THE POWER OF YOUR CONFESSION!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY APRIL 20, 2022.

SUBJECT : THE POWER OF YOUR 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: Psalm 141 vs 3; Proverbs 18 vs 21:

Psalm 141: Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. 

Proverbs 18:21: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

INTIMATION:

What you say locates you. You will not, yes you cannot rise above your own words. Neither you nor anyone else, no matter how clever, will ever live above the standard of their conversation/confession. This spiritual principle is unalterable. If your conversation/confession is foolish, trifling, unpractical, or disorganized, your life invariably will be the same way. With your words, you constantly paint a picture of your inner self. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the. Heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12 vs 34). 

Those who realize the power of speech will often use it to their own advantage. Therefore, those who know the power of speech must assume responsibility for what they say. Words can work wonders, but they can also work blunders! Do you realize that multitude of people fail in life because they speak failure? They fear failure and allow their fear to overcome their faith. If you speak defeat, failure, anxiety, sickness, and unbelief, you will live on that level.

If you think back on your life, you will probably agree that most of your troubles have been tongue troubles. In our memory verse, the Bible says, "Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles." Numerous troubles are caused by an unruly tongue! Words spoken in the heat of the moment—words of anger, words of harshness, words of retaliation, words of bitterness, words of unkindness, these words produce trouble for us. 

Confession is made with the mouth, not only for the good things God has promised us, but also for sickness, defeat, bondage, lack, and failure. Refuse to have a bad confession. Refuse to have a negative confession. Repudiate a dual confession, when you are saying at one moment; "With His stripes I am healed" (Isaiah 53 vs 5) and at the next moment; "But the pain is still there." A negative confession can produce negative results. 

In the passage we read today, David knowing the power of his words, prayed God to set a guard over his mouth, to keep watch over the doors of his lips, knowing that in it lies the power of life and death. It's really important that we let God help us overcome our unruly speech habits, for our words can work blunders and get us into trouble. 

At times our words are right and pleasing to God, but at other times they are violent and destructive. We are made in God's image, but the tongue gives us a picture of our basic sinful nature. God works to change us from inside out. When the Holy Spirit purifies a heart, He gives self-control so that the person will speak words that please God.

Go to higher level of living in the kingdom of God. Believe that you are who God says you are. Think that way. Talk that way. Act that way. Train yourself to live on the level of what is written about you in God's Word. Do not permit your thoughts, your words, or your actions to contradict what God says about you.

Avoid careless speech because it is a vicious habit. When one realizes that his or her words are the coin of his kingdom and that his words can be either a cursing influence or a blessing, he or she will learn to value the gift of speech. The word is a seed (Luke 8 vs 11), and if spoken from a poisoned mind, it is a disaster. An idle word spoken aloud may fall into the soil of someone's heart and poison his or her entire life. Learn to control your tongue.

The apostle James said this of the mouth:

"With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, of a grapevine bear fig? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. (James 3 vs 9 - 12.) 

Prayer: Abba Father, Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord. You are love, and has poured out Your love in my heart by the Holy Spirit You have given to me. Lord I pray that my words be filled with love from a humble heart, in Jesus' Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!