The Power of Our Words

A lot of times we have gotten off faith and cast out God’s Words, and started believing what the devil said.

You release the ability of Satan when you start saying what he said.

Fear activates the devil.

Faith brings God on the scene.

Before you ever make a confession of what comes into your head, ask yourself, “Who said that? What is its source?”

If it doesn’t agree with the WORD, you know who said that. The devil said it. Don’t you quote it. If you do, that’s his deception.

Did you know the devil doesn’t have any power over the believer?

The only ability Satan can exercise over you is the ability to deceive you. If he can get you to believe his lies, he’s got you playing right into his hand. And if you go quoting what he said, brother, he can put it on you stiff and strong, and all your praying won’t help you ANY.

You can see that you’ve moved God out of it. You have said, “Lord, it’s getting worse —it’s not getting any better.” You have stopped God’s ability immediately. Maybe it was just about to come into manifestation, but now you have established Satan’s word in the earth —that it’s not getting any better, it’s getting worse. YOU have established his word.

God’s Word says, “Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven” (Ps. 119:89). God’s Word is already settled in heaven.

The WORD says, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matt. 16:19). He didn’t say key to the kingdom. He said keys OF the kingdom.

“Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

The Spirit of God spoke to me one morning, and He said, “The problem with the church today is that most of them are binding their finances. They are binding their spiritual growth by saying, ‘The devil’s hindering me. The devil just won’t let me do what I want to do.’”

Well, don’t ask him! Don’t ask the devil about it. Go ahead and do it. You see, sometimes we’ve kind of buddied up with him and communicated with him, and he’s told us, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Then we speak it out of our own mouth, “The devil’s been hindering me all week. I just can’t get anything done.”

I have heard them say, “He’s so smart. He will just put one over on you before you know it, and he’ll just come and foul things up before you even know it.”

Well, you have released the ability of Satan to come in and put it over on you. You have said with your mouth, “He comes up behind me when I don’t know it, and he just fouls the works up.”

Now, if God came in and stopped that, He would have to violate His Word because He said you can have what you say. And you have said, “Satan’s smarter than I am,” and he comes in, and you have indicated that Satan’s smarter than God, and he’s more powerful than God. You don’t have any Scripture for that.

FAITH IS THE VICTORY

You do have plenty of Scripture that says God is more powerful than the devil and He will put you over every time you act on the WORD.

World overcoming faith dwelleth on the inside of you! “...This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4).

So, you have a lot of Scripture to back you up in that, but you don’t have any to back you up that Satan’s smarter than God or smarter than you. When you are in Christ, you have access to the mind of Christ.

Satan is not all that smart. Can you imagine a fellow still fighting when he’s already whipped? Now that’s pretty stupid!

If you don’t believe we have already won— go ahead — read the back of the book. “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). Revelation 12:11 says, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony....”

By what? The blood of Jesus and the WORD of THEIR testimony. The word of their mouth. Did you notice that word “overcame”? The back of the book says that YOU WON, PRAISE GOD! Establish that, and quit agreeing with the devil. Quit prolonging agony.

Get in this thing and agree with what God said. You have already won. It’s not your fight. Jesus fought it for you, and thank God He won! You can see that. “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.” Praise the Name of the Lord!

AUTHORITY OF WORDS

Let’s go back to the 12th chapter of Matthew and look at verse 36. Jesus is speaking now. Nobody spoke with more authority than Jesus. Thank God, when Jesus spoke, He meant it. He meant what He said, and He said what He meant. He never talked any foolishness. He said, “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” That word “idle” means non-effective or non-working word. He said that every word you speak that is not working for you will have to be accounted for by you, in the day of Judgment.

Now when I saw that, I said, “I’m going to start watching my words.” I had been saying plenty of those idle words, and they were not working for me. They were working against me, not for me.

He said if they are not working for you, you will give account for them.

Somebody said, “Well now, how’s that going to be?”

Well, some folks are going to come to the judgment seat of Christ; there they are about to get their reward, and the Lord is going to say, “Now look, here’s what you could have had.”

“Whoo! Praise the Lord!”

Then He says, “But here’s what you get.”

“Uhh.”

Have you ever wondered where those tears are going to come from that He said He would wipe away?

You saw what you could have had, and then you saw what you are getting.

You are going to say, “Oh, but Lord, I couldn’t have done all that.”

He will say, “See, if you had given to this missionary, souls could have been saved.”

“Oh, but Lord, I didn’t have the money. I didn’t have it to give. I was not able to do this. I was not able to give as I wanted to. I couldn’t get my hands on enough to give any away.”

He will say, “That’s the same problem you were having on earth. You were agreeing with the devil. It’s true, you didn’t have the money in your possession.”

Then He will show you someone else and say, “Here’s a man who didn’t have the money, either. But he said, ‘My God supplieth all my need according to his riches in glory; therefore I confess I have abundance. There is no lack. I have all sufficiency of all things. The WORD says ‘I do.’ I thank You, Father, for it. Therefore, I give it in faith and, Father, You will cause it to come to me in the Name of Jesus.’ He got what he said, and here’s his reward. He used his words wisely.” He will say, “If you would have said what I said, if you had agreed with what I said, you could have had the better reward. But you said what the devil said. You didn’t lose your soul, but you lost your reward.”

 JUSTIFIED OR CONDEMNED BY YOUR WORDS

You can see that the words work for or against you. He said you are going to be justified or condemned by the words of your mouth.

Matthew 12:37 says, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

Actually, He’s not talking about condemning you to hell. He’s talking about things you can have in this life on earth and rewards of heaven.

We need to watch what we say, to set a watch on our mouth.

In the third chapter of Romans, verses 3 and 4, the Word says, “For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”

In other words, He said that if somebody comes up with that old unbelief dripping off them like molasses off a syrup bucket, saying, “Oh, I don’t believe it’s going to work this time,” let God be true and that man a liar. “That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”

When you get to heaven you are going to be judged on who you believe — God or man.

Man says, “It’s getting worse, you can’t do that.” And I tell you, it’s not just the world that says that. There are some Christians that I think sometimes they have been sprinkled with fear, rolled in doubt, stuffed with unbelief, and insulated to the WORD OF GOD. They will believe everything but the Word of God. Some will swallow the enemy’s biggest lie, but won’t believe God’s simplest truth.

They will say, “Oh yes, brother, I know that’s in the Bible, but you don’t understand.”

Yes, I do understand. The WORD SAYS IT WORKS, and they are saying it won’t.

“You just don’t understand. I still hurt.”

But, the WORD SAYS YOU’RE HEALED!

Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. I do not deny that pain exists, nor do I deny the existence of disease, but I do deny its right to continue in my body. Feelings change. The Word does not change. If you do not feel healed, go to the Word and get you some feelings. The Word of God in your spirit will change your physical feelings.

THE WORD BRINGS HEALTH

Proverbs 4:22 says, “...my word... is health (medicine) to all our flesh.” The Word will bring health to the physical body (paraphrase).

The question is, “If some didn’t believe what you said concerning healing for your body or financial needs met, would that unbelief stop the God kind of faith (THE FAITH THAT SPEAKS) from working?”

God forbid that ever from happening. Let men be liars, but allow God’s Word to be proven true. Notice He said for YOU TO ALLOW the Word to become truly manifested. Thank God! “That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings.”

CONFESSION OF THE WORD

In Matthew 10:32 it says, “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.”

Now what did He say?

He said, “Those who will confess me before men, I’ll confess before the Father, which is in heaven.”

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” ( John 1:1). Jesus and His Word are the same. You cannot separate them. He implies that if you are confessing Jesus, you are confessing the Word. He is the LIVING WORD OF GOD.

He said, “If you confess my Word before men, I’ll confess you before the Father.”

In the Greek it could have been read this way, “...then I will give you an audience with the Father.” Praise God!

In 1 John 5:15 John said, “And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.” In other words, if you get an audience with the Father, you will get your prayer answered, and Jesus said, “If you confess me before men,” confess my WORD before men, He said that will get you an audience before the Father.

Sometimes we have confessed, “I don’t know what to do. That won’t work. I don’t believe that’s going to work out.” Then we have prayed about it, believing in unbelief, and you didn’t get an audience with the Father.

Did you know you can believe in unbelief?

Some people actually have faith in unbelief. That is what you are doing when you say “I can’t do what the Word says I can do.”

Here is an example. The WORD says, “He that is born of God overcometh the world. You have overcome because the greater one is in you.” Now, if you deny that, you are in unbelief and have released faith in a negative statement, “But I can’t. I am not able.”

Jesus said, “But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven” (Matt. 10:33). He said, “I’ll deny you.”

Jesus is the go-between. You can see that. He is making intercession for us. He is the “...High Priest of our profession (confession), Christ Jesus” (Hebrews 3:1). That means that Jesus confesses to the Father what we say as long as it agrees with the Word. In other words, He said, “If you confess my Word before men, I’ll confess what you say before the Father. You will get an audience before the Father.” He said, “What you pray that agrees with the Word, I’ll see to it that it gets to the Father. You will have an audience with Him. Then you will get your prayer answered. But if you don’t do it, I’ll deny you before the Father. It won’t be transferred or transmitted to Him.”

When you start praying and say, “Lord, I prayed and it’s not working out,” that is a statement of unbelief, and you have released faith in that unbelief. Jesus will not go to His Father and say, “Father he’s prayed, but it’s not working out for him.”

That’s against the Word of God. Can you see that? He will deny that statement before the Father. When you pray that way, your prayer never gets to heaven. You can forget it. It’s not going to get there.

GOD’S WORD IS WISDOM

We find in Proverbs that there are some things that we have stumbled over and have not looked upon because they are in the Old Testament. You see, a lot of times people say, “Well, you know the Old Testament is just history.” But Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived until Jesus, wrote these Proverbs. “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Prov. 4:20-23). Keep your spirit or your heart with ALL diligence, for the forces of life come from the heart.

The word “heart” refers to the center of man’s being, which is his spirit.

Here the writer of Proverbs, inspired of the Holy Spirit, is saying the same thing that Jesus said. “The good things come out of your heart,” or out of your spirit.

Verse 24 says, “Put away from thee a forward  mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee,” or speaking contrary to what the Word says, for the WORD IS THE WISDOM OF GOD.

GOD’S WORD IS HIS WISDOM (1 Cor. 1:30).

When we speak contrary to His Word and say, “It’s not working out. I prayed, but it’s not working out,” that’s perverse speech. That is against the Word of God.

WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE

“Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth...” (Prov. 6:2). Understand this — WORDS WORK. They will work for you just as they worked for Jesus. They are working FOR you or against you, whether you realize it or not.

Let me show you something before we go any further, how the words that you say are working. I’ve had people come in the prayer line and say, “I’m just so nervous. I don’t know why I’m so nervous.” I’ll guarantee you, if you’d been in their home, you would have heard most of them say no less than ten times that day, “Those kids make me so nervous they just drive me up the wall.”

Jesus said you can have what you say.

We have programmed our vocabulary with the devil’s language. We have brought sickness and disease into our vocabulary, and even death. The main word so many people use to express themselves is death — the word “death.”

“I’m just dying to do that.” They will say, “I’m going to die if I don’t. That just tickled me to death.”

Now that, my friend, is perverse speech. That is contrary to God’s Word. Death is of the devil. “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Heb. 2:14). “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death” (Rev. 20:14). We need not buddy-up with death. All men are going to die soon enough, so don’t start buddying up with it now.

Adam was smarter than that. It took the devil over 900 years to kill him, but now the devil has programmed his language into the human race, until people can kill themselves in about 70 years or less, by speaking his words.

When we say, “That tickled me to death,” that is contrary to the Word of God.

We need to notice what the Word says about the mouth and the tongue. “The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life...” (Prov. 10:11). Verses 21 and 24 say, “The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.” The thing you fear will come upon you. Fear will activate Satan.

Job activated Satan by his fear. “...the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me...” ( Job 3:25).

Active faith in the Word brings God on the scene.

Fear brings Satan on the scene.

“The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the forward tongue shall be cut out. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable...” (Prov. 10:31,32).

The lips of the RIGHTEOUS.

They know what is acceptable.

What is acceptable in our speech?

What God said. In fact, you’ll find that when you begin to quote what God said, it’s just as though God said it. If you said it in faith, it’s coming out of your heart. It’s just as if God said it. It will work for you just like it worked for Him; if you program your spirit with the Word of God, and believe, and doubt not in your heart. But believe that those things which you are saying will come to pass. You see there is more to it than just saying it. The words must originate from the inner man where spiritual power is released through words.

Now notice with me in Proverbs 11:11, “By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.” The wicked have talked against our nation, and I’ll tell you a lot of Christians have done the same thing. They have said, “Ah, that bunch of idiots up there, they don’t know what they’re doing.”

They should have been saying, “Thank God, I believe God to give those men in Washington the wisdom of God to deal wisely with the affairs of our nation.”

If Christians would do that, it would change the situation in Washington.

Some Christians have started doing that. Really that’s already happening to some degree. God has started cleaning out some problem areas in our government. God has been brought on the scene because of faith-filled words.

Start saying, “I thank God that the leaders of our nation have the wisdom of God.” Pray for them daily. “Father, give them the wisdom of God to deal wisely with the affairs of life.”

 “The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them” (Prov. 12:6).

What will deliver them?

The mouth of the upright.

Deliverance is as close as your mouth.

The mouth contains the tongue that controls faith and fear.

Words produce after their kind.

We need to understand this. When we start speaking what God said, the devil is going to sit up and take notice.

God said to Joshua, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, THAT thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success” ( Josh. 1:8).

Who’s going to do it?

We have always thought God was going to do it.

God said, “If you will do My Word, you have done it. And I’ll see that it’s performed.”

You can see that.

I’ve prayed, “Father, You make this prosper,” but I was not doing the Word. God said, “You do my Word, and it will prosper.” He said, “You have made your way prosperous.”