Making the Word Work for you (iv)
Speak the Word (12/12/2019)
By Pastor Aggrey Soyekwo
Mark 11:23 “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.” – NIV
After you have filled yourself with the word, believe and meditate on it day and night, and your thought patterns are ordered by it, it’s time the word is applied to your life situations and environment. The word has to be spoken out to effect what it was intended. The bible teaches that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. When your heart is full of the word, your speech will naturally be ordered according to it.
Words are powerful as previously noted. They are creative. Eternal destinies are embedded on them. God created and brought forth what we see by the power of the spoken word. We have been given the privilege to be co-creators through what we speak. Words can heal or destroy, lift up or crush. Spoken words are the means by which the spiritual world comes to act on our behalf. They carry the spiritual authority one subscribes to. That’s why the bible says DEATH and LIFE are in the power of the tongue and each one will enjoy the fruit of what they speak (Proverbs 18:21). It’s the more reason we need to watch what we speak.
Jesus said whosoever shall say, believing, will be done for him. It’s anyone, not a selected few. One must speak, backed by faith, to the mountain(read situations of life) by the authority of God in His word, or else it will not move. Some speak and yet don’t believe what they say. No wonder the mountains don’t move. Speak forth the word, don’t let the mountain intimidate you. And Jesus concluded by saying you shall have whatsoever you SAY. Too much word unspoken is like a dormant dynamite, powerful, but useless when it has not exploded. It’s God’s word, gone out of His mouth, that effects what it is sent for(Isaiah 55:11). God watches over His word, spoken over situations, to perform it. That is the wonderful victorious reigning life we have been called to enjoy in Christ. Praise be to God!
Jeremiah 1:12 “The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled.”
Matthew 8:8 “The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.”
Shalom children of God.