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The title of today’s episode: Speak Life

I often speak of how our words have power in our lives. We often say things that we are pronouncing trouble and afflictions on ourselves. We have the ability to speak life or death over our future. Some think this is not true, others call it speaking things into the universe to manifest what they desire. The whole universe manifesting thing is satan’s way of trying to counterfeit the real power of God.

As his children, we have the God of all creation inside of us. How we walk and how we talk matters. Think about Jesus cursing the fig tree and it died. That same power is within us. But our human nature wants to speak things to get sympathy. We talk negative, because our attitude is not right.

Spending time in the word of God and in prayer helps us to not walk in our flesh. If we can walk in the Spirit and not our flesh, we will have a better chance of taming our tongue.

James 3:2-5 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Ships are turned by a small rudder. A horse is turned by a bit in their mouth. Our lives can be turned by our words. We have to speak life into our situations. How many were snared by the words of their mouth in the bible. One example that comes to mind is in Acts chapter 5. The story of Ananias and Sapphira, these people lied to the prophet of God and they fell down dead. Things would have been different if they had just spoken the truth.

When we speak truth in love it is life to the soul. I know certain religious people that jump on people and tell them they are going to hell if they don’t repent and change their lives. Then with a superior attitude they will say, “Well, I told them the truth.” Technically, they did tell them the truth. But if the delivery of the truth is not accompanied by love, the message will not be received. When this happens, normally, that person will only harden their heart against God.

We must learn how to deliver the message of God’s great love with compassion and non-judgmental attitudes. As long as we walk the earth we are at risk of our flesh allowing our tongue to say things that are negative. Only God can teach us to speak good things, life, health, peace and love.

When things in this life appears to be going wrong we need to get into the word of God and speak his promises. If we are sick, we speak healing. If we have financial difficulties, we don’t talk about how broke we are, but we speak that God is our provider, and we have abundance. God will provide, he will heal, he will save and deliver. We speak faith and God will move the mountains in our lives. But if we stand staring at the mountain speaking about how big it is, we will fall into fear.

Look at the children of Israel. They sent spies to spy out the promised land. Two spoke positively, we are more than able to take the land. Joshua and Caleb saw the giants, they were not ignorant of the obstacles. But they also knew how big their God was, this was how they could say, we are more than able to take the land. Physically, without God, they may not have been able to take it. But they knew God had promised them that land and God does what he promises.

They wandered for forty years in the desert because of their words of negativity. How long do we stay in situations when we do not need to because of the words of our mouth.

Think about the situations of your life. Are you speaking life, or are you speaking things that will keep you bound.

Prov 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Are you going to speak life and faith or death and fear? Something to pray about because we always want to be found speaking life.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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