In my last blog, “It is Written,” we learned that Jesus points to the written word to lead believers toward Christian living. Words are important and they are good for blessing, encouraging, and complimenting. Words can also be negative by criticizing, condemning, and by causing doubt, fear, unbelief, and pain.
For our words to be powerful, we must speak them. God spoke the world into existence. Genesis 1:3 says, “Let there be light” and light appeared. If we read through Genesis, Chapter 1, we can find more than seven times where what God said is referenced and then the light, earth, and heavens came into existence.
God created everything with words, and throughout the Bible, we can find Jesus speaking to something and it responds to Him. Things responded to Jesus and His commands, and then He passed His authority and power to believers. The coronavirus that the world is dealing with is a thing and in the same way that things responded to Jesus’ commands, it has to respond to our command if we put faith behind what we speak.
Notice in Psalm 91:2 that you have to say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress.” Your words release the promises and power of God, but they have to be voice activated. First, you need to believe in your heart that you have the power and authority and then speak it out. You do not have to beg or ask God to release the power and authority; He has already given you this ability and told you to speak. Mark 11:22-24 says, “So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
There is power in the words we speak, and this power comes from the authority God has given to believers, who speak with the authority of Jesus Christ. Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Every word we speak, or hear spoken, produces either death or life. Jesus said in Matthew 12:36-37 that “every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” The words we speak come directly from our hearts.
Many people don’t realize the power of their own words and that they can actually be talking themselves into an illness, negative situation, or even death. They speak forth whatever negative thing they feel or have been told and don’t realize they could be signing their own death sentence. This is also true about the words we hear—they produce either life or death. We not only have to guard the words we speak but also the words we hear on TV, radio, and the words others speak into our lives.
Two examples in the Bible where things responded to words are: the fever left Peter’s mother-in-law when Jesus rebuked it (Luke 4:38) and the fig tree withered and died when Jesus cursed it (Mark 11:20). In both of these examples the fever and fig tree responded to the words Jesus spoke. Right after Jesus and the disciples saw that the fig tree died, Jesus taught His disciples about speaking to things. Mark 11:22-24 says to speak to the mountain in your life. The mountain can be a problem, sickness, finances, storms, or even a fig tree. This verse doesn’t say that we are to pray to God to remove the mountain but to speak to it ourselves.
If you are experiencing sickness in your body, God has given you the power and authority to speak directly to it and it has to respond just like the fever and fig tree. When you speak, make sure you put faith behind your words and know that God has already provided health, prosperity, and deliverance to you.
Take hold of the power and authority God has already provided and speak to your mountain (sickness)!
~Donna Jones