“Death and life are in the power of the tongue:
and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof”
(Prov.18:21)
Our tongue is a muscular organ in the body that enables us to eat and to have speech. Though this is relatively a small member of our body, we can boast of great things and even kindle fires. (James 3:5-6) The tongue IS a fire, a world of iniquity. A world of iniquity means, a world of injustice and moral wrongfulness of character. The apostle James says the tongue can set on fire the course of nature. What does course of nature mean? (James 3:6).
“Course of nature” means: The wheel (cycle) of genesis. Our tongues reveal our true nature from the beginning. Without the Spirit of the Lord, our natures are destructive. Without the Spirit of the LORD, our tongues are powerfully evil. No man can tame the tongue. James says it is full of deadly poison. (James 3:8).
The tongue is so powerful that Prov.18:21 says we can create either death or life by WHAT WE ARE SAYING. Every spoken word is a seed that produces a harvest. Everything that happens in our life is a product, a harvest of words spoken. “Be not deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap” (Gal. 6:7).
The tongue can spread false reports.(Exodus 23:1) The tongue can criticize those the Lord has not cursed, as written in the story of Balaam. (Numbers 23:8) We can crush people with our words. (Job 19:2)
Here is the good news! Today, we can yield our tongues to the LORD as Isaiah did, and receive the fire of God that touches our lips and purges us of wrong words. (Isaiah 6:7) I am a minister, and I talk to people every day. I recognize that many circumstances in their lives, good or bad, are due to the words they have spoken or are now speaking.
Death and life are in the POWER of the tongue. When God created the world, He spoke. If you learn to use your tongue wisely, aligning it with God’s Word, you will discover a key. This key is the key to LIFE. Study the life of Joshua, and see how he learned from Moses largely through verbal instruction. He discovered the key to success in the beginning of his ministry and prospered throughout. (Jos. 1:8) As Joshua stayed close to Moses, so we should stay close to God’s Word and to people who are speaking biblical life. Remove from your life all murmurers, complainers, gossips, slanderers and mockers of the Word of God. Seek those who encourage you and stimulate you. If you have missed the opportunity, you can begin to re-build a God directed foundational support system today, right now. You and I can never succeed alone!
Remember that two spies came back with the confession that they had the ability to overcome giants. (Numbers 13:30) Remember the widow of Zarephath. Elijah was able to bolster her ability to expect the miraculous through his God-inspired words. She received an immediate supernatural harvest that very day. (I Kings 17)
Let today be the day that your life changes for the good and forever. SPEAK LIFE.
