"The Importance of Spoken Words"

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This is the third message on the importance and power of our spoken words.

I want to begin this particular chapter reminding us of the purpose of human beings. Man was created and saved to be like God, to be the visible representative of God on the earth and to have dominion over this world (Gen.1:26-27; Rm.8:28-29). God showed us from the beginning that He gets things done (creation and salvation) by the spoken word. He spoke and things happened. Being in the image of God, we get our cue to how our dominion is exercised. It is by the spoken word. God did it and He created us to do it. Every healing Jesus did was by the spoken word (Mt.8:2-3, 5-10, 16-17). He spoke to demons and they left people’s bodies. He spoke to winds and waves, and they obeyed Him. He is not only our Savior; He is the model man into whose image God is making us. That’s why we are called Christians.

I closed the last chapter by looking at the fact that the devil listens to the words we speak. In Mt.17:14-20 we have the story of Jesus healing a sick demonized boy by speaking to the demon. When the disciples asked Jesus why they had not been able to do that, His answer surprises people. He said something totally unexpected. Most people think He should have said, “Because I am God and you are not.” He did not say that. Nobody likes what He did say. And I do mean nobody. “Why could we not cast it out?” So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief.” Nobody would dare to say that to someone today, but Jesus did! But He didn’t say it to the sick boy or his father. Never say such a thing to sick people. Jesus spoke this word of unbelief to His disciples. It’s why they couldn’t cure the boy. Workers need to get rid of all unbelief. Even Jesus didn’t do many miracles in Nazareth because of their unbelief.

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