Danlel was the example of my confession.

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As I grew to a knowing of God it was made known to me the power of the words that I spoke. I had found the power of what I believed and what I spoke, was, not only what allowed Christ in my life, everything I said, was going to allow whatever it was I was saying in my life. My tongue and what I believed in my heart would direct me in life.

Now to be told that and fully believe it, at first, it takes a sign to follow what you believe. Since my Salvation was still only confession I believed I received by faith, I wondered about the power of it all. I had a true desire to know God. And I knew my confession needed to be good, but did that mean if my confession was bad, did that allow bad in my life? Did a negative confession from my heart allow the devil a place in my life to steal from me? I was not sure at the time, and I needed to know now! My wife and two sons were depending on me, to be the spiritual leader in our home.

Daniel was a Golden retreiver, that I had bought as a puppy and raised. I had him before I was with children and our bond was very close. He was an escape artist. But only because he needed his freedom so he could be close to me. If he was close he was content. If he was chained or penned up, his only goal was, how could he reach me. And he reached me in a way that I believed redirected my life in the things I said forever. It had rained for a week and the mud outside was everywhere. Daniel would escape from his kennel and come straight to the back door to come in the house. I would let him in and the the mud would be every where. I needed to come up with something to keep him, and I was not sure how he was getting out. The pen he was in had a six foot fence around it, how was he escaping from that? I watch one day and he would climb on top of the dog house and over the fence he would go. Six feet of fence was not going to keep him from me, and the mud came again in the house, until I could figure a way to keep him contained.

That is when I came up with what might work? If I could keep him from getting on the dog house I thought it might work. And then the thought came to me "what if the leash I used to keep him from climbing on the dog house might cause him to strangle?" The thought was a fear that had yet to be born because I had not yet spoken it. I had not allowed it in my life yet because it was just a thought. It did not become what I believed until i confessed it.

The rain came down in buckets and I worked on taking a cable and making sure he would not be able to climb on the dog house but only to get inside of it. As I worked I had an apprehension in what I was doing, I had no intentions of hurting what I loved so much. I knew not to confess my fear, and yet I went into the house and told my wife what I had done and how I had always feared doing it because i did not want him to hang himself. When i said it, it screamed in my heart. I confessed what I feared. With in twenty minutes the devil had confirmed what I knew to be true, but I had yet to have a sign that followed. I looked out the window to see if Daniel had settled in the dog house and saw that he had hung from the neck life less. And what I had feared the most and confessed I had saw come to pass. I believe my confessed fear is what gave the devil a place in my life. I believe that if I can control what comes out of my mouth I can control the direction my life goes. I believe God does not give me the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and a sound mind. I believe when fear wells up inside of you, it is to get you to speak it. And for it never to be born and for you to never give the devil a place in your life you must control what you say. I believe each individual has the same power. I believe when you speak out of line and your heart screams you can turn to that fear and with the Truth of God have it flee from you, because the devil only stays where each individual is unaware he is. The devil possesses, he is not an invited guest.

I believe God will allow us as we invite His Son to live in us and we search for understanding of His enemies, animals to take the place of lessons we are to learn in life, instead of our children, for example, the story of Abraham and Isaac.

I believe God’s will is never to have had to offer His Son as a sacrifice to this world, but because He loved it, and the world is blinded to what it receives by love, and not because of will, there was no other way.

I believe those that recognize people doing for them out of love, and not their will to do so, will allow God’s kingdom to come.

I believe my dog Daniel was an example of my confession, and he did reach me in a way i will Never forget!

God, in Jesus name, my family and I thank You for the Power of the Word in us , and Daniel! Amen

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