Shiro's Guide to Becoming an Up!Sayer and Living Abundantly

By Shiro Ombewa

Life is meant to be beautiful and abundant. Yet, for many people, myself included, life is sometimes simply a hopeless observation: we observe sickness and disease harass humanity, we observe the cost of living getting higher, we observe changes in our countries and governments, we observe climate change and global warming, we observe our families together with all humanity struggling to make sense of everyday existence. I am convinced that I, and everyone else who is tired of being tossed whichever way life chooses, need to get off the observation deck. Jesus died on the cross to get us off it and I believe he meant it when he said that he came that we might live life abundantly. "Shiro's Guide to Becoming an Up!Sayer and Living Abundantly" draws on the truth of God's Word to boldly declare that abundance in every area of our lives is ours by right! The right given to us by Jesus' finished work on the cross.

In the first part of the book, I explore why being an Up!Sayer is biblical by discussing effectual prayer and how to wait effectively for the answers we seek. There is no doubt from scripture that God is both willing and able to answer our prayers. With each claim I make in this regard, I have supplied confirmatory verses that prove it is not wishful thinking. I then proceed with a three-step guide on how to create a personal Confession List of Bible verses and how to synthesize this into a personal vision of answered prayer. It is then followed by Confession Lists that cover the fundamental areas of our lives such as God's Love for Us, Family, Health, Wealth and Prosperity, and others. For each Confession List, I follow up with a paragraph entitled: In My Own Words; this is where I vividly describe what my version of the answer looks like in my reality.

The second part of the book offers a 31-day confession and prayer guide. It can be followed from any date of the month and there is a choice of four verses taken from the confession lists. Please select one to meditate over on that day or select from the longer confession lists or from the Bible. I have also included prayer starters to help you design your prayers for each day.

Much as I would encourage every reader to read through the first part's exploration and understand becoming an Up!Sayer, Prayer and Waiting, you are free to start applying the Confession Lists and prayer starters immediately. God's word is limitless because he who spoke it will make sure it comes to pass.

Welcome aboard this new way of living as you step off the observation deck of life.
Shiro Ombewa

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shiro Ombewa
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463607701

Shiro Ombewa

Shiro Ombewa is a wife, mother of two teenagers, and teacher by profession. She taught in Kenyan public schools for twelve years, before moving to Rwanda with her family and teaching there for three years. Currently in Kazakhstan, she is a homeschooling Mum, and has now found time to follow her passion of writing. She writes in a simple pedagogical style that makes it easy for the reader to follow her ideas.When she takes a break, you'll find her in the kitchen trying to invent healthy recipes for all those things that are oh so tasty but too laden with calories, and a recipe to make veggies irresistible to her teenagers.

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Shiro’s Guide to Becoming an Up!Sayer

And Living Abundantly.

2020 Edition with 31-day Prayer and Confession Guide

By Shiro Ombewa

Copyright 2020 Shiro Ombewa

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DEDICATION

To my husband, Ziphah, and children, Sally and Eddy: Thanks for being the best prayer partners I could ever wish for. You give me a reason for praying. Thank you for sticking with our individual prayer days. May this tradition carry on to future generations. Thank you for bearing with my confession lists on the doors, fridge, bedrooms and in your inboxes. Thank you for helping me clean out the smudges of glue with nail varnish remover from these surfaces when we are moving house and have to tear them off.

To Melissa, thank you for all the prayers we made when we were younger and could spend Sunday afternoons in church instead of going home. Those prayers were a prayer bank that God has honored to this day in both our lives.

To Bright and Kate, thank you for being our spiritual big sisters then and for keeping the faith.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foretaste

Prologue

Chapter 1: The Tongue and its Fruit.

Chapter 2: Who is an Up!Sayer?

Chapter 3: Effectual Prayer

Chapter 4: Believing Now

Chapter 5: Daniel's Story

Chapter 6: Waiting Right

Chapter 7: Steps to Creating a Personal Vision

Confessions of God's Glory and Majesty

Confessions About Jesus

Confessions About the Holy Spirit

Confessions of God's Love

Confessions of God's Forgiveness and Salvation

Confessions of the Authority of God's Word

Confessions About the Church

Confessions Over My Family

Confessions Over My Marriage and My Spouse

Confessions Over My Children

Confessions Over My Health

Confessions For Peace and Mental Wellness

Confessions Over My Work and Wealth

Confessions Over My Past, Present and Future

Confessions Of God's Protection

Confessions For Favor and Success

Confessions For My Country

Part Two: 31 Days of Living By Faith

Day 1 to 5

Day 6 to 10

Day 11 to 15

Day 16 to 20

Day 21 to 25

Day 26 to 31

Conclusion of the Matter

About The Author

FORETASTE

ANYTIME ANYWHERE CONFESSIONS

I would like to invite you straight away to our new way of living, our new way of thinking, our new way of receiving from God. The confession way. The faith way. Jesus put it this way in Mark 9:23, Everything is possible for him who believes. God is welcoming us to partake of his love, his offer of salvation, his goodness, and eternal life. Copy and paste this confession list to a very accessible place, print and hang it on your wall, or even learn it by heart. The rest of the book offers more, this however is an easy condensed version. I welcome you the Kenyan way by saying, Karibu.

Salvation and eternity

Thank you, Heavenly Father, that I am born again. Thank you that You so loved me that Jesus died on the cross so that I may believe and now I have eternal life.

Life

Thank you, Lord Jesus, that you came to give me a life that I can enjoy to the full. You take care of me. I know your voice and I follow you.

Wisdom

Thank you, Lord, for giving me the Holy Spirit to be my Counsellor and Comforter for ever. Thank you that he leads me into all truth.

Health

Thank you, Lord, that I am healed by the wounds you suffered for me on the cross. Every part of my body, my mind and my spirit are in continuous perfect health.

Sleep

Thank you, Lord, that you love me and give me sleep every night. You make me lie down in safety. I get up fully rested to perform all my work for the day.

Peace

Thank you, Lord, that when I pray your peace that surpasses all understanding guards my heart and mind in Christ Jesus. I am care-free; I have put all my cares on you because you care for me.

Family, Church

Thank you, Lord, that we serve you. We are on the Lord’s side. We are filled with love for you and for each other.

Social success

Thank you, Lord, that your favor is always a shield around me. I am friendly and have great friends. I increase in favor with you and with fellow men.

Work and provision

Thank you, Lord, that you establish the work of my hands. You meet all my needs according to your glorious riches in Christ Jesus. I have more than enough for all my needs, wants and charitable donations.

PROLOGUE

It’s summer 2021. After going through 2020, a year filled with sickness and death, lockdowns and quarantines, unemployment and flailing economies due to covid-19, we can only say: It’s been the Lord who has protected us. And even with the vaccination process underway, news of variants of the virus and flare ups in certain regions of the world keep many unable to work, move freely or get rid of the fear. The face mask is a common feature, and many have become tired of it. However, through it all, as a family we have seen God’s goodness.

I published the first version of this book in 2019 without the second part. However, when I would read through the confessions, I would realize that I would always gravitate to the same verses I had always known. This was because I would select one of the topics and read all ten verses out loud, without a plan for retaining and meditating on them. I realized I needed to know more than a few of these verses well if I wanted to face daily life in faith.

According to 2 Corinthians13:1, Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. In the writing of the book, I had discovered that the Bible is not only an instruction manual for successful living but is also a promise book of God’s unfailing love and sustenance on a daily basis, and every promise has multiple mentions in the Bible. This means that I need to have multiple verses on an issue that testify to this, from the different witnesses who wrote the Bible. All Scripture agrees. This gives me the God-given right to believe and receive what God has offered me. In 2 Timothy 2:15 Paul charges Timothy to be a workman who does not need o be ashamed and who correctly handles he word of truth. From Jesus' experience in the wilderness during his forty days of fasting, Luke 4:3-13, we see that the devil knows scripture. After realizing that Jesus would respond to each temptation by saying It is written…, the devil decided to tempt Jesus by using scripture. He mis-applied the Bible in an attempt to cause Jesus to sin. This was