Our Testimonies of the Law of Confession in Operation, Part 1

David W Palmer

Rosanna and I were part of a full-time, professional rock band, playing hotels, nightclubs, and concerts before yielding to Jesus. That was the best decision we ever made; but then, the implications of him being Lord started to hit home. Not only did Jesus call us to give up our lucrative, secular career, but it wasn’t long until he told me: “Go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me” (Mat. 19:21 NKJV). He confirmed this to me from several other verses each time I opened a Bible; so I knew he was speaking this word to me, including:

(Luke 12:32–34 NLT) “So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom. {33} Sell your possessions and give to those in need. This will store up treasure for you in heaven! And the purses of heaven never get old or develop holes. Your treasure will be safe; no thief can steal it and no moth can destroy it. {34} Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.”

Once Rosanna and I fully accepted that this word was really Jesus speaking this to us as a “now” instruction, we set about obeying it. This meant selling the audio equipment that we had worked hard to accumulate during our time as a professional band. It was expensive, and we sacrificed a lot to buy it. Selling it and giving away the proceeds was huge.

Our whole truck load of equipment sold almost instantly by word of mouth; I was amazed at how fast this happened. We obeyed Jesus and gave the money to poverty relief, and then it was simply all gone. We had only one place to look—God; our eyes were on him.

Without doubt, what Jesus said was coming true for us: “Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.” Our earthly treasure had all gone in obedience to him; it had become treasure in heaven. Consequently, our heart’s desire was now fully focused on him.

Thankfully, at the same time, the Holy Spirit had been teaching us about faith—including, you can have what you say, if … (Mark 11:23). We combined this with Mark 11:24, where the Master teaches us to believe we receive when we pray, and Romans 4:17, where God “calls those things which do not exist as though they did” (Rom. 4:17 NKJV).

Because we constantly needed PA equipment and a huge light-show to develop our outreach and worship music ministry, we began to use our faith to lay claim to the equipment we needed, based on:

(Luke 6:38 NKJV) “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

(Mark 10:29–30 NKJV) So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, {30} who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

(Mark 11:23–24 NKJV) “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. {24} Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”

Rosanna, our audio engineer, John, and I began to release our faith. We only had a matter of months before we needed another whole truck load of equipment to continue our ministry. Plus, we were learning to live by faith at the time, and many of our school and outreach concerts paid very little if anything. This was extremely unlike our lucrative, secular work as a rock band had been, so saving or borrowing for the equipment we needed was entirely out of the question.

First, we made a complete list of what we needed—a specific prayer list, and prayed over it. Then we spoke of the non-existent as though it was a past established fact. When we had none of the equipment we needed and couldn’t see any natural means of obtaining it, we made statements like: “Praise the Lord, the [expensive brand name] speakers and amplifiers sounded good today.” We called exactly the brand names and size of the speakers, amplifiers, etc. that we needed specifically as was written on our prayer list. We spoke in the present tense as though we already had them and described it all in imagined detail.

We repeated this confession every day and each time we set out to play with some tiny, inferior equipment that we pieced together to keep us going—for each school concert, etc. Time was short before we resumed the larger events, and we felt the urgency for some excellent, professional quality sound equipment, etc. So we kept our eyes on Jesus for his provision.

I’m so glad that John and we were totally in agreement about this prayer of faith and confession:

(Matthew 18:19 NKJV) “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.”

By God’s grace, we kept up a consistent prayer life, fasting, and worship. Plus, we held fast to our confession without wavering. Then, without warning, a truck pulled up at the church we were attending and unloaded exactly the equipment we had been praying for. The owner gave it to the church and we could use it. Again, I say, it was exactly what we had on our list, had prayed for, and confessed as a present reality before we saw any of it or had any natural inkling that it was coming.

What Jesus teaches us about faith, agreement, and the law of confession works. He doesn’t lie. When we worked it then, and have continued to work it ever since, what we have needed has always come to pass. God is good; his word is true. If it worked for God’s people in the Bible, and it worked for us in today’s world, then it can work for you too—if you do exactly as he says, and if you apply what we have been looking at from God’s word in this series of devotional studies.

All the equipment we have today, including the cars we have used during the past 40 years and our houses, have all come the same way—faith and the law of confession. I encourage you to begin today; fill your heart with God’s word and muse on its fulfilment in your life. Follow the leading of the Holy Spirit: sow what he says to sow, pray, fast, do what he says—including going to conferences, studying, attending the church he wants you to, and love him obediently with your whole heart. Begin living fully by faith; it’s the only way to be justified before him. It’s the only way to please him. It will work for you just like it has worked for us throughout our 40 year walk following Jesus.

(James 2:24 NKJV) You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

(Hebrews 11:6 NKJV) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

(2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV) For we walk by faith, not by sight.

(Hebrews 10:23 NKJV) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.