The Problem Is With Your Mouth
Hear: for I
will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right
things For my mouth shall speak truth… -Proverbs 8:6,7
Several years
ago, I went to a small camp meeting in another state. While I was there, the
minister in charge asked me to preach at an evening service, and I agreed. However,
I was new in the ministry, so I prayed, “Dear Lord, what am I going to do?”
At that point,
I taught from manuscript sermons I had written down almost word for word. So I
got out my notes and found a sermon I was comfortable with. I thought, Here’s
a good message. I’ll use this one.
When I got to
the service, I sat reviewing my notes. All of a sudden, I heard on the inside: Your
problem ins not with your faith, and it’s not with God, it’s with your mouth.
When I heard that, I knew it was for someone else, not for me.
When I got up
to teach, I looked at my notes. Suddenly they didn’t make a bit of sense to me.
I just went blank. So I said, “All right, Lord, You win. I’m just going to
start off with what You said.” So I began, “Your problem is not with your
faith, and it’s not with God. It’s with your mouth.” And I preached for about
an hour.
To this day, I
don’t know what I said, but after the service a lady came up to me. She had
driven from the other side of the state and could only stay for that one
service. She said, “I’m in a life-and-death situation. I’ve been battling this
physical condition for quite a while, and I’ve tried to figure out why I haven’t
received my healing.”
The woman
continued, “At first, I thought maybe there was some reason God wasn’t
healing me. Then I thought, No, the problem is my faith. I don’t have
any faith.
“But now I know
where the answer is,” the woman said, “The problem is not with God, and it’s
not with my faith. The problem is with my mouth. Well, I’m changing what I’m
saying. And you just watch—now I’ll live and not die!”
CONFESSION:
I feed on
God’s Word continually. My words line up
with what He says. As I speak the Word, I hear myself say it and my faith rises
to the level of my confession.
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