Bible Verse of The Day – 6-11-18

Let’s talk today about proclaiming, confessing and declaring. We did a video recently on this topic, but we want to make sure everyone understands this, so we decided to also do a devotional on it.

Proclaiming, Confessing and Declaring have become very commonplace in churches around the world. People have made a practice of confessing and declaring things as a way of “walking in faith”.

The problem with this, though, is that the Bible has never taught us to do this. It teaches us to confess our sins, confess that Jesus is Lord and to proclaim and declare the glory of God. Nowhere does it ever tell us to speak things and believe that doing so will make them happen.

Proclaiming, Confessing and Declaring in this manner has its roots in various New Age philosophies, not in the word of God. New Age teachings such as Name it & Claim it, Visualization and The Power of Positive Thinking have been teaching this for quite some time.

Somehow it found its way into the body of Christ as part of a “faith teaching”, convincing many people that if we speak things, they will become so. They will happen because we spoke them, by Proclaiming, Confessing and Declaring them to be so.

This is absolutely false. And it’s a very dangerous teaching. It has caused many in the church to elevate themselves, whether they realize it or not, acting in a prideful way, as satan did before he rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven.

Isaiah 14:14 (NKJV) 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’

So, it’s important that we confess our sins to God and to one another, as the Word instructs us to do. And it’s important that we declare and proclaim the wonder and glory of God, as we are instructed to do.

But it’s critical that we refrain from proclaiming, confessing and declaring our personal desires “in faith’, believing that just because we have done so that it must happen.

James 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Matthew 10:32 (NKJV) 32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

If you would like to watch the video we recently published on this topic, please click here.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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