. He was fighting for me; His Word was fighting for me. His promises were fighting for me. I was fighting the good fight of faith by confessing His Word of promise. God is in the business of fighting for those that belong to Him. Deuteronomy 1:30: “The Lord your God Who goes before you, He will fight for you just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.” Deuteronomy 3:22: “You shall not fear them, for the Lord your God shall fight for you.” As we can see our God is committed to fight for us. Deuteronomy 20:3: “For the Lord your God is He who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you.” There is no situation that we face that our Heavenly Father has not conquered already.

Look at 2 Chronicles 20:17. King Jehoshaphat got the news that an enemy was plotting an attack to destroy him and his people. He humbly cried out to the Lord regarding his fear of the great multitude, and asked for God’s help. God—our God—answered him: “Do not be afraid, for God will fight the battle for you.” King Jehoshaphat and the people of God obediently put their trust in God’s faithfulness and stood back and saw the salvation of the Lord. He defeated their enemies and gave them their possessions causing a wealth transfer.

When I think about the stories of old, I realize that before the great Exodus the people fought their own battles. However, following the Exodus, God became their God and they became God’s people. He delivered them because they were His and He fought for them. We must know that He fights every battle for us, and the battle is already won. 1 Samuel 17:4: “All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s and He will give all of you into our hands.”

We give Him our battles when we confess His promises. The Holy Spirit revealed to me that His promises prayed and confessed for years have activated a supernatural warning mechanism/force field for me. We don’t have to be ignorant of the devices of the evil one! The Greater One is on the inside of us. These promises were given to us to hope for and by our faith take them.

God wants you and me to begin to find His promises and take Him at His Word. You must know that He said “Yes” to you for each and every one of His Promises and then He sealed them with a “So Be It,” AMEN, because Jesus is The Amen. We cannot be lazy; we must have “Fight” and faith that God is faithful to His Word. The natural realm cannot stop God’s promises from coming to past.

I am so grateful for the many generals of the faith that have shared the revelations and principles that God has given them. These anointed vessels and prophetic teachers have written books that teach us to speak God’s Word over our lives. These messengers have ministered to me, brought confirmation to what I was hearing from the Spirit of the Lord and helped me to strengthen my faith, word knowledge and prayer life: Charles Capps, Bill Winston, Kenneth Hagen, Cindy Trimm, Andrew Womack, Patricia Bailey-Jones, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and many others. Reading these generals of faith books and listening to their messages have encouraged me that yes, I was hearing from God. And because I have been helped I hope that this book has helped you.

I leave you with this prayer that I encourage you to pray daily:

“Father, forgive me for every negative and inoperative word I have spoken concerning myself, my family, friends, enemies and my life. Forgive me for being led by flesh. Holy Spirit, control me and my mouth by creating in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit in me. Put a watch over my mouth; help me to be slow to speak and weigh it before I say it. Use me to help others watch what they say, and speak the word only.”

Learn to speak death and destruction to every negative and inoperative word spoken against you and instead speak life because every day your confessions are fighting for you!

Table of Contents

About The Author

Author’s Introduction

Foreword

First Things First “Know the Truth”

Confession Is

The “Already” Factor

The Revelation of This Principle Begins

Know the Language of the Flesh

Mouth in Training

Watch What You Say, but Say Something!

Making God’s Word My Own

When My Prayers Became My Confession

Confession is one of the Highest Levels of Prayer

The Power of Confession to Save and Change Lives

My Confessions are Fighting for Me