Positve Confession

Words are powerful.  They open and shut doors, and have the ability to steer the course of life.  A very good friend of mine was telling me the other day how much they had exercised positive confession, the practice of speaking positively in any givien situation.  A common thought for us as believers; we need to be careful with our confession.  We want to have a positive confession not a negative one.  I think perhaps that may be the wrong thought.  What if we think differently about confession.  What if positive or negative are not even actual options? To understand what I mean, let’s consider the word “confession”.

The word for confession in the New Testament actually means “to say the same words”.  For us to “say the same words”  the “words” would have to originate somewhere besides us.  It is built into this definition of confession, that the words originate from God. We hear them and then repeat them.  We have just “said the same words” as God Himself.  Is it possible to say the words of God and the resulting language be negative?

The real option is not to choose between positive and negative but to choose between one of two sources.  If the thought originates from us, it is not a confession, it is a thought. If it comes from God it is a confession.  Not positive or negative.  Simply CONFESSION.

Whether you think positively or negatively, stop…listen.  Don’t let your thoughts be the source.  Listen.  You can only confess, if you first HEAR.  Listen.  It will make you think differently.