The Holy One calls to me this morning. As my thoughts are brought to my conscious mind, I know I am a servant and I know my Master is beckoning me. The Lord has been teaching me, lately about the power of the spoken word. All that has exists began because God said and it was so.
By our own volition and free will we use our words each day most unconsciously, carelessly, and unaware of the power they hold. Careless words hold us and others in bondage to the evil they pronounce.
James says it this way, "Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue is also a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person and sets the whole course of his life on fire". James 2:5-6.
By our own volition and free will we use our words each day most unconsciously, carelessly, and unaware of the power they hold. Careless words hold us and others in bondage to the evil they pronounce.
James says it this way, "Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue is also a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person and sets the whole course of his life on fire". James 2:5-6.
It doesn't take much of a leap to realize that our tongue, the organ of our spoken words has great potential for setting up victory or defeat in the issues of our lives.
All the warning lights on my dashboard start to flash. It looks like engine failure to me. I think about how many words I have spoken and cannot begin to calculate those that have been caustic to myself and others. From the depths I can feel a self-inflicted depression start to rev up.
I hear the Holy One say, "Don't go there". The soft comforting voice of my Counselor throws me a life line. "This is a new day. I have arranged for more and greater opportunities for you to speak worthy words."
But how Lord? If my tongue is a "world of evil among the parts of my body" and even James says, "all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a reckless evil full of deadly poison."
How can I or anyone else get a handle on that body part? "Surrender it to Me", comes His response. "You have not fully released My power over your life and circumstances. Use your words to release My power. Just as you surrender your mind to My control, release the power of Holiness by your words."
His word has painted a picture on my mind. I see the Holy Spirit in a "cell", imprisoned, inoperative awaiting a word from the "jailer" to be released. Shocking to me, I realize I have been that "jailer" , and negative words have set the boundaries and limits as to what my Lord can do.
Negative words of doubt, and unbelief, dripping with the juice from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I call it "just being real" and using my intellect to assess and speak what I "see". God calls it faithlessness for faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the evidence of things "unseen".
Oh the privilege and responsibility of free will. Today the Holy One helps me to understand this is not an issue of sin and repentance between us. This is an issue of a more useful and powerful life as His servant.
Today, I will to use my words to cry out for the release of the Holy Spirit to accomplish all He desires in my life and for the expansion of His Kingdom here on earth. Yes, it is going to be a very good season as I speak His will to come into my world
Lord, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Oh Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
The Holy Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
All the warning lights on my dashboard start to flash. It looks like engine failure to me. I think about how many words I have spoken and cannot begin to calculate those that have been caustic to myself and others. From the depths I can feel a self-inflicted depression start to rev up.
I hear the Holy One say, "Don't go there". The soft comforting voice of my Counselor throws me a life line. "This is a new day. I have arranged for more and greater opportunities for you to speak worthy words."
But how Lord? If my tongue is a "world of evil among the parts of my body" and even James says, "all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a reckless evil full of deadly poison."
How can I or anyone else get a handle on that body part? "Surrender it to Me", comes His response. "You have not fully released My power over your life and circumstances. Use your words to release My power. Just as you surrender your mind to My control, release the power of Holiness by your words."
His word has painted a picture on my mind. I see the Holy Spirit in a "cell", imprisoned, inoperative awaiting a word from the "jailer" to be released. Shocking to me, I realize I have been that "jailer" , and negative words have set the boundaries and limits as to what my Lord can do.
Negative words of doubt, and unbelief, dripping with the juice from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I call it "just being real" and using my intellect to assess and speak what I "see". God calls it faithlessness for faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the evidence of things "unseen".
Oh the privilege and responsibility of free will. Today the Holy One helps me to understand this is not an issue of sin and repentance between us. This is an issue of a more useful and powerful life as His servant.
Today, I will to use my words to cry out for the release of the Holy Spirit to accomplish all He desires in my life and for the expansion of His Kingdom here on earth. Yes, it is going to be a very good season as I speak His will to come into my world
Lord, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Oh Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
The Holy Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
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