“Truly I tell you, whoever says…and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.”  (Mark 11:23)

The use of our words will bring us the greatest blessings or the most horrific maledictions…and there is no two ways about it.

Years ago neurosurgeons discovered that the speech center in our brains holds complete control over every single nerve of our bodies.  When we speak words, our nerves respond.  Have you ever confessed something like: Every autumn I catch a cold!  I am so tired!  I have no money!  He makes me mad!  I don’t think I will be any good in this job… Those are very specific orders sent forth by the speech center to the nerves of the body, which they will have to obey… bringing to pass the predictions.  And then we will say, see, I told it would happen! …not realizing that our own prophecies merely got fulfilled. 

Neurosurgeons prove that the nerves of our bodies respond to the words of our mouths.

Several studies have been conducted by Dr. Idler, a sociologist at Rutgers University, and Dr. Stanislav Kasl of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale Medical School, concerning patients' own predictions about their health.  According to the new findings people's answer to the simple question, "Is your health excellent, good, fair or poor?" is a better predictor of who will live or die over the next decade than even a rigorous physical examination.  Even if physical examinations reveal comparable health, studies show that older folk who say their health is "poor" are seven times more likely to die in the next 12 years than those who say their health is "excellent."

The findings, coming as a complete surprise to the researchers, comprised more than 2,800 men and women 65 years old and older.  The same results were received by other studies with people of all ages.  Folks’ own evaluations of how healthy they were proved to be more accurate presages of who among them would die than did such objective measures as medical symptoms and known health risk factors.

Dr. Idler's findings are supported by the results of five other large studies involving more than 23,000 people, ages 16 to 94.  In each of those studies folk were asked to evaluate their health, after which they received a thorough physical examination.  The same people were tracked down several years later.  The answers they had given to questions about how they felt, turned out to be accurate prognosis of who lived and who died as long as 17 years later.  According to data reported by Dr. Idler in The American Journal of Public Health, people's own assessments of their health outperformed even physical examinations as long-term predictors of mortality.

Dr. Idler discovered that almost no results from a thorough physical examination were related to how long a person lived over the next 12 years.  One notable exception was for circulatory disorders like hypertension.  "We were astonished to find that physicians' exams didn't predict mortality," Dr. Idler said. "These were excellent, in-depth physicals with extensive lab tests."

Our Predictions Become Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Dr. Idler is not the only researcher at a loss when trying to explain why folks’ own assessments of their long-term health turn out to be the most accurate presages.  They say that one possibility is that people's beliefs about how healthy they are become self-fulfilling prophecies, leading them to act in ways that make their judgments come true.

God revealed this truth to Job several thousand years ago, saying, "You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you.”  (Job 22:28)  The above scientific studies are good examples of how people use their words…sadly, at times speeding their own death, unawares. 

I remember so well the time I myself was attracting disease.  One spring I seemed to be especially tired, so I continually mentioned it to my family and friends.  I had no idea I was causing greater fatigue to set in.  I got to the point I was having difficulty keeping my eyes open.  It was beyond me!  I could not figure out what could be wrong with me.  When God finally asked me, Eve, what are you doing talking all this negativity over yourself? I thought, what on earth does this have anything to do with my wellbeing!  Apparently everything.

When I stopped talking fatigue and began thanking God for the abundant energy, my weariness vanished.  I was amazed.  I learned my lesson.  I wish I had learned the same lesson in business, but this one took years until I truly grasped it.  Long story short, I spoke negatively about my business, in spite of God several times arresting my confessions and warning me of the results.  I ended up losing my business.  It was so vastly contrary to my comprehension that I myself was the ‘prophet of my life’!  I could not believe it.  Yet I certainly reaped the seeds of damnation I was so readily sowing into my life.

I recently read a real life story that Charles Capps tells in his book, God’s Creative Power For Healing.   He says, “I read an article many years ago about a lady that had a fever continually for several moths.  Doctors couldn’t find anything wrong physically.  They questioned her thoroughly and discovered that when she got upset about anything, she would always say, “that just burns me up”.   She used that phrase several times a day.  They were not sure if it had anything to do with her condition or not, but they asked her not to use that phrase anymore.  Within weeks, her body temperature was normal.” 

Death & Life Are in the Power of the Tongue

It is almost scary the kind of force our words bear!  The Bible talks a lot about the power of our utterances.  One of the most sobering verses declares, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].”  (Proverbs 18:21)

Our expressions contain the power to embrace life or death.  Think about it!  Did you know that Elvis Presley continually confessed, ‘I am not going to live a day longer than my mother’...which he did not.  Abraham Lincoln, being exceedingly warn out by the war, was heard mentioning many times over, ‘I will die the day this war is over’…which he did.  The sniper’s bullet killed him the very day the war was won!  What have you been saying? 

Doctor James comprehended the force behind our words a few thousand years ago.  He teaches in the Bible, “And the tongue is a fire.  The tongue is a world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man’s nature), being itself ignited by hell (Gehenna).”  (James 3:6)  I wonder at which point the medical field lost this most vital of truths?  

More than Just Words

Hebrews 1:3 tells us that God is “upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power.”

God created everything we see, feel, smell, touch, and hear through His words.  He saw something in His mind’s eye.  He then gave a command for it to come into being and it took shape.  All He ever fashioned is now being upheld by His mighty word of power.  Hebrews 4:12 reveals that, “the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective].”

God’s Words are alive.  Isn’t that a thought!  They are full of power – active, operative, energizing, and effective.  Romans 4:17 lets us know that, “God… speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed.”  Another translation puts it this way, “God calls those things that are not as though they were.”  In short, God lives by faith.  He does not talk about the things that exist the way they are at present – it would only reinforce their condition.  Instead He calls forth the outcome He desires to obtain.  He sees a vision of how something should look and immediately He calls it forth.

When God created the earth, the Bible tells us that, “The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep.”  (Genesis 1:2)  It was pitch black dark, yet God did not exclaim, “oh, what darkness!”  Instead, “God said, let there be light; and there was light.”  (Genesis 1:3)  God literally called into being what He envisioned in His mind’s eye, “and there was light”.

We have been given the choice to utilize our tongues to heal or to wound.  What is your choice?  Can it be that there is illness in your body because you have employed your tongue to sow disease? 

I used to let everyone know exactly how I felt.  When I felt sick, I talked sickness.  When I had run out of money, not having any human idea where necessary money could come from, until next paycheck was due, I talked lack.  But the more I learned to know the spiritual laws, the more I realized I should not be going on about what I already possessed and wished I didn’t, instead I should be calling forth what I desired to attain.  Slowly but surely I began to change my habits.  It did take quite some time until it struck root that my utterances contained creative force.  When this truth finally sunk into my heart, it set me free. 

Over 6,000 Promises Pledged to You & Me

God has supplied us with His “mighty word of power” in order for us to transform the areas where we have suffered loss and failure.  First, we have to find the promises we require and then we begin to call into being what we are in need of.  I have heard some Christians express an erroneous understanding of God providing them a promise – healing, provision, protection etch. – when He sees fit.  After all, He is Almighty, they say.  This is a half-truth.  God indeed is All Mighty, yet He has provided us with a free will to choose what we will.  Especially in the book of Joshua God clearly expresses the responsibility of choice being on us. 

Our loving Father God intended for each of us to lead a successful, fulfilling, healthy, happy, prosperous life.  Why aren’t we, then? you may demand, along with thousands of others, even churchgoers.  Merely because you have not chosen to.  I knew not that such was available to me, you may reason.  Well, I am telling you now.  Father God has plainly pointed out to us the road to success.  He has not left any of us guessing or groping about in the dark.  He says to you and me what He said to Joshua thousands of years ago.  “This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it.  For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.” (Joshua 1:8)  Meditate means ‘to utter to oneself’.

Father God has already done His part by providing the perfect sacrifice for our sins, drawing us back into relationship with Him, and filling the Bible with more than 6,000 promises He now intends you and me to believe and receive by faith.  Those promises are given to us, yet they do not fall into our laps like ripe apples.  We have to find the ones we need by reading the Word and then draw them to us through the power of our spoken words.  We cause transformation to take place by calling forth the outcomes we wish to obtain. 

I love Hebrews 4:12.  What a power-packed, inspiring, and encouraging verse it is!  “For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.” 

The Word of God – the Word God has spoken and is now penned into the Bible – is a living and powerful substance, even to the extent it contains the force to penetrate our souls, spirits, and bodies – wherever it is launched at – to bring forth transformation.  The Word of God is sharper than any two edged sword, which means there is no equal to it.  It is a weapon all right, to be used against the spiritual forces that have been arrayed against you and me.  It is to be used to transform the spheres of our lives where lack and loss have thus far deridingly held fort.

Father God declares in Isaiah 55:11, “So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”

If the above two verses give the impression that only God speaking words of power can cause change to happen, listen to what the Almighty charges us to do.  “You who [are His servants and by your prayers] put the Lord in remembrance [of His promises], keep not silence, and give Him no rest.”  (Isaiah 62:6b, 7a)

By Words of Faith We Move the Mountains

Allow me to introduce you one of the great faith giants of the Bible – Abraham.  He is still called ‘the Father of faith’ in remembrance of his believing in and obtaining the promises of God – vows that were so mind boggling, they were absolutely impossible to achieve humanly.  Although a faith giant, he did not launch out as one.  Like most of us, he started his faith journey doubting, wavering, and fearing, yet unlike many, he never gave up, receiving complete victory.  And so can you and me.  The book of Romans chapter four, which is one of my very favorite chapters in the whole Bible, recites Abraham’s glorious triumph. 

At the time when there was yet no Bible, God gave an impossible-sounding promise to Abraham.  Being almost a hundred years old and childless, God vowed to make him “the father of many nations”.  Abraham attained the chimerical.  Verse 18 lets us know how, “[For Abraham, human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in faith, as he had been promised.”  Abraham hoped in faith, according to the pledge of God and, “He did not weaken in faith when he considered the [utter] impotence of his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or [when he considered] the barrenness of Sarah’s [deadened] womb.  No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God, fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.” 

Abraham believed God, so much so that his faith was credited to him as righteousness – right living and right standing with God (verse 3).  God honored the old man’s trust so highly because he had allowed the Almighty to produce the impossible in his life.  Sure enough, it took Abraham 25 years to obtain the vow, for he acted like most of us would – trying to figure out how God could bring to pass what He has pledged.  Yet he finally let go of trying to grasp the riddle, and instead concentrated on praising and thanking the Almighty for the chimerical, this way causing it to happen speedily. 

God desires to reveal Himself the way He is – All Mighty and All Powerful.  The only thing that limits Him is our minuscule faith.  But if we do as Abraham did and stop trying to figure out the how, instead praising and thanking the-One-Who-is-Able for the promise, we too shall receive what God has pledged us through His Word.  Verse 16 tells us, “Therefore, [inheriting] the promise is the outcome of faith and depends [entirely] on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of grace (unmerited favor), to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all.” 

God’s unchangeable vows belong to everyone who is ready to believe and receive.  They are ours for the taking.  When we pick the promise and firmly decide to believe, no matter how impossible it might seem to our limited human comprehension, we will receive our pledge.  Romans 10:10 teaches, “For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ)… and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.”

We actually confirm our salvation – whatever the situation – via our utterances.  When we declare what God has already vowed in His Word, we announce the outcome we are going to have.  Granted, when you or I find a promise we require, it will take some time until we will believe it with all of our hearts.  But continually proclaiming the promise as ours will unfailingly cause faith to grow and take root in our hearts, producing the result.  Romans 10:17 says, “So faith comes by hearing and hearing…”

God’s Word Spoken by a Believer Equals Supernatural Power

Jeremiah 1:12 reveals us how God engages when we resolve to decree His promises.   “I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.” 

God’s Word, spoken out of a mouth of the believer, contains the power to accomplish that which it says.  God has taught us to speak to the mountains – difficulties in our lives.  What comes naturally to us is to speak about our mountains – our illnesses, lack, failure, depression, and much more – but God teaches us to speak to them in order to move them. “And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly].  Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! And does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.”  (stress added) (Mark 11:22-23)

We change our circumstances, receive supernatural healing, and meet any other need we might have by believing and speaking God’s promises over our lives.  Most of the time we launch out with a mere decision to believe.  This is quite enough to start with, for Romans 10:17 says that “faith comes by hearing and hearing”.  So, keep speaking the healing verses, and just like with me, faith will begin to grow and take root in your heart, purging the doubtful broodings.

The Gospel of Mark likens our faith to a seed, even to a mustard seed, which is the smallest of the lot.  But when put into a good ground – heart – and watered abundantly with faith building teaching and meditation, it will grow and become strong, truly being able to move the mountains.  Mark 4:26a,31-32 says, “The kingdom of God is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all seeds upon the earth; yet after it is sown, it grows up and becomes the greatest of all garden herbs and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air are able to make nests and dwell in its shade.”

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