FAITH IN YOUR MOUTH

05/29/2023

"But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach)" (Romans 10:8)

The word of God is already in your mouth for a purpose. It is for you to speak it forth. Given, the Bible calls Him the word of faith, which we preach or announce. This scripture is not an admonition but a description of you. 

Given this,  if God is in your mouth, you have a sacred responsibility to be conscious of Him in your mouth and appropriate His presence to everything around you. This is why you cannot indulge in idle speech, let alone describe people or situations contrary to His word in your mouth. If Jesus said that "every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment" (Matthew 12:36), how about you that has His presence in your mouth? 

The concept of speaking the word of God in every situation may seem like a waste of time to some, but the scriptures cannot be broken. Philemon 6 says, "that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus." In order words, as you acknowledge the things that are inherent to you by the word of God, you catapult yourself from God's ideas into manifestation. 

This is the reason you must submit your tongue to God and reverence Him with it. Notice what James says, "For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 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" (James 3:7-10).

There are things that have yet to happen for you in the desired plan of God that have been held back by not disciplining your tongue. Train yourself to respond and react by the word of God every time and that training will take place when you begin to meditate regularly on the scriptures, according to the prescribed order, twice daily. Psalm 1:1-3 says, "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper."

God bless you. 

Faith-Filled Confession

I declare that my tongue is submitted to God. I speak His word which is in my mouth, in season and out of season, knowing that the sharing of my faith is made effectual as I acknowledge and agree with every good thing that the Lord has deposited inside me in Christ Jesus. Amen. 

One-Year Reading Plan: 1 Chronicles 23-25; John 11:1-17