Zephaniah Three

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Jun 24 - Don't Tell It Like It Is

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
(Proverbs 18:21)
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Dear Andrea,

Words are serious business. And, as believers, we need to get serious about learning how to use them. We need to begin to put them to work for us like God Himself does. The Bible tells us that He uses words to "call those things which be not as though they were" (Rom. 4:17).

Most of us don't have the faintest idea how to do that. We've spent our lives "telling it like it is." We've constantly used our mouths to report on the sorry state of affairs around us. Thus, the very thought of calling "things which be not as though they were" seems a little crazy.

"You mean I'm supposed to say, 'I'm healed' when I'm feeling sick? I'm supposed to say, 'I'm prosperous' when I'm penniless?" we say. "That sounds like lying to me."

No, no. There's a vast difference between lying and speaking by faith. A lie is meant to deceive someone. It's designed to make someone believe something that's not true. But to speak by faith is simply to speak words that agree with the Word of God instead of the circumstances around you. It's speaking from your spirit instead of from your mind.

As the Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:13, "We have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken. We too believe, and therefore we speak" (The Amplified Bible).

Now that's important. Read that verse again. "I have believed, and therefore have I spoken."

There are some folks who speak the words, but they don't have the faith to back it up, and as a result, they fall flat on their spiritual faces. They didn't actually "call things that be not as though they were." They called things that be not the way they wished they were.

Those are two very different things. The words may be the same. But just wishing and hoping won't get the job done. You've got to "believe."

Begin today bringing both your tongue and your heart in line with the Word. Stop "telling it like it is" and start speaking and believing the promises of God. Put the power of words to work for you.

End of KCM

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Our words create just like our Father's Words created all that is starting with "LET THERE BE LIGHT" Wisdom was there with Him rejoicing over His new inhabited creation. The preparation of the heart, that belongs to a man, but the answer on the lips is from the Lord. It is not anything that goes into the mouth that defiles a man. It is those things that proceed out of the mouth that defile a man. The heart comes out the mouth and if envy, or lust, or angry cursing live inside, they just project out the mouth. Its not a freudien slip. Its the overflow of the abundance of the heart that makes your words. To hold no evil in the heart will help you speak LIFE and blessing.

James spoke saying that if a man can tame his tongue he is able to bridle the whole body.

This is an act of knowing there is constant "thought share" at least between God and yourself. Jesus said to hate your brother in your heart makes you a murderer. Jesus said that if you look on a lady as to lust for her you makes the deed as good as done by letting it play out in your mind. Thought share IS a part of TRUTH. To control our thoughts includes: casting down vain imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into obedience with the Lord Jesus Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience when my obedience is fulfilled.

The tongue is such a creative or destructive power.

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