DEFEATING OURSELVES WITH OUR OWN CONFESSION!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY JUNE 28, 2021.

SUBJECT : DEFEATING OURSELVES WITH OUR OWN CONFESSION!

Memory verse: "You are snared by the words of your mouth; you are taken by the words of your mouth." (Proverbs 6 vs 2.) 

READ: Matthew 12 vs 36 - 37; 15 vs 11 & 18; James 3 vs 2: 

12: 36: But I say to you that for every word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 

12:37: For by your words you will justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

15:11: Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.

15:18: But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 

James 3:2: For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, He is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body.

INTIMATION:

 Life is largely made of words. Our words are part of ourselves; they are ourselves. You create a mental condition with your words. Your words, coming from your heart, goes out into the air to thrill and throb in the hearts of those that listen, including your Father in heaven. If your words are full of love and peace and fidelity, they are born out of your heart life. 

Our contradictory speech often puzzling. At times our words are right and pleasing to God, but at other times they are violent and destructive. You are imprisoned with your own words. You talked failure and failure held you in bondage. You said that you did not have faith, and doubt arose like a giant and bound you. You said that you could not, and the moment that you said it you were whipped.

Few of us realize that our words dominate us. A young man said, "I was never whipped until I confess I was whipped." Another said, "The moment I began to make a bold, confident confession, a new courage that I had never known took possession of me." Another young woman said, "My lips have been a constant curse. I have never been able to get the mastery of my lips."

What you say and what you don’t say are both important. To use proper speech you must not only say the right words at the right time, but also not say what you shouldn’t. The uncontrolled tongue can do terrible damage. James 3 vs 8 says, "No man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." 

A woman said, "I always speak my mind." She has few friends. Only pity causes people to go see her. Her lips have been her curse. It isn't so bad speaking your mind if you have the mind of Christ, but as long as you have a mind dominated by the devil, few people care to hear your mind. Examples of untamed tongue include gossiping, putting others down, bragging, manipulating, false teaching, exaggerating, complaining, flattering, and lying. 

Never for a moment acknowledge that God's ability can't put you over. Become "God-inside minded," remembering that greater is He that is in you than any force that can come against you (First John 4 vs 4). Learn to use words so they will work for you and be your servants. Learn that your lips make you a millionaire or a pauper; wanted or despised; a victor or a captive. Cultivate the habit of thinking big things, and then learn to use words that will react upon your own spirit and make you a conqueror.

Your faith will never register above the words of your lips. Thoughts may come and persist in staying, but you refuse to put them into words and they die unborn. Learn from our Messiah, His confessions proved to be realities. Jesus confessed that He is the Light of the World. He is it. The rejection of Him has plunged the world into a new darkness. He said He is the bread from heaven, and it is true. The people who have fed upon His Words have never suffered want. His Words were filled with Himself, as we act on them, they fill us with Christ. 

Prayer: Abba Father, bridle my tongue that I don’t stumble in words, and that I be made a perfect man, able to bridle my whole body, and always making good confessions in the Word, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!