Psalms 141:2-3 NKJV Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. (3) Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalms 141:2-3 CEV Think of my prayer as sweet-smelling incense, and think of my lifted hands as an evening sacrifice. (3) Help me to guard my words whenever I say something.
- Your life is filled with what your lips are producing.
How would we act if every word that we speak instantly came to pass?
Proverbs 18:21 ERV The tongue can speak words that bring life or death. Those who love to talk must be ready to accept what it brings.
Did you know most Christians don’t really believe this verse is true, because if we did, there would be a lot we would not say.
- Your tongue determines the direction of your life.
James 3:3-4 ERV We put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us. With these bits we can control their whole body. (4) It is the same with ships. A ship is very big, and it is pushed by strong winds. But a very small rudder controls that big ship. And the one who controls the rudder decides where the ship will go. It goes where he wants it to go.
If you are driving in your car and realize you don’t like the direction you are going, you don’t just mash the gas harder and go faster. You change directions!
If you don’t like the direction your life is headed, change the direction by changing what you are saying.
Speak To Your Mountain!
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.
Jesus spoke to a tree and His Words affected that natural thing and brought about change.
Someone might say, “Well that was Jesus…” But Jesus said “whosoever shall say…”. He did not say, “I can say it and you cannot.”
Matthew 21:18-22 NKJV Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. (19) And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away. (20) And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither away so soon?” (21) So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. (22) And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
- This will work for anyone who will believe that it will work.
- Don’t be misled because the change does not seem instantaneous.
Change did not appear in the natural immediately but in a realm where you could not see, in the roots.
- The Word of God is designed to attack situations at the root, not the fruit.
- Most of the time, you will not see any immediate results when you speak.
Mark 11:20 NKJV Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
The change did not happen where everyone could see it. It began where you cannot see it.
Hebrews 11:3 NLT By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.
Hebrews 11:3 TPT Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beautifully coordinated by the power of God’s words! He spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen.
How many times did Jesus go back to the fig tree and check for anything changing? NONE! Jesus did not say to speak to the mountain and then check for the results. That is not faith.
What did Jesus say that we are to believe?
Mark 11:23 NKJV 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.
People do not get results because:
- They don’t say anything.
- They don’t believe in their heart that what they will say will come to pass.
There are empty powerless words that just come out of our heads that we do not really believe. But be advised, empty words that are said often enough will begin to get down into your heart where you believe them. (Romans 10:17)
If there is going to be power released in your words, then they must be connected to your heart.
Romans 10:9-10 NKJV that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (10) For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Stop the Confidence Thief!
- Condemnation is the confidence thief in receiving from God in prayer and in the power of your words.
The price for our sin has been paid but there is still something we must do. We must repent, ask for forgiveness and receive the cleansing of the Blood of Jesus to cleans us of that sin and all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 NKJV If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 2:28-29 NKJV And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. (29) If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.
1 John 3:18-22 NKJV My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. (19) And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. (20) For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. (21) Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. (22) And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
- Once we are forgiven and KNOW that we are forgiven, then we will have confidence in our hearts that we are right with God and our faith can work.
When we have this confidence, the heart – mouth connection will work and there will be power in our words.