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    Personal Confessions from the Psalms ~ Prayers and Affirmations for a Life of Faith, Happiness and Awe in God
    Personal Confessions from the Psalms ~ Prayers and Affirmations for a Life of Faith, Happiness and Awe in God
    Personal Confessions from the Psalms ~ Prayers and Affirmations for a Life of Faith, Happiness and Awe in God
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    Personal Confessions from the Psalms ~ Prayers and Affirmations for a Life of Faith, Happiness and Awe in God

    By Jeff Doles

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    Renew Your Heart to the Rhythms of God!

    The psalms of the Bible are powerful expressions of the heart of faith in covenant with God, and of the heart of God in covenant with His people. Confessing the psalms is simply speaking in agreement with them, and is a great way to meditate on, personalize and instruct your soul with the truths and promises they bring.

    The personal confessions in this book are adapted from the psalms. They are defibrillations to shift your heart into the rhythms of faith, to recalibrate your thoughts and emotions with the promises of God and realign your will with the heart of God. But don’t just read them. Find a place where you can say them out loud and maybe even shout them out with passion. Let them go up with a whoop and a holler to God, with the velocity of faith, and watch what happens in your heart and in your life.

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    PublisherJeff Doles
    Release dateJan 18, 2012
    ISBN9781466114128
    Personal Confessions from the Psalms ~ Prayers and Affirmations for a Life of Faith, Happiness and Awe in God
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    Jeff Doles

    JEFF DOLES is a Christian writer, blogger and Bible teacher. He and his wife, Suzanne, live near Tampa, FL and are the founders of Walking Barefoot Ministries. Their desire is to help you take the next step of faith in your walk with the Lord, live in the reality of His kingdom, and experience the presence and power of God in your life. Jeff's books include Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church, Healing Scriptures and Prayers, and Praying With Fire: Change Your World with the Powerful Prayers of the Apostles. His blog is The Faith Log: Exploring the Dynamics of Biblical Faith.

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      Personal Confessions from the Psalms ~ Prayers and Affirmations for a Life of Faith, Happiness and Awe in God - Jeff Doles

      Personal Confessions from the Psalms

      Prayers and Affirmations for a Life of Faith, Happiness and Awe in God

      ©2012 by Jeff Doles

      All rights reserved.

      Print ISBN: 978-0-9823536-1-5 

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      Walking Barefoot Ministries

      P.O. Box 1062, Seffner, FL 33583

      All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the New King James Version. © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible®, © The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      Introduction:

      Confessing the Psalms

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      EVERY month for about the past 25 years I have followed the practice of praying through the book of Psalms. The math works out quite handily: 150 psalms divided by 30 days in a month comes to 5 psalms a day. So each day I pray through five psalms, beginning with the first five on the first day of the month, the second five on the second day, and so on. Now, that does not mean that I necessarily make it through all five each day. Some days I am caught by one psalm in particular. Some days by just a section of a psalm. Some days by just a single verse, and I spend my prayer time on that. The constancy of this habit has been very rewarding for me. I have discovered that the more I pray the psalms, the more sensitive I become to them and the more they open up inside me, sometimes like an overstuffed suitcase springing wide open when I pop the latch. I never know, from day to day, which portion might hold a fresh revelation for me.

      Creating confessions such as the ones in this book is one way I have learned to meditate on the psalms, repeating them over and over to myself, personalizing them, instructing my soul with them. David, God’s premier psalm writer, must have known something about this process because he learned how to encourage himself in the LORD during difficult times. When he and his band of soldiers returned home to Ziklag, they discovered that it had been burned with fire, and their wives and children were carried off by the Amalekites. The Bible says they wept bitter tears until they simply had no more power to weep. For David, it was even worse, because he was their leader, and his men were so consumed by grief that there was talk of stoning him. David was in distress, and it might have destroyed him completely, except for this: David strengthened himself in the LORD his God (1 Samuel 30:1-6).

      We are not told what that looked or sounded like, but I imagine it included singing some of the psalms he had written, going over again the many times he had experienced the faithfulness of God in his life, confessing them over and over to his soul until he was ready to rise up, pursue and recover all (1 Samuel 30:8). However, I do know that confessing the psalms has often helped me encourage myself in the LORD.

      What is a Confession?

      Someone once asked me if our ministry taught positive confession. I answered that we teach about speaking in agreement with the Word of God ~ and that is what I mean by confession. For many, the word confess has only a negative connotation: to admit to wrongdoing, or to acknowledge some inconvenient truth. However, it also has a very positive use, such as when it is used to speak of confessing the faith.

      The basic meaning of confess is to acknowledge or give assent. In the New Testament, the Greek word translated confess is homologeo, from homou, same, and lego, to say. To confess is to say the same thing, to speak in agreement with what is being said about something. For example, when we confess our sins, as in 1 John 1:9, we are agreeing with God that we have done things we ought not to have done, and that we need to be forgiven and cleansed because of them. When we confess the Lord Jesus, as in Romans 10:9, we are agreeing and affirming that Jesus is indeed our God and King.

      Years ago, during a very difficult time in my life, I began making confessions like the ones in this book, learning to speak in agreement with the Word of God. I knew I it would take a strong, bold faith if I was going to get the turnaround I desperately needed. So I gathered together a number of Scripture promises, cast them in the first person and began speaking them out. Just reading them silently to myself would not be enough ~ I knew I had to get them down deep into my heart. With the heart we believe, with the mouth we confess (Romans 10:10), and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (Matthew 12:24). So I started reading them out loud. Though it was awkward at first, I kept at it, day after day,

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