Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23
There is so much packed in that verse. The meaning of hope is the expectation of future good. Did you know how powerful your confession is? What are you confessing into your life? Are you declaring God’s faithfulness every day? Are you saying, “Praise You God for restoring my marriage, and bringing my spouse home?" Are you declaring what you cannot see in the natural, but what has already been done in the spiritual?
Or are you saying how hard this is? Are you confessing that your spouse hasn’t and isn’t going to change? Are you confessing that God isn’t working on your behalf? To confess means to tell or make known. What are you confessing, or making known?
In Proverbs 18:21, bible says:
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Did you catch the first word? It says “Death.” Our words have power. With what we say, we are essentially confessing what we are or are not seeing. So if we are confessing death with our words, by saying things like, “My spouse is so hateful to me,” or “My spouse will not talk to me,” “My spouse will never change,” we are putting those words out there and confessing that with our mouths. We are wavering in our hope. We are confessing death, not life.
But there is life in our words as well. By declaring what we cannot see, what God has said, we are confessing life. Did God tell you He would restore your marriage? Then confess it! Did God tell you that He would bring your spouse home? Then confess it! Speak life over your situation, no matter what it looks like. It may look like it’s so hopeless and that there is no chance of anything ever changing. But HOLD FAST to your confession of hope, WITHOUT WAVERING!
But when you ask Him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. James 1:6
When I looked up the definition of wavering, one really spoke to me. It is this: becoming weaker, faltering. When we waver, we are double-minded. We are confessing with our mouths one minute, “In faith, I believe my marriage is restored and my spouse is home, in the name of Jesus Christ!” and the next we’re saying, “God isn’t going to do it. I see no change in my spouse.” What is that? Wavering, double-mindedness. Remember, a double minded man is unstable in all of his ways (James 1:8).
I don’t know your situation. I don’t know what you have been through or are going through. What I do know is this – the God that we serve never changes. Hebrews 13:8 is our evidence of this.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
When I looked at what it meant to “hold fast,” it says, “remain tightly secured; continue to believe in or adhere to an idea or principle.” Whoa!! So I'll break this down, putting into my own words what I believe this verse, Hebrews 10:28, is saying:
Let us REMAIN TIGHTLY SECURE, CONTINUE TO BELIEVE in the confession of the EXPECTATION OF FUTURE GOOD without BECOMING WEAKER OR FALTERING, for He who promised is faithful.
If God told you that He will restore your marriage, bring your spouse home, restore your family and make you whole, you better bet that He will. He is faithful.
He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:24
God doesn’t waver like we do. Yes, we are human. But I don’t think that God expects us to walk this out perfectly. He knows we will fall. He knows that we fall short. The Bible says that all fall short of the glory of God. But He is there to pick us up, heal our hurts and wounds, and help us walk through this. He wants to heal us. He wants to restore us. He wants to restore our marriages, fully and completely. God is able.
But what are you confessing? Death? Or life? Me, I choose to confess life. I chose to confess that God has already won this and it is already settled. So I praise Him for it. I thank Him for already doing it and I can see God working in my spouse. God brought him home, like He said He would. And He is still doing a work in him and me. I challenge you to do the same. When the enemy comes in with his lies, you declare God’s truth. Speak life! Speak what God has said! Did He say He would restore? Then speak it (Joel 2:25). Did He say He would bring your prodigal spouse home? Speak it! The Old Testament, in Jeremiah and Isaiah, is chock full of God saying He would bring them back from the far country. Find some scripture and declare it. The Word is our weapon.
For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12.
Use your weapon. Speak truth and life. Trust God to do even the most impossible thing. Because He can. And He will. Believe Him. Trust.
Happy Marriage Anniversary my dear. The LOVE is really really there.
