Put the Word of God into Your Vocabulary
- The Bible clearly places a great importance on speaking God’s Word.
We can see this truth throughout the entire Bible.
Solomon is considered the wisest man in the Bible outside of Jesus.
Forty-four verses in Proverbs talk about how what you say with your mouth will determine your life experience.
Proverbs 18:20-21 NKJV A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled. (21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Some people believe that it is enough for you to have the Word of God in your heart.
- It is not enough to just believe what the Word says, you must speak it if you want the results of it.
Romans 10:9-10 NLT If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (10) For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
- Anytime God wants to change something, He speaks to it.
Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Hebrews 11:3 AMP By faith we understand that the worlds [during the successive ages] were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.
Speak the Word
- Say what God has already said.
Hebrews 3:1 | NKJV (1) Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
Hebrews 4:14 NKJV Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
Confession – (Greek: homologia) – to say the same thing
This word “confession” here is not something that one person can say. It means that you repeat something that someone else has already said.
Are our troubles happening here on earth or are they happening in Heaven?
Is Jesus saying anything on earth right now? He is not talking on planet earth right now. He is talking in Heaven at God’s right hand.
Who has the mouth here on earth? We do.
He is talking in Heaven, and we have to repeat here on earth what He has already said. He is not going to come down and do it for us. That is not His job. That is our job.
If you want the Word spoken into your problems here on the earth, then you and I are going to have to speak it.
We have the assurance that whatever we say from the Word of God over our lives, that He is in Heaven backing us up saying the same thing.
- Expect the same results.
Mark 11:12-14 NKJV Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. (13) And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. (14) In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His disciples heard it.
Mark 11:20-23 NKJV Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. (21) And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.” (22) So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. (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.
When you are speaking the Word by faith, change will not be readily visible, because it is happening at the root and not at the fruit.
- We are not called to be reporters; we are called to be forecasters.
Romans 4:17 AMP As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed. [Gen. 17:5.]