In my study time and prayer time and alone time with God, I learned something very interesting. One of those things that most folks would call "too good to be true". I would agree with that except, I'm not most folks; and, I didn't hear this from some folks ..... I heard it from God.
The one thing .... and I mean ONE thing .... that makes man uniquely in the likeness of God, is our ability to speak. Of all God's creation, man is the only thing gifted with the ability to speak. Jesus told us that each of us will have to give an account of every idle word we speak. (Matthew 12:35-37)
And, I thought to myself ...... speak to the mountain and the mountain will move.
hmmmmmmm ..........
Speak to the mountain of weight I desire to lose and it will disappear?
Speak to my family's finances and see the abundance of John 10:10?
Speak to my health and never be sick?
Here's the truly amazingly divine part of the entire equation? God never said I had to "do" anything.
Simply ...... speak!
The rest of my scripture reference actually proves the point. If we speak good things into our lives out of the good treasure in our hearts, we will have good things. We will have life. We will have peace. We will have joy and abundance and every good thing God wants to bless us with, and our own words will justify us. If we speak evil things, sinful things, ungodly things, we will have sickness and lack, stress and unrest, and our very own words will condemn us. And, I also believe that this applies to words spoken over us or about us. We need to receive and embrace the uplifting, truthful heartfelt words spoken, and we need to be quick to rebuke lies and ugly words spoken to or about us.
In addition, we need to be quite mindful of things we say about ourselves and about others, because we are going to have to give an account. Speak the truth in love or don't speak. Let your yes be yes and your no be no, because, right after that, you get into ignorance, half-truths, mistruths and flat out lies.
Think about it .... have you ever heard people say stuff like "my back is killing me" or "these kids are going to be the death of me"? Stuff like that .... Well, those folks might die from a back injury, or they may have a heart attack and die because of their kids ..... but the truth is ..... it was the words that came out of their own mouths that killed them. Job is a perfect example of how pining over the same thing over and over brings it to pass. he prayed for his sons daily to not be doing ungodly things and that is the very circumstance his words put into manifestation. I was actually quite surprised by how many examples the Bible gives on how we speak and what we say. The Bible also says "my people suffer for a lack of knowledge" so, I suppose knowing what the Bible says and actually believing it may be of some importance here. I mean, if we don't know things like this are in His Word, they are of no use to us. Here's what I do know, though .......
God "spoke" the world into existence. He NEVER lifted a finger. He very simply spoke, and, as His blood bought covenant children, He has given us the ability to speak His wisdom, healing, grace, mercy and abundance into existence.
Could it really be so simple? I believe it is.
Talking my walk and Walking my talk,
Kalena Speaking
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