Positive Confession

by JWing
“Faith is a force and words are the containers for the force.” --Kenneth Copeland
“Because man is a little god “in God’s class: very capable of operating on the same level of faith as God” --Charles Capps
“Our words are vital in bringing our dreams to pass. It’s not enough to simply see it by faith or in your imagination. You have to begin speaking words of faith over your life. Your words have enormous creative power. The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it.” (Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, 2004)
The Doctrine
This is based on the little "gods" doctrine. It preaches that God isn't really divine, in that He has abilities we little "gods" also have as well. Instead they says God merely taps into the universal power of faith, that basically says speak and believe or expect that you will get it and it will come to pass. Hence the name of this movement, "Word of Faith". The formula they preach works kind of like this:
  1. God created everything by His faith by speaking things into existence.
  2. We are created in the image of God, as little "gods".
  3. Therefore, we can create our own realities or situations by speaking the same “faith-filled” words and bring things or circumstances into existence.



Money
  • Start speaking it into being. Speak to your billfold. Say, 'You big, thick billfold full of money." Speak to your checkbook. Say, 'You checkbook, you. You've never been so prosperous since I owned you. You're just jammed full of money.                --Marlyn Hickey
  • “God said: `it is time to tell the money you don’t belong to the wicked, you belong to us.` (..) Money come to me now!”      --Leroy Thompson
  • It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.      --Joel Osteen
Weather
  • One day Ken and Pat Boone, we were in Hawaii at their house and they were sitting outside and there was a weather spout out over the ocean. ...Ken said, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, you get back up there.”  So this is how I learned how to talk to tornados, I saw this. And that tornado went whoop-whoop-whoop-whoop, even while I was watching them. ...So you are the weatherman. You get out there or the weatherwoman which ever it is and you talk to that thing and you tell it, “you are not coming here. I command you to dissipate and you get back up there in Jesus name.” Glory to God that I won’t charge you extra.  --Gloria Copeland


Life & Death
  •  “death and life is in the power of” whose tongue?” Yours. ...You choose when you live: you choose when you die.   --Jesse Duplantis
  • “Look at me say oh say there is power in me to speak life and death.” --Benny Hinn
  • You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. --Joel Osteen
Anything you Want
  • Prayer is earthly license for Heavenly interference. --Myles Munroe
  • “God works by faith. You must believe first, and then you’ll receive” (p. 33). “We receive what we believe. Unfortunately, this principle works as strongly in the negative as it does in the positive” (p. 72).--Joel Osteen
  • You command the dead to rise. You command money to come to you. Thats the way you take authority over the material world around you. You do not pray!  --Pat Robertsons
Health
  • Believe me when I tell you. I never get sick. ...Do you know what I have? I was as sick as a sick dog with a cold. Yeah, yeah I get sick too.  --Benny Hinn
  • Let me tell you sickness comes from the devil and when you walk into a hospital room and your friend is there, a member of your family is there, you have the power to say, ‘in the name of Jesus I rebuke that disease.’ And the God of Heaven will heal that disease when you are right with God in heaven. --John Haggee
  • It is as easy to receive physical healing as it is to receive forgiveness for sin. It is just as easy to get healed. Healing is as easy as salvation. Do not complicate what is simple. Say with me it is as easy to get healed as it is to get forgiven. Healing should never be separate from salvation.  --Benny Hinn
These quotes show a simple claiming of godlike power by Word of Faith preachers. It basically take God's power and gives it to men, so that in their doctrine we can be little "gods". This is alien to what the Bible says about God.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

Isaiah 42:8 (KJV)
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Isaiah 48:11 (KJV)
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

Romans 11:36 (KJV)
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Basically if God did as these preachers tell you and gave you whatever you declared, you get the glory. Why? Because YOU would be the one to command the power. Like Myles Munroe told Benny Hinn, "God has the power but you have the permission." So who really is in control here. Not God. So rather this glorifies the man. The Bible specifically says, as shown above, God will not share his glory with anyone else.
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Conclusion
Christians are known to be Christians by just whom we place at the center of our lives. We place Jesus in the center of our lives. However, this Positive Confession doctrine places man in the center. Man is commanding God what to do. Basically it turns God into a vending machine or a genie at our beck and call. Or at its worse it places the power inside you and lets you be your own god to give yourself whatever you want.

The Bible tells us of an angel who once tried to place himself in the place of God and was thrown out of Heaven by God for it along with 1/3 of the angels of Heaven. The sheer complexity of the universe and of even things in this world indicate that man is much too finite to even properly handle things down here. What on earth makes men think they could handle all of them at one time even. Truly only God has mastery here and man is nothing but a lower created being. It is time we knew our place and accepted God as being the only one with ALL the power and glory.
The Real Message
The truth of reality is, all the positive thinking in the world will not change your circumstance. Why? Because you aren't a god. Never was and never can be a god. Instead the Bible tell us to believe in Jesus who was all together man and all together God at the same time. Jesus proved He was God when it raised Himself from the dead. Prophets in the past could raise others with the power of God. But all of them when they died stayed in their tombs. Jesus was the only one who walked out of His tomb, proving He alone was divine.

The real message of the Bible is that this divine Jesus love the whole world so much that He died to pay for our sins on the cross, He didn't go to Hell, but rather raised Himself on the 3rd day and now sits on the right hand of the Father. Whoever believes in THIS Jesus of the Bible will be saved.
John 3:16 (KJV)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Acts 16:30-31 (KJV)
30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Romans 10:9 (KJV)
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.
Won't you believe today what the Bible says, instead of a false doctrine of talking positive which comes from New Age philosphy? You can start repenting of your sins and getting to know the REAL divine Jesus of the Bible who cares for you.
Dear Lord God. I know I am a sinner and need your gift of salvation from my sins. I BELIEVE IN JESUS, the Son of God, as my personal Savior. I believe that His death on the cross and resurrection provides forgiveness for ALL my sins past, present, & future.  Please forgive all my sins and come into my heart and life. I hereby trust in Jesus FINISHED WORK alone, and NOT upon me & my "good works", as sufficient to make me right with you and fit for Heaven. Please forgive ALL my sins and come into my heart, Lord Jesus. Seal me with your Holy Spirit until the day you come to take me home. In your Son Jesus’ name. Amen.