spacejunkie2001 if metmon wants an example of positive confession you can show her Abraham and Sarah. God changed their names from Abram-high father to Abraham-father of a multitude and from Sarai to Sarah-Princess of nations to get them speaking in line with his word. Also the woman with the issue of blood when she said, If I may touch,but his clothes I shall be whole in the AMPC it says, for she kept saying. That’s what the word said means in the Strong’s Concordance-a continuing action. God Bless!
Show me where Jesus or the apostles taught us that as a means to apprehend our healing.
Nor did Abraham and Sarah make any positive confessions.
God made them a specific promise of something, a son, and they believed it. That is not deciding for God what he is going to do for you then holding Him hostage to their will.
Nobody has shown me anywhere where Jesus told someone to make positive confessions about healing. I have yet to see where the apostles taught it some where in any of the epistles.
All my requests for such support from Scripture and the questions I asked about my friend’s baby and the church’s pastor have been totally ignored and/or side stepped.
All I get after hearing about how life and death is in the power of the tongue is negative confessions of the worst kind of judgment and condemnation spoken over me.
What kind of Christian character does that if they really believed what they claim?
Good examples, of which there are many. We are just like Christ and He healed everyone he came in contact with, therefore He desires that we be healed and we heal others. If you don’t believe healing is for everyone, why would He say in Matthew 10:8 heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, cast out demons. FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED, freely give.
Anyone that reads the Word with an open heart cannot deny the truth of His Word that healing is ours and was done on the cross. If you believe that Christ died for our salvation and that He desires that everyone come to repentance then you have to believe He died for our healing (same root word, sozo) and desires that everyone be healed. Believing that God ‘cherry picks’ who he heals and who he doesn’t is a cruel joke and not biblically grounded.
So God promises to do something for Abraham and Sarah, and what is their response????? Some great examples of “positive confessions” right there. They LAUGHED at what God told them!
You’d going to have to try harder to provide a decent example of a “positive confession”.
Genesis 17:17-18 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
Genesis18:9-15 They said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “She is in the tent.” The Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?” The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.” But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”