Your Words Are the Key to Health… or Death

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

Your words set the cornerstones of your life, and you live within the confines of that boundary you create with your own words. Situations, circumstances, and conditions are all subject to change, but with the support of your words you can establish them in your life forever.

The following article, entitled “Patient Knows Best,” appeared in the August 1991 issue of The Reader’s Digest:

“A person’s answer to the question, ‘Is your health excellent, good, fair or poor?’ is a remarkable predictor of who will live or die over the next four years according to new findings.

“A study of more than 2,800 men and women 65 and older found that those who rate their health ‘poor’ are four to five times more likely to die in the next four years than those who rate their health ‘excellent.’ This was the case even if examinations show the respondents to be in comparable good health.

“These findings are supported by a review of five other large studies, totaling 23,000 people, which reached similar conclusions, according to Ellen Idler, a sociologist at Rutgers University, and epidemiologist Stanislav Kasl of Yale University School of Medicine, co-authors of the new study.”

People who have an image of themselves being in poor health will talk about poor health. Even though they may be in good health, they seem to live out the reality of the image they have of themselves, even unto death.

This would confirm Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

What you believe and speak not only affects your body but your immune system as well. Your words become either a blessing or a curse to you.

Jesus put it this way: “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45).

I am convinced from my study of the Word of God that your own words can change your immune system for better or worse (James 3:2-7). The words you speak are vital to your health and well-being. I believe there are some diseases that will never be cured unless people learn to speak the language of health that the body understands. God’s Word is infused (engrafted) into you by giving voice to His Word with your own mouth, and this is the language of health to your body.

A continual affirmation of God’s Word in faith will build into your immune system a supernatural anointing that is capable of eliminating sickness and disease in a natural manner.

God’s Building Blocks

Here are a few of many scriptural reasons why I believe this so strongly:

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. (Job 22:28)

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. (Proverbs 18:7)

For verily I say unto you, That 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. (Mark 11:23)

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. (Proverbs 16:9)

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Proverbs 18:20, 21)

…the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. (James 3:6)

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles (Proverbs 21:23)

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him (Isaiah 57:19)

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life (Proverbs 10:11)

…the mouth of the upright shall deliver them (Proverbs 12:6)

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth (Proverbs 12:14)

…the tongue of the wise is health (Proverbs 12:18)

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life (Proverbs 13:3)

…the lips of the wise shall preserve them (Proverbs 14:3)

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit (Proverbs 15:4)

A gentle tongue [with its healing power] is a tree of life, but willful contrariness in it breaks down the spirit (Proverbs 15:4 AMP)

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright (Proverbs 15:2)

The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips (Proverbs 16:23)

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones (Proverbs 16:24)

You can see from these few references that God’s Word has a lot to say about words and their effects on you and your health.