"Perspective"

Stepping Out in RED Shoes!

- Day 96 -

Someone asked me today...  What's happening in your life?  Where are you at?

  

Today I'm in free fall.  

To some it may look like I'm falling to my death, 

but to others -- those who believe -- I'm doing it!  

I'm flying!  

I've come to realize that success is all about perspective.  We can cry all we want from the plane and ask God to help us, but...

TEARS don't move God,

FAITH does!

Leaping from the plane is a step of faith.  It shows God that you trust Him.  Sitting in the plane shows Him, you don't -- at least not yet.   I say this from experience.  Over the years, I've cried many tears, and yes -- God has heard my prayers and collected my tears -- but He didn't move on my behalf, until I exercised my faith and took the leap!

Trusting doesn't mean the leap isn't scary.  It doesn't eliminate the risk.  It just means that you've strapped your parachute on and believe it will open at the right time.  In other words...  God is with you and He'll come through for you.

"Everything is possible for one who believes."

Mark 9:23

That said,  I've become acutely aware of my words.  Words are the microphone of my heart.  They declare what I believe.  They announce to God and everyone around me my perspective on things.  
I wonder... Is my conversation filled with faith?  or not so much?  Surely that will dictate the results I can expect.  

"The tongue has the power of life and death."

Proverbs 18:21

I figure I have 3 choices:  

1. I can speak forth a negative confession filled with doubt, fear and unbelief.
2. I can speak forth a negative confession by saying nothing at all - a paralyzed version of the above mentioned.
3. I can speak forth a negative confession by starting out positive and sprinkling it with negativity.
4. Or... I can speak what I know to be true in my Spirit into existence -- a positive confession.  

A positive confession doesn't seem practical or possible because I can't see it.  I want to see something before I step out of the plane -- but that's not faith.  If I can see it, then that means it already exists in this world, and thereby it doesn't require prayer or faith.

"Faith in the substance of things hoped for, 

the evidence of things not yet seen."

Hebrews 11:1

There's a saying...  "Confession brings Possession."  If that be true, a negative confession will bring about all the things I don't want.  A positive confession, on the other hand, has the potential to manifest the promises of God in my life. 

"Have faith in God,"  Jesus answered.  

"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 

'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' 

and does not doubt in their heart 

but believes that what they say will happen,

 it will be done for them.  

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, 

believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

Mark 11:22-24

Here's the Biblical formula:

SPEAK IT  +  DON'T DOUBT  +  BELIEVE IT  =   THEN IT WILL MANIFEST.

Taking all things into account, a negative confession is a "LOSE - LOSE"  situation, whereas with a positive confession, I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.  Even still... too often I doubt!  I'm attempting to correct that.  

Stepping out of planes, right and left, 

requires a positive confession,    

otherwise,  it's fruitless!

I'm asking God to help me change my words to 100% positive, 100% of the time.  That's a step of faith in and of itself -- To continually speak a positive confession!  It's a step in RED shoes, that pleases God.

For without faith, it's impossible to please Him."

Hebrews 11:6

Gail