Watch Your Mouth
It is also through our SPEAKING that we create our own world. Even quantum physics has proven the power of words on the world around us. Plants respond to words. Animals and even our body responds to BLESSINGS or cursings.
Out of our mouth proceed blessings or curses. They give life or they take away life.
When Adam ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he empowered evil in his life and in his mouth. By losing his connection with the Creator of life, he made connection with lies and with death.
However, even though born again, our tongue is NOT YET TAMED into the new creature, the same with our mind. That’s why I didn’t need to renew our mind…
James says, “our tongue is an unruly member” (Jam 3:8). People who constantly curse their situation and circumstances and people around them end up living a cursed life.
James says that our words are the actual rudder of our destiny. So there is a lot of power in our words, the power of life or death.
There are only a few times in the Bible where Jesus actually “marveled”. One of these times is when a centurion who felt unworthy for Jesus to come into his house and heal his servant, said, “Just SPEAK the WORD only” (Mt 8:8-13.) Jesus was so amazed that even a man of the world had understood the concept of authority through the SPOKEN WORD.
It is our word spoken to different situations that actually has the authority to change things.
That’s also how you empower your negative thoughts, by saying your unbelief. Jesus said, “Take no thought ‘SAYING’” (Mat 6:25). You actually empower what you think by saying it. Your mouth spits out seeds of life or of death. And your mind becomes the ground for seeds. It goes with everything you take in; TV, news, conversations, books, etc. The MORE the reason to read the Word of God whose seed is powerful and incorruptible.
Let’s COMMIT to make the following verses OURS.
Jam 3:5-6, 8 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Pr 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Jam 3:11-12 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.
Mt 15:16-20 So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
1Cor 15:33 Do not be deceived. Evil company corrupts good habits.
Pr 23:7a For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
Mt 12:34b Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Ps 39:1a I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle.
Pr 13:3 He who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Mk 11:23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Mt 12:36-37 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
2Tim 2:16 Shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.