CONFESSION:
            The method given to us by Jesus Christ to sow our faith and put it into action is through speaking. There are various references concerning confession and how it was put to work in the lives of believers in the Old and New Testaments. One of the strongest Biblical proofs for the power of confession is given to us by Jesus Christ Himself after the incident when He cursed the fig tree and it dried up from the roots. The Apostles passed by this fig tree the next day and found it had withered from the roots, prompting a remark from Peter, “And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, THE FIG TREE WHICH THOU CURSEDST IS WITHERED AWAY. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That WHOSOEVER SHALL say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which HE SAITH shall come to pass; he shall have WHATSOEVER HE SAITH” (Mar 11:21-23). After Peter’s exclamation, Jesus told them to have faith in God. This was the requirement for the fig tree to be withered, but Jesus did not merely stop there. He gave them the means through which this faith would operate. This was through confession or speaking to the mountain. Jesus never said that you should pray to God so that He would remove the mountain and throw it into the midst of the sea. The power to command the mountain to be removed has been given to you, “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever SHALL SAY unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things WHICH HE SAITH shall come to pass; he shall have WHATSOEVER HE SAITH” (Mar 11:23), from this verse we notice that the terms for speaking or saying are mentioned three times which are “WHOSOEVER SHALL SAY”, “THOSE THINGS WHICH HE SAITH” and “WHATSOEVER HE SAITH”. On the other hand the term for believing or having faith in your heart is only mentioned once, being “but shall believe”. This gives us a clear indication that for us to release faith to work on our behalf it will take more than simply believing in your heart. It is the same when someone is born again, they have to go beyond merely believing in the heart to confessing with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and declaring this to others around them. Jesus did not merely pray for God to make the fig tree wither away, rather He commanded the fig tree Himself and it had to obey Him. The scriptures again clearly point out that with the mouth the confession has to be made towards our salvation, “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; 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. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION” (Rom 10:8-10). Apostle Paul clearly states that the Word of faith is in  your  mouth and it comes out from you heart. This word of faith has to be spoken out before it can have any bearing on your present circumstances, it is “with the mouth” that “confession is made unto salvation”. This word salvation does not merely mean having your spirit saved from hell. The Greek word for salvation is soteria derived from sozo which means to rescue from destruction, to make a sick person well or restore them to health, to deliver from poverty, to deliver from demonic oppression and to deliver from judgment. This is quite a mouthful and illustrates that God is interested not only in your spiritual but also in your physical and financial deliverance. All these blessings from God can be activated by only one switch which is confession.
            The Greek word translated confession is “homologeo”which is derived from two words, the first being “homo” which means same and the second being “logos” which is an utterance or something spoken. This means that when you confess you literally say the same thing as another. In this case confession implies speaking the same thing about your situation as God would say in His Word. In case of sickness your confession ought not to be sickness but the declaration that “I was healed by the stripes (wounds) of Jesus” (1Pt2:24). In the case of poverty you should not say that you are poor because Jesus has made you rich, “for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich” (2Co 8:9). You should not confess weakness even though you may feel weak or inadequate in a certain area. This is inline with the Word of God since the weak and the poor are commanded what to say, “Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: LET THE WEAK SAY, I AM STRONG” (Joe 3:10). The weak should not say that he is weak. Sometimes religion and religious individuals will say, “Are you not lying when you say you are healed when in actual fact you are sick?” The answer to this question is that I would be lying to tell you that I was sick yet the Word of God has pronounced me to be healed. Whey would Apostle Peter write that, “by whose stripes ye were healed”? (1Pe 2:24). He wrote this verse because Jesus purchased your healing with His wounds 2000 years ago and all you have to do is to confess and receive the healing. It may be a “fact” that you are sick and broke but the “truth” which is God’s Word proclaims you to be healthy and rich. As faithful and obedient believers practicing “homologeo”we should confess what God’s word says about our lives and not what doctors or carnal observers may say.