What Do Your Words Carry?

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.                                                                                                                         -Ecclesiastes 10:12

Our words create an atmosphere. Words are powerful “carriers”; they carry faith, or they carry unbelief. And whatever we fill our words with will directly affect our lives.

Sit down sometime and take a look at your life. You’ll find things you do like. But if you look hard enough, you’ll find some aspects of your life you don’t like. Then ask yourself, “What have I been saying about those parts of my life that I don’t like?”

If you don’t like where you are in life, change your words. Quit saying what you’re saying. Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue…”

For instance, have you ever said, “I never get anything from God. I tried that faith stuff, but it didn’t work for me”?  If so, switch over to speaking words of faith: “I’ve been feeding on God’s Word for years, and my faith is growing exceedingly. God’s Word is seed planted in my heart, and it’s working mightily in me!”

We are a direct result of what we’ve believed and said about ourselves in the past. So to make sure our future is different than our past or present, we often have to go back to the Bible and get our minds renewed and our thinking straightened out.

Once you get your thinking lined up with God’s Word, it’s amazing how easily your believing will line up right behind it. And after you get your believing straightened out, your mouth will straighten out! Out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth will begin to speak faith. (Matt. 12:34.)

You’re in good shape when you have your thinking, believing and speaking, all lined up with God’s Word. You’re ready for the faith-filled words to carry you straight into a future of health and abundance!

CONFESSION:

My words are carriers of faith. They create the blessings I live in. As I speak God’s Word, He renews my mind, heals my body and gives me strength. God's Word works for me!

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999