You Have What You Say

they will be saved. If you’re faced with what looks like impossible circumstances, your

confession of faith is that God is going to turn things around in your favor.

But how many times do we say negative things. Most all of us are guilty at one time or

another of doing this, including myself. You look outside and see it is a cold, wet, rainy

day and you say, “What a yucky day this is going to be.” Or your bills seem to be piling

up and you say, “We are never going to get out of debt.”

When our kids were younger they always wanted to go out to eat on Sunday evening after

church. Sometimes we did, but sometimes we didn’t because our budget wouldn’t allow

it. We told the kids we couldn’t afford it. This seemed to have a negative effect on them

and was certainly not faith building, because that became our excuse for any extra

curricular activity. So one night after church Zach wanted to go out to eat and he begged

and begged. Rather than say we couldn’t afford it I told him okay we would go to the

Miller Restaurant. He got all excited and ran and told Angela and Jodi. Well when we

pulled up into our driveway, Zech said, “Hey, I thought you said we were going to the

Miller Restaurant.” I said, “This is the Miller Restaurant and your mother is the cook.”

Saying positive things does not negate the fact that things don’t look good. I know there

is such a thing as reality. But confessing positive things is an act of faith and fits nicely

with Hebrews 11:1 which says:

1: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of

things not seen.

In other words, you may not see the answer to your problem but by faith you know it’s on

the way. It’s called confessing things not as they are but as they will be.

It is a known medical fact that positive confession promotes healing where negative

confession can actually cause disease. So what do you want? Health or sickness. And it

doesn’t make any difference what the doctor says. If he tells you things are going to get

worse then start confessing things will get better. You will have what you say if you

confess it with your mouth.

Point 2

Now the second way to receive good things from God is you will have what you say if

you believe it in your heart.

Now I know if can be a big word, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s look at my text. Jesus

says in Verse 3:

3: For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed

and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that

those things he says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says.

When Jesus spoke to that fig tree he did so in faith because it was a perfectly healthy fig

tree and there was no reason for it to die and yet he knew the next day it would be dead

and sure enough it was. That’s what it means to not doubt but simply believe that your

confession of faith will come to pass. Sort of like Elijah after he killed the 450 prophets

of Baal he told King Ahab it was going to rain. Now it had not rained in 3 ½ years and

there were no clouds in the sky to indicate it was going to rain. Nevertheless, Elijah said