Your Words

Words are important. God showed the importance and

 power of words when in Genesis God spoke creation into

 existence.

Furthermore, Jesus is "The Word" that became flesh and

dwelt among us, and the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible, the

inspired written word of God.

Proverbs 18.21 states that, "Death and life are in the

power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the

fruit thereof."

Are we as Christians "eating the fruit thereof"? There

are many people who walk around and talk about the power of

positive thinking and positive confession and they sincerely

believe that this is from God. However, it is possible to be

sincerely wrong. When these "positive believing" people

encounter only "half" results or when they don't see God's

power in the situation, these same people may reverse their

thinking about God and decide that God must not care or

God's power isn't for today.

Positive thinking and positive confession is the

devil's imitation or counterfeit of God's plan. Positive

thinking and positive confession has its roots in humanism--

it relies on MAN's power to bring about change. This is

Satan's trick as an angel of light. Any attempts at positive

thinking will fail in the end, and they will definitely have

no eternal value as they are based on earthly humanistic

attempts.

Remember, God is not mocked. If a person sows to the

flesh he will indeed of the flesh reap corruption. Many

Christians have fallen into this trap, because they knew

that God had more for their lives and that this humanistic

deception was "close" to the real thing. However, close does

not count with God. Something is either right or wrong

according to the Word of God. Life or death are the

only two options regarding the words that a person speaks.

Life only comes through words that line up with the

Word of God and that are then empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Humanistic words can ultimately only bring death to the

speaker of them. Remember that the devil only comes to steal

kill, and destroy. Positive thinking and positive humanistic

confession may look good and sound good in the beginning,

but it will not only ensnare the Christian who falls for it,

but will also, kill God's power in their life.

A Christian is to know and to confess the Word of God

daily. Many Christians perish for the lack of the knowledge

of God. They don't know what the Bible says and they are

confessing the wrong things because of ignorance concerning

what God says in His Word.

Many Christians do not take the time to study the Word of God

and find out what God's will is for their lives.

They follow doctrines of men, rather than reading the Bible

for themselves. They depend on what another person says

or preaches, rather than checking first to see if it is true to

the Word Of God.

A Christian's words should always be in accordance

with the Word of God. God gave the Christian eternal

abundant life through Jesus Christ.

Any teaching that takes away from Jesus having

absolute control of a believer's life is a false doctrine

and should be immediately discarded.

As a believer reads and studies the Bible the Holy

Spirit will convict the believer of any erroneous and

deceiving doctrines in their life. At this point, then the

believer must immediately discard and renounce these false

doctrines, ask God to forgive him for his sin, and to

cleanse him from his sin and to renew his mind.

If a Christian is in a church that teaches humanistic

doctrines, then the Christian needs to leave that church and

find a church that stands firm on Jesus and His power alone.

As Christians we could not save ourselves through our

human works--we are saved by grace, the unmerited favor of

God. Therefore, why do we as Christians feel that by using

our own human efforts we can make ourselves more "Godly"?

 It is an impossibility. Only the Holy Spirit in us can change

us and make us like Jesus. We are to be simply obedient to

the Word and what our teacher, the Holy Spirit, tells us to

do.

A Christian in their life is to confess who Jesus is,

what He has done for them at Calvary, and to boldly proclaim

every word of the Bible. Jesus told the devil that man does

not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth

out of the mouth of God. There is life in the Word of God.

For example, when the Word of God says that we are more

than conquerors through Him that loved us and gave Himself

for us. We need to remember to confess that we are more than

conquerors THROUGH JESUS and not ourselves. We can conqueror

nothing in our human name.

It's the mighty name of Jesus-the name above all names-

that rips darkness and evil apart, not our name. It's the blood of Jesus

that cleanses from sin, not anything that we do, because our

righteousness is as filthy rags. Even our witnessing

to others has no effect without the power of the Holy Spirit

to convict of sin, righteousness, and judgment.

We are to confess who we are IN CHRIST JESUS and the

emphasis is on Jesus Christ--not on us.

We have health because of our healer--Jesus. By His

stripes we are healed. We as believers are NEVER to seek

health or healing--we are to seek the Healer, Jesus Christ--

the Anointed One--He is our emphasis--He is our confession.

As we focus on Jesus then He is able to heal us.

Furthermore, we are not to seek deliverance. Instead we

are to seek Jesus who is our deliverer. We are never to seek

the "thing" we are to always seek our Savior, Jesus Christ

who is able to give us all things freely that we have need

of in order to live fully the abundant Christian life.

The emphasis of a Christian and their words should

always center on Jesus-the I AM. We should be talking and

breathing Jesus every second of our lives.

Abundant life will then truly be manifested, because

Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and The Life.

You can see Jesus in every book of the Bible--the Word

of God. The Bible is our guide as Christians. Should

not our lives show Jesus and His power alone?

Should not our words confess that Jesus is Lord with power

and demonstration of the Holy Spirit?

We need to get out of humanistic based philosophies and

conversations. We as Christians need to heed Proverbs 19.27

that states, "Cease my son , to hear the instruction that

causeth thee to err from the words of knowledge."