ICS Daily Devotions
The Power of Words
2 Cor 4:13 (NKJV) And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak.
Everyone needs to have a conviction regarding what we believe in our hearts. As believers, we need to say things in agreement with the Word of God. We need to agree with God’s word and affirm it in our lives. Otherwise it is difficult for us to walk with Him. It is just like being yoked with God. It pulls and agrees to be moving in the same direction. Then we can accomplish much with Him. When we agree with Him, then He is able to accomplish what He wants in our lives.
We believe, therefore we speak boldly about our conviction without inhibition. It is a spirit of faith that causes us to speak according to what we believe. Faith believes even without seeing. Faith agrees with the Word. We are to feed our human spirit with the Word so that we will speak faith when we are faced with a stressful situation!
The words we say in and by faith matter. We have the God-given privilege of acknowledging, affirming, appropriating, claiming and confessing the riches of God’s Word with words that we say. As followers of Christ, we have been blessed and enriched by Him in countless ways; the more we declare His Word by faith in and over our lives, the more we experience the tangible reality of His goodness.
We need to affirm, agree, and proclaim what the Word of God says about us. This will build faith in our hearts because we hear it uttered by our mouth and God also listens to what we are saying and believing him for. We say out what we believe in our heart with boldness, confidence and faith. We believe, therefore we speak!
3 John 1:2 (NKJV) states: Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
God’s desire for us is to have good friends so that our soul will prosper through fellowship. We can be a friend who encourages and blesses. God wants our soul to prosper. It will be especially true after these sessions that we will be speaking words that build up, strengthen, edify and bring joy to one another!
Are you tasting good fruit or bad fruit in your marriage and family? What kind of words are you saying?
Here is an example to confess our identity in Christ.
“I am a child of God. God’s abundant grace has saved me and His favor is upon my life. I am blessed with all the spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ. In Christ, I am accepted in the Beloved One, my sins are forgiven and washed by His blood. God sees me as righteous, holy and blameless because I am hidden in Christ. I am blessed in my coming in and my going out. I am the head and not the tail. I am on the top and not below. Whatever I put my hands to do, it is blessed. I am blessed in the city and I am blessed in the village. My kneading bowl and my body are blessed. I am beautifully and wonderfully made in the image of God. My God shall supply all my needs accordingly to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. The one in me is greater than the one in the world. Nothing is able to separate me from the love of God because He is my covenant partner. It is a new covenant and everlasting covenant through the blood of Jesus. I have no fear because perfect love casts out all fear. God loves me unconditionally. I can always run into the throne of grace in time of need. If God is for me, then who can be against me and what can men do to me? God will make a way where there is no way. He is a God who makes a path in the wilderness and a stream in the desert. With God all things are possible!”
These are speaking-faith- filled words based on what the Word of God says about us regarding who we are, what we have, and what we can do in and through Christ!
There is power in our words. Therefore, we need to get a grip on our lips. We choose to build up, bless, strengthen and edify others through the words that we speak. Let’s choose to frame our world with God’s help through our spoken words.
Sermon Series: Get a grip on your lips
