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Word Up: The Power of the Tounge
Word Up: Power of the Tongue
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
Proverbs 18:20-21
A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth;
From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Your Tongue will steer in ONE WAY OR ANOTHER...........into Life, Blessing, and the Plan of God. Or you Tongue.......the words you speak will bring death, destruction, lack. Why?? Because it opens a door for the devil to wiggle his way into the circumstance, or makes in your mind the circumstance bigger than God in your mind.....which promotes fear instead of Faith
Proverbs 21:23 (NKJV)
Whoever guards his mouth and tongue Keeps his soul from troubles.
I Peter 5:8 (NKJV)
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he MAY devour.
May is a permission Word. The devil is looking for Permission to attack you in life
James 3:3-4 (KNJV)
Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.
********Your Mouth will steer in the Direction of Life or Death
Your Tongue, Your Words are Permission for God to Work on your behalf.
*****The Tongue has Power........why do you think the Holy Spirit came down at the day of Penticost as a cloven TONGUE of fire (Acts 2) We stir ourselves up by speaking in Tongues (Jude 20) Our Salvation comes By Confessing, Faith comes by Hearing and Hearing the Word......Can’t hear it if it’s not spoken (Romans 10)etc.
***Speaking out what is in you is a access point for proclaiming your Faith
A) What is in You will come out of your Mouth
Matthew 12:34b-35 (NKJV)
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
*********Treasure is something you Store up and keep!!!!*******
Matthew 15:18a (NKJV)
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart
B) What you Believe will come out of your Mouth
Romans 10:9-10 (NKJV)
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Mark 11:22-24 (NKJV)
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he (says) will be done, he will have whatever he (says). Therefore I (say) to you, whatever things you (ask) when you (pray), believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
YOU, HE, HIS, WHOEVER (OUR PART) 10 times
SAY, ASK, Pray (OUR TONGUE) 7 times
Not Doubting, Believing (OUR BELIEVING) 3 times
********This is why it is abosolutely Important to continue to feed yourself with His Word, To Speak His Word, To meditate on His Word
Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.
*******If your Filling Yourself with His Word and Speak His Word over your Life, Kids, Marriage, Your Job, Your House, Your Church, Your Pastors........When something tries to speak evil in those areas... YOU CAN STAND BOLDLY AND TELL THEM WHAT THE WORD SAYS ABOUT IT!!!
Colossians 3:1-2 (NIV)
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Philippians 4:8 (NKJV)
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NIV)
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Psalms 107:2
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
******We’re not to walk around going So....So....So when circumstances rise up against up and everything Jesus has Redeemed us From.............NO, We are to take a stand and Speak out Gods Word and Declare His peace, Declare, His Prosperity, Declare His Peace and Soundness, Declare His Forgiveness and New Life that He Bought with His Sons Precious Blood, We are to Declare that we have been risen with Him and Now have the Authority to tell those things facing us to get out of our House, Life, Marriage, Jobs, Bank Accounts ETC.**************
Psalms 119:172 (NKJV)
My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.
Psalms 35:28 (NKJV)
And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness And of Your praise all the day long.
Psalms 37:30 (NKJV)
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of justice.
Know Him and Make Him Known
Philippians 2:1-8(NLT)
Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from His love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate?
2 Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.
3 Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.
4 Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. 5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
6 Though He was God, He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
7 Instead, He gave up His divine privileges; He took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When He appeared in human form,
8 He humbled Himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross.
Say!!!!!!!
Know Him and Make Him Known
Christianity is about 2 things Our Relationship and Our Purpose
Reaching Up and Reaching Out !!!!!
****REACHING UP****
**Our Relationship**
Philippians 3:12-14 NIV
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Even though Paul was reaching Nations, Even though Paul wrote a majority of the of the New Testament under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Even though he had a great Pedigree and Past Victories....
Paul says He presses on to lay hold of his relationship with Jesus, Our Source,
in the same Chapter 3 Paul writes that it all about having a Intimate knowledge of Christ Jesus (VS8)
To be Found in Jesus and His Righteousness not Ours through Faith
(VS9)
That I may Know the Power of His Resurrection
(VS10)
“””No matter what the situation or circumstance Paul was enthralled with His Relationship with God through Christ Jesus”””
Jesus always pointed everything He did back to Our Heavenly Father.
if you seen me you’ve seen the Father (John 14:9)
the Father and I are One (John 10:30)
I only do what I see My Father do (John 5:19-20)
I’m about my Fathers Business (Luke 2:48)
the Father and I are One (John 10:30)
I only do what I see My Father do (John 5:19-20)
I’m about my Fathers Business (Luke 2:48)
****REACHING OUT****
Our Purpose
Ephesians 5:1, 2 NKJV
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
EPH 5:18
be being filled with the Holy, ….............a continuous filling up of Him in Life, giving Him thanks Praise, keeping a melody in Your Heart about Him
be being filled with the Holy, ….............a continuous filling up of Him in Life, giving Him thanks Praise, keeping a melody in Your Heart about Him
Acts 1:8 NKJV
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
The Purpose of being filled with the Holy Spirit was to Be a witness
for Jesus to this world
Our Great Commission!!
Matthew 28:19-20 and Mark 16:15-20 ….......“Reference”
the first 3 letters of GOD is GO.........
the first 3 letters of Satan is SAT........
The devil wants you to sit on all that God has given you and not impact this
World for Jesus
The devil wants you to sit on all that God has given you and not impact this
World for Jesus
Jesus had You on His Mind and Heart!!!!!!!!
On the Cross Jesus even said "Forgive them for they do not know what they do"
Jesus upon the Cross was fulfilling a perfect picture of the Cross..... Jesus was all about making Sure that Our New covenant shed By His Blood was being fulfilled .... Reaching Up/ Our Relationship and Reaching Out/ Our Purpose..... By this single act upon Cross
Why???
To reach others and build a eternal relationship between God and Mankind
To reach others and build a eternal relationship between God and Mankind
John 14:12-15 NKJV
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. “If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Matthew 22:36-40 NKJV
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
John 13:35 NKJV
By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
KNOWING HIM AND MAKING HIM KNOWN
ALL BOILS DOWN TO LOVE
Romans 5:8
But God Demonstrated His Love for Us, yet while we were still sinners Christ Jesus died for Us
“Preach the Gospel at all times, if necessary use words.”
John 4:34-36 NKJV
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And
he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that
both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
By: Pastor Travis Holland
It’s all about Love
Luke 15:11-32 The Prodigal Son,
It’s awesome how Jesus explains the Heart of Father in this story. The Father never rejected the son nor did he point his finger and start condemning him for choosing a wrong life style. The father didn’t plug his nose because he smelt like pig poo, nor did he listen to his sons comments about him not being worthy to be called your son. No the father chose to Love. He Celebrated, He Clothed him, and Put the House Hold seal ring on his sons finger. He Loved
Luke 15:20
20 “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
Everything revolves around Love.
OUR SALVATION
It was Love that Lead Jesus to the Cross.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16
“God so loved the world”
- Love is a choice not an ooey gooey emotion. Love can produce emotions. But it is not an emotion.
- God choose to Love the World. Jesus Choose to go to the Cross (Garden of Gethsemane). Father Not my will but Your Will Be Done..... Choice!!!!!
- It’s a choice to love my wife. It’s a choice to love when I get cut off on the road.
The world got a backwards look at what love really is. For example Tina Turner had a song in the 80’s “What's love got to do with it, what's Love but a second hand emotion”.............It’s not an emotion, and it definitely not second hand.
People say, they love their cars, love peanut butter, love bubble baths.........
- “True Love sacrifices self to impact & Bless others” Eph 5:25
The Way we love others
- Is says God is Love, we only know what true love is because He first Loved us.
1 John 4:7-9, 19
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
We Love Him because He first Loved us.
Love is a perfect picture of the Cross.
- The love we have for God and the Love He has for us (Upwards)
- The Love we we have for others, The love of God shown through us to people (Outwards)
Ephesians 5:1-2
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
- If we want to be like Him then we need to walk in Love
It’s the best way to witness to others.
John 13:34-36
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- They should know we’re His disciples by LOVE, not by back bitting, complaining, murmuring, putting down, or bitterness
- No, It’s Love........the same selfless Love that Jesus showed us
Even our Faith for Healing, Prosperity, Peace. etc comes by Love.
Faith worketh by Love Gal 5:6
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
WE HAVE HIS LOVE ALREADY IN US
Romans 5:5
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
**If His Love has been poured into our hearts, then we really got to know what God's Love is.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Broken down from the Amplified Bible
Love is endures long, is patient and kind
Love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy
Love is not boastful or vainglorious,
Love does not display itself haughtily.
Love is not conceited, arrogant, and inflated with pride
Love it is not rude (unmannerly)
Love and does not act unbecomingly.
Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way,
For Love is not self-seeking
Love is not touchy or fretful or resentful;
Love takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
Love does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness,
Love rejoices when right and truth prevail.
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes,
Love is ever ready to believe the best of every person,
Loves hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end}
By Pastor Travis Holland