Lesson 2

If we want to be humble before God, we must always possess these various attitues:

God's word says that "With the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth CONFESSION is made unto salvation" (Romans 10:10).

The salvation of God includes eternal life, healing, power, protection, honor, exaltation, guidance, deliverance, revelation, etc.

Thus if we believe in our heart that we are totally dependant on God and acknowledge it with out mouth before man, we will be saved (we will be exalted and honored by God).

Thus God will know that you are humble only when you believe in your heart that you are truly dependent on Him and you likewise confess your belief with your mouth.

Begin to say to others:
"Without God, I can do nothing.
I need him - his wisdom, his power, his compassion, his protection, his guidance, in every area of my life.
I am totally dependent on Him for every blessing in life."

"My family is totally dependent on God.
We trust in God, that He will provide for us financially and spiritually, and that He will provide for the children's future.
Without Him, we can do nothing."

"My business is totally dependent on God for its success.
Without God, we will not grow or prosper.
God is the Senior Manger of my business.
Without his guidance and leading, it will fail."

Humble yourself before God all the time.
Do not keep quite about your need for Him before man
Keeping quiet does not mean you are humble.

A person who is quiet can have an independent spirit, and can be very proud of all his achievements, self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.
It is a person's heart attitude of dependence on God or independence from God that determines whether he is humble or proud, and not whether he speaks or not.

Instead, God commands us to testify of His goodness and not remain silent when he has done a miracle in our life or through our life.
This is what Jesus told the Garasene demoniac after the Lord healed him and set him free from a multitude of demons:

"Return home and tell how much God has done for you."
(Luke 8:39)

That is why the Psalmist also encourages us in God's word:

"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so."
(Psalm 107:2)

Tell others how God has redeemed you, saved you and blessed you.
Tell others how you are dependent everyday on his goodness and love.

As children of God, we can change all circumstances around us by the words we speak.

With out tongue, we can speak either life or death, health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, righteousness or wickedness, into our lives, families, church, relationships, government, nation, and the whole earth.

The tongue has the power of life and death.
(Proverbs 18:21)

As we begin to declare and confess our dependence on God before others, God's power and help will begin to flow to help us and give us the victory in every situation.

FOR EXAMPLE, as the prophet of Judah under King Jehoshaphat began to declare their trust in the love of God, the LORD set up ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they when out at the head of the army, saying:

"Give thanks to the LORD,
     for His love endures forever."

As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
(2 Chronicles 20:21-23)

God's angels are all around us, and they are more of them than the demonic forces around us (2 Kings 6:15-17).
These angles are "ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation" (Hebrew 1:14).
However, the angels of God will only act to help us when we confess our faith in the Almighty God.
They are waiting to hear from our lips our dependence on God before they will arise to deliver us.
They want to hear us agree with the Word of God.

Bless the LORD, you His angels,
     Who excel in strength, that do his word,
Heeding the voice of His word.
(Psalm 103:20)

FOR EXAMPLE, when King Sennacherib of Assyria threatened to destroy the city of Jerusalem, King Hezekiah of Judah cried out to the LORD, who then sent a message to the king through the prophet Isaiah, saying:

"I will defend this city and save it,
     for my sake and for the sake of David my servant."
(2 Kings 19:34)

Even as the king believed the message (he would have accepted it from the prophet), God delivered the king and the city.

That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning - there were all dead bodies.
(2 Kings 19:35)

Jesus is presently seated at the right hand of God praying for you and me (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25).
He is acting as our High Priest in bringing our needs before the Father.
However, Jesus can only intercede for us as a High Priest if me confess our belief in God and God's power to deliver and help us.

If our confession change to pride or doubt and we do not declare that we need God or that God will not be able to help us, then Jesus will not intercede us.
He is the High Priest of our confession of faith.

Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your GOOD CONFESSION.
In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Jesus Christ, who while testifying before Pontius Pilat made the GOOD CONFESSION.
(1 Timothy 6:12-13)

Consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our CONFESSION.
(Hebrews 3:1)

Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our CONFESSION.
(Hebrews 4:14)

And since we have a great priest over the house of God, ...... let us hold fast the CONFESSION of our hope without wavering.
(Hebrews 10:21,23)

Your thought

1. Have you constantly and daily acknowledged your dependence upon God man? If you have not done it, why not?

2. Do you know when the angels of God around you will bring the help of God into your life? Discuss.

3. Do you know what Jesus Christ is doing now at the right hand of God the Father? How is Jesus' present ministry related to our daily life?

DECLARATION & PROCLAMATIONS