Did you know that the words that you speak are transmitters of power to change your circumstances and surroundings? God used the power of His words to bring into existence the entire physical universe when He said, "Let there be light." In John's gospel the Bible says, "In the beginning was the Word...All things came into being through Him..." In Hebrews the Bible also says that God "upholds all things by the word of His power."
Because all matter and energy was created and organized by word-power, physical things still respond to the power of the word of God, even spoken through the mouth of ordinary human beings. Of all the creatures of God humans especially have been given the gift of language to perform mighty creative acts with the power of our words. Jesus taught us in Mark 11 that we can have what we say - "Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea,' and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith." Notice that it is required that one must believe that THOSE THINGS one says shall come to pass. This is something we cannot TRY OUT one time when we seriously want it to work, and then spend the rest of our time allowing idle, careless words to flow out. Most of us go around saying all manner of things which we don't mean. We will quickly admit that we don't always mean what we say. Then when it comes time to pray in faith, we cannot get this principle to work in our favor because we really don't believe in the power of our words. Our mouth has been a fountain out of which flows both sweet and bitter water. We have no faith in the power of our words.
In the current movie "Liar, Liar" the lead character is forced through a strange twist only to speak the truth. Every word he speaks must be the truth. His speech becomes impossible to deal with because he is so accustomed to speaking falsehoods. By analogy, what if suddenly we were put into a situation in which EVERY word we say would come to pass. We would create a world of mass chaos and destruction everywhere we went, because we constantly spew forth thoughtless, destructive words. We would quickly need to change our vocabulary. Otherwise our feet would be killing us, we would be tickled to death, discourteous drivers would be going to Hades, and so forth, ad infinitum.
What a shame it is that we send our children out into the world, speaking curses over them like, "You'll never amount to anything!" or "Whenever the cold and flu season hits, my family is always the first to get sick!" What an irony that those are the very words that come to pass according to the Mark 11 faith principle, because they are the words that come out of the abundance of our negative hearts. Proverbs tells us that life and death are in the power of the tongue. What kind of words are you consistently speaking today?
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