The Law of Confession

Many of my friends and family know that I have embarked on a new challenge: grad school. I am learning that there are some very new challenges that come with being a student, and I am yet getting accustomed to them.

When I decided to go to grad school, I expected a lot of work, beyond what my undergraduate mind could grasp. However, one lesson that I've learned throughout my life, that so as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Nedless to say, when I arrived to school, and through my first few weeks of class, the work started to pile up and became more and more reading intesive. I begin to think, ' there is no way I'm going to get throug this readin,' ...and here, on this fourth week of classes, I am indeed struggling to make it through all of my readings for all of my classes...and I believe that it is all because of what I have spoken over my own life.

As a believer, I began to think about the many teachings of Faith. While doing some 'leisure reading' to clear my mind, a book "your life follows your words" by Darlene Bishop, reminded me of the importance of conceptualizing your faith, your victory, your success, your overcoming, through your mind/spirit, and through confessing it with your mouth. Science has proven that the constant repeating and hearing of words can cause the mind and body to believe and trigger appropriate responses to the words. Well our faith has justified that....we know that if we confess and speak those things that are not as though they were, then we will posess it. This is one thing that I have tested, and I know to be true. So as I close another night of graduate study, I continue to visualize and speak my way into May 2010, when I WILL graduate with distinction and on to the next phase of life. My faith is sustaining, and my confession is working me through.

To my brother or sister reading this blog, know that faith truly is the substance of things hoped for, and our working of faith through confession moves us from conceptualizing to possession. We all have suffered, we all have had to want, and many of us have been in very impossible situations. We have all been hungry, lacked, and we have all used our faith as a sort of security blanket...while we yet lament on our present circumstances. Know that you are giving more power to your detriment than rise to your faith. I know for me personally, I am going to start taking the steps of confess and speak things into existence, not as a security or insurance factor, but with real authority and belief behind it. Family members to be saved...speaking it with authority....inner peace and happiness..speaking it with authority as if it is here......acceptance....speaking it....possession....speaking it. The results are two fold....our minds and spirits respond to it and we live a natural life more positively....but more importantly, it calls our faith into action...and while I am writing this I am reaffirming myself.

I do not claim to know everything...I do not have everything together...there are some areas in my life that need a lot of work...but what I do have is faith, and though all other things fade away...faith and love abides. Stay encouraged.



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