RESHAPING YOUR DESTINY THROUGH FAITH AND POSITIVE CONFESSION: Jer.29:11. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. The Word of God teaches us that we can change things. The devil may have destined you for pain and sorrow, but you can change your destiny through faith in God and His Word. We hold the key to our own destiny and future. God does not hold it. He has already done everything He has to do for mankind. He has made a way of escape. That path of escape is through the redemptive blood of the Lord Jesus. Through Him we can have faith to change our destiny. Our lips should carry new revelations, new wisdom, new songs, positive confessions and above all power to create. God said in Genesis Chapter One – “Let there be light” and there was light”. We, who are created in God’s own image and likeness, also possess God’s creative ability when we become born-again. We must learn to maximize these creative powers in our tongues. As you daily confess positively, these five things will begin to happen: • Every aspect of your life will begin to experience changes (positive confession is a catalyst of change). • You will begin to fulfill your destiny in life (positive confession is your passport to your place of destiny in life). • You begin to possess your God-given success (confession precedes possession). • Your direction in life will become clearer (positive confession sets your direction and determine how far you can go). • Our lives are sustained (positive confession will sustain us when all hope is gone). 1. GREAT POSSIBILITIES THROUGH THE PRAYER OF FAITH Genesis 32:22-30; 33:1-4: l Chronicles 4:9, 10; l Samuel 7: 7-11; Romans 4:17- 22 Jacob wrestled with the angel in prayer and prevailed; and thus he also prevailed against Esau and his four hundred men whose anger he feared. Fervency and perseverance in prayer of faith, has great influence with God. It prepares the way for deliverance from present trials, and furnishes the best for all which are future. The Jewish writers affirm that Jabez was an eminent doctor in the law, whose reputation drew so many scribes around him that a town was called by his name (1Chrn 2:55); but the circumstances that surrounded his life where very negative until the day he decided to ‘the bull by the horn’ and his future never remained the same. The woman with the issue of blood had her pathetic case and destiny reshaped by just a touch of faith. And Jesus said “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” 2. GREAT POSSIBILITIES THROUGH POSITIVE CONFESSION Numbers 14:1-10; Exodus 14:10, 13, 19, 21, 22, 28, 30, 31;; l Samuel 17:31-37,45-52; Mark 11:12-14, 20-23; 2Kings 4:18-26,32-37; “Say unto them, as truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:” (Numbers 14:28). The great possibilities and power in positive confession even in seemingly insurmountable crossroads of life cannot be over emphasized. Our confessions, (positive or negative); once released, accumulates in the spiritual orbit, awaiting the appropriate time to get downloaded into our lives to either change or complicate our situations. None of the Israelites that came out of Egypt got into the promised land save Caleb and Joshua; not because God was weak but because of their negative confessions. We should therefore learn (in difficult times), to speak the words of faith. Jesus said “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” (Mark 11:23). The problem therefore is not in the existence of the mountain, but in what we say about the mountain. No mountain of life can withstand the crushing power of positive confessions of faith. Moses applied it, the Red sea parted. Joshua and Caleb inherited the Promised Land, David brought down Goliath. The Shunammite woman, against all odds, maintained an unshaken positive confession and eventually had her dead child raised back to life. 3. GOD’S UNCHANGING PRINCIPLE FOR DESIRED CONQUEST Matthew 9:17-27; 2Kings 20:1-6; 1Samuel 1;9-11, 15, 19, 24-27: Mark11:22-24 “And Jesus looking upon them saith, with men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible” (Mark 10:27) “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (Matthew 9:23). God’s principles for having our present fortune and future destiny transformed remain the same. He said “I am God, I change not…”. That same God who responded to Hezekiah’s prayer of faith and gave him additional 15 years in place of premature death has not changed. He was the same God that honoured Hannah’s prayer of faith and through her gave a great prophet to Israel. Jabez also had his past cleansed and future secured. For Jacob, twenty years enmity melted away under the great potency of the prayer of faith. Though Moses saw the Egyptian army marching ferociously towards them, the power of his positive confession swallowed the up in the Red Sea and The Israelites saw them no more. And if the Shunammite, a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel could confess her dead child back to life, then it is certain that you too can begin to have “whatsoever you say” from today.
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