Your Words Hold a Miracle: The Power of Speaking God's Word (8 page)

I want you to say, “I boldly confess that I am saved.”

In Christ,
we have the right to
know
that we are saved and to know that we have eternal life.

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The second thing we have in Christ is the born-again experience.
I want you to say,
“I am born again.”

In John 3, Jesus was speaking to one of the most religious men of His day, Nicodemus, a devout Pharisee. He came to Jesus because religion did not and would never satisfy him.

If you ever wondered whether religion was enough to get a person to heaven, read these words of Jesus closely: “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to Him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’ Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit’ ” (John 3:3–6).

Thank God,
when we receive Jesus, we are born again.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12–13).

You are born of God! When you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord, you experience the new birth in your spirit. “Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23).

Nothing productive can take place in our lives until we have planted His Word inside us.

The new birth is like a natural birth in that you know there can be no birth without the implantation of a seed. Through the seed in a woman’s body, our bodies were brought forth. The new birth takes place when a seed is planted in your spirit. That seed is the Word of God.

Nothing productive can take place in our lives until we have planted His Word inside us. The seed of God’s Word in us is incorruptible, imperishable—it lives forever!

God’s Word is the seed for every area of our lives, but we must take time to plant it inside of our spirit.

One day someone came along and planted a seed inside of you and me. They gave us the Gospel as Paul did to the Corinthians. “Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also
you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:1–4).

The Gospel consists of three facts:

1. Christ died for our sins.
   

2. He was buried.
   

3. He rose again.
   

Someone declared to us the Gospel. We believed it and united our faith with God’s Word, that incorruptible seed, and inside of us a birth took place.

After I received Jesus, I looked just as I always did on the outside, but inside I was a new creature. You see, I was born again. I had a new kind of
life
inside, and I knew that I was born again. I had a desire to be with God’s people and to read His Word. A change had taken place in me.

Make this bold declaration:
“I am saved. I am born again.”

Now, do not cast away your confidence. You may stumble and go back into the old life momentarily, but hold fast to your testimony. Say aloud, “I am miserable in this sin. Father, forgive me. Thank You, Lord, for cleansing me (see 1 John 1:9). Thank God, I know I am saved! I know I am born again.”

When God saves us, He puts a light on the inside of us. “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:14). I want you to say,
“I am the light of the world!”
because that is exactly what God says about you and me. He put a light on the inside of us, for He is “the Light of the world.”

Some people have the idea that they are like a blinker light. They think they go on and off. Jesus does not go on and off in us. He keeps on shining even when we stumble and fall.

Many people wear themselves out, running from kingdom to kingdom. One moment they think they are in the kingdom of light; the next moment they think they are in the kingdom of darkness. They need to make a firm decision to believe God’s Word. When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, His light in us does not go out. We are indeed in the
kingdom of light.
The Light of lights dwells in us, and our light will never go out!

“Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is himself God. He created everything there is—nothing exists that he didn’t make. Eternal life is in him, and this life gives light to all mankind. His life is the light that shines through the darkness—and the darkness can never extinguish it” (John 1:1–5
TLB
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The third thing we have in Christ is a newly created spirit. I want you to say, “I am a new creature in Christ Jesus.”

The Bible says we are saved, we are born again, and we are made new creatures. Inside your body, when you accepted Jesus, there burst into being a new creation. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Did you know that when you became a new creation, not only was your past forgiven, but your past also ceased to exist?

Have you ever held a newborn baby in your arms and said, “How wonderful—a new beginning!”? A newborn baby does not have a past.

The new creation in you has no past! Whether it is divorce, murder, immorality, perversion, or any other form of sin,
your past does not exist!
You are a newborn baby. You are a new creature. Old things are passed away and, behold, all things are become new.
You are a new creation!

This new creation has the life of God—everlasting life. The moment you make the decision to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are no longer condemned. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:17–18).

God assures us, “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and
I will not remember your sins”
(Isaiah 43:25). Sins are wrong acts that are committed against an established law, even if the law is not known. He further assures us, “I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins” (Isaiah 44:22). Transgressions are wrong acts committed in open disobedience of a known law.

The prophet Isaiah compared sins and transgressions. Sins are as a cloud; transgressions are as a thick cloud. From Isaiah’s comparison, we understand that transgressions are the darker of the two. Thank God, He not only cleared us of the past, but He made provision for us if we commit transgressions after we have come to know Christ as Savior. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). If a believer sins and thereafter repents and confesses his sins, both he and the record of his life are completely cleansed.

If you are grieved when you sin, do not be sad. You should be happy because that is a sign that you are a new creature in Christ Jesus. “No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God” (1 John 3:9
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Make this declaration: “I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. I am no longer condemned. God does not remember my sins. All my sins have been blotted out. If I sin, I will immediately confess my sins and be cleansed from all unrighteousness. Thank God, I have eternal life!”

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The fourth thing we have in Christ is deliverance.
I want you to say,
“I am delivered!”

“Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Colossians 1:12–13).

We are saved. We are born again. We are new creatures. We are delivered.

What have we been delivered from? We have been delivered from the power and the authority of darkness. You may be fighting old habits and struggling against old ways. Perhaps you do not know that you have the power
in you
to overcome these obstacles. I want to tell you that you have already been delivered!

Jesus said, “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death” (Revelation 1:18). Boldly tell the enemy, “Jesus holds the keys to hell and to death, and no power of darkness can harm me or steal one day of my life. In the Name of Jesus, I command every power of darkness to flee (James 4:7)! I am delivered!”

God has already delivered you! You do not have to put up with those whirling thoughts of depression that come over you at times. You do not have to put up with those mental battles of discouragement and doubt.
Rise up
and boldly declare your deliverance!

You are not
going to be
delivered. You
are
delivered! You now walk in the kingdom of light. You have been translated into the kingdom of Jesus. “For you were once darkness, but now
you are
light in the Lord. Walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8).

Act like you are in the light. Declare your deliverance because you have it. Make this declaration: “I am delivered from the power of darkness. I am in the kingdom of light.”

The moment you make the decision to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,

YOU ARE NO LONGER CONDEMNED
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The fifth thing we have in Christ is redemption.
I want you to say,
“I am redeemed.”

“Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Galatians 3:13–14).

God states clearly that this redemption is based upon our response to His requirement: “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the L
ORD
your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you” (Deuteronomy 28:15).

God, through Jesus Christ, has given every man a choice. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the L
ORD
your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days” (Deuteronomy 30:19–20).

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, we choose life, and we are redeemed. What are we redeemed from? We are redeemed from the curse of the law!

What does that mean? The Bible clearly defines the curse of the law in Deuteronomy 28:

• Plagues
  

• Tumors
  

• Scabs
  

• Itch
  

• Madness
  

• Blindness
  

• Fever
  

• Poverty
  

• Darkness
  

• Powerless
  

• Oppression
  

• Adultery
  

• Despair
  

• Boils
  

• Captivity
  

• Idolatry
  

• Drought
  

• Mildew
  

• War
  

• Unburied
  

• Consumption
  

• Cursed in the city
  

• Cursed in the country
  

• Cursed in the basket
  

• Cursed in the bowl
  

• Children are cursed
  

• Produce is cursed
  

• Livestock is cursed
  

• Cursed when coming in
  

• Cursed when going out
  

• Confusion
  

• Rebuke
  

• Destruction
  

• Sow but not reap
  

• Will serve enemies
  

• Astonishment of heart
  

• Extreme burning
  

• You will be dispersed
  

• Enemies will defeat you
  

• Heaven shall be bronze
  

• Earth shall be iron
  

• Disappointment