Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
We see that in the Greek text the word Power - is Hand
And they that Love it - is Holding It
So then the verse can read...........Death and life are in the "Hand of the tongue" and they that "Hold the tongue" shall eat the fruit there of.
Before we even look into what James has said - I want to expound on this one verse for a while.
Lets look at it is in your hands..............
I ask you to help me out down at the store. I tell you that I have a truck coming in and the manifest was printed wrong and do not have time to change it.
I explain to you that the first 5 pages go in truck number 2 and not truck number 22. I also let you know that everything but the last page is going to the back ware house and not on truck 33 as the manifest says and the last page is actually going into the storefront and not to the ware house.
I go over this with you and ask if you understand this..........you say oh yea I got it down and don't worry it will be done as asked....... I say you sure now because I Leave This In Your Hands.........which means you have the power to make it right or the power to make it wrong.......
It is the same in this scripture............
Our words have the power to bless or curse and are life and death.
So the words we chose to release.......either have power to work for us or the power to work against us. I mean.........
Curse would be against us and Blessing would be for us.
Life would be for us and death would be against us.
So through the hand of the tongue we release the power of words to either work for us or against us.
Step Back for a moment and think about this one thing..........if this were Not So then why Did the Father Our Creator make such a deal about words and the tongue through out His written word ? If it was simply about speaking non cuss words and such then He would have addressed this accordingly .
However God has gone to great lengths to show us the tongue or words are power and work for or against us. It really does not matter if you or i believe this or think it says something else.........all that matters is what God means by it or another words how things work...........
Therefore..........When applying Faith - you need to speak Faith words.
If words have the power to bless or curse.........Then really what would you want your words to be doing as you are standing by Faith ? Working for you or against you ?
Any word contrary to the written word of God spoken as you stand in Faith will go to work against your faith. Such as I don't know how God can heal me of this cold I feel coming on......You know me and mamma always get the death of a cold and i don't see why it wont be this way this time too. I am standing in Faith the God will heal me of this cold..........
No ! You need to be speaking Faith into your situation. I don't care what it feels like..........I am healed ............This is called fighting the good fight of Faith...........
Now satan has gotten in here over the generations and worked hard to convince us that words are just words and mean nothing.........Why ? So he can have an open door unto your words or be the Hand or Power of Your Tongue..............Think about it........ satan is behind all the religious beliefs about what is truth in Gods word and what is for us today and so forth........
he is trying to keep you a crippled ol has been sinner who has no power or authority over him and can cause him no harm..........then he can govern your life and even get you to think it is Gods will for you...........
Back to Proverbs 18 :21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
You will eat the fruit of your words no matter what they are.........
Gods words.........Gods fruit..........idol or words opposed to the written word of God will bring you Results or Fruit opposed to Gods Blessing........
This is why satan has worked so hard to blind this from people..........
when satan can influence your words - yea he can and does do this.......
any word or thought opposed to the written word of God was directed to your thinking by no other then Your Enemy the devil..........
I am stopping here for now...........but have much more to say about words and Gods directions to us through out His written word about Our Words...
.......Greek reference came from the APB bible and the Letter and number references found as well in the attachment are to Strong's Concordance
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God Bless
Jim