Three Keys to Positive Confession by Frederick K. C. Price

Author:Frederick K. C. Price
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Faith
ISBN: 9781883798055
Publisher: Dr. Frederick K. C. Price Ministries
Published: 1994-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

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Never Confess Doubt

Our second key to positive confession is this: Never confess doubt, or anything else of a negative nature. Admitting doubt, even in a small way, will paralyze your faith. It will have the effect of withholding God's best and His blessings from you. Therefore, we must never confess doubt.

I want you to notice how I phrased that statement. I said we must never confess doubt. I did not say you will not have doubt, or that it would never rear its ugly head. I said we must learn not to confess the doubt, because doubt confessed is doubt possessed. If you say it, you will have it.

Every one of us is subject to doubt. Satan, who is the instigator of doubt, will assail your mind with it from time to time. His purpose in doing this is to get you to question the truthfulness and accuracy of God's Word. If Satan can get you off of the Word, he has you in his hip pocket.

Many Christians become upset because they have doubt. They fall into condemnation, and think that God does not love them anymore, or think they are not operating in faith anymore—all because that doubt came to them. However, doubt comes to all of us. If doubt did not come, we would not know how to stand against it. You could lie down and believe, but Paul tells us in Ephesians 6:13-14, "... and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore." Why? Because you are going to be assailed by doubt, and doubt is the greatest enemy of God's Word.

I mentioned in the last chapter that when Satan shoots evil thoughts into your mind, that the thought itself is not important. It is what you do with it that determines how dangerous it is. The same is true for doubt. It is not the doubt that is important, but what you do with it.

What you should do with doubt is to ignore it! Doubt is real. It will come. But do not allow or permit it to have anything to do with your lifestyle, or with your making any decisions concerning the things of God.

God's Side, and Our Side

Too many Christians allow doubt to influence them, and that is where they get tripped up. They think, "Does God really mean what He says about...?" The answer to that question is, of course, He does. If God did not mean it, He would not have said it.

God will do exactly what He says He will do, but not until you do what you are supposed to do. There is a God-ward side and a man-ward side to every promise He has made to us, and God has already done His part. The Book of Hebrews says that God has rested from His labors. He is not doing anything today, because He has already put into operation everything that is needed for us to walk in salvation, to walk in power, and to be the Body of Christ in the Kingdom of God as we ought to be.

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