Power of Words
The creative power of words
Faith is released by words. You're going to have what you say. In Mark 11 Jesus never touched the fig tree, he just spoke to it and 24 hours later it was dead, dried up from the roots. Jesus is giving us intructions in verse 23 on exactly how to release our faith and to see miraculous things happen. It's not limited to mountains or fig trees, just anything you say with your mouth and believe it in your heart - you can have what you say. Three times in this verse He emphisizes the way you release your faith is through the words that you speak and yet most people do not understand the power of our words. Every person is a "whoever", who say to anything and not doubt in your heart but believe in your heart that what you say comes to pass, you will have whatsover you say. Most people don't believe this because it's too simple, we become so sophisticated and we complicated things.
"Mark 11:12-15; 20-26
12 Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.
13 And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14 In response Jesus said to it, "Let no one eat fruit from you ever again." And His disciples heard it.
15 So they came to Jerusalem...
20 Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away."
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God. (it shouldn't shock you, this is how faith operates)
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.
25 "And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses."
Remember, God is the One that created everything, it's His faith. The faith that we're using is not our faith in God but Paul says in "Galations 2:20 "that I'm crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith the faith of the Son of God." It's not just me, when born-again God gives you His faith. "Romans 10:17 faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."
"1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever' God literally gave His word and every word contains faith in it. And the way you get faith is by hearing the Word of God and that faith is released in your heart, and you take that faith that came through God's Word to believe and receive. With human faith you cannot believe for Salvation. If you think that the preacher has stronger faith than you and that God can only flows through certain people, you won't receive. People don't doubt that God can do it but you just think you don't have enough faith. When you got born-again God gave you His faith inputed in you and you used His faith to get born-again - you were believing in things you could'nt see/hear/feel. Romans 4:17 Hebrews 11:1 It's faith to sit in a chair or drive through a green light but that's human faith because it's got physical tangible things that you're baseing your faith on, like you see it. But when you got born-again, you're believing for things you cannot see - God, a devil a hell and heaven you've never seen. How would you know your sins are forgiven - you're believing for things that you can't see? With human faith you can't do things that aren't based on some physical proof and yet when you got born-again you believe for things that you couldn't see or proof. How could you do it? God's faith calls those things that be not as if though they were and God gave you His faith when you heard the Word, His supernatural faith. Once you understand that it's not your faith but a gift of God,
"Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast."
= it's capable of doing anything, just discover how to use it.
Getting born-again is infinate easier than getting healed because before been born-again you didn't live holy or studying the Bible and living in sin - you just heard the news that God loves you and that Salvation was a gift, He just forgives you and you received it. You didn't have any holiness or good works and yet you reached out and received the greatest gift that you could ever receive. And now after 20 years of been born-again you can get over a simple headache/pain/healing but you've already got on the inside the faith that raised you spiritually from death unto life. You've already got the measure of faith - we were all given the exact same measure of faith. Quit putting people in certain catagories, you do have what you need and more.
Reason it doesn't work is because you don't understand the power of words.
"Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed (put together) by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible."
God created the heavens with His words, He spoke them into existence, the universe was put together by the words of God. This is how God released His power, He is the source of all life, you and I, and the Creator of everything by words. He breathed, He spoke the sun/moon into existence, all out of His mouth."
"Psalm 33:6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth."
"Psalm 148:3 Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light!
4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created."
God is the Creator and His words are the creator force, everything on this planet was created by words and it will respond to words. Quantum physics, things can be altered by thoughts and words.
"Hebrew 1:3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,"
Words hold it together, science can't explain what holds everything together. The power of His words, and He commanded it that way and keeps it from self-distructing - He has never violated or broken His Word.
The evolution model doesn't fit Scripture, they require billions of years. God created everything out of His mouth.
You got to start to control the words that speak.
"John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
Jesus is called the Word (Logos), Jesus as God in the flesh. Jesus was God and existed in the beginning, Jesus' physical body was produced by God's spoken Word - "John 1:14 "and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
"Colossians 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church (us), who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence (superiority).
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross."
You got to understand the power of your words.
"1 Cor 15:33 33 Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits."
You're deceived if you think you can listen to other people that speak bad and that it will not affect you, evil communication corrupts good manners, we live in an ungodly society.
A goldly person should hold his word but the culture doesn't value this. Jesus never changed, adopt His way of thinking - His way is that words are important. "Prov 23:7 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he."
"Romans 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
You have to put faith with the word in order to get the right results, "Hebrews 4:2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it." If we don't always mean the negative things we say, "I laugh myself to death" then when we say the right things we don't believe it. We haven't trained ourselves to believe the things we say - it's hindering us from receiving from God. When you say "I believe I'm healed" but do you believe it? "2 Peter 3:5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water," - it was created by the Word of God.
"Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness."
5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;
15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."
21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food."
When people tell you that they don't believe there is a God, they're lying to themselves, when somebody sticks a gun to his head he will cry out "o God!" - you call on this God that you say you don't believe in. Do atheists really believe they evolved from a piece of slym? We are the only creation that God created that can put thoughts together and speak from our heart and express things, in the image of God created. Most words that are communicating today are negative. We don't truely understand the power of words, the creative power for words is awesome and we just don't employ it.
"Prov 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit."
The whole universe fits into the hand of God.
God spoke these things into existence in a way that He doesn't have to keep creating, He created the original plant life on this earth and put seeds in itself in a way that it can pro-create, very spesific reason that He spoke things the way that He did. Likewise it's important the way you say things. God spoken favor over us. Everything that was created by words, response to words and whether you know it or not - you respond to words. Sickness, poverty response to words. God said to Ezekiel to prophesy to bones in Ezekiel 37, and tell them to live and they stood up. You can change the course of nature with words - that is powerful.
Just speak over it and thank God for it. Father, you said I could have what I say and there is power in my words, - whatever the problem is with your finances/property/etc, it's over, I believe that You're changing the hearts of people and I have what I say, I believe my words are powerful. If you don't believe it, it won't work for you. You have to learn how to do things His way, learn to make your words count and quit saying things that you don't mean and quit listening to other people's lies.
"James 3:3 Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body.
4 Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires."
If you put a bit in a horse's mouth you can control a horse entire body. You can speak and command disease and sickness to leave your body and it will obey you. This is how God created us, germs, virusses were created by words and you can talk to them and command infection out of your body. You can command pain to leave your body and it will leave if you believe the power of your faithfilled words, a Godlike quality. Don't use your words to speak doubt, fear, negative things to hurt people. Use your words to only speak positive things.
"Romans 10:9 if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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