I was a very negative person and God told me
to stop being negative and after six months
I said well I've stopped being negative but nothing's changed
he said well you haven't started say anything positive
yes it's not good enough just to shut up
you need to say the right thing Amen
I have a confession list That I made back in 1977
before I ever heard anybody preach on this I never read a book on it
and God led me to make a confession list back everything that I was going to say
up with Scripture and begin to confess it out loud
twice every day one of the things that I started saying way
back then was I'm the head and not the tail above and
not beneath I'll into many nations but i never have to
borrow that's in deuteronomy 28
and amazingly, amazingly amazingly, amazingly
God has given us this worldwide ministry where we preache through television,
two-thirds of the world outreaches all over the world
offices in 18 different countries and we have never paid one cent of interest
everything that we've ever gotten we paid cash for
now some of you might think wow, well must be nice for you
well you know you weren't there when I was walking around in my house
when I still didn't have any money and I was buying all my kids clothes at garage
sales and I had never had any kind of a speaking
opportunity all I just was a broken up, messed up woman
who'd been abused and I was believing God and trusting him
to bring healing into my life and I felt like I had to calling on my life
to teach and I was teaching one little Bible study
with 25 people in it well you weren't there
when I would walk around in my house and say
I'm the head and not the tail,above and not beneath , I lend unto many nations but i never
have to borrow I can't even imagine the money
that's been saved and been able to be put into the kingdom work
by God given us the wisdom to save and do it this way
one of the things that I had on my confession list
and this is when my children were little I mean these were when I started confessing
these things none of them were true
none of them and I felt like an idiot
everybody loves me and I love everybody people couldn't stand me and I didn't like
them either yes this was a good one
my son David who is my oldest son has a sweet personality
and he's not rebellious I actually rejoiced
when that boy left home at eighteen well now he's the one that's over in Africa
right now setting up our next outreaches he runs the world missions program
you need to be careful what you say about your children
oh you'll never amount to anything you can't do anything right
stop that, stop it, stop it, stop it don't you ever look at one of your kids
and say you're a bad boy
that's a bad boy no you say what you did was bad
but you are good you are good
you are full of good things you tell your kids
you can do anything through Christ who strengthens you
you teach them that they don't have to compare themselves
with anybody else that they are special and they have abilities from God
you teach them the things that maybe your parents did not know how to teach you
My daughter Laura I said my daughter Laura operates
in godly wisdom and discipline and she's full of energy
she was the laziest Sloppiest
well now she helps take care of me you better start saying some right things
over your kids even while it's not yet happening
you can call those things that be not as though they are
We serve a God who speaks of non-existent things
as if they exist stop calling everything that is
if it's always going to be that way and probably get worse
now this is never going to change you're never going to change
I'll never have any money I hope that you can see
what I see in my spirit for you but this is something you've got to be consistent
with you do it over and over
and over and over and over and over
this one is really special to me because I so much wanted to have somebody
come and asked me to speak somewhere
and I was doing this little 25-person bible study
and I one of my confession was I receive speaking engagements in person by
phone and are by mail every day and now that's a reality
and this one was really good I am an obedient wife and no rebellion operates
in me I had a mouth on me
that wouldn't quit no man was going to tell me
what to do no way
no how then I saw that
wives adapt to your husband thing in the Bible
I finally got around to it but it took a while
one of my confession was I am a teacher of the Word of God
My my my I wish that you knew the condition I was in
when I started doing this I just wish that you could understand
what the word of God has done in my life that's why I preach the word with such fervency
I know that I know, that I know, that I know that there's power inherent in the Word of
God to change your life
if you live by it love it speak it confess it meditate on it and make it the main thing
in your life
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