Kingdom Faith #2: Confession Leads to Possession

Kingdom faith takes hold of what God has already given, and it begins with the mouth. In this second message of the series, Dr. William P. Hohman teaches that confession leads to possession: you confess God’s Word, hear yourself say it, and faith is born in your heart. He shows the pattern of calling those things that do not exist as though they did through David before Goliath, Abraham’s name change and God’s own words in creation. It builds on the previous message, Kingdom Faith: Calling Those Things That Are Not as Though They Were.

Below you will find the full video, a summary of the sermon, the Scriptures behind each point (New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps for putting kingdom faith to work.

Sermon at a Glance

This message was preached at NTC Ministries and posted in February 2022, one week into the Kingdom Faith series. Pastor Hohman explains that the series is about calling those things that be not as though they were, a subject he has taught before but returns to because faith comes by hearing again and again, line upon line.

His burden is that many Christians wait for heaven to receive God’s blessings because no one has taught them otherwise. The message closes with an invitation to receive Jesus as Lord, spoken aloud.

Your Inheritance Is for Now

Pastor Hohman starts with a common mistake that kingdom faith corrects: believers waiting for heaven to receive their inheritance. He calls it ignorance of what the Bible says, because God has already given us all things that pertain to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3). Now is the time to receive it, and receiving is what faith does.

David said he would have lost heart unless he had believed that he would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living (Psalm 27:13). That means right here, right now. People get discouraged, back away and give up, but faith is what keeps them going.

He makes a grammatical point. Faith is a noun, but believing is a verb; it puts feet to what we trust. Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). What pleases Him is faith not only in who He is but in what He has done, and the two cannot be separated, because His name is I AM and El Shaddai, the all-sufficient One.

With over 8,000 promises in the Bible by his count, the question is how to make them come alive instead of lying on a page. The answer is the pattern of kingdom faith that runs through Scripture.

Confession Leads to Possession

The key text is Romans 10:9–10: if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Most people treat it as the verse for going to heaven, but Pastor Hohman says it is the verse for receiving everything from God.

He teaches that the Greek word for saved, sozo, means delivered, set free, healed, prospered and saved, and that it is a continual process covering every good thing. Notice the order, he says: first confess with your mouth, then believe in your heart. So he has the congregation say it together: “confession leads to possession.” Joy, peace and unity in the home are all promises, and you cannot believe them in your heart until you start confessing them.

Why does confession come first? Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Pastor Hohman observes that the person you trust more than anyone is yourself, so God has us speak His Word. Hearing it from a preacher is good, but when you say it, you trust it more.

He describes two ears, a natural ear and a spiritual ear, linked together. When you speak, the words go into your natural ears and resonate down into your spiritual ears, and faith is born there. That is why we believe with the heart, not the head. Faith that lives only in the mind can be stolen; anything in the mind can be overruled by something else, which is how deception works.

Believers are told to cast down arguments and bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). That takes action on our part. God Himself always speaks before He acts; He does nothing without revealing it to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). About 750 years before Jesus was born, a prophet declared that a virgin would conceive and bear a son (Isaiah 7:14), and it happened.

“The power of what God wants in your life is in saying it,” he says, and he repeats it for emphasis. God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that works in us (Ephesians 3:20).

Principles, Not Just Stories

Here Pastor Hohman names what he calls the problem with religion. It tells stories about the Bible and about Jesus but never teaches the principles behind them. People conclude that God does everything, and they miss how He had to use someone to do it.

That is why God teaches His people precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little (Isaiah 28:10). Simply hearing that God is great is not enough, since even the demons believe and tremble (James 2:19). He wants more than devil faith. He wants mountain-moving, child-of-God faith that accomplishes God’s will, so that one day he hears, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21).

God’s Word produces faith for the very thing it promises, so you cannot have faith in what God has done if you do not know what He has done.

He distinguishes kingdom faith from mere hope. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. If you tell a sick friend you will pray and believe God for healing and they answer, “I sure hope so,” they are still living in hope. You cannot receive from God by hope alone, though you cannot have faith without hope either.

David Spoke Before He Struck

The story of David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17 is usually told as God doing everything. Pastor Hohman sets the scene. Israel had asked for a king like the other nations so the king would fight for them (1 Samuel 8:19–20), and God gave them Saul, a head taller than everyone. Then Goliath came out every day and defied Israel, and the whole army hid in their tents.

David arrived with food for his brothers and asked whether there was not a cause, since they were the army of the living God. Pastor Hohman calls him the only boy ever to go to a sword fight with a rock. What did David do that the army did not? He spoke with kingdom faith.

In 1 Samuel 17:45–47, David answers Goliath, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts.” Then he declares what is about to happen. Pastor Hohman counts five declarations of defeat:

Because David spoke it out, Pastor Hohman says, the power of God through his words became the strength that won. God did not simply do it while David watched. The rest of the army was doing what many Christians do today, crying “God, do something” and bargaining with Him, and it did not work for them. David declared, and God backed his words.

Some critics say that kingdom faith, declaring Scripture, is acting like God. Pastor Hohman agrees that it is exactly what God wants, because parents raise children to act like them. Then he turns it around: if speaking what God says is acting like God, then people who constantly speak what the devil says, all the negative junk, are acting like the devil.

David later prayed for God to set a guard over his mouth (Psalm 141:3), a good prayer for anyone. And if God says He has already done something, asking for it again is a lack of faith. If someone hands you a new Bible for your birthday, you do not keep wishing for one; you say thank you, and from then on you say, I have a new Bible.

Kingdom Faith and the Word of His Power

Kingdom faith, calling those things that are not as though they were, is a pattern all through the Bible, not a coincidence. Hebrews 11:1–3 says faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

In Genesis 1, Pastor Hohman points out, God spoke and then God saw: God said “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3–4), and God saw that it was good. If you want to see good things in your life, he says, start saying them. What are you declaring and prophesying over yourself?

Hebrews 1:1–3 says God spoke in time past by the prophets and has in these last days spoken by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things. Having given man dominion (Genesis 1:26), God acts on earth when someone agrees with Him and speaks it out. Because Jesus is the heir, and we are joint heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17), what He speaks to us about is our inheritance. We have one mouth and two ears, so listen twice as much, then speak.

The same passage calls Jesus the express image of God’s person, upholding all things by the word of His power. Pastor Hohman explains an express image as spoken words. Jesus is the Word (John 1:1–2), and whoever has seen Him has seen the Father (John 14:9–10). When you say “God shall supply all my need according to His riches in glory” (Philippians 4:19), you are expressing who He is.

Words create images: say snow and people picture sledding and shoveling, not letters. Someone who constantly sees themselves sick keeps holding an image of corruption. So keep saying what God says: by His stripes I am healed. The verse says the word of His power, not merely the power of His word, and words of His power release power over sickness, debt and the corruption of this world.

Lying in bed begging God to get you out of debt only keeps you on the hamster wheel, he says, and some people like their image of trouble because it brings sympathy. That is why Jesus said that when you fast, wash your face (Matthew 6:17–18).

From Abram to Abraham

Reviewing last week, Pastor Hohman turns to Romans 4:13–18. The promise that Abraham would be heir of the world came through the righteousness of faith, not the law. An inheritance, he notes, is not earned by good behavior in the attorney’s office. And it is sure to all the seed, from the least to the greatest. God gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.

In Genesis 12:1–3, God promised to bless Abram and make his name great, and Abram left at 75. In Genesis 15:1–6, God showed him the stars and said, so shall your descendants be, and Abram believed. Yet for about twenty-four years nothing happened. Pastor Hohman says Abram believed God could, but would not speak it out. Many believers say the same: I believe God will heal me one day, and that day never comes.

So in Genesis 17:1–6, when Abram was 99, God told him to walk before Him and be blameless, which Pastor Hohman reads as “start acting like Me.” God changed his name to Abraham, father of many nations, when he was not yet the father of one. In Genesis 17:15–16, Sarai became Sarah, mother of nations and kings. Every time they said their new names, they were calling those things that are not as though they were. A year later Isaac, whose name means laughter, was born.

He shares how this worked at NTC Ministries. A member, Fay Marquart, led the school children in thanking God daily for a gymnasium while the ground was still an empty field, and the addition was built for over a million dollars less than expected. For a radio station they gave thanks for about seven years; when a window opened, he says over 750 ministries applied for the same frequency and only NTC received it.

Radio and television signals are in the room right now, unheard until you tune in, and he says science simply discovered how God already works. Made in God’s image and likeness, we are to look like Him and act like Him, which means speaking well of others and calling things that are not as though they were. That is kingdom faith.

What has God already spoken over us? Jesus bore our sins in His own body on the tree, and by His stripes you were healed (1 Peter 2:24). Not going to be; you were. He sent His word and healed them (Psalm 107:20). He tells of praying for a woman in Indonesia who could not get out of bed and hearing hours later that she was up, but, he adds, she could have declared it herself with kingdom faith.

The fig tree Jesus cursed died from the roots (Mark 11:20–21), and He told the disciples to have faith in God: whoever says to this mountain, be removed, and does not doubt, will have whatever he says (Mark 11:22–23). Kingdom faith speaks to the mountain of adversity in Jesus’ name and expects it to obey.

Living Kingdom Faith This Week

Pastor Hohman’s charge is to stop waiting for a prayer line and start living in the inheritance yourself. Here are the steps drawn from this kingdom faith message:

• Find the promise first. Read the Bible to learn what God has already given, because you cannot have faith in what you do not know.
• Say it out loud. Speak the promise so your own ears hear it; confession leads to possession.
• Stop asking for what is done. Thank God for healing, provision and peace He has already given, like a gift already in your hands.
• Guard your mouth. Pray Psalm 141:3 and refuse to repeat the negative things the enemy says.
• Change your image. Replace pictures of sickness and lack with God’s promises of healing and provision.
• Keep hearing. Return each week, since faith grows line upon line.

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 Kingdom faith: your inheritance is for now
• 1:19 Psalm 27:13 and Hebrews 11:6
• 2:22 Over 8,000 promises; Romans 10:9–10
• 3:24 Sozo: more than going to heaven
• 4:34 Confession leads to possession
• 5:51 Natural ears and spiritual ears
• 8:24 The power is in saying it
• 9:47 The problem with religion
• 11:15 Faith is the substance of things hoped for
• 12:34 David and Goliath: 1 Samuel 17
• 15:58 1 Samuel 17:45–47: David speaks
• 18:15 Five declarations of defeat
• 19:55 Hebrews 11:1–3: framed by the word
• 21:13 God said, God saw
• 23:54 Hebrews 1: spoken by His Son
• 28:37 The express image of His person
• 29:48 The word snow and the power of images
• 35:12 Romans 4: Abraham, heir by faith
• 39:36 Genesis 15: count the stars
• 41:40 The gymnasium and the radio station
• 45:55 Made in His image and likeness
• 48:30 Genesis 17: Abram becomes Abraham
• 53:04 1 Peter 2:24: by His stripes you were healed
• 55:32 Mark 11: speak to the mountain
• 58:56 Invitation to receive Jesus

Kingdom Faith Series

This message is part of the Kingdom Faith teaching series at NTC Ministries. Start from the beginning or continue where this one leaves off:

• Previous: Kingdom Faith: Calling Those Things That Are Not as Though They Were
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• Next: Kingdom Faith #3 — Those Things That Are Not As Though They Were

Frequently Asked Questions

Is speaking God’s Word just positive thinking?

Pastor Hohman’s teaching is not about the mind at all. He says faith that lives only in the head can be stolen or overruled by another thought. Speaking God’s Word goes through your natural ears into your spiritual ears, and faith is born in the heart. The content also matters: it is God’s own promises being spoken, the word of His power, not just upbeat ideas.

Why did God change Abram’s name?

According to Pastor Hohman, Abram believed God for years but never spoke the promise out. By renaming him Abraham, father of many nations, God put the promise in his mouth. Every time Abraham or Sarah said their names, they were calling things that were not as though they were, and within a year Isaac was born.

Should I stop asking others to pray for me?

No. Pastor Hohman prays for people around the world and shares answers to those prayers. His point is that believers do not have to wait for a prayer line or for someone else to declare God’s promises. The same inheritance belongs to every believer, from the least to the greatest, and each one can speak it over their own life.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• Romans 10:9–10 and Romans 10:17 — confess, believe and hear
• 1 Samuel 17:45–47 — David declares victory
• Hebrews 11:1–3 — the worlds framed by the word
• Hebrews 1:1–3 — the word of His power
• Romans 4:13–18 — calls those things which do not exist
• Genesis 17:1–6 — Abram becomes Abraham
• 1 Peter 2:24 — by His stripes you were healed
• Mark 11:22–23 — speak to the mountain
• Psalm 27:13 — the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living

How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.

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