Whatever you are summoned or called to--must be confessed.

Your mouth must fight until a favorable decision is reached:

One of our greatest battles we wage is with our mouth.  To live and die, to bind and loose, to build and destroy all lie in the power of the tongue.

Paul said, "You can be all that God placed a summons on your life to be, but you must fight the good fight and confess the good confession [of faith.]"

Faith is not motivational self-talk.  It is a war of two realities: your circumstance or diagnosis and the Word of God. 

Faith is an outward declaration of an inner belief and there is a fight for it.

You see, some fights are good.  A fight is a battle or combat; it is any contest or struggle of opposites--a disagreement of words; it is engaged in to subdue, defeat, or destroy a rival or enemy. 

There is a fight for your confession to help you live your best life.  The word confession in Greek is "homologeo" and means:

1. To say what has been said or say what God says (i.e. to agree with, or give in to what He has spoken.)
2. To concede to the will and promise of God declared over your life; not to refuse or deny, but to confess, declare and admit yourself guilty of what He has promised ("I'm guilty of the favor and blessing of God.")
3. It is to profess, declare openly or speak out FREELY, (Not imprisoned or enslaved; not subject to interference by false governments; Not affected or restricted by a given condition or circumstance; but being at liberty to be open, frank and speak abundantly.)
4. To praise and celebrate Christ by agreeing with His design for your life

The word "confession" stems from the Greek word "logos."  Logos is a word, uttered by a living voice that embodies a conception, thought or idea; it is what Someone has said:

1. A word
2. The sayings, the thoughts, designs, purposes, expectations of God
3. A decree, a mandate; a change of order, moral precepts given by God
4. Prophetic words that have not come to pass yet 
5. What is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim
6. It is the act of speaking; the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking what God says to release His divine plan which coordinates a changing universe.

You frame your world by what you say.

Guard your mouth. One of the worst things we can do when we hear bad news is to remain silent.  We have trained our spirit not to take the confession of our mouth seriously. On a good day, we confess the Word of God boldly, but on a horrible one, we grow despondent and use negative words to self-diagnose our future.

In the process, we confuse our spirit in what to really believe.

Confession does work; but it must be consistent.  There is a fight for it, so lay hold to what you were called to and what you confessed.  In the beginning, God created an environment that didn't exist with His words. 

Likewise, when you have nothing, you must have a confession.

In the most difficult hour of His life and in the presence of hostile men, Christ made the good confession.  Paul wrote:

"In the presence of God, Who preserves alive all living things, and of Christ Jesus, Who in His testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I [solemnly] charge you to keep all His precepts unsullied and flawless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), which [appearing] will be shown forth in His own proper time by the blessed, only Sovereign (Ruler), the King of kings and the Lord of lords,  Who alone has immortality [in the sense of exemption from every kind of death] and lives in unapproachable light...Unto Him be honor and everlasting power and dominion." (1 Tim. 6:12-16)

Christ has put exemption in you of everything that is trying to kill you.

• You are exempt from poverty
• You are exempt from fear
• You are exempt from unemployability
• You are exempt from dying in that failure, sin, generational curse or disease that killed your predecessor or parent(s)
• You are exempt from losing your business
• You are exempt from losing your kids to the wiles, strategy and control of the enemy
• You are exempt from the recession (and all depression and marital distress that result from it.)

Just because weapons form, do not mean they have to prosper.

Today, redemption and exemption is on your life.

Dictionary.com defines exempt as: To free from an obligation, penalty or liability to which others are subject (esp. one that is disagreeable or threatening) to be released, free, clear, privileged; to live extraordinary and exceptional. 

• It is my heritage to condemn anything that rises against me and my family (Isa. 54:17.)
• Every assault, assignment, arrow and attack of the enemy is quenched--put out, extinguished, subdued, destroyed, suppressed, squelched, overcome or quelled (Eph. 6:16.)
• There is nothing I cannot overcome with the Greater One in me (1 Jn. 4:4.)
• Recession cannot hurt me, bankruptcy cannot hurt me, sickness cannot hurt me, rejection and people cannot hurt me (Lk. 10:19.)

I am more than a conqueror.

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