7 Ways to Renew Your MindSample

Fourth Step 

Confess what you believe, not what you feel.

 We possess what we confess. We possess salvation by confessing Jesus as Lord of our lives. We possess God’s promises by confessing them with our mouths. When you regularly confess only what you feel and see, you are hurting your faith and not helping negative thoughts to leave. 

When God saw the world in darkness, void, and without form – He did not use His words to describe the situation. Instead He used the power of His word to change the situation. Don’t use your mouth as a thermometer, which only reads the temperature of your current condition, allow God’s word to turn your mouth into a thermostat, which changes the temperature of your life by confessing what God says.

The Lord instructed Joshua, “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth,” (Joshua 1:8). Joshua had to not only read the book, or study it, but also speak it. Jesus did that in the wilderness in His temptation with the Devil. Most likely the Devil tempted Jesus as he usually tempts us, with thoughts. Jesus did not think the Scripture to combat the Devil’s arrows, He spoke the Scripture. 

It’s so powerful when evil thoughts attack your mind to open your mouth and speak in line with God’s Word, not your feelings or current circumstances. As it says in Joel 3:10, “Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’” Don’t speak what you feel all the time, otherwise your mind can’t change. Learn to speak God’s word instead.