Faith and Confession: A Journey of Transformation
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"Confession with our lips is so important, and it's not confessing with your lips to a priest. It is not confessing with your lips as a rote exercise, as just some kind of tradition. It is an active lifestyle. Everything in the Christian life is not an act that we do once but a lifestyle, so we have to make a lifestyle out of believing in my heart and confessing with our mouth." [00:04:10]
"Abraham was saw his body being as good as dead. The physical evidence was getting from bad to worse, literally, but he didn't become weak in faith. Verse 20, when he considered the promise, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God. To me, that includes his mouth. This was not let's come to church on Sunday and sing songs. That wasn't it." [00:06:34]
"God has a wonderful promise for us in this verse, Hosea chapter 14. Hosea's after Daniel, Hosea chapter 14 verse 4. He says there, 'I will heal their apostasy.' What does the word apostasy mean? This is what the word apostasy means. Apostasy means faithlessness. The opposite of faithlessness is faithfulness. That means constant consistency, consistency to confess our word of faith, consistency to live in victory over sin." [00:10:54]
"Return, O Israel. Okay, God, I can do that. I keep returning to you, but then he says, 'Take words with you.' Take words with you. We just talked about how important our words are, and God is saying, 'Look, this is what you need to take your words with you and present the fruit of our lips.' And I kind of saw that in the margin of my Bible." [00:12:56]
"The confession of our lips must be a product of the confession of our hearts, which says Assyria, which is the world system, this world, everything that this world has to offer will not save us. It's a confession that I have to make with my lips. It's a confession that has to come from my heart. Lord Jesus, nothing on this earth will save me." [00:14:29]
"Lord Jesus, none of my efforts, even to be spiritual, I'm gonna lift up as a God. Nothing, Lord Jesus, that I do, my Bible study, my spiritual thoughts, I'm not gonna make them out to be something big. I'm not gonna make them out to be like a God. Lord Jesus, I want you. I want to really come to the point where I feel like an orphan who has no inheritance." [00:16:09]
"Take it away, Lord, till you reduce me to the state of an orphan. No inheritance, no future, no backup plan, nothing. And I'll come to you, Lord, as an orphan with absolutely nothing. I'll come to you, you'll show me mercy, and then God responds, 'And I will heal your faithlessness.' You keep going back, you keep going back into sin because you've not been reduced to the heart of an orphan." [00:17:44]
"The Lord is trying to remove all of these pillars on which you think you stand, things in the world system, maybe our jobs, the things in this world, or even our spiritual life, our works, the work of our hands, the work of our diligence to study God's Word. God's gonna remove it all and saying something, 'You come back to being an orphan.'" [00:19:01]
"You said, 'God, I'm a complete wreck. I can't live without you. Please give me your Holy Spirit,' and I received you so freely. I gave you forgiveness of sins. I gave you an assurance that you were born again because you had nothing. In the same way, God wants us to keep coming back, and then the Lord will heal our apostasy. God will heal our faithlessness." [00:19:48]
"Dear brothers and sisters, this is what the Lord wants to do in our lives. He wants to make us faithful. He wants to love us freely, as it says in Hosea chapter fourteen verse four, and has come with the fruit of our lips, has confessed with our lips what the Lord of war, the faith the Lord is putting in our hearts." [00:20:21]
"Where is the word of faith in your mouth from the sins that you still have? All of us stand here, say we're sinners. Where is the word of faith that is in your mouth for your current sins, or are we saying words of unbelief? God can only help me this level. Where, dear brothers and sisters, is the word of faith that is in your mouth?" [00:02:13]
"God will do this, and God will take me from this level of spirituality to this level of spirituality, for with the heart man believes and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. You have to put gas in the car, and you have to drive it. So a lot of people are putting gas in the car. I think I'm gonna go to New York." [00:02:31]
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"Abraham was saw his body being as good as dead. The physical evidence was getting from bad to worse, literally, but he didn't become weak in faith. Verse 20, when he considered the promise, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God. To me, that includes his mouth. This was not let's come to church on Sunday and sing songs. That wasn't it." [00:06:34]
"God has a wonderful promise for us in this verse, Hosea chapter 14. Hosea's after Daniel, Hosea chapter 14 verse 4. He says there, 'I will heal their apostasy.' What does the word apostasy mean? This is what the word apostasy means. Apostasy means faithlessness. The opposite of faithlessness is faithfulness. That means constant consistency, consistency to confess our word of faith, consistency to live in victory over sin." [00:10:54]
"Return, O Israel. Okay, God, I can do that. I keep returning to you, but then he says, 'Take words with you.' Take words with you. We just talked about how important our words are, and God is saying, 'Look, this is what you need to take your words with you and present the fruit of our lips.' And I kind of saw that in the margin of my Bible." [00:12:56]
"The confession of our lips must be a product of the confession of our hearts, which says Assyria, which is the world system, this world, everything that this world has to offer will not save us. It's a confession that I have to make with my lips. It's a confession that has to come from my heart. Lord Jesus, nothing on this earth will save me." [00:14:29]
"Lord Jesus, none of my efforts, even to be spiritual, I'm gonna lift up as a God. Nothing, Lord Jesus, that I do, my Bible study, my spiritual thoughts, I'm not gonna make them out to be something big. I'm not gonna make them out to be like a God. Lord Jesus, I want you. I want to really come to the point where I feel like an orphan who has no inheritance." [00:16:09]
"Take it away, Lord, till you reduce me to the state of an orphan. No inheritance, no future, no backup plan, nothing. And I'll come to you, Lord, as an orphan with absolutely nothing. I'll come to you, you'll show me mercy, and then God responds, 'And I will heal your faithlessness.' You keep going back, you keep going back into sin because you've not been reduced to the heart of an orphan." [00:17:44]
"The Lord is trying to remove all of these pillars on which you think you stand, things in the world system, maybe our jobs, the things in this world, or even our spiritual life, our works, the work of our hands, the work of our diligence to study God's Word. God's gonna remove it all and saying something, 'You come back to being an orphan.'" [00:19:01]
"You said, 'God, I'm a complete wreck. I can't live without you. Please give me your Holy Spirit,' and I received you so freely. I gave you forgiveness of sins. I gave you an assurance that you were born again because you had nothing. In the same way, God wants us to keep coming back, and then the Lord will heal our apostasy. God will heal our faithlessness." [00:19:48]
"Dear brothers and sisters, this is what the Lord wants to do in our lives. He wants to make us faithful. He wants to love us freely, as it says in Hosea chapter fourteen verse four, and has come with the fruit of our lips, has confessed with our lips what the Lord of war, the faith the Lord is putting in our hearts." [00:20:21]
"Where is the word of faith in your mouth from the sins that you still have? All of us stand here, say we're sinners. Where is the word of faith that is in your mouth for your current sins, or are we saying words of unbelief? God can only help me this level. Where, dear brothers and sisters, is the word of faith that is in your mouth?" [00:02:13]
"God will do this, and God will take me from this level of spirituality to this level of spirituality, for with the heart man believes and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. You have to put gas in the car, and you have to drive it. So a lot of people are putting gas in the car. I think I'm gonna go to New York." [00:02:31]
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