![]() In addition, take time to pray in the spirit, in your heavenly language. Put the Word on while you are doing the dishes, exercising, or driving on your commute. Turn off the other inputs of music, tv or anything else that has been taking your attention and instead, like that sponge, soak in God’s Word every free moment you have. If you need help speaking the Word of God more consistently then take time to immerse yourself in God’s word. ![]() Jesus said in John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Proverbs 18:20-21 “A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. “A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth…” Proverbs 12:14 Instead we must constantly put a guard over our mouth to speak only what God says about the situation consistently minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. We must as mature believers, not just pray and speak God’s promises in the morning and then later in the day when pressure hits, speak what we feel. Gloria Copeland said “The victory is in your consistency”. Do you find yourself complaining about the circumstances, or if a major challenge or great pressure presses you, you find that fear filled words come out of your mouth instead of faith filled words? Is the Word the first and last thing to come out or do you speak what you see? If you find you are saying those things that do not line up with God’s promises, then make a commitment to spend more time in the word. You can tell if you need more Word in you by what you say. Likewise, when we immerse ourselves in the Word of God, then when the pressure comes and we get squeezed, the Word will come out of our mouths. If you take a sponge and immerse it in water, when you then squeeze it, water comes out. You must get the Word deposited deep into your heart, like good treasure deeply rooted. Therefore the key to speaking good things is of course first of all getting born again (a brand new spirit or “heart”, being filled with the Holy Spirit) and then immersing yourself in the word of God. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.” Jesus said when talking to the Pharisees in Mathew 12:34-35 “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ![]() The way we counter this is by soaking in the Word of God. To steal the word and make you ineffective by getting you to speak and act out of your feelings instead of the promises of God. To get you off your love walk, walking in the fleshly realm. Since the law of the kingdom of God works by and is released by words mixed with faith, then what is the best strategy for the devil to take to hinder you and make you unfruitful? To get you to say what you see instead of what God says. It is the same creative power that created the universe, that resurrected Jesus, that healed the sick, raised the dead… This same Word has power to change our circumstances. However, when we get the Word of God in us and release it out of our mouth, it has creative power to change our circumstances. As they say what they feel or see, then they get more of it. What they see, hear, feel, etc is then expressed out of their mouth. When people walk according to the flesh they are walking by their five senses. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.” For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Galatians 5:16-18 says: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Jesus said in Mark 11:23 “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith.” By God’s Word the universe and everything in it was spoken into existence. “Jesus said, I have told my people they can have what they say, but my people are saying what they have.” Charles Capps “Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.”
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