Excerpted from The Tongue: A Creative Force.
They have spoken the words of the enemy. And those words hold them in bondage. Proverbs 6:2 says, “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth.”
Faith-filled words will put you over.
Fear-filled words will defeat you.
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe. Their importance is seen from Genesis, “Let us make man in our image...” (Gen. 1:26), through Revelation, “...They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the WORD of their testimony...” (Rev. 12:11).
God created the universe with the spoken WORD. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” (Heb. 11:3).
Genesis 1 is a copy of the words God used to release His faith. John 1:1-3 tells us that, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” It was the WORD that was with God and the WORD WAS GOD.
One of the laws of Genesis is that every thing produces after its kind. “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good” (Gen. 1:11,12).
Then in Genesis 1, verse 26-28, we find three of the most astounding statements found in the Bible:
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
“So God created man in His own image.”
“Replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion.”
John 4:24 says, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Man was created in God’s class: very capable of operating in the same kind of faith. Man is a spirit, he has a soul, and he lives in a body. Genesis 2:7 tells us God made man’s body out of the dust of the earth, but plainly states, “and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” That life was spirit life, the very life of God. Man is a spirit being, very capable of operating on the same level of faith as God.
We read in Mark 9:23, “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” Matthew 17:20 says, “And Jesus said unto them, ...for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” Mark 11:23 says, “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.”
This is not theory. It is fact. It is spiritual law. It works every time it is applied correctly. God never does anything without saying it first. God is a faith God. God released His faith in words. “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22). A more literal translation of the above verse says, “Have the God kind of faith, or faith of God.”
Ephesians 5:1 literally tells us to be imitators of God as children imitate their parents.
To imitate God, you must talk like Him and act like Him.
He would not ask you to do something you are not capable of doing.
Jesus operated in the faith principles of Mark 11:23 and Matthew 17:20 while He was on earth. He spoke to the wind and sea. He spoke to demons. He spoke to the fig tree. He even spoke to dead men.
The wind, sea, tree, demons, even the dead were obedient to what He said.
He operated in the God kind of faith.
God is a faith God. God released His faith in words.
Jesus was imitating His Father and getting the same results as His Father.
In John 14:12 Jesus said, “...He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater…”
These principles of faith are based on spiritual laws.
They work for whosoever will apply these laws.
You set them in motion by the words of your mouth. That’s the way you are saved, by confessing Jesus as Lord. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Rom. 10:9,10). Faith-filled words released out of your mouth defeated Satan and created the reality of God’s Word in your spirit. Speaking God’s Word after Him caused you to become a new creation that never existed before.
Jesus said, “He shall have whatsoever he saith.” It won’t happen just because you say it.
You must release faith in the words you speak from the heart. You must believe that those things which you are saying will come to pass.
This law is working for or against you every day.
Do you really want all the negative things you have been confessing to come to pass? Are you believing for those things?
If Jesus came to you personally and said, from this day forward it will come to pass, that every thing you say will happen exactly as you say it, would that change your vocabulary?
I believe it would.
In Matthew 16:19 Jesus said, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth will be bound in heaven: whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Psalm 119:89 tells us, “For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.” What God said is already established.
Now, it is up to you.
What are you going to say about it?
God will not alter what He has said. “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips” (Ps. 89:34).
Whose words will you establish on earth?
The power of binding and loosing is on earth. It is not in heaven. According to Matthew 16:19, you are the one doing the binding, and He said all heaven will stand behind what you say. Many Christians have bound their finances and loosed the enemy by the words of their mouth. They have bound their spiritual growth by confessing the enemy’s ability to hinder them. They have more faith in the enemy to defeat them than they have in God to put them over. And there is no scriptural basis for that kind of belief, or should I say unbelief.
The Word says, “...Whatsoever is born of God over- cometh the world...” (1 John 5:4). You are a world overcomer.
Confess it right now. “I AM A WORLD OVER- COMER BECAUSE I AM BORN OF GOD. I AM A WORLD OVERCOMER BECAUSE I AM BORN OF GOD.” Say it again and again.
You may not feel like it. The Word didn’t say you were if you felt like it.
God’s Word said you were. How you feel has nothing to do with God being truthful. If He said I am a world overcomer, then thank God, that’s good enough for me.
I am not a world overcomer because of how I feel, or how I look. I don’t always feel like one. I don’t always look like one, but thank God, because He says I am, I AM A WORLD OVERCOMER! I confess it daily.
It’s true and I know it, but I confessed it aloud before God the Father, Jesus, the angels, before demons, and any- one else that would listen for months before I began to feel like it was true.
The feeling came only after my spirit received God’s Word as the final authority.
God’s Word said it — then I am whether I feel like it or not.
God cannot lie.
Spoken words program your spirit (heart) either for success or defeat.
Words are containers. They carry faith or fear, and they produce after their kind.
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). Faith comes more quickly when you hear yourself quoting, speaking, and saying the things God said. You will more readily receive God’s Word into your spirit by hearing yourself say it than if you hear someone else say it.
The Spirit of God spoke to me concerning confessing the Word of God aloud: where you can hear yourself saying it.
He said, “It is a scientific application of the wisdom of God to the psychological makeup of man.”
And it works, thank God. The body of Christ must begin to live in the authority of the Word. For God’s Word is creative power. That creative power is produced by the heart, formed by the tongue, and released out of the mouth in word form.
In August of 1973, the Word of the Lord came unto me saying, “If men would believe Me, long prayers are not necessary. Just speaking the Word will bring what you desire. My creative power is given to man in Word form. I have ceased for a time from My work and have given man the book of MY CREATIVE POWER. That power is STILL IN MY WORD.
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