Confessing God’s Word Over Your Situation

God’s power is released the moment God stamps your confession approved.

The power will come and give you what you’ve been confessing. If it’s a blessing for finances, for your body or your mind, or for your children, it will come. If you’re confessing for your children, God will come to them.

“What do you mean, ‘God will come to them’? My children won’t listen to anybody, Brother Norvel.”

My daughter wouldn’t listen to anybody either, but God sent an angel into her room about as big as two men and scared all the devils out of her! But I confessed right regarding her.

Let me teach you how to talk. If you’ll let me do that, you’ll be able to teach your relatives and friends who need the Lord Jesus to do something for them.

Your World Is Formed by Your Words

The Holy Spirit will perform the scriptural words of anyone who says them and obeys them. God is a Spirit and God performs words. Your whole world is made out of your words. You put yourself in the kind of world you’re living in today—rich, poor, healthy, sickly, or whatever—with your mouth. I didn’t say someone else’s mouth; your mouth put you there.

Always remember this: you are your own worst enemy—not someone else, you. You don’t have to pay any attention to flakey people who will get you all messed up. You have a right to walk with God yourself. You have a right to claim the Scriptures, the riches of heaven, yourself. And if you will do it yourself, God will come and visit you.

“What will He bring with Him, Brother Norvel?”

Everything that you can believe Him for and everything that you’ve been confessing. God always brings to your house and to your life gifts from heaven. Every gift that you’ve ever claimed (really claimed) from heaven, you’ve gotten it!

“Well, I haven’t claimed anything, Brother Norvel.”

That’s the reason you’re a total wreck. You just sit around and don’t claim anything. The Lord Jesus Christ has paid the price and given His name and His power over to the New Testament church. The New Testament is a better covenant than the Old Testament.

But now hath he [Jesus] obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

The better covenant is enjoyed by people who learn how to talk right. I mentioned earlier that whatever state you’re in today, your own mouth put you there. Your mouth, or your tongue, is like the steering wheel of a car. The car goes whichever way you turn the steering wheel. It’s like the helm of a ship.

Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things (James 3:3-5).

The way you confess every day is the kind of life you will have.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21).

Thank God, I begin my day by walking the floor and worshiping God. Thank God, I’ve already started my day, today, speaking right things. You’ve got to stir up the gift that’s within you and get your mind functioning right (2 Timothy 1:6).

A tremendously successful minister in our world today said one of the worst things about Americans is that they haven’t learned how to live yet. They just do whatever they want. They get up every morning and just float along and let whatever happens, happen. And whatever doesn’t happen, well, “That just wasn’t for me.”

Nothing just happens to you unless you let it happen! When something bad begins to happen, bind it in Jesus’ name and throw it out! God doesn’t believe in your having sad days. He doesn’t have any. God doesn’t even know the meaning of blue Mondays, because He talks right and confesses right all the time.

I mean, if God wants a world, He says, “World, I speak to you, come into being.” And all of a sudden, there is a world.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. …And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. …And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. …And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together. …And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit. …And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good (Genesis 1:1,3,6,9,11,31).

The world was formed by words from the mouth of God. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11:3). Your body was formed and made by the words of God. “And God said, Let us make man in our image” (Genesis 1:26).

All of the good things that you see here—the lakes and the mountains—were formed by words out of the mouth of God. And the same kind of thing happens to you all of the time.

Your whole world is formed out of the words your mouth speaks—out of your confession. There’s all kinds of power in confession!

“What kind of power, Brother Norvel?”

Any kind of power you want, just name it. Anybody in the world can be successful, if they learn how to talk—anybody can. You can have anything you want from God, if you’ll learn how to talk!

“What do you mean talk?”

I don’t mean the natural kind of talking; almost anyone can hold a conversation. I’m talking about looking up Scriptures that apply to your life, Scriptures that you really need, Scriptures that cover your case, and getting them on the inside of you so you can talk right.