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The Law That Changes Everything by Bill Winston When I began flight training in the military, we started out in ground school. We first had to get the laws of flight into our hearts and minds, so we could do on the ground what would be required of us in the air. Those laws became so ingrained in us we could do them in our sleep. In ground school, we learned what it takes to get a plane off the ground and keep it in the air. But first we learned the basic laws of flight—the laws of gravity and lift, and thrust and drag. We learned how these laws work together to result in flight. Before the instructors would let us go up in the plane, they had to know we had learned all the principles of flight. And we also needed to have faith in the laws we had learned. We saw them at work day in and day out as hundreds of planes took off and landed. But when we got into the plane, we had to have no doubt that those laws would work for us. A few of my fellow students had to develop their faith in those laws and overcome some fears. One guy was afraid to land the plane. Just like the rest of us, he knew the laws of flight and the mechanics of the plane, but his faith in the landing procedure wavered. With the instructor at his side, every time he started to land, fear would overtake him and he would fly by the runway. Sadly, he never got over his fear of crash landing, and eventually left the program without his pilot’s wings. The laws of flight were not able to work for him. Laws Work! Now, there are some laws of the Spirit that are as basic to our faith as these laws are to flying. And just like the laws of flight, they will keep you moving upward and forward when circumstances are trying to take you down and back! The same One who made this physical realm created the spirit realm, and He guarantees the laws to work. They work for the believer and nonbeliever alike. One of these basic spiritual laws has to do with words. It’s called the Law of Confession. God designed words to control the earth. They are basic to everything about our lives. God’s words created heaven and earth. They established His intent for His kingdom in the Garden of Eden. The devil used words to convince Adam and Eve to forfeit their authority. Jesus, the Living Word, came to re-establish God’s kingdom and to show us how we were designed to live and operate in it. He demonstrated with power how to use the Law of Confession—words—to establish the will of God on this earth. In Matthew 12:34-37, Jesus lays out this basic spiritual principle: "O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." In these verses, Jesus teaches that the Law of Confession works for everyone. Whatever is in our hearts in abundance is destined to come out our mouths and establish every aspect of our lives. That’s the law. That’s how God designed it. You can see a good example of the Law of Confession bringing about change in Numbers 13, where Moses sent 12 men from the tribes of Israel to spy out the Land of Promise. They brought back physical proof of exactly what God said they would find there (see Exodus 13 and Leviticus 20). They also brought back eyewitness reports about the people God said would be there—the Amalekites, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites and Canaanites. They actually confessed part of what God had said. 22 : BVOV

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