TOPIC: THE POWER OF WORDS
Bible Reading: Leviticus 18-19; Matthew 27:32-66
“For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” – Matthew 12:37 (KJV)
In our text, Jesus was simply saying that your words determine your experience! You can’t speak defeat and expect to live in victory!
According to scriptures, the mark of a mature Christian is more than being sanctimonious, because some who are, still live defeated lives. A ‘mature’ or ‘perfect’ person according to the Bible is someone who knows how to craft and control the affairs of his/her life through words. James 3:2 says, “For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body”. With your words, you can tame wrong desires, habits, or flaws. With your words, you can transform the events around you and this is possible because you’re in authority!
As a child of God, you are seated with Christ Jesus in the place of highest authority in all the universe and that is at the very right hand of the Father (Ephesians 2:6). When you realize where you’re seated, you will understand that your words are very powerful. Those in authority know that their words are their greatest asset. Kings and rulers aren’t careless with words and the Bible calls us royalty, so we ought not to be careless with our words (Revelations 5:10). The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 8:4, “Where the word of a king is, there is power; and who may say to him, ‘what are you doing?'”
The highest form of spiritual power is the ability to speak and create good things with our words. This is how God who at the beginning created all that we see and brought them into existence through His words and He saw that everything He created was good. (Genesis 1:1-10).
In our text, Jesus teaches the power of our words over life and nature but most importantly He taught the need to build God’s Word into our ‘conversational’ life! Ruling and reigning in life takes more than just a one-time declaration in a church service or prayer meeting. Good as that may be, it is the continuous laying forth of our words that determines how we rule and reign in life. Jesus teaches that the things we have are the things that we ‘continuously’ say. Your life’s experience is determined by the words that you’re consistently laying forth from your mouth.
The Word of God must be daily enshrined in your everyday conversation. You don’t say one thing in church and say another in the marketplace. You must become a man and woman of one word.
Start laying forth your words in victory, blessings, prosperity, increase, and power even in the chaos, bad news, hardship, and unfavorable situations and you will reign and rule in life over sickness, poverty and death in Jesus’ Name!
Declare: I rule and reign through the Word of God that is in my mouth.
Pastor Alfred Samuel