Leo71
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I've noticed that so many people professing to be Christians enact the power of death, rather than the power of life, both of which reside in the tongue. In fact, are we not all guilty of this in some form or another? Scripture says that if we confess with our mouths and believe in our hearts, we are saved. For with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, and with the heart one believes unto righteousness. Also, without faith it is impossible to please Him.
So is it not true that most Christians who are defeated in life are defeated because they confess and believe the wrong things? They have spoken the words of the enemy. And those same words hold them in bondage. Proverbs 6:1-2 says, "...Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth." Faith-filled words equal victory. Fear-filled words equal defeat. Man is a spirit being, capable of operating on the level of faith for which God is the author and finisher. In Mark 9:23, we read, "Jesus said unto him, 'If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.'"
Matthew 17:20 states, "And Jesus said unto them, 'Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.'" Mark 11:23 says, "For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.'"
I understand these things to be spiritual law. If applied with true faith (absolute trust in God and His word), we can be assured that victory is ours in the name of the Lord! Since Jesus Himself, as the Son of God sent in the flesh, spoke to the wind and the sea, commanding them to be still, cast out demons, withered a fig tree, and even raised the dead -- all with the spoken word -- should we not then believe with all our hearts that we as joint-heirs can do the same? Or do we not consider John 14:12, wherein Jesus states under no uncertain terms, "...He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater..."?
How is it, then, that we as professing believers in Christ Jesus have only the things that we say, when Christ Himself has said that we can have whatsoever we say?
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