CONFESSIONS THAT BRING UNTO SALVATION
- Sermon By: Apostle Jackson Kgopolo
- Categories: Faith, God, Hope, Pray, The word of God
In everything give God thanks, for saying thank you is in turn acknowledging that God is able. Despite the intensity of our wilderness, His goodness, favor and mercy is always there. Murmuring on the other hand breeds a place for regret about one’s salvation and Christian life.
Prayer;
Lord thank you for everything good or bad that you have permitted in my life.
Reiterating his message on humility, from the Friday night of catch the fire, the man of God says that humility is the key to suppress all of the enemy’s plans. As James 4: 10 alludes to us to be humble before the eyes of the Lord, this goes to show that God only lifts those who are humble. We need to be humble and choose to be in environments that ooze humility, leaving behind all surroundings and places that carry toxicity and are breeding places of pain.
In case you are asking yourself this question:
How do we live in an environment that is humble?
In answering this the Apostle says that it is when our confessions carry faith. That is, our associates speak words of faith, and not words of sight which are determined by the pressure surrounding us. For being in such environments slows down one’s thinking, because before meditation comes thinking. It is important to note that all we do comes from the heart, hence any form of impurity within one’s heart hinders the pipelines of positive meditation, contaminating one’s confessions and breeding an environment of anger, bitterness and all manner of impurities. Choose to surround yourself with people who speak the language of positive faith. People whose focus will be beyond the mountains ahead of you, but rather delve onto thinking of solutions to it instead. We see the man David, whom when standing before Goliath, did not praise his (Goliath) gigantic nature against his small build, but magnified his faith that led him to defeating the giant before him just by a catapult.
Dwelling much on the problem delays the thought capacity of the solution thereof. Beyond the mountain, lays a valley, beyond that sickness is healing, beyond that disgrace is grace – speak thereof about the solution and testimony that lays behind the mountain before you. Let us remember to follow the track, because a man is made out of their track record. Jesus, despite all the thorns poked in his flesh, his confession never changed – it is in this humility that he gained exaltation.
Confess;
In this year 2025, I need a humble environment.
Teach all those around you to speak words and confessions of faith and not those of sight. For the words of sight carry destruction. Think before you speak – Let this be your code for the year 2025. It is important to thoroughly introspect the impact of one’s words before uttering them out.
Quoting Mathew 12; 34, the man of God says the vipers in reference here are those resistant to change, for a person’s confessions is a great revelator of their true nature.
He further states through the scripture in Romans 10: 8, that God wishes for us to speak words of faith – words that build and are encouraging. Let us note that words carry power. Anything you say can either build or destroy. Deal away with negativity. It is important to focus less on the problems ahead of us, rather speak about the solution, just as we see in the in the Bible Jesus being describes as the healer, blesser and deliverer whereas the devil’s mission was to steal, kill and destroy. As the disciples of Christ, it is important for us to confess with our mouth salvation, deliverance, healing and blessings. For when we speak those, our environment changes, forcing the devil to find his way out of our lives due to the deprivation of attention displayed towards him.
Speak life in your situation – your business, marriage, academia, health, finances and all that has to do with your life, for Romans 10: 9 tells us that we arose with Him(Jesus) from the dead.
What brings us unto salvation is not confessions of sight, but those of faith.
Going down to verse 10, he says that Quoting verse 10 of Romans 10, the man of God says that righteousness is the good that God did to us, to draw us out of sin, sickness, suffering – making us to speak, walk, reason and do all like Him. This we are called Christians, which means Christ like.
You carry the power to remove anything you had permitted your way. Jesus never put doubt at the door of His heart, but belief. It is through his power to command His environment that He gained righteousness.
Prayer:
Lord remove any doubt in me in Jesus name!
In closing, the man of God says that you confess and give what is inside you. If you are empty, there is nothing you can give and if you are negative, you will give out negativity. Hence the scripture tells us that from the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.