13/04/2025
WRONG THINKING, BELIEVING, AND
CONFESSING.
In this lesson, let us talk for a while about wrong thinking, wrong believing, and wrong confessing. Then we’ll bring confession back to the positive side again before we conclude.
Wrong confession, of course, is a confession of defeat,of failure, and of the supremacy of Satan. To talk about how the devil is hindering you—how he is keeping you from success, how he is holding you in bo***ge, and how he is keeping you sick—is a confession of defeat. Such confessions as those simply glorify the devil. Confessions
that glorify the devil are wrong confessions!
Remember, our confession is proclaiming a truth that we’ve accepted wholeheartedly or it is declaring something we know to be true and stating something we believe.
Testimonies that we give in church, for example, are our confessions. And sad to say, many of them glorify the devil rather than God.
I remember some time ago, one woman got up in one of my meetings, and said, “The devil has been after me all week, bless his holy name.” I know she got her praise
misplaced and didn’t mean to praise the devil! She meant to praise God, yet she was glorifying what the devil was doing by getting up and talking about it.
Now I want to ask you a question. When you talk about what God has done and what Jesus has done and is doing, aren’t you glorifying Him? Well, by the same token then, if you talk about what the devil is doing and what he has done, you are glorifying the devil. And so many times people miss it by making the wrong confession. They lose the blessing and they are defeated, and life is a grind to
them.
So a wrong confession glorifies the devil, and we don’t have any business glorifying the devil. Actually, a wrong confession is an unconscious declaration that your FatherGod is a failure.
And as I said, many of the testimonies and confessions we hear today glorify the devil. Such confessions simply sap the very life out of you. A wrong confession destroys your faith.