Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
We’ve learned in the past there are only two states in which a person may live on this earth: faith or fear. God has made this clear in His Word. There are no grey areas, no third rail, no other option. It’s faith or fear. And, God has made it clear that there is only one thing responsible for whether we live in faith or fear. Us, and us alone. God created us in His image and likeness, which means we were created with free will. Free will means all of the choices of life and eternity are up to us and to us alone. We can’t blame our parents, our lineage, our priest or pastor, our neighborhood, our schools, our spouse, our children, our job, our business, or anything else for the condition and the choices of our lives. People don’t like to hear this because they don’t like personal accountability. They want to blame their outcome(s) on someone or something else, so they don’t feel bad about themselves, or others won’t see them in a bad light.
What determines the condition and choices of our lives? Our words, which are driven by our heartfelt thoughts.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
In Proverbs 18:21 God makes it clear we are responsible for the outcome of our lives. Death and life, cursing and blessing, are in the power of OUR tongues. Metaphorically, God is saying we will eat the fruit of the words spoken by our tongue whether it is good fruit, life and blessing, or bad fruit, death and cursing. Proverbs 18:21 brings into play the three basic Spiritual Laws which underpin all activity, good or bad, in the earth: the Law of the Seed, the Law of Sowing and Reaping, and the Law of Manifold Return. The seed are the words, good or bad, that you speak. When you speak the words, you are sowing your crop. When the crop is ready for harvest, you reap what you sowed in a manyfold proportion to what you planted. You plant a kernel of corn, you harvest a stalk with two-to-ten ears of corn. Each ear of corn can have 500 to 1200 kernels of corn on it. You can see you are receiving a manyfold return from the one kernel of corn.
We receive a manyfold return from our words, be they good or bad. But a major problem we have in the Body of Christ, in the Church, is most Believers don’t believe this to be true. And they are not careful with their words. They don’t value words. Does God value words? Absolutely!
Psalm 89:34
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
When God speaks, His Word is established forever. How important are words. God SPOKE everything into existence.
Psalm 141:3
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Notice what David asks God to do. Set a watch, or a guard, before his lips so David wouldn’t speak any evil, vain, or idle words.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Notice a righteous person’s mouth brings forth waters of life and blessing, not death and cursing. A righteous man doesn’t speak the words of the world.
Matthew 15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Jesus, in teaching, tells us that which comes out of our mouths, words, is what either blesses or curses us. Speak anything contrary to The Word of God, and you are speaking death and curses.
Proverbs 6:2
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
How much clearer can God make it to us. If we speak words of death and cursing, we are snared, or entrapped, by them. We will eat the fruit of these words, or seed, we have sown.
Proverbs 8:7
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
What is truth in the context of Proverbs 8:7? There is only ONE Truth, and this is what The Word of God says. There are NO other Truths. If we say anything contrary to The Word of God, we are speaking death and cursing.
Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
James 1:5 teaches us we have to ask for wisdom, and God will give it liberally. However, knowledge and understanding are given to us in The Word of God which we must read and ingest. Remember Jesus taught us that He, Jesus, didn’t do or say anything He didn’t see His Father do or hear His Father say. This is to be true of us. If God didn’t say it, we have no business, as His children, saying it. We should ONLY say what God says.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Wow. James, the half-brother of Jesus, has given us a wonderful admonition. We shouldn’t be speaking the words of the world and The Words of God out of the same mouth. This verse is supported by Psalm 145:18.
Psalm 145:18
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in Truth.
When we come to The Throne of Grace, boldly, we are to come to God speaking Truth. What is Truth? God’s Word revealed in our hearts. If we speak anything else to Him in prayer, He doesn’t hear it. Jesus gives us a clear example in the parable of the Prodigal Son. The Prodigal Son, upon returning to his father, is speaking the words of the world. Notice the father ignores what the son has to say while the father performs the Truth for his son. Wonderful illustration.
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O LORD, my Strength, and my Redeemer.
What words are acceptable in God’s sight? Yes, we just read about these very Words in Psalm 145:18. Only The Words of Truth are acceptable in God’s sight.
Matthew 12:36-37
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
What is an “idle” word? Any word spoken that is not in alignment with God’s Word. Idle words are a mouth full of waste, death, and cursing. Notice what Jesus tells us in Matthew 12:37. We will either bless or condemn ourselves by the words WE speak from OUR mouths. When is “the day of judgement?” When the fruit, or harvest, of the idle word(s) return to you. The accounting of your words have returned a harvest to you.
The above verses are but a few of hundreds of verses where God speaks to us about the words of our mouth. Let me ask this? And it may seem trite upon first blush. What about when we say words in jest, let alone when we are serious about our words? Do those words impact us? Look at the verses above. Are any words disqualified from having either a life and blessing or a death and cursing impact upon us? No. Every single word is important. Jesus specifically makes this point in Matthew 12:36. This is why David asks God to set a watch, or a guard, over his lips in Psalm 141:3. David didn’t want to speak any idle words. Why? Because, like the ministering spirits God has serving us carries out The Word of God we speak in our lives (Psalm 103:20), so do the demons carry out the words of death and cursing we speak over our lives or our family’s lives.
In closing, there is a secular expression we learned as kids which has taught us that words are not powerful or valuable. “Stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Amazing how satan has used “words” to teach us that “words” have no value, they have no impact on our physical and spiritual lives. It is the same way he attacked Eve in The Garden of Eden. Taking and twisting The Word of God into a lie. All, and every, word, is powerful according to God.
Active faith takes hold of and believes every Word of God. Passive faith believes God can but not that God will. Passive faith allows curses to come. Negative faith speaks of the problem and invites curses to come. This is fear.
In Christ,
Larry