Seven Essential Steps to Increase Your Faith & Claim Your Healing – Step 1

What you Confess!

I have put together a series of seven blogs about how to increase your faith and claim your healing! This is an exciting time in our history where God has given us some extra time to grow in areas where perhaps we are lacking! He spoke to me many months ago about writing a book about faith. I knew what that meant! It meant that I would be undergoing some pretty severe trials, kind of like what’s going on right now. But I didn’t realize how those tests were preparing me for what has unfolded (social isolation) because of the Covid-19! It has helped me to trust more in God’s unfailing love to get me through this.  He will do the same for you!

Did you know that faith is all about testing? We only grow from tests, and graduate to the next level after we’ve passed the previous test! So, in this first blog, I’d like to share something very important I learned about faith, and that has to do with what you confess! I came to realize that everything is created by the Word of Faith - that’s how God works - by the spoken Word - this is how the world and everything was created. He spoke it into existence. Read Genesis 1. Every time God created something, the Bible says, “And God said...”. Then He declared that it was so...let there be light. And poof, there was light! And so on...

What you confess is so important, I’d like to point out something very surprising! Do you believe that you are saved by the “confession” of your sin? NO. We are saved by confessing the Lord! He knows about the sin. The confession is to acknowledge that He alone can save us from all unrighteousness. Confessing your sin isn’t actually what saves you! Isn’tthat interesting? I always thought you had to confess your sins! 

Let’s read in Romans the importance of what we confess: 

Rom 10:8  But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Rom 10:9  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Rom 10:10  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

I’d like to clarify that it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t confess our sins. When God convicts us, we will want to confess our burden of sin and be free of it. And we have that incredible promise of forgiveness in I John 1:9:

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And so, here is a monumental step to successful faith: - declare the Lord, confess the Lord and His Word, not the problem. Do not confess the problem. This can also amount to complaining, which won’t get you the desired results!

Some people have given the phrase, Word of faith (as we just read in verse 8), a bad name because it was not represented well by some popular TV evangelists. It does not mean a power trip or anything like that. It doesn’t mean that you can control what you get by what you confess when it is clearly not God’s desire or will for you to have something. Everything must be done by prayer. There are many healing Scriptures to be found in the Bible. I’d like to share one of my favorites. I repeat it often when I desire and need healing. 

Rom 8:11  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 

You know that “quicken” means to bring life to? When something is awry in our bodies, it is attacked by something that is NOT life-giving, rather it is trying to rob us of life as God intended us to have. So, this verse is very important to confess when you are asking for healing! One time I had a lump on my gums and God put that verse on my heart, so I said it and I prayed, and the lump went away, and so did the pain associated with it! Praise God! Our words are powerful. Here is an important passage of Scripture about what we speak: 

Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees:

A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit

Mat 12:33  Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the treeis known by his fruit.

Mat 12:34  O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 

Mat 12:35  A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 

Mat 12:36  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Mat 12:37  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. 

Finally, get a good Bible concordance and look up all the healing Scriptures you can find. There’s lots of good help on the Internet as well. Repeat them and let them get deep into your heart and soul. After awhile, you will notice a big difference when it comes to your faith. Try this: Declare your healing by repeating the Scriptures, and declaring it by voicing it over your body — it works, trust me, it has worked for me with my dental when it seemed the situation was hopeless - never mind what the dentist or doctor says, mind what the Word says. And remember, cover everything by prayer. Ask God what He would have you do, read and take into your Spirit the Scripture. It will help you stay faithful (full of faith) and stay positive! This is a big test of your faith, but if you don’t try it, how will you ever know how faith works?

Stay tuned for the second blog, which will further reveal another very important step to receiving your healing, or whatever else you need provision for in your life.  It will strengthen your faith even more!