Believe And Affirm
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation (Romans 10:10).
Man is a spirit being, and not a body. His
physical body is his domicile, where the
spirit, the real man, lives. Your body isn’t you. Your
spirit is the real you, and every human spirit has the
capacity to believe; you don’t have to see to believe.
This debunks the general assumption that “seeing
is believing”; that’s a contradiction, because you
don’t have to “believe” what you can see. If you were
standing beside a red Toyota car, and there’s nothing
wrong with your eyes, you won’t say, “I believe there’s
a red Toyota car parked beside me”; you know that
such a car is there because you can see it. You only
have to believe something you haven’t seen.
The word “believe” is the verb of faith, and faith is
a noun. The action of faith is believing. So, you don’t
say “seeing is believing.” Believing is acting your faith;
putting your faith to work. For example, 1 Corinthians
3:21 says, “Therefore let no man glory in men. For all
things are yours.” You have to believe that all things
are yours just as the scripture says, then live and act
accordingly, even though you’re yet to literally see
all things physically in your possession. You ought to
believe and voice what you believe.
For example, the Bible says, “In whom we have
redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of
sins” (Colossians 1:14). Having believed this scripture
in your spirit, declare, “In Christ I have my redemption;
my riddance. He plucks me out of trouble; I’m rid of
every pain. I have my riddance from sin, darkness,
and from all things that are inconsistent with the life
of Christ.” Hallelujah!
You believe, and then you affirm. Believing is with
your spirit, but the affirmation seals it: “We having
the same spirit of faith, according as it is written,
I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also
believe, and therefore speak” (2 Corinthians 4:13).
Prayer
Dear Father, I thank you for the entrance of your Word into my
spirit; I believe, and therefore speak that I’m an heir of God
and a joint-heir with Christ; the world belongs to me. I have no
consciousness of lack or need, because the Lord is my shepherd;
He’s made me self-sufficient. Blessed be God!
Further Study
Mark 11:23; Romans 10:8-10
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Revelation 1
Daniel 11-12
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 18:28-40
2 Chronicles 17-18