How To Get Your Daily Confession by Pastor Dolapo Lawal: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Daily confession

I want to share something very simple but very powerful. It has changed my life

I preached on the power of confession over a year ago. In that teaching I said I would preach it at WBECK.

It wasn't up to a month and the convener invited me, and I was there in January. God confirmed that teaching with a sign and a wonder

I want to teach you how to write a daily confession.

There is a negative side where people do manifestation, but I will show you how you see the good that God has already prepared

Good comes but people don't see it

Jeremiah 17:5 to Jeremiah 17:6

Good comes but people don't see it, because they can't recognize it. The major reason is that they have not been confessing it. Confession gives you an expectation

Job 22:21

Acquaint yourself with him means be in agreement with God and be at peace. Be at peace means you are situated in God's will

Philippians 4:6 to Philippians 4:7

You pray about something and God answers your prayer with peace. The gospel is the message of peace, the message of God

Job 22:22

Two functions here. You hear instructions from God, and you deposit what he said into your heart

You deposit his word into your heart by speaking the instructions that came out of his mouth

God says something to you, that is the message of peace. You carry it and speak it into your heart. Then good will come to you

Matthew 5:8

The person in Jeremiah 17:6 cannot see because it takes the heart to see God, and there is no word of God in that heart

God speaks a word. I deposit it in my heart so I can make withdrawals. It is the law of deposit and withdrawal

God made Israel do it

The 18th benediction, the Amida. By the time of Jesus, devout Jews prayed the Amida, a set of spoken blessings and declarations three times daily: morning, afternoon and evening

Psalm 55:17

David is speaking. There was the time of the morning sacrifice and the time of the evening sacrifice

They were making confessions or declarations three times every day

Daniel 6:10

Daniel had a three times daily prayer practice. It was spoken, called the yada, the giving of thanks. It was audible, it was structured, it was a daily confession

The Shema was confessed twice daily, every morning and evening, by every devout Jew. It was commanded, not optional

Deuteronomy 6:4 to Deuteronomy 6:7

Notice the pattern: the word in your heart, then talk of them. Heart and mouth. This is exactly the pairing Paul uses

Romans 10:8 to Romans 10:10, quoting Deuteronomy 30:14

Anybody that will get anything done needs the word in the mouth and in the heart.

Get the word on your lips, put it in your heart, and that is how you will do it

Confess is homologeo. It means to acknowledge, to agree

Anybody that needs salvation in any area, it is confession that will bring you out

Romans 10:17

Confession has to be said in faith. If you are in faith there are actions you must carry out, and one of them is speaking

Faith is spoken, because you can't hear what wasn't said

2 Corinthians 4:13

If I believe, the evidence is that I will be speaking. The functionality of my faith is in what I am saying

Two functions: believe and speak. To believe, I must have heard something. When I hear, I put what I heard on my mouth. That is confession, acknowledgment, agreement

When I am confessing, I am not generating what I will say. I first hear from God, and then I agree with what he told me

Faith is not a strong mind

Many Christians struggle because nobody has explained faith clearly to them

Faith is not a strong mind. Faith is not determination. You are not using faith to impress God. Faith is surrender to God's will

A man of faith is not deciding what to do. A man of faith finds out God's plan and aligns with it

1 Corinthians 12

Faith is a gift. If you work for a gift, it's not a gift. You don't generate faith, you hear it. The word of God produces faith in us

Illustration: Egypt and Babylon

Exodus 8:1

Israel was in captivity in Egypt. The faith thing to do was to go to Pharaoh and say we are leaving Egypt

Jeremiah 29:4 to Jeremiah 29:7

Same captivity, but this time in Babylon. God said prosper in Babylon

In Exodus 8 the faith thing was to believe God to leave Egypt. In Jeremiah 29 the faith thing was to believe God to increase you in captivity

You cannot generate faith. You hear what to do and you align with God

Galatians 3:5

Faith is supplied to me. I hear faith, I don't generate it

Illustration: Abraham

Genesis 17:5, Genesis 17:15

God told Abraham, I want to give you a son. For Abraham to enter the ecosystem of that promise, God wanted him to be confessing what he believes

So God changed his name from Abram to Abraham, father of many nations, and Sarai to Sarah, mother of nations

Every time you mention his name you are making a confession over his life.

He didn't decide what to be called. God told him what to say and he aligned with it

Confession is acknowledging what God has said and agreeing with it with speech. Confession is saying what you have heard, not what you want

"I declare I will have 10 cars by 2030, five houses by 2030, a job by December 1st" is not confession.

Confession is: God told me I will have five houses in 2030, then I start saying it

If I have not heard, I am not confessing. I am affirming

If you write whatever you like and you are saying it, you are doing manifestation. That is not Christian confession. You have joined those crystal people

Christian confession is putting on my lips what God said concerning my life

How to hear what to say

Genesis 1:2 to Genesis 1:3

Maybe I am in a situation where it is without form and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep.

The Spirit hovers, then God said. The Spirit moves, then God speaks

Where we hear the voice of God is where the Spirit moves, and that is where prayer comes in

Prayer is communication between God and man. The devil has robbed the church of the power of prayer.

The church only prays in reaction to what the enemy is doing: speaking, speaking, speaking

Primarily we pray to hear. Only a fool goes to a wise man's house and does all the talking

It is very important to pray in tongues

1 Corinthians 14:2, 1 Corinthians 14:14

Let me put balance. Speaking in tongues is not what qualifies you to hear from God.

Everybody in the Old Testament that heard from God, the word of the Lord came to them.

They did not speak in tongues

If you don't speak in tongues, don't think you are disqualified.

If God can speak to a donkey Numbers 22:28, nothing can stop him if he wants to talk to you.

He gave Pharaoh a dream, and Pharaoh had no prayer life Genesis 41

If God wants to talk to you, he will talk to you. If God is not talking and you want to talk to God, you might need tongues

In some situations Jesus comes to touch you. In some, you are the one that will go and touch him, depending on how severe your case is.

The woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus, while Jesus was going to touch Jairus' daughter

If you need the voice of God desperately, notice the order: the Spirit moves, then God speaks

What God says when the Spirit moves is what we call prophecy.

When somebody says "thus says the Lord", the Spirit has moved within him and is causing him to speak

The Spirit that hovered over the face of the waters lives inside you. He is not coming from heaven.

Jesus has sent us the Holy Spirit. What you are looking for is already inside

Tongues, interpretation and prophecy

You cannot use your mind to know the interpretation of a tongue. It is a gift of the Spirit

If I say "baka" and say ba means come and ka means go, that is translation, not interpretation

My tongues can be the same words forever.

In one season the interpretation is "God is telling you to move" and in another it is "God is telling you to wait"

Speaking in tongues is personal edification. Prophesying is edifying the church. Both are edification 1 Corinthians 14:4

Paul says if you want to speak in tongues to address the church, you must interpret. Once interpretation happens, tongues becomes prophesying

Let one speak, another interpret, and two or three judge 1 Corinthians 14:27, 1 Corinthians 14:29

Judging is checking whether what is said is consistent with Scripture

Illustration: a wrong interpretation

My wife and I were in New York for a meeting. Someone interpreted that God was telling somebody, you have been sinning, so I am going to kill you

Prophecy edifies. God can warn, but God doesn't condemn. You can't use prophecy to threaten people and make them afraid

Prophesying is the Spirit moving and giving utterance to an individual, consistent with God's word and God's character

If I am praying in tongues and the Spirit is moving and I hear words in my heart consistent with God's word and God's character, God is speaking to me.

That is prophecy

I just taught you in five minutes how to prophesy. I start praying.

Phrases and statements start bubbling in my heart, consistent with God's word and consistent with God's character, which is the judgment.

That is a prophetic word for me

When people say "I am hearing God with my right ear", maybe they do. But the Holy Spirit is inside the believer. The voice is coming from within you

To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom Matthew 13:11

God is not mysterious to a believer. God is not hiding from you.

A God that wrote you a 66 book Bible is not hiding from you. He left heaven to come and meet you here on earth

It appears God wanted fellowship with you even before you thought of fellowship with him.

Never think the voice of God is difficult for you. Don't let the devil lie to you

A lot of believers know it is easy to hear the devil. Thoughts in your mind tell you to do crazy things, to sin, tempting you.

The Bible says your nature has changed and you are not a fallen man.

If you believe the devil can speak to you easily, why would it be hard for God to speak to you?

If the devil can hear God, why can't a child of God hear God? Job 1:6 to Job 1:7, and again in Job 2

Equip yourself with the word of God, because God's word is God's voice. Read your Bible every day. Stock your heart with God's word

As you pray, the Spirit will hover over the face of your deep and identify scriptures that help vocalize the impression God is giving you in that season

Those prophetic utterances that come when there is a move of the Spirit are what God is saying to you. Your confession means you are agreeing with what God says

Getting your daily confession

As you pray, you hear in your heart: in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply you.

You write it and say: Father, I thank you because in blessing you will bless me and in multiplying you will multiply me Hebrews 6:14

Now you have your daily confession

Another example. You are praying, not thinking of a year or a month, and God tells you, by December 2030 you will be a mother of three.

You write it down and say it every day. That is what Israel was doing

Make your confession after you pray, because when you pray the Spirit is moving.

After your morning or night prayer say: In Jesus' name I am a mother of three children by 2030, according to the word of the Lord to me

In blessing I am blessed, in multiplying I am multiplied, according to the word of the Lord to me

Write down all those impressions. They become your daily confession

When you start this, you will see how disciplined you can be. Don't make it too long.

This is spiritual intelligence: if you write a whole book, it will be burdensome to declare

I have said mine so much. I say it every day. I have been saying my current confession since 28 August 2024 and I have not changed it

Our church has a confession for 2026, the word of the Lord we declare every Sunday: we are established in our jobs, our marriages, our businesses and all that concerns us.

This year alone we have had many marriages

One thing in my daily confession: the Lord told me the leaders in our church will be given a dream about me.

I declare all the confirmation needed in dreams and visions for the leaders God is giving us. Many see me in their dreams, and I take note

Why say it daily

Exodus 23:30

There is a way God works, the little by little way. There is a technology to the works of God.

He does not always walk by explosion. He often works by repetition

When God speaks, that word is a seed Luke 8:11

A seed needs water. When God makes you a promise, that promise is a seed and you have to water it

Proverbs 18:4

Every time I put that word in my mouth, I am watering the seed of the promise.

Every morning when I make my daily confession, I am pouring water on my seed

Can a word of knowledge from a pastor be your confession? Yes. If you have not heard from God yet, gather the prophetic words people have spoken over your life

If it is from God, you will notice consistency.

They may say it in different ways, establishment, settlement, flourishing, but they will be saying the same thing. That is what you confess

One confession is a seed. Daily confession is farming with the seed

You keep saying it long enough and it will materialize

Job 22:21

Once you acquaint yourself with him, he gives you a word that brings you into a place of peace.

You receive instructions from his mouth, which is the hearing of faith, what we call prophecy.

Then you lay his word in your heart and start saying it

If you deposit it in your heart long enough, the day of withdrawal will come. You cash it out because it is already rich in your heart.

That is the day good comes, and that is your manifestation

• Lord, in this season of fasting and prayer, become real. Make your voice clear to everyone under the sound of my voice.
• Our sensitivity is heightened in this season.
• Give us your word that we will put on our lips so that good will come to us.
• We thank you for the revelation of your truth.