When Was Your Last Confession?

It is customary when a Catholic believer goes to confession at a local parish and enters the confessional booth in most cases anonymously behind the screen, they make the sign of the cross and say the following: Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. Then the priest will reply with the question, When was your last confession? Then the confessor will disclose when the last time they confessed their sins.

The word confession is the Greek word homologeo, which is a fusion of two Greek words, the word homo which means the same and the word logeo or logos which means speech or to speak. So the word confession means to say the same thing as another, to agree with, to declare openly or speak out freely the same thing God says about you. When was your last confession? I am healed, I am prosperous, I am an overcomer. I live my life by what I believe and not what I see. The course and quality of my life is dictated by the inward promptings of the Holy Spirit and not by outward fear mongering of the daily news cycle.

When we read the truth of the scripture, we should appropriate these divine principles to our daily life by how we walk, talk, live and give. If this is not the case and you’re not cultivating and protecting your heart from fear, negativity, pessimism and hopelessness, you will begin to say the same things others say and you will reap the fruit of your confession. King Solomon is quoted in Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” You outward actualization is a by product of your inward acknowledgement. Allow your tongue to be an asset for your life and not a liability in your life. Get in agreement with God and say what He says about you and your confession will transport the manifestation of blessings to you. It’s not what I say about you that counts but it is what you say about you that counts!