Confession

Confession means "to say the same thing about what God says."

Confession is about speaking in agreement with the Word. The New Testament has much more on positive confessions than negative confessions.

Philemon 6 tells us to "acknowledge every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus."

If you are in Christ, you are a new creation (2 Cor 5:17). What you see in Christ is what you can acknowledge in you.

Until you learn to confess every good thing in you that is in Christ, and what God says about you, you are still self-righteous.

Self-righteousness is not just thinking too highly of yourself, it is also thinking too lowly of yourself. As long as you think different from what God thinks about you, you are stuck in self-righteousness.

The righteousness of God must be lived by faith (Rom 1:17). So if you are making negative confessions by facts, you are not walking by faith. That is like filthy rags to God because it disregards His Son's finished works.

Faith is the only way of living in the Kingdom. And confession is the entry to that living.

P.S: Chinese superstition in speech probably has its root in Christianity. And New Age learns from us. It's called the law of attraction.