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Join me if you will in Romans chapter 4. Romans chapter 4. We'll begin in verse 16. Therefore, it is of faith that it might be by grace. To the end, the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. So it is of faith, by grace, for the purpose of making the promise sure. The promise is secure. It is sure. It is not a crapshoot. It's not a game of chance. It's not something, well, I'm going to try. I'm going to try to get the blessing. I'm going to try to make this work. I'm going to try to believe God. The promise, when we talk about any of the promises of God, the promises of God are not by chance. They're not maybe he will and maybe he won't. They are secure. And he said the reason why God set up the method of receiving to be grace on his part and faith on your part is because he wants this to be a secure transaction. He wants this to be something that you are completely confident. Why? Because I have the scripture on it. I have the promise. So I'm not trying to get God to do something in prayer. Like, and I'm I'm I'm throwing out, you know, like they would, I'm come on, I'm looking for a number, right? No, I'm not, I'm not trying. This isn't something that's a game of chance. This is a secure faith transaction. This is a secure, if I've got it in the word, now I bring my faith, and he's already put in the grace account, the grace provision, what I need, and faith accesses and brings into manifestation in my life. So that the promise, so that it's sure, it's secure. It is something that I recognize as valid. This is a valid legal transaction because of his goodness, because of his love for us. He's put it in our redemption, he's made it ours, and I can take faith and I can bring into my living vital part of life what he's put in my legal account, spiritually. And so he said it's by it is of faith. It is of faith. So faith is our part. Faith is the the initiation. Faith is required, then. It's required on my part to bring to the that living part of my life. Faith is a requirement. The just shall live by faith. He didn't say it just one time, did he? I mean, that's in there over four times. The just shall live by faith. He put it multiple times in the scripture, the just shall live by faith. And so God wants us to be skilled in the application of our faith. And so he's given us his example to follow. Verse 17, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations. Well, we know by hindsight, we know by being on the other side of this story, that when God first had this conversation with Abraham and called him the father of many nations, he did not have a son to carry on his name. God called him the father of many nations before he even had a child. And so this is an example. I have made you a father of many nations before him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead and cause those things which be not as though they were. So God called him the father of many nations, and then we see these two aspects: God who brings life to the dead, or life in this situation, to the deadness of his Sarah's womb and of Abraham's body. God is quickening the dead, and God calls those things which be not as though they were. Past tense. God calls those things as though they were. To all appearances, they're not. It appeared because he said. The way to get it to appear, this is God's method. This is God's example for us. This is what God has established for you and I to follow as a standard. It is it is appropriate to call things that be not, things that are not yet in manifestation. How do I get them in manifestation? How do I bring them into a workable, livable access into my life? How do I do that? You've got to call it. God calls things that be not, things that are not yet in manifestation, things that are not yet present or viable in the situation. He called them as though they were. So God called as though they were. As humans, but then as a believer, we are now fully equipped. As humans, we have the ability of words, but as believers, we now have the ability, born-again spirit that can ingest the word of God, the supernatural, supernatural, life-changing word of God, and speak God's words. No other creature has that, not even angels. Satan tried it. Satan said, I will exalt my throne above God's throne. And God said, You I didn't give you the right to call things that be not. You don't have that ability. Uh uh-uh, that doesn't work for you. Angels can deliver God's word, but they don't get to choose to put in their mouth and change the course of things. Why? God gave authority to man. And as a human, you have the ability to choose with your words your salvation or reject it. To choose with your words the direction of your life. You can choose with your words. I'm always broke. I never have enough money. Or you can choose with your words. I have more than enough. But I don't see more than enough. We're not saying it because we see it. That's not the reason I say things. That's not the reason you say things. You don't say it. You're not, you're not a reporter. That's not your calling in the kingdom to be a reporter. I just report what I see. No, you are one who is authorized to direct and change direction. To establish the will of God in a situation by your words. You can you can take your words and you can stop something the enemy's been trying to get done for years and has been working behind the scenes, trying to get people to speak it, trying to get people to agree with it, trying to get people to act a certain way, and you can come in and you can speak words that bring life and light that make those people completely change what they've been saying and doing and start walking in the light. Hallelujah. Why? Because your words, your words are not for reporting, they're not for just saying what you see. Your words have a greater purpose, your words have a greater ability. So your words are containers. God's words are containers. God takes every word and he puts something in it. God doesn't have any of his words that you can open the top off that word and find it empty. If you were to be able to like take in the grocery store how they've got cans with all different kinds of stuff in it. And those cans, and then you open those potato chips bags, and it's more air than chips. Right? God doesn't have any half-filled words. That's more air than substance. When you open up any of God's containers, they are maxed full. They are, there's, he's, he has loaded every one of his words with power to accomplish it. Hallelujah. And so you can take the words of God. God's words are eternal. And to understand the things that are eternal, you've got to redefine the word eternal. Because if you consider the word eternal meaning live forever, that's a very small part of the definition. Something that is eternal never diminishes in power, it never grows old, it never changes. It is forever of that essence and of that substance. So you could say the blood of Jesus never diminishes in value because it's eternal. Every drop of the blood of Jesus is just as valuable as the day it came out of his veins. Hallelujah. Why? Because it's eternal. Well, God's word is eternal. Although thousands and thousands and thousands of people have accessed John 3.16 and called on the name of Jesus using John 3.16. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people have accessed the healing power in 1 Peter 2.24. Thousands, let's say, for instance, that every person on the planet right this minute, right now, if every person on the planet connected their faith to 1 Peter 2.24 and accessed the healing power in 2.24. 1 Peter 2.24 and said, I receive healing through 1 Peter 2.24. And they access that power. There's not going to be a power supply shutdown in heaven where God says, We've just gone offline, every person on the planet excess the power of 1 Peter 2.24, and now we are run dry till we get everything built back up. Because there's enough power in 1 Peter 2.24. It's eternal, it never diminishes in power. No matter how many people lay hold of the power in that verse, it doesn't make the power supply of that verse come down. It doesn't diminish, it's eternal. Glory to God. So every word of God is a container that he has put his power in. He uses those containers to transport his power, to move his power into situations to accomplish his will. He said, My word, Isaiah 55, my word won't return to me empty. My word won't return empty. It will accomplish what I send it to do. Right? So he said, My word, the power supply in my word, it'll get the job done. It will not return empty. It will succeed in doing what I want. My will. So God's will is applied by his word. That's why when you go to God in prayer and you begin to seek him about change, he usually takes you back to a promise he's already made. He takes you to a scripture and gives you a scripture to use. You're like, well, Lord, I just wanted you to do it. I didn't want you to give me homework. How come I got to meditate on this now? How come you want me to be reading this now? How come you want me to study this now? Because for him to get that power of his will to work in that situation, he's got to bring his word into that situation. Everything God does, he says it first. He uses his word to do it. He uses it. He sent his word and he healed them and delivered them. How did he do it? He sent his word. His word transports his will into the situation. So when the centurion in Matthew chapter 8 began to describe to Jesus why Jesus did not need to come to his house to heal his servant, he gave an explanation that identifies what was his confidence in. He said, You don't need to come to my house because I'm a man who's in authority. So I understand how authority works. And what was it that he said in Matthew chapter 8, verse 9? What was it that he said specifically about the way that the authority works? He said, I understand that it works by words. I say go. That's what I want. My will for that soldier under me is that they go. And so how do I apply my will? How do I transport my will into the situation so that they'll act on my will? I say go and they go. I say come and they come. I say do this and they do that. So if you'll just speak the word, I understand that the speaking of the word is the applying of the will. That there's enough legal authority in the spirit realm that if you'll speak the word only, that's all I need, just speak the word, because that's how the will of God, the healing is going to be applied. If you'll just speak the word, that's enough. Hallelujah. Because that's how you move the will into place where it has the ability to govern the situation, where it has the ability to manipulate the situation, to dominate and subjugate that situation. The word has to be given that level of authority. And how is it? We speak it. We speak it, not just reading it. And reading it's good. We need to read it so that we know what to say. God has said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you, Hebrews chapter 13. So that you may boldly say, not so that you can just read it and say, Oh, that's so sweet. God said he'll never leave me. Oh, that's so sweet. God, thank you, God. Well, praise him, thank him, but say it. Say it. Because you're the establishing witness in your house. You're the establishing witness in your health. You're the establishing witness in your finances. Say it. God has said, so that we may boldly say. Not so that we can put it on a plaque and hang it on the wall. Not so that we can make these little cursive thingies and post them on our Instagram. No, God has said, because He wants it in your mouth. He needs you to say it. God has said, Hebrews chapter 13, verse 5, so that you may boldly say verse 6. Glory to God. So He said, He has spoken things so that we know what to say. God says it so that we know what to say. Hallelujah. The speaking is the applying of the will. The speaking is the authorization, the activation. With the mouth, confession is made unto activation or salvation. With the mouth, confession is made. It's not, we're not just confessing it to hit a certain number of times that we've confessed it. We are authorizing. We are establishing. Glory to God. So the transport, the carrying of that authority or of that power is done in the words, in spoken words. Spoken words distribute authority. Transport the will of God into the situation. Carrying the power of God into that situation. How do I get the power of God at work in the situation? I speak his word. God has said, no weapon formed against me shall be able to prosper. So, lack, I tell you, you won't prosper against me. Depression. I tell you, you won't prosper against me. The joy of the Lord is my strength. Hallelujah. You've got to speak it because that's the activation point. That's the activation point. It's transporting into the situation what's in your heart. So let's look at Genesis chapter one. And I've said it, but I want you to see. The example that has been given for us. Genesis chapter one is a record of the words God used to release his faith. The words God used. Now, if God used words, we need to use words. But we need to use them for the same purpose he uses them. There is a Bible study interpretation law, a law of interpretation, when we're talking about studying the Bible that they teach in Bible school, and it's called the law of first mention. And what that means is the first time you see that truth or that subject mentioned in the Bible, it sets a precedent for how it can be interpreted, how you should interpret that truth or that subject in other places. For example, when you see the word glory, the first mention of the word glory is referring to a person's wealth and a person's substance. And so that interpretation of the heaviness or the weightiness of what is in their life is a way that we apply for the glory. Well, when you look at this concept of words, when you apply the law of first mention to words, we want to see the first time the use of words is mentioned in the Bible. What was the purpose of the words being spoken? What was the purpose, the intent of the words being spoken? And we know it's creation. It's creation. To create a desired result is the primary use of words that we see exampled here. To create a desired result. So in Genesis chapter 1, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Verse 3, God said, Let there be light. Verse 5, God called the light. Verse 6, God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. Let it divide the waters from the waters. Verse 8, and God called the firmament, heaven. Verse 9, and God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place. Verse 10, and God called the dry land, earth. Verse 11, and God said, Let the earth bring forth grass. So every time God said, something was brought into being that wasn't there before, that did not exist until he brought it into being with his word. So we see that when God said, there was his desired result, what he wanted was brought into manifestation because he said it. And then we see the second use of words when it says God called. Because the second use of words was to arrange things and put them in order. He said, Let this be and let it stop right here, let it move this way, let it have this orbit. So his first use of words, the primary, number one use of words is to bring into existence a desired result. The second use of words, or the second in order of importance, is to put things in their proper arrangement, to set them in order so that things work the way they're supposed to work. This earth, your life, without the spoken word, it's gonna go whatever way the wind's blowing it. It's gonna have whatever the wind sows on the wind brings little seeds over into your grass. That's why you you gotta put stuff out there to kill the dandelions, right? Because you didn't plant dandelions. How'd those dandelions get in your yard? Like, what are those? What is that Johnson grass doing in my yard? What's that dandelions? How did they get there? The wind blew them there. The situation just blew it in. So you've got to go set that thing in order. You've got to go say, no, no, no, no, no, we don't want that here. Let me sew what I want and and and take out those dandelions that I don't want by putting this fertilizer down, right? So in your life, there are things that that the situation, the circumstance, the flow of life, the curse that's operating, and the enemy. It's not all the devil. Let's not give him so much credit. Because some of it's just the curse that's operating because of Adam's fall. Some of it's just people. So there has to be someone that's taking authority over this area, this territory, this region of my life, and saying, no, no, no, that's not what God wants here. I'm going to release the will of God. I know what God wants because He put it in His Word for me. And I can take what God said He wanted for my life, and I can I can authorize it and I can sow it like a seed into kingdom soil, and it's going to dominate. Glory to God. And so we see our words then, because this is our example, what God has done. This is this is how God does it, and he made us in his image. And he wants us to follow this example. So your number one use of words is to create. Most Christians don't have that as their number one use of words. Most Christians haven't gained that understanding that they have the ability to call those things that be not as though they were until they are. And they haven't yet employed their words, or they haven't taken the necessary steps to discipline their mouth so that they can utilize this privilege and put it into a constant flow in their life. Because you can't do this occasionally, and it worked for you the right way. You can't say, Well, okay, I don't like how this is going. I'm going to take my words and I'm going to change it. But then the rest of the day, you just you just speak words so loose and casual and and ha ha ha. See that, see that big dog, and it's a little tiny chihuahua. That big boy, it's a big dog. It's not a big dog. And why are you confusing your spirit with those words? Right? And so, if we're going to be skilled in this, it's not just some automatic thing that we can flip on and off when it pleases us, when it when it's good for us, and then the rest of the time just use our words with no accountability. And use our words to what to agree with whatever uh other people are saying and and how other people are are talking. No, if we're gonna do that, then we're gonna have to uh gain some skill. So so let's find out from Matthew chapter 12 about this skill. Because this truth will cause your Christian walk, your walk with God, to come to a greater level of effectiveness than you may know. Matthew chapter 12, Jesus is teaching us. I'm going to begin in verse 36. Just go straight to this point. There are other points to be made in this text, but I don't want to get off my emphasis on the governing aspect of our tongue. It says here in Matthew 12, 36, again, Jesus is teaching, but I say unto you, so this is from the master, head of the church, our Lord, and that means the one we're submitted to, right? He said, every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

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Mercy. Every idle word that people shall speak, they will give an account for. Well, what is an idle word then? What is an idle word? The same word idle is used to describe uh um the uh worker in the field who wasn't doing anything. They were idle. They were not, they were there, they were they had a responsibility, but they weren't working the way that they should. And so the amplified can help us because it will amplify that definition for us. What is idle? Because if I'm gonna have to account for it, I want to, I want to be as responsible as I can to not have many I have to answer for, right? And so the amplified says idle, inoperative, non-working words. So it has defined this word idle as inoperative, non-working. Words that are empty. There's no power in those words, there's no faith in those words, they're empty, they're not doing anything. Idle words are unemployed. Every word should have an assignment. We need to put our words to work for us. Why? Because this is one of the highest benefits we have in the new birth, is that we can take our words, we can fill them with God's words, fill our words with the faith of God, with the hope of God, with the peace of God, with the joy of the Lord. We can take our words and fill them with God's supernatural substance, and we can go out and create and direct and enforce the will of God. Hallelujah. So because this is such a benefit, because this is such a privilege, we should be even more responsible with it. We should say, I am privileged to be able to call those things that be not as though they were. So I'm gonna do it. I'm privileged to have this ability in my word. So I'm gonna use it. Glory to God. So he says, idle words are inoperative and non-working, which is the opposite of God's words. If you were to read Hebrews 4 and verse 12, we see a description of God's words. It says, every word of God is alive. Alive. The Amplified says, the word that speaks is alive and full of power, making it active, operative, energizing, and effective. Every word that God speaks. And this is his desire for you. God says, This is how I do it, and and you're supposed to imitate me. So every word that Brother Kevin speaks. Every word that you speak, you put your name there, every word that I speak, make it personal. Every word that I speak needs to be full of power. I don't want any empty words. Why? I'm gonna have to give an account for empty words. I'm gonna have to give an account for non-working words. I'm not uh we're not talking about cuss words. Of course, we don't want to say those. Why? Because I don't want to curse. I want to be, unless I'm supposed to be cursing lack, and I'm not gonna cuss it. Right? I don't need to cuss at the lack to speak to to reprimand it. Right? So we're not just talking about cussing, we're not talking about words that are definitely words I don't want to put that filth in my mouth, right? We're talking about being aware of the power that should be present in the words that I speak. So Jesus said, we'll give an account thereof of empty, idle, non-working, inoperative words. Verse 37. For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned. And the amplified says sentenced. So by your words, the amplified says you'll be acquitted or justified, and by your words you'll be condemned and sentenced. Now the amplified helps me to see it more in a legal aspect. In a legal aspect. Why? Because now we're seeing that words are evidence. Words are evidence that make a case, evidence that stand in a position of evidence as something to prove. Yes, you were in faith, or you were in unbelief. By your words you'll be justified. Let's take it to our salvation. Because we've already used Romans chapter 10 that says, with the heart man believes unto what? Righteousness. So with my heart I have, I am establishing that I have faith. And that faith is in Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. So with my faith, I believe Jesus died for me, and God says she's got faith to be brought from spiritual death to life. And then with my mouth, so I've got the I've in my heart, I've got the legal tender, the faith transaction necessary to receive my new birth with what I'm believing. For me to say, I believe that Jesus died on the cross for me. God raised him from the dead, and God says she's got legal right, the righteous, necessary payment of her faith to receive her being raised from spiritual death to spiritual life. But with my mouth, I'm releasing that righteous faith. I'm releasing it, and now it's on record. You do know your words never diminish. Your words, God's gonna be able to pull them all up. We just read it. God's gonna pull up every word, and they're gonna fall into category, working or non-working. Filled with power or empty. So your words, including the words that you spoke that were filled with faith, when you received Jesus as Lord, they're on record. And if the enemy comes and says, it's not fair that you're taking Wanda to heaven, it's not fair that she is granted all of these benefits and rights. God says, just pull up the record. Here's where she believed with her heart, and uh we have it on record where she spoke it, and it came out into the spirit realm. Because words are spirit. Jesus said, the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, they are life. John 6 63. So the words that you're speaking out of your spirit are making a spiritual stamp mark, a spiritual record of what you're believing. Jesus is the high priest of our confession, our profession, our declaration. So, Psalm 91. Psalm 91. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in Him shall I trust. And then it says, Because you said that. See, somebody's receiving what you're saying. Spiritual forces are ready to receive what you're speaking, words of faith, the angels hearken to the voice of God's word. If you're speaking the word of God, angelic forces are activated on your behalf because of the words that you're speaking. Jesus is your high priest. He's receiving the declarations of faith that you make. They do not fall lifeless to the ground, they do not fall empty on the ground. Those words are in motion. Those words are activating. Those words are initiating things. Hallelujah. Not thoughts. Not thoughts. Words. We got to have the right thoughts, but it's not initiated by the thought. I don't think it into being. I don't get it operative by thinking it. It's when it comes out of my mouth that I have now authorized it. Remember what the centurion said. When I say, they're going at my saying, they're coming at my saying. They're doing this because I'm saying it. It's my saying that is giving the command, the authorization for that to be in my life. Hallelujah. So Jesus is explaining here that we are going to be justified or found in the right or found in the wrong by our words. Glory to God. Spiritual evidence. Words that justify your spiritual transaction or condemn your lack of spiritual activity. Glory to God. So Jesus says, you'll be justified, proven to be right, or sentenced, proven to be wrong by what you say. I just don't understand. Is that right? I just can't seem to get ahead. Really? Okay. That's not what I want on record. That's not what I want. I appreciate the fact that Charles Capps admitted there were days he got up and he just wanted to speak as unbelief right out of his mouth. He said, There are just days I get up and it's just this pressure right here just to say what I feel. And he said, But if I do that, I'll have to spend extra time talking my way back out of it. I'm thankful that he admitted to the fact there are times that it would feel better for a minute just to unload and say what it looks like and say what you feel. But it's only a very short moment of relief before you realize, mercy, I gotta talk my way back out of that. Now I gotta start from the, I gotta back up and go back to square one and start speaking it and getting some things established and undo what I've spoken. Glory to God. So Revelation chapter 12. How do we overcome the enemy? The accuser of the brethren. It says they overcame him how? By the blood and what? So he's given us his blood, but he says the blood and. So the blood is a tool for my overcoming, but the blood is what makes me righteous. The blood is what authorizes my words to have this power to work in the kingdom. Now my words are kingdom words, because the blood of the Lamb has positioned me in this place of authority, positioned me so that my words can effect change. And so now not only is it the blood, but it's the words of what I say about this. My testimony, what I say about the situation. I say, the Lord is my refuge. I will not fear. I say, He is my helper. No weapon formed against me shall be able to prosper. Every tongue that shall rise against me, and I say that. I say, Great is the peace of my children. I say, I'm blessed going in and I'm blessed coming out, the field, the city, the basket, the storehouse. I say, why am I saying it? Because I see it? I'm not a reporter. You're not a reporter. We're not here to report what we're seeing. We're here because we are establishing what we want, which is the will of God. We're finding it from the word, the will of God. We're establishing it. We're setting it in motion. We're activating, we're initiating. Glory to God. So when we recognize that our words are on record, we'll take a greater responsibility for our words, won't we? Justified or proven to be wrong. Do I want to be proven to be right? Yep, I said that. I said that. I said, no, no. I said I'm going over. Not going under. And the report can come, uh, you're gonna lose this. You're gonna no, no, no. I said I'm going over. I said I'm blessed going in and blessed coming. I said God shall increase me more and more. So if the bank report tries to tell you something different, you need to pull the bank report out and say, Let me show you what I said. I said, according to God's word. And so this has to change. Hallelujah. Glory. Proverbs chapter six. Proverbs chapter six, verse two. You are snared with the words of your mouth. You are taken with the words of your mouth. Snared, taken. Why? Because we're talking about a trap. We're talking about something that is legally binding. You're snared. He's in in context talking about your word to agree to pay for somebody else's debt. In context, that's what he's talking about. So we see then he's saying, your words are legally binding. Your words are legally binding, which is what Jesus was telling us. You'll be justified by them, or you'll be sentenced or found to be in the wrong in that area by those words. Right? So he said, your words activate legal permissions or legal restrictions. Your words, I'm talking about how important they are because we've got to be responsible with them. What I say authorizes or prohibits activities in my life. It authorizes God or it hinders him. God said in Malachi, your words are stout against me. And that in the Hebrew means to tie my hands. Your words have tied my hands. Can your words tie God's hands from working in your? Evidently, it did for those in Malachi. He said, Your words have been stout against me. When one of my children reached a certain age, she was so full of questions. And I was homeschooling, all of them. All day long. Mommy, why? Mommy, why? Mommy, why is the sky blue? Mommy, why? Mommy, why? Mommy, why? Mommy, why is this? Mommy, why is that? Mommy, why? Mommy, why? Mommy, why? And you know what I found myself saying all day long? I don't know, honey. I don't know, honey. I don't know, honey. I don't know, honey. I until I found myself hearing, it was like the one day the Holy Spirit brought a tape recorder to my ear, and I could hear myself saying, I don't know, I don't know. And you know what? I was reaching a place of I don't know what I need to know. I don't have the answers in other areas. Why? Because I'm authorizing in this response to a child, a five-year-old, a four-year-old, I don't know. Trying to dismiss so that I could go on to whatever we were trying to deal with in the situation, but I was using my words in a way that was unknowingly, irresponsibly causing a lack of knowledge in my life. While the Bible says that he has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, I can know all things. Glory to God. So I had to stop giving that pat answer of I don't know. And I had to say, let's find out why. If I didn't understand the answer to her question, I would say, well, we need to find out, don't we? And this was before Google was a thing. And so uh we need to look that up. Let's go to the library and find out. Let's ask somebody who would know. You know, or I would explain it the best that I could, but I stopped using the phrase, I don't know. I stopped using the phrase, I stopped bringing, and I started finding another way to say, I may not have the answer for that right now, but I can find out. Why? Because I don't want to shut down the ability of God and his knowledge in me. Hallelujah. And so uh all of the kids were little back in this time, and we went to church uh at the same church that some of our family went to, and every time after church, they it was uh husband, wife, and one child, they go out to eat on Sundays after church. And all my kids were little at the time. I mean, I had we had a house full, and and so for them to go out to eat versus for us to go out to eat was a different story, right? And and so we we uh every Sunday, hey, we're going to Pancho's, we're going over here to TGI Fridays, we're going over here to Olive Garden. You want to come to eat? And I would say, I don't have the money to go out to eat. I don't have the money to go out to eat. I don't have enough money. Uh we don't have it to go out. We don't have enough. That was what I said every week until I'm like, Lord, we don't have enough money. And he said, Yeah, and you keep saying it. You keep saying you don't have enough money. And well, I don't want to say I don't have enough money. We were just learning about the power of our words. I don't want to say, so I started putting the food in the crock pot. And when she came to me and said, You want to go out to eat? I'm like, I already got dinner in the crock pot, I already got a roast in the oven, I already got this. I started planning ahead so that I would have an answer and I didn't have to say, I don't have enough. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. When you begin to be responsible for your words, you'll begin to hear things and and and ask the Holy Spirit, point out to me things that I may be authorizing that I don't want to be authorized, things that I may be giving an open door for the enemy. So about this time there was a very popular song that came on the scene. I want more, more of you, Lord. Remember that one? I want more, more, and people just worship. Oh, and you know it was always sad worship, uh longing. I want more, more of you, and and you know what came away. I always came away feeling like I don't have enough of him. And then he brought his scripture to me. Of his fullness you have received. Can he give you more of him? Can he? What more can he give? You can know more, you can become more acquainted with what he's given, but there he can't give you any more than he's all he's given you all. Of his fullness, John chapter 1, of his fullness we have received. I have his fullness. So he can't give me more if he's already given me all. Every spiritual blessing in heavenly places, has he given you that? So he can't give you more if he's already given you every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. So he's already given it. My part then is to acknowledge it. It says that our faith is made more effectual. Philemon 1, 6, I think it is. Our faith is made more effectual as we acknowledge everything, every good thing we have in Christ. So my acknowledging it is the access point. His giving it has already been done. But if I think, if I think wrong, I believe wrong, I act wrong, I live wrong. If I think he needs to give me more, then I'm always gonna say I don't have enough. And I'm like, I need more of you, Lord, and I'm not going to experience the fullness that he's already made mine because I'm believing wrong and I'm speaking wrong. Wrap me in your arms. So emotional. Wrap me in your arms. Hallelujah. I'm in him. Do you see some of the songs that are Christian in their there but not scriptural? Christian and they feed on the emotion and they feed on feelings, but they don't establish you in truth. And that can be a hindrance because if you believe wrong concerning your relationship with him, then you're going to, it's going to cause you to be the one that is trying to get something he's already given you. And again, I'll use the example. If I if I begged my husband, please marry me. Please marry me, marry me, please. Please won't you be my husband? Please take me to be your wife. He's he's at a disadvantage. He can do no more than he's already done. He is already fully my husband. There's nothing more. Even if we stood in front of a judge or a pastor and recommitted ourselves and restated our vows, that doesn't make him more married. It doesn't make him more married than he already is. So for us to beg God and for us to plead with God, if we think he's not done it, if we think we don't have it, then we're trying to get him to give us something he's already done, uh something he's already given. And it it becomes an area where we can't receive because we're not asking in faith. And it looks like God hasn't done it when he has. Faith on our part. So I've got to believe and speak right to access it. Right? So to do that, I'm gonna have to get my words in line with his words. I don't need more of him because of your fullness I have received. What I need to say is, of your fullness I have received. I am complete in him. Both scriptures, both of those are scriptures. I am complete in him. And now I say it. And I thank you for it. Let the Lord be magnified. I'm thanking you who takes pleasure in my prosperity. What is that? I'm using my thanksgiving to acknowledge something he's doing or has done. So we use our thanksgiving. We use our praise to connect us to those provisions. Let the Lord be magnified, who takes pleasure in the prosperity. He said, say that. In other words, use your praise to release your faith that that belongs to you, that it's working for you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Proverbs chapter four. Proverbs chapter four. Now, my intent is verse 24, but I need you to put your eyes on what comes right before it because you're very familiar with my son, attend to my words. I use that all the time, so I know y'all are familiar with it because I am constantly saying, How do we attend with our words? How do we attend to his words with our eyes with our ears? We get it in the midst of our heart. So the intent is to have your heart filled with the word. And how do we get your heart filled with the word? Eyes and your ears. Right? So I talk about this a lot. Guard your heart. He said in verse 23, keep it, because out of your heart flow the forces, the issues of life. So he's talking about getting the word through your ears, through your eyes, into your heart, and it's life to every aspect of your life. It's life to your finances, life to your relationships, life to your health. It's life and health to all of your flesh. And then he says, guard the heart, and then verse 24. So I want us to look at verse 24, but I want you to remember how emphatic those verses before it were talking about the condition of the heart and how what's in your heart's gonna affect your whole life, right? And then he says, verse 24, put away from you a froward mouth. Never in my life, never in my whole life have I used the word froward. Anyone else? Y'all use the word froward this morning? Did you get up and you say, Whoo, that is a froward-looking row? Or that's a froward-looking thing, they said, or froward. Have you ever used it? I've never used it. And now I'm told to put it away from me. So I better find out what it means. I'll help you with it too, okay? It means crooked, crooked, froward. If you look it up in the strong's concordance, it means crooked. And then I went to the dictionary for crooked meaning deceiving either by mischief or rebellion. Deceiving in a joking way, like mischief. Ha ha ha ha. You know, at my age, ha ha ha. What is that? What are you establishing at your age? Usually when someone is saying, ha, at my age, ha ha ha, I'm over the hill, ha ha ha. What they're saying is, this is going out and this is getting weak and this is happening and this is happening. Ha ha ha ha. But it's not funny if I know the power of my words to establish end results. What is the main purpose of my words? Create desired results. Create desired results. So if someone always giggles and laughs and says, ha ha ha, at my age, and and at my age, at your age what? Why don't you just say at my age, I'm increasing in strength? With long life, God satisfies me and shows me his salvation. Hallelujah. My strength is not abated, and my eyes do not grow dim. I mean, even if you're holding it out here, my eyes do not grow dim. You might as well use your words to help you as much as you can, right? Glory to God. Why? Because I don't want to use my words to enable things that I could resist. To authorize things that don't need to be, uh don't need to have any additional help in their advancement, but I can advance the other by by establishing. So froward speech is using your words, even in a laughing manner, to deceive. Deceiving either by mischief or rebellion. It also means distorted, to twist something out of its normal shape or condition. To misrepresent. To misrepresent, which would be look at that big dog talking about the chihuahua, or look at that little puppy talking about the great dame. Right? I'm misrepresenting. Which in and of itself, in that moment, it's not a sin to call a great dane a noodle puppy. But it might deceive your spirit because now you don't believe what you say. And we know what Mark 11, 24, right? Mark 11 24, Jesus taught us to apply faith correctly. You've got to believe the things you say. So if I don't believe the things I say because I'm constantly saying things I Don't mean. I'm deceiving myself and I'm hindering my when I do need to be able to speak words out of my mouth to effect change, they're not going to have the same impact or the same effectiveness because I've been using them so loosely throughout my day. Glory to God. So he said, put away from thee a froward mouth, and the word mouth is translated fifteen times in the Old Testament as word. So the majority of the time it's translated mouth, but there are examples where he said word. Put away from you twisted, deceiving words. Words that misrepresent the situation, words that don't say exactly what you want. Because the purpose of our words is not to say what we see, but to create a desired result. Or to put something in order that's out of order, to set the course for it, right? Glory to God. So distorted, misrepresenting words, and then it says perverse lips. The word perverse means to turn away from a standard, to deviate. And the word lips is also translated as language. So don't use language that deviates. Don't use language that goes off course or off the standard. But he's talking about put if you want your heart to bring forth the issues of life effectively, you're going to have to use your words responsibly. And you're going to have to say what you mean and mean what you say. Jesus Christ never had to say, oh, I didn't mean to say that. He always said exactly what he meant, and meant exactly what he said. And so when he said to them, Lazarus is asleep, he was calling the end result. And they finally said, Well, Lord, if he's asleep, then he's doing better. He's getting better. And he didn't say Lazarus is dead. He said Lazarus has died in the original language. So he's not negating, he's not denying what happened. He was saying, okay, Lazarus has died. But he's, and we're going to go wake him up. So he finally brought them to a clearer understanding of what he was trying to use. When he was saying Lazarus is asleep, he was calling for an end result. Glory to God. So our words, we we gain a responsibility and a skill. James chapter one. I'm going to bring it home here. James chapter one. Verse 22. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he's like a man beholding his natural face in a glass. He beholds himself and goes away and straightaway forgets what manner of man he was. But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, the word of God, and continues therein, he, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his doing, his deed. If any man among you seem to be, let's use the word spiritual, because we we have a negative connotation for the word religious usually. Oh, they're religious, and that that means something else than it did here. So if any man among you seems to be spiritual, and bridles not his tongue. If anybody, if it seems, oh, he's spiritual, he's been saved a long time. He can quote this and he can quote that, but he doesn't bridle his tongue. What does it say happens? This person deceives their own heart. Why? Because what your words that you allow, you have to choose words. You have to choose them. They don't get into your mouth without your having either accepted them through a thought, through something that's presented, a song. Too much month at the end of the money. And it gets stuck in your head because it's got a tune with it. And then you're like, everybody's like, I know that tune. But do you know what you're saying? Too much month at the end of my money? What? I don't want that. I don't want that. So then why would I sing it? Why would I sing it? Why would I say it if I don't want it? If my words create desired results, why would I say it? And so he says that if you don't bridle your tongue, you'll deceive your heart. And your spirituality is vain, empty. It's not effective. You can have a King James amplified ESV. You can have it on your tablet, you can have it on your phone, you can have it on your computer, you can have all these Bibles, but if your mouth is not bridled, you can deceive your heart. And be ineffective in your spiritual walk. So, real quick, the bridal. James chapter three. Glory to God. Second closing. I get three. James chapter three, verse two. If any if for in many things we stumble. Offend means to stumble or cause to stumble. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not or stumble not in the word, the same as a perfect man or a developed, mature, and able also to bridle the whole body. So if I get control of my mouth, I can rein in my body. I can control and govern the direction of my body. I'm able to bridle the whole body. And then he uses two examples. Verse 3, he uses the example of a bit in the horse's mouth. And with a bit in the mouth of that horse, they can turn this 1,500-pound animal with a bit that is three inches long. Three-inch piece of metal. Why? Because it's putting pressure on the tongue. That bit goes into the mouth, and the pressure on the tongue is so sensitive in that horse that just that little tiny bit of pressure makes them willing to respond to you. And he said, if you'll put a bit of the word of God in your mouth, you'll be able to direct the things in your life and control things that are bigger and weightier. But if you'll put the bit and control your mouth, you can control that situation. And then he uses the ship. And not just a ship, but a ship in a storm. A ship that is in a situation where it's being driven by fierce winds. That's talking about a storm. Things that are bigger outside of your control, like the economy and the situations that we're dealing with in the world. These areas of your life that are driven by the circumstantial evidences. He said, You can still direct your life with the rudder by keeping control of the rudder. Two very small things in comparison in these examples. Small in their appearance, but effective and great in their power. So how do you put a bit in your mouth? You put the word in your mouth. God has said, so that you may boldly say. God has said, so you know what to say. You say about your life what he said about your life. You take his word off the page and get it into your heart and pull it through your mouth and you begin to establish it. Send that word to your finances. Send that word to govern the financial outcome. Send that word to the health of your body. Send that word to the organs, to the muscles, to the ligaments. Send that word. Not just because I'm confessing the word, I'm confessing like it's some religious wrong. No, I'm saying something. I'm doing something. I'm effecting something. I'm establishing something. I'm initiating. I'm activating. My words create desired results. The reason I'm speaking and the reason I'm disciplining my mouth and putting this restraint to govern my tongue is I want my words when they come out of my mouth to effect change in my circumstance. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. The Lord is good. The Lord is good. Just lift your hands and say this out loud with me. Father, I take responsibility for the words of my mouth. I ask you, Lord, reveal to me words that need to be established. What do I need to say? What do I need to put into motion? Father, show me what I have said that I never need to say again. Words I need to remove from my vocabulary, from my sayings, and I'll do it. And I will be responsible to put words in my mouth that are full of faith in you. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Did you receive today?