Confession i.e. speaking the Word of God, or speaking in line with the Word, because you believe is another prerequisite for the law of faith to function as it should. Jesus Himself stressed the absolute importance of confession and showed the inseparable nature of “believing and speaking”. If He did, then we have no choice but to follow what He taught if we are His followers.
Jesus stressed in Matthew 17:20, “…for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say… and nothing will be impossible to you”. Here, Jesus taught that if you indeed have faith then you will indeed say something. Having faith makes you say something, and this results in impossibilities changing to possibilities. Therefore if your faith is mute then you had better unmute it because faith speaks. Again in Mark 11:23, Jesus laid this emphasis: “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. Here Jesus did not teach that you will simply have what you believe for. Rather, you shall have whatsoever things you say if you believe and doubt not. There must be spoken words that come out of your believing, and those things that are said are the very things that are received. So what is your faith making you say?
We are again instructed in Philemon 1:6, “That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus”. One of the ways to acknowledge the good things God has made available to you in Christ is to say those things with a heart of gratitude and praise to God. As you do this in faith, you shall have what you say (cf. Mark 11:24); you will walk in the reality of those things that proceed out of your mouth in praise to God. Joshua 1:8 also says “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success”. We are instructed to keep God’s word in our hearts (e.g. Psalm 119:11). But here (Joshua 1:8), the command was not to let the book of the law, i.e. the Word of God, depart from our hearts, but rather not to let it depart from our mouths! The things God has said should continually be on our lips. We are to meditate on them day and night. The Hebrew word translated “meditate”, i.e., hagah, also means to mutter or speak. Thus, the command is for us to speak the Word of God continually, as we think and ponder over the Word. This is how we have good success. This is how our faith becomes effective (cf. Philemon 1:6, Joshua 1:8).
None of the laws of faith works in isolation. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it (James 2:10). Even so, to neglect what the will of God is, a basic prerequisite for the law of faith to function, and go on speaking words out of your own will produces no result (e.g. James 4:3). Therefore we ought not be foolish but understand what the will of God is. We must study the Word of God to know His will, believe it and say what God is saying about our lives, families, future, situation, finances, towns, nations and every aspect of our lives. God says of Himself that “I create the fruit of the lips” (Isaiah 57:19). Why then should you be silent? Why not offer Him words from your mouth with which He will create His goodness in your life?
Kwadwo Omari, PhD
© March, 2017