Words are containers.  They are carriers of substance.  They are conductors. We normally speak words according to what we think, hear, see, taste and feel.   We also do so about our past experiences, present affairs and future expectations. 

Our words have the power to produce in our lives according to what we say when we believe.

The Bible says, “Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.”  (Proverbs 18:21 MSG)

When our lives go on a roller coaster mode, pay attention to what we are saying.  What have we been listening to? This world offers too many suggestions, opinions and pieces of information here, there and everywhere. If our reliability is founded on these, we become susceptible to confusion and deception leading us to fear and anxiety due to lack of stability.

Apart from being rooted, grounded and firmly founded on the Word of God, there is no such thing as constancy and dependability. His Word is to be regarded as our plumb line.

What fills our minds eventually comes out from our mouths. An unstable thought-life that produces in us an experience that alternates between making us feel excited, exhilarated, or happy and making us feel sad, disappointed, or desperate is not God’s perfect plan for us. We cannot be double-minded if we desire to walk with Him. Thus, it is crucial for us to renew our thinking according to His Word, for as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. We are what we think, and what we think, we speak.

Praise God and thanks be to Him Who is rich in mercy and abounding in love that He never intends to leave us the way we are and where we’re at.  He gave us the Holy Spirit as our Helper and He abides in us forever. He teaches and guides us how to bridle our tongue which is likened to a very small rudder that can steer a large ship wherever the pilot wants to go though driven by strong winds (James 3:4).  He eagerly delights in us speaking words of life that take us higher, soaring like eagles, above the chaotic voices and the influence of this world.

Our divine identity in Christ, how so loved we are by Him, is the most important revelation we could ever have that will cause a shift to our thinking and speaking, and it takes more than a lifetime to discover, recognize and acknowledge inch by inch for us to walk in it. This means that a daily portion of it is being uncovered for us to be exposed to His love and experience His embrace. This truth that we receive day to day will eventually be spoken of, for out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth speaks.

God is training and equipping us how to speak words of life that comes from Him, the very Breath of Life.  He is teaching us how to articulate words of faith that is fueled by His steadfast love.   He is our greatest Life Tutor and Mentor, and His delight in coaching us is all because He cares for us.  His love is so great to leave us untaught.

Our words are our ammunition that when opposition arises, we have the divine arsenal to combat it.  When fear comes whispering, we roar back, speak forth, and give voice to His Word “I am greatly blessed, highly favored and deeply loved by Jesus!” Jesus clearly demonstrated this to us how He responded to the voice of the enemy. ” When the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”  But Jesus answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”  (Matthew 4:3-4)

When a conflicting thought comes into our minds to shake and harass us, we do not allow it to build a nest of intimidation and torment.  Instead, we answer it! We speak His Word to pull apart and abort its finding home in our thought life.  We cannot fight a thought with a thought.  We need to hear ourselves speak faith-filled words until they are settled into the reservoir of our hearts.

Do you know that when we hear ourselves speaking this truth, we are embedding faith into our spirits until we own it, until the Word becomes part of us?  When we take ownership of the Word revealed to us by the Holy Spirit, only then we can powerfully spend it by profession, declaration and confession.

We are to remember that this is not only true to His Word spoken to us.  If and when we hear positive words and rehearse them in our minds and mouths, they will produce a positive harvest.  Negative words produce negative harvest!  Faith-filled words produce faith-filled harvest.  The question is, what kind of harvest do we want?

After the death of Moses, the Lord spoke to Joshua to take on the leadership of His people.  He commanded him this …

“This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall MEDITATE on it day and night, that you may OBSERVE AND DO according to all that is written in it.  For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.” (Joshua 1:8 AMPC)

The word “MEDITATE”, according to The New Strong’s Concise Concordance & Vine’s Concise Dictionary of the Bible, means to moan, growl, utter, speak.  This word means to think about something in earnest, often with the focus on thinking about future plans and contingencies, possibly speaking to God or oneself in low tones.  It seems to be an onomatopoetic term, reflecting the sighing and low sounds one may make while musing, at least as the ancients practiced it.

The Lord commanded, but Joshua needed to receive the word spoken, meditated on it day and night and acted on it. This made him prosperous, dealt wisely and had good success.  This is likened to him being wise, building his house on the rock, for it is never enough for us to hear the Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing, but it is spent by speaking and doing what we believed in our hearts, for faith without works is dead.

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.” (Matthew 7:24-27)

When Joshua led the people of Israel into the promise land, guess what was before them?  The walls of Jericho.  Jericho was the gateway city to Canaan and it was a fenced town with high walls that was tightly and securely locked to keep the Israelites out.  None went out, and none came in. 

With the kind of boasted walls Jericho had, over 6 feet wide and 15 feet high with a 28 feet tower, it was nothing compared to the word of God’s power that was uttered and shouted by the Israelites.  But they had to go around the walls once for six consecutive days without saying anything, as the Lord commanded.  He knew that words of unbelief could possibly be mindlessly spoken by what they saw all around them.  On the 7th day, they had to go around seven times, and on the 7th round was when they shouted at Joshua’s command and the walls supernaturally crumbled down.  I believe what contributed to Joshua’s successful conquest against such surmountable wall was his meditation, his observation and him doing the Word of the Lord prior to facing this wall of opposition. 

The crumbling of Jericho’s walls happened so that God’s chosen people could get into the land that He promised them. He made known this divine strategy to Joshua, their victory shout, because He tenderly cared for them and was passionate for them to get into His planned address to occupy.

On another occasion, what made Joshua had the audacity to tell the sun and the moon to stand still when he spoke to them and both conformed to his word?  I believe it was his meditation, his observation and him doing the Word of the Lord that boosted his confidence to say so.

See, with what he had spoken, the whole solar system had to be in accordance to the stillness of the moon and sun, otherwise, misalignment would have happened. The Lord our God Who is the the Creator of all knows what we do not know, every detail that causes a ripple effect with just a few words spoken, but the unknown is His part. How awesome is His greatness and mindfulness over us.

Joshua’s speaking to the sun and the moon was not done just because he wanted to. God had a purpose and a plan and with it came victory over a battle.  The Israelites needed daylight to fight against their enemies who knew every inch of the territory where they were fighting. For them to gain advantage, they needed to see on a bright clear day to position themselves against their opponent, thus, he spoke and it was so. God and His goodness, greatness and passionate care for His people revealed to Joshua what needed to be done.

We were scheduled to have a company outing one day.  A week before the set date, I was checking the weather forecast and heard that summer time was over and rainy days were at hand.  Oh oh … since we were going to the beach, who wanted it to be a rainy, right?

A couple of nights prior, as I was praying, believing and declaring by my words for a good weather, the genius of God led me to the scripture where Elijah proclaimed a drought. 

“And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, EXCEPT AT MY WORD.”(1Kings 17:1)

Hmmm … what do you think happened to me when I came across these words?  My faith was enlarged.  “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.” (1 John 5:14)  When my heart was settled, I simply said, “No rain, at my word, in Jesus’ Name!” 

Five months prior to this event, we also had our family outing.  I wasn’t mindful of the weather then because I thought summer time was at its onset.

I did not know that both my nephew and my niece were talking and were kind of concerned about the weather then because the forecast for that particular week was rainy.  But, lo and behold, my niece told my nephew not to worry because I was with them.  And yes, it did not rain! Praise the Lord!  They saw my faith walk and that powerfully preached to them. Glory to God!

Without a doubt, I remembered this testimony when I recently declared “No rain, at my word, in Jesus’ Name!”  If the Lord did it then, He will do it again.

Indeed there was no rain during our company outing.  Dark clouds attempted to build up, but when I looked at them, with my heart settled and still, I simply whispered, “No rain, at my word, in Jesus’ Name!” and they dissipated.  All glory, honor and praise to the One Who is Worthy, Jesus!

You see, our part is to believe, speak and do what He leads us to do. He gives us instructions that are doable. The supernatural part is His. This kind of glorious divine partnership is what He desires for us to step in, partake and participate. He is the Operator and we co-operate. We are His co-laborers for all of us to experience a heaven-on-earth life.

We are to keep in mind that when the Lord does things like these for us, to us and through us, it is because He is ever mindful of us.  He is in actuality equipping us how to rule and reign in life with the power of our words because His intent is for us to live above undesirable situations and circumstances. He wants us to enjoy and experience His goodness each day that He daily loads us with His benefits.  When we move by faith and by the authority He has given us to subdue anything that does not bring Him pleasure in our lives, it pleases Him.  His Word says, “without faith, it is impossible to please God.” (Hebrews 11:6)

You see, God’s care for us is not automatic just like any other promise He gave us. We need to know it and have the faith to receive it.  We have to heighten our awareness that He cares for us affectionately and cares about us watchfully.  His Word says, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man for that You care him?” (Psalm 8:4 AMPC)

God’s care for us includes the shift from our natural identities into our divine identities so that You and I who are created to be like Him will speak and walk like Him.  

Jesus, who being the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His person, is upholding and sustaining all things by the word of His power. (Hebrews 1:3)  Every word that Jesus spoke, speaks and will speak comes into manifestation.  He is the Word made flesh Who dwelt among us.  The Spirit of the Living God and the Spirit of the Son of God is resident in us, and it is He Who is transforming us to be like Him as partakers of His divine nature, from glory to glory.  As He is, so are we in this world.

The New Living Translation of 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image.“ Our meditation on His Word produces transformation in our lives.

Unless we confidently know that we are made in God’s image and according to His likeness because we are His sons and daughters, we will never function the way He meant us to be.  Unless our thoughts and our words are congruent to His Word, our lives can never be transformed and go according to His plans and purposes.  Unless we believe, receive and walk in this truth, how we are to reflect Who He is, think like Him, talk like Him and walk like Him, not by our might nor by our power, but by the Spirit of God, we undervalue and diminish our identity in Christ Who paid the utmost price. 

Ignorance about our divine identity to know, to speak and to see is costly. Therefore, let’s be interested in learning, in being taught and sit as students of His Word.  People perish due to lack of knowledge, rejection of knowledge and forgetting knowledge.  Knowledge is an integral part of our faith walk, for our faith only works when we know God’s word that encompasses Who He is, His will for us, His thoughts about us and who we are in Him.

I love what Pastor Nancy Dufresne said, “What transforms a person is knowing God’s thoughts and making them yours.” 

Indeed, the Lord our God cares for our transformation for us to be like Him, “for [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].” (Romans 8:19 AMPC) The whole world is groaning for His sons and daughters, that’s you and I, to take our rightful place and invade the earth with His love and care for His people, until the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of His GLORY and GOODNESS as the waters cover the sea. 

When we are becoming like Him, talking like Him, walking like Him, and subduing the earth like Him, the Lord will entrust to us His great care that He has for His people. We are His hands, His feet and His mouthpieces and He is able, willing and well committed to change us from strength to strength, from glory to glory when we yield to His leading. Glory to God!

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, thank You for loving us deeply and caring for us extensively, withholding nothing from us, not even Your Beloved Son, Jesus, Whom You gave so that we may experience Your grace, mercy, truth and Your goodness toward us.   Thank You, Jesus, for being the Love-personified and Care-personified for Your crown of creation, us, as sons and daughters of the Most High God.   Thank You, Holy Spirit, for unceasingly unveiling our eyes to see, perceive and partake of all the benefits that has been freely given to us and pre-arranged for us because ALL had been PAID FOR when Jesus said, “It is FINISHED!”  Amen!