There's Power In Your Mouth

August 24, 2015
Minister Sharon W. Jones
Integrity of Heart Ministries

Proverbs 18:21 (AMP)
²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].

Proverbs 18:21 (MSG)
²¹ Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.

One of the greatest revelations that the Church desperately needs to understand is that the power of life and death is in the tongue. The words that come out of our mouths have tremendous power. The words that we speak set the course and direction for our lives day by day. This is a powerful truth that the Church, as a whole, has overlooked for too long - our words are seeds. The words that we choose to speak originate from the divine realm or they originate from the demonic realm. There is no “in between”. Jesus declared that the words that He speaks are spirit and life. If His words are spirit and life then the enemy of our soul, the devil, also has words, but they are spirit and death.

Words begin as thoughts in seed form that enter the human spirit and are implanted in our souls. When we meditate on these thoughts in our mind, our emotions become attached to these thoughts and we exercise our will to open our mouths and utter words emanating from these thoughts. The words that come out of our mouths either build up or tear down. The words that come out of our mouths either align with the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of the devil.

We must choose to meditate on and believe in the words of Jesus so that truth fills our soul with eternal life. We are then able to choose to speak words that bring life to us and everyone around us. Jesus declared that our words justify us and our words condemn us. Our words produce fruit that leads to life or fruit that leads to death in the circumstances of our lives. When we find ourselves in a situation of darkness that may be sickness, financial lack, or relationship trouble, we must not speak out of our negative emotions, but we must choose words that line up with the truth of God's Word so that life is produced in the situation. It is so easy to respond out of emotions of anger, frustration, bitterness, jealousy, and unforgiveness and speak words of death. These seeds of death are implanted into our own soul and the souls of the people around us and do not give grace to those who are listening to us.

We so easily block the grace of God with our words. For example, we may sneeze and immediately choose to say, “I think I'm catching a cold”, when we could choose to say, “I thank you Lord that by your stripes I was healed”. We say things like, “I'm broke”, “I don’t know how I’m going to pay my bills”, when we could choose to say, “Lord, I thank you that you have supplied all of my needs according to your riches in glory in Christ Jesus”. We say “My husband gets on my nerves” or “My wife nags me to no end” when we could choose to say, “Thank you Lord that my husband loves me the way Christ loves the church”, or “Lord, thank you for helping me to love my wife the way Christ loves the church”.

Every moment of every day we get to choose whether we speak words of life or words of death because the power of life and death is in our tongues. So remember, “there’s power in your mouth”.

Scripture Readings: John 6:63; 1 Peter 1:23; Matthew 12:33-37; Ephesians 4:29; 1 Peter 2:24; Philippians 4:19; Ephesians 5:22-26