FAITH and CONFESSION--CROOKED SPEECH MEANS LESS FAITH !

FAITH and CONFESSION--CROOKED SPEECH MEANS LESS FAITH: Many times, we have nullified our faith by crooked speech. We have spoken things we didn't mean. We have say "isn't that a big dog!" When is just a little dog: "Oh, isn't it hot outside!" When it was 45°F. By doing so we have lost faith in the words we speak and in the Words that God spoke. But God releases faith in every word he has spoken. "Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have believed and therefore have spoken. We to believe, and therefore we speak." (2 Corinthians 4:13; Psalms 116:10). The amplified Bible. If you can obtain faith from God's Word, there must first be faith in God's Word. If you had an empty bucket, you couldn't pour water out of it. If there were No Faith in God's Word, you couldn't get faith from it. But God's Word is filled with faith. Then faith which is in God's Word will get inside of you, if you will speak his Words over your life. Remember when you heard your voice on a recorder or a microphone? You said, "Oh, that couldn't be me." But it was you. The reason it didn't sound like you to you, when it sounded like you to everyone else, was because you have been hearing yourself all these years with the inner ear. Your voice is picked up by your inner ear and feed directly into your human spirit. That's the way you hear yourself speak. When you heard yourself on the microphone or recorder, then you heard your voice just exactly the way we have been hearing it--- and you were embarrassed about it. You said, "Oh that couldn't be me. I just don't believe that's me." But it was you. WRITE GOD'S WORDS ON YOUR HEART: why would God create us with two sets of ears--- one on the outside, and one on the inside? it is because there's a part of us on the inside that also needs to hear. And hearing is just not one time it is in a continual sense! It's our spirit and minds. I believe it's what the Bible calls the heart. The writer of Proverbs makes this statement: "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about that neck; write them upon the table of thine heart." (Proverbs 3:3). How are you going to write things on the table of your heart? The Psalmist David found out how. He broke into that revelation when he said. . . My tongue is the pen of a ready writer (Psalms 45:1). Now let's connect these things together. God told Joshua, "Don't Let the Word depart out of your mouth. Meditate therein day and night. Observed to do all that is written therein. And then you'll make your way prosperous." God told the children of Israel, "if you will hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, and observe to do all his commandments, then all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you." (Deuteronomy 28:1-2). Hearken means "to hear intelligently and to declare." In other words, they were admonished to speak what God said. Remember, . . . Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God (Romans 10:17). The spiritual force of faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1) comes to you when you hear the Word of God. And in order to hear the Word of God, the word of God must be spoken. And the Scripture says how shall they hear without a preacher? And how can one preach except he be sent! (Romans 10:13-14). The force of faith will come to you more quickly and be more profound if you speak it out of your own mouth. When you do, your voice is picked up by your inner ear and feeds it directly into your spirit and mind. That's the way you write these things on the table of your heart. It's sad, that people who are constantly bombarded with the world of music and entertainment no wonder your kids can sing songs and say things that they hear the world say, because they meditate on it day and night! These things shouldn't be a mystery to anyone; However, the god of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest they should believe and be converted. You do it by speaking to them out of your mouth. I think we have lost this down through the years. The apostle Paul understood it. The New Testament saints, and even Old Testament saints understood it. But somehow, we have missed it. Maybe it's because most preachers are not preaching it from there pull pits. We have underestimated the power in words to affect the human spirit or heart. James said it this way: "if any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain." (James 1:26) in other words, what he believes is in vain, if he doesn't bridle his tongue. For his tongue will deceive his are her heart. [mind]