confession

TMC INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSIONS

TOPIC: CONFESSION LEADS TO SALVATION

TEXT: Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.  ‘ Prov. 18:21

INTRODUCTION:

A woman kept saying, that she’ll die whenever her husband dies so one day, she got news that her husband had been involved in a car accident and she scurried to the scene, she saw the lifeless body of her husband and immediately she confirmed by herself that he is dead, she just fell and died. There is power in our tongues; many miss out on miracles because they’ve not trained their tongues to speak rightly. The bible says ‘Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.  ‘ Prov. 18:21 your miracles is determined by your words and your woes by your words.

QUESTIONS/DISCUSSIONS

1.    Master how to speak goodness and never try using your mouth to speak ill because ‘A wholesome tongue is a tree of life…’ Prov. 15:4 if you keep saying you are good for nothing, a failure, a reject, a cursed person and you’ll never amount to anything in life etc. you’ve just closed the gate to your miracles. No matter how long you pray, miracles will always skip you.

2.    YOU CAN ONLY SPEAK RIGHT WHEN YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SPIRIT Luke 6:45: out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, if you don’t have the right content in your heart, you won’t be able to speak the right words. You can know the state of your heart by observing the words that proceeds from your mouth. Those whose heart is still dirty and fearful and hopeless will say words that are dirty, fearful and hopeless as the case may be. If you want to speak rightly first ask God to circumcise your heart because an uncircumcised heart can’t speak a circumcised word.

3.    SPEAK THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT THEM TO BE NOT THE WAY THEY ARE Rom. 4:17: those in the flesh speak from their carnal impulses but those who are of the spirit speak from their spiritual impulses which is being trained by God’s word. Because we are not carnal-minded; we speak what God has spoken and not what our senses are detecting for us. We describe situations like it was described in God’s word. This is how to make things which aren’t to be.

CONCLUSION: men of faith speak words of faith always, carnality doesn’t detect to them, they detect to their carnality thus bringing to obedience all flesh. Speak rightly today