My inspiration: Guard your words

By William King | Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image courtesy: viaemmaus

Have you ever noticed that the Scripture speaks a lot more about the power of words? Jesus says about His Words,

“The Words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.” (John 6:63).

Proverbs 18:21 says about our words. “The tongue has the power of life and death.”

James wrote that our words direct the course of our life for victory.

He even likens our tongue to a fire that can set the direction of life toward destruction. David prayed in Psalm 141,

“Lord, set guard over my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.”

He was saying, “God, don’t let me speak words that get my life off course. I want to speak words of faith.”

Think about the woman described in Mark 5 who had suffered with bleeding in her body. She had spent all her money on doctors, but only got worse. Can you imagine the negative words she was hearing in her head? Her family and friends probably said, “You’ve tried everything.”

She could have spoken all the negative words that said there was no reason to think Jesus could help her but instead these words fuelled her faith that day. These words gave her strength to push through the crowds thronging around Jesus. With that last reach behind Him she was still saying, “If I can only touch Him...”

Her words got her to the hem of Jesus’ cloak and the power came out of Him and gave her a miracle. Do you see how her words set her on course to get where she needed to be? The same is true for you and me. She not only had to push through the crowd of people, but through the negative words in her head that said, “Don’t even try.”

If you are going to direct your life in the course to receive your miracle, you have to push through the negative voices and the opinions of others. You have to be strong in your thoughts. The best way to get your thoughts to line up is to release your words of faith. Words can reinforce what you think.