DEATH AND LIFE IN WORDS: WORD POWER !

DEATH AND LIFE IN WORDS: WORD POWER ! Most people do not realize the power words, the unborn again, and born again people. Do you realize that the things you are speaking out of your mouth are setting the cornerstones of your life ? Words can deceive us. Words transmits. Think about that. The Words That You Speak Transmits Faith or Fear ! So when we are talking about your spoken words, we are talking about things that are powerful. We will start in Genesis where God looked out over the darkness that was over the earth. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water. And God said, let there be light: and there was light." (Genesis 1:1-3). Did you notice that the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The water was that, the darkness was that, and the Spirit of God was there. But nothing happened until words were spoken. God said, "Light." When God spoke, it came into existence. His words were His creative power. And because we are created in the image and likeness of God, our words are creative power ! So many people today think of words as being unimportant. You have heard people make statements like this --- "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Nothing is further from the truth. Words can kill you, they can put you in an early grave, they can call sickness, they can cause poverty, and they can cause disease. If you don't know what you are doing with words, they will destroy you ! And the enemy of all humanity knows this. "The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressor shall destroy them." (Proverbs 11:3). This same Scripture in the amplified Bible said, "the integrity of the other rights shall guide them, but the willful contrariness and crookedness of the treacherous shall destroy them." Perverseness is crooked and contrary speech. Proverbs has a line to say about perverse lips --- crooked and contrary speech, or speaking things that are contrary to what we actually believe. Many people speak perversely. They don't know why they do it, it came along with the D&A of the devil the sin nature ! But they do. You have to break your self of it. And the only way that can happen is the process of renewing your mind with the Word of God. Often you speak the very opposite of what you mean. You have heard people say, "Oh, isn't that a big house !" When it's a little bitty house. That is what the Bible calls perverse speech. It's crooked or contrary. You are speaking contrary to what you actually mean or believe. God created man in His own image and in His likeness. God's Word is His will for man. When I say man, I mean mankind. Man was created in the image of God. Man's word -- your words -- should be your will towards God. We really shouldn't speak anything that we don't desire to come to pass or that is not our will.