Because of what they say, a person can fill their stomach. What their words produce can satisfy them. Your tongue has the power of life and death. Those who love to talk will eat the fruit of their words. Proverbs 18:20-21 NIRV
The words we speak can bring hope and happiness. Words can minister Grace and goodness to the hearer. Words can also tear down and destroy instead of building up and encouraging the listener.
We have been examining why speaking God's Word works. We have seen that confession of His Word, or agreeing with God, causes Faith to come. It causes the mind to be renewed to His truth, thinking His thoughts instead of the enemy's or the world's. It reprograms the heart to have a Faith perspective instead of a defeated one. It keeps the promise before us instead of the problem.
We see that Words are seeds, and what we say is planting His truth into the soil of our hearts. It harvests hope, Faith, and wholeness. We see that declaring His Word sets the Law of Faith in motion— what we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths comes to pass (Mark 11:23).
Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word. Psalm 103:20 NKJV
In closing, let me add the last two reasons why declaring the Word of God works. When we speak God's Word, we are adding our agreement with God. When we do this, it gives the angels something to hearken to. It puts the hosts of Heaven to work on our behalf.
Declaring the Word puts the angels on assignment. His angels go to work to cause us triumph. Jesus said the angels are the reapers. They are bringing in the harvest of the seeds sown by our words-(Matthew 13:39).
The last reason is that declaring the Word works is that Jesus is the High Priest of our confession. When we confess His Word, we are not just talking into the air — we are releasing Faith that our High Priest presents before the Father. He watches over our words of Faith to bring them to pass.
These seven reasons confirm to us why speaking, declaring, and confessing the Word of God works. This isn't hype or hyperbole. This is the way God revealed to us how we receive from Him. These are seven biblical reasons why declaring the Word works. This is how God designed faith to operate.
Our declaration of God's Word is our Faith speaking. This is how what we are trusting God for comes to pass in our lives. This is how it comes into manifestation. This is how Faith works.
Now, let me address the proverbial elephant in the room. Many have mocked, scoffed, and ridiculed the idea of Faith confession. Many religious naysayers labeled confession as false teaching and heresy.
They have maligned, declaring God's Word, and they come up with catchy phrases meant to malign the concept of confession. Sneering at all this and calling it “name it and claim it.” They act as if confessing God’s promises is superstition or even heresy. Let me be very clear: confession is not heresy — it is the foundation of the Gospel.
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in · your mouth and in · your heart,” that is, the word of faith that we proclaim: that if you confess with · your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in · your heart that · God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes and is made righteous, and with the mouth he confesses and is saved. Romans 10:8-10
Name it and claim it is false teaching and heresy? This is exactly how we got born again! We named Jesus-salvation, eternal life, and claimed His Finished Work of Redemption as ours.
Name it and claim it is the Gospel. So many religious detractors believe in confession themselves. They just mostly focus on negative confessions. They often only confess their sins or their problems. They agree with the enemy’s report instead of God’s. They just can't see that confession works for all God's promises.
Look again at the woman with the issue of blood. She believed God, and she declared the Word and received. She named it and claimed it. She named healing, what she needed, what she desired, and what Jesus provided. She claimed it by reaching out in Faith. She received her healing, and Jesus commended her for her Faith.
Jesus didn't rebuke her. He didn't tell her that, that name it and claim it business is heresy. He didn't call her out, saying You're listening to those Faith and Grace preachers! Watch out, those Hagin, Capps, Osteen, and Prince teachers will lead you astray.
He didn't teach her that suffering was what God ordained for her. He didn't tell her that, don't you know, life on earth is meant to be hard and troublesome? How dare you seek your best life now?
Shake off the religious traditions of men. Negative confessions or words that are in disagreement with Redemption and His promises make the Word void in your life. God can't move where He wants to when you are in complete disagreement with Him. He isn't withholding; you are rejecting and refusing His provision.
The promises of God are all “Yes” in Christ, and we speak the “Amen” (2 Cor. 1:20). That “Amen” isn’t silent agreement — it’s vocal confession. Faith must speak. Faith is voice-activated.
So when someone mocks and says, “Oh, you Word of Faith people just believe in naming it and claiming it,” I smile and say: Exactly. That’s how the Gospel works. Grace provides it, faith receives it, and confession brings it into manifestation.
The real heresy is not confessing God’s Word. The real danger is mocking His promises, ridiculing His people for believing Him, and calling unbelief “humility.” That is siding with doubt against God.
Beloved, don’t let the sneers shake you. Lift your voice. Speak His promises. Sow the Word in your heart. Put angels on assignment. Let Jesus, your High Priest, carry your confession to the Father.
And remember this: what Grace has provided, Faith will possess — and confession is the bridge between the two.
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