The Power of words from our heart spoken from the new creation will reap the desired results. Jesus' words are Spirit and they are life!
The Power Of Words From The Heart
Matthew 9:18 While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live." 19 So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His disciples. 20 And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. 21 For she said to herself, "If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well."
The ruler came on behalf of his daughter and spoke his heart to Jesus. What was in the rulers heart? Faith in Jesus to make his daughter well! The woman with the flow of blood for 12 years came and touched the hem of Jesus' garment to be made well. Do you see the words she spoke from her heart? “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well” What he said and what she said were the words of faith that brought the healing virtue flowing from Jesus! From their heart cry, filled with faith in Jesus, their lives were changed. How do we know this to be true? Jesus said it “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
2 Corinthians 4:13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak,
Speaking from the spirit of faith will revolutionize the believers life! The power of life and death are in the tongue! Where does the spirit of faith come from? How did the ruler get the word of life in his mouth that resulted in Jesus raising his daughter from the dead? How did the woman with the issue of blood have a heart that spoke “If only I may touch His garment”
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The thing in common that the ruler and woman had was they had heard that Jesus was the healer and faith rose up in the heart! It was evidenced by that which they spoke! He spoke and she spoke and they both got their miracle.
Mark 4:23 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." 24 Then He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25 "For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."
A few week ago we started with this passage in Mark declaring we needed to hear the word of God with a full measure. Because the degree to which we hear is the degree from which we can receive from God.
Romans 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." 14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
There is the glad tidings the good news; Jesus is our Savior, Healer, our Baptizer of the Holy Spirit, our Lamb who has taken away the sins of the world. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. When faith brings the belief in our heart and the confession of our mouth together there is deliverance. We speak of the bible defined faith, where the object of our faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ. What we believe about Jesus determines our destiny and quantity of abundant life we can live in here and now.
Matthew 14:35 And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, brought to Him all who were sick,36 and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.
Mark 6:56 Wherever He entered into villages, cities, or in the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made well.
There was a degree of hearing in the land of Israel . Though most of the Jews rejected Jesus as Messiah, there were those who heard and believed and their lives were ever Changed.
Matthew 8:16 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed.And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses."
Those who heard and believed pursued Jesus! Our pursuit of God, little or great, is the measuring stick of how well we have heard His word. Whatever our heart’s pursuit is that is what we put in our mouth and where we spend our treasure.
Luke 6:43 "For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 "For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. 46 "But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say? 47 "Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 "He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. 49 "But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."
Whatever is in our heart reveals itself by the fruit of our lips. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What is it that God has put in our mouth? Declare it in the heavens and God with bring it to pass. Hearing Jesus produces a crop that can only be brought to harvest by our mouth speaking what has been put in our heart.
Proverbs 18:20 A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth, From the produce of his lips he shall be filled. 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
From the produce of our lips we shall be filled. Like the ruler who put words of faith in the Messiah, or like the woman with the flow of blood spoke what she believed. It was fulfilled in their lives. The church has run into a stronghold of satan by keeping complaint and murmuring flowing from our mouths. However, it is time for the stronghold to be broken by bringing down that which exalts itself against the knowledge of God. That we might indeed bring every thought into submission unto the obedience of Jesus Christ. Let the culture and traditions come down that inhibit the word of God from being put in our mouth. The power of words from our heart will reap a harvest; surrender to the newly created man in you and speak forth from the good treasure in it!
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