How important are our words? Are words eternal? Will your words follow you into eternity? Jesus said that a man will give an account for every idle word he speaks. (But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. Matthew 12:36)
Give me Liberty or Give Me Death”…Patrick Henry
“Fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” J.F. Kennedy
“I cannot tell a lie” … the cherry tree,” George Washington
Was the cliché true that I sang to my friends as a child, “Sticks and stones break my bones, but words will never hurt me?” Do words heal or wound the soul? When your spouse and parents tells you they love you is it healing to your soul? When children made fun of you in school, maybe because you were not wearing the correct fashion, did it bother you?
I went to my 20th high school reunion and there were a group of students still offended about the fashion police who came into our school (Pike Junior High) from North Central when my farmer school boundaries were changed. I was friendly to these classmates who still had grudges on their shoulders after 20 years. If we did not shop at Roderick St. John’s we were not cool. Paul said to “command” those who are rich not to be arrogant. I think I’ll drive over to Carmel today and straighten all those rich people out.
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 1 Timothy 6:17
Does the harsh words of a husband or wife make a difference in a marriage? Does bitter sarcasm bother you? It did in my past, and it still bothers me. I could not ever eat dinner or any meal previously with my former spouse for nine years because of the constant poking fun of the 15 lbs. of weight gain. My healing came in my marriage to my deceased husband when he accepted me with 30-40 lbs. of weight gain, and he did not make fun of me. I had a relative who told me she could not sit in the car with her husband without getting in a bitter argument and that was during her 14 years of marriage. She did not miss being in the car with her spouse when they went through a divorce.
David said, Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. Pslam 141:3 (Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips.)
Will the critical words of a father break a son’s spirit when he says, “You will never amount to anything in life?” I remember men telling me that their dads told them this.
Did Jesus' words matter? Does God's word matter?
Do your words matter? “matter”…… God’s word produces matter.
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Hebrews 11:3
The greatest commandment is to love God with all our hearts, mind and soul and strength and our neighbor as ourselves. Since love works no ill towards its neighbor then why does a person work ill will towards their husband or wife? Towards their child or parent?
He answered: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" Luke 10:27
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:10
Words are seeds that we plant in other people’s mind. Words create a first impression by words. Do we remember Jesus by his words? Do we remember others by their words?
The number of coincidence or/accounts I’ve spoken to people and what they said out of their mouth happened to a person. My mother would not let me talk on the phone very long growing up, because she said that someone may have an emergency, and we did not have call waiting back then. My former husband called me from India on a missionary trip when I was temporary visiting her the exact hour my sister had an appendicitis. The very thing my mother feared and kept saying over and over through the years came to pass and the operator interrupted my husband’s call from India for an emergency call from my sister.
My former brother-in-law said he was not going to live past the age of 30 and he passed away of a freak drowning accident at age 29 years old fishing at night when he was an avid surfer. One of my guy friends said his ex-wife was going to get him fired from his job and she managed to do that one or two months later (was instrumental in him losing his job). I met this one married woman at a social who told me that every time she gets pregnant her husband loses his job, so get your husband ready to stand in the unemployment line, you just had faith in the negative. Are we giving ourselves self-fulfilling prophesies in life? Is this what Jesus talked about in having faith like a mustard seed only for negative things?
Are we creators with our tongue in life? Can we really frame our house with our words? Do we dig pits in life with our words at times? Do proudful statements dig pits in our lives? I was standing at this Karoake event which was called “Can You Rock,” and the manager of the club would not let us in since it was full because of the Fire Marshall code. While we were in line, I made a comment to a woman standing in front of me that the manager should let us in from this point forward and then close the doors. Within five-ten minutes of my statement, the door attendant came out and said the manager said, “He will let you in from this point forward.” The very words I spoke came to pass and the manager did the exact thing I said ten minutes after I said it.
I’ve spoken to many widows who tell me their husband’s words “haunt” them and I’ve experienced the same thing in having a spouse with an early death. My husband would eat ice cream every night our entire marriage loaded in fat and sugar and I told him, “You should change your diet, because of your mother’s heart problems.” He told me, “I will die happy.” Rather ironic the ice cream in the refrigerator was non-fat but the name was “Death by Chocolate” when he passed away of a sudden heart attack. I am not against eating ice cream. I am against eating ice cream every night, especially if genetics of your family is not conducive to eating high carbs/high fat diet.
It talks about seeing good days and one of the requirements is we must keep our tongue from evil.
For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. 1 Peter 3:10
Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies. Psalm 34:12-13
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness, James 3:9
I was watching the History Channel at a car place this weekend while I waiting to get a new catalytic converter installed, and it was about this man who lives in a remote part of Alaska. He flies his plane back and forth in extreme cold and he made a comment that “One day it will all probably catch up with him, as far as be the death of him.” Why do we have these self-fulfilling prophesies in life and faith for negative things? It’s like taking our temperature with a thermometer. If we are believing the wrong things in our lives, we will be saying the wrong thing. We were saved by our faith confession.
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. Matthew 10:32
He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God." Psalm 50:3
It’s like Christians get saved by their faith, but then they leave off faith for everything else in life and then we can become like Thomas. Thomas had to see and feel the scars in Jesus hands and feet to believe.
So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." John 20:25/Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." John 20:27
The Bible says that the “just shall live by faith.” Hebrews 10:38 it also says if a man shrinks back, then God will have no pleasure in him.
But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him." Hebrews 10:38
There are times that I want to say like other people in the Bible, “Lord increase my faith.” (Luke 17:5) First, I know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so increasing my faith by putting more of the word of God in my mind (Romans 10:17). Second Jesus had a remedy for increasing our faith. He said that if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed you can speak to a mountain to be moved and if you believe it in your heart than it will come to pass.
I can say I own a Lexus automobile, but if I don’t believe it will it come to pass? I told several people I wanted to go to Hawaii and that I wanted to bungy jump all my life and that came to pass. I don’t remember believing that. That was more like this scripture below:
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
It reminds me of the television series Star Trek with Captain Picard on the Starship Enterprise when he said, “Make it so.” Only it’s God’s angels not the crew of the Enterprise that makes it so in our life. Makes our ship go to light speed (makes God’s word come to pass in our lives): It’s the angels that make it so. Or is it Satan’s angels that are making our words come to pass? What exactly is going on in the spiritual world?
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12
Jesus was the word that became flesh. Are we tearing flesh by our words (create illness,disease and misery)? It says, “He sent forth his word and healed them.” Psalm 107:20 Many healings by Jesus was through words. The soldier told Jesus to “speak the word and his daughter would be whole.” Jesus said that man had great faith. The healing of his daughter was through Jesus spoken word. Jesus and Peter told people to “Get up and take up their bed and walk. “ Jesus gave the example of the fig tree he cursed.
Peter remembered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!" Mark 11:21, Matthew 21:19
Psalm 138:2 for you have exalted your Word above all your name.
Start speaking God’s word in your life!
God’s angels, “Make it so….engage.”
The Picard Song
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