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--Matthew 11:30
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--Matthew 11:30 |
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January 31, 2001
Monica,
By the time you receive this, you will be 19. As you enter this new year of your physical existence, remember that the world has most things backwards. They say, “What you see is what you get.” No, what you say is what you get. Oh, it is true that you have to believe and say, but faith comes by hearing, and the hearing that produces life is the hearing of the word of God. The more you confess it, the more you will believe it. It becomes knowing in your spirit that no one can take from you.
Even bad confessions get deep into us, however, and produce death. How many parents say of their child, “He is bad,” or of their children, “They fight all the time.” Keep saying it parents, and you will produce it in them. I refused to make either confession of my kids. They probably had as many times when they argued or fought as other kids early in their lives, but all they heard me confess was how well they got along, how close they were, and today they are close.
Well, I see the power of confession even better now than I did then. I have mentioned the bad words of many Christian songs to you before. Be careful what you are singing. I have often said that the fact that Jesus loves us is the most profound truth in the Bible. I thought “Jesus Loves Me” was one of the best of songs, but now I see it is holding our kids back. “Jesus loves me; this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong; they are weak, but he is strong.” No! Don’t sing it. It should be, “Jesus loves me; this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong; in the name of Jesus they are strong.”
Confess Biblical truth. Let’s make our Christian kids strong Christian kids. Give them the sword of the spirit, and confess strength.
Joel 3:10 (NIV) Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!”
I was going to write more about fellowship here, but I got cared away with this confession truth. Do you know that fellowship implies sameness or equality? I said before God cannot fellowship with the angels any more than we can really fellowship with a dog. The American Heritage dictionary says of the word fellow, “A comrade or an associate. A person of equal rank, position, or background; a peer.” When Father calls us to fellowship with him, he is reminding us that we are created in his image, born a new species when we are born again. 1 John 1:4 says, “...our fellowship is with Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.” Nice peers! Nice comrades! Nice associates! No wonder we are told to not be unequally yoked with unbelievers!
Love, Dad (more truly brother than dad)
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