“I choose to agree with the Word of God and choose to disagree with ANY thought, condition or circumstance contrary to God's Word.” A. Moyd
Declaring the Word of God as it relates to our Lives
We who have entered into a covenant with God through the blood of Jesus Christ are partakers in the promises of God, found in His Word, the Bible. We have given our life to God and promised to obey His Word. He in turn not only gives us the power to obey His commandments, but also is ready to pour His blessings upon us because we are now His children. Everything His Word promises is for us to receive. We must appropriate these blessings by faith.
Speaking the Word of God with a first person application is one way of expressing the kind of faith which pleases God. By confessing our obedience to a commandment of God we are boldly declaring our allegiance to God. We are trusting God for the power to walk in obedience to what He told us to do. It is important to confess like this because our verbal commitments steer the direction of our life. It is also important because many of God's promises to us are conditional upon the kind of faith which leads to obedience.
By confessing a promise in the first person we are boldly stating that we are the ones that it applies to. We definitely express faith that we are the ones who are going to receive the blessing.
I am not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, because the Spirit of Christ dwells in me. (Romans 8)
In Him I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. (Ephesians 1:7)
God has blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. (Ephesians 1:3)
I am chosen in Him to be holy and without blame before Him in love. (Ephesians 1:4)
In Him I have also obtained an inheritance. (Ephesians 1:11)
In Him, having believed, I was sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of my inheritance. (Ephesians 1:13,14)
In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and I am complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. (Ephesians 2:10)
In Him I was also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh. (Colossians 2:11)
God raised me up and made me sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:6)
I reckon myself to be really dead to sin, in Jesus Christ my Lord. (Romans 6:11)
I reckon I'm really alive to God, in Jesus Christ my Lord. (Romans 6:11)
The blessing of Abraham comes upon me in Christ Jesus, that I might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Galatians 3:14)