As children of God and people created in His image and likeness, we ought to take heed to the words that proceed out of our mouths. The God who created you in His image and likeness does not speak without His words coming to pass.
In Genesis 1:3, “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”* As soon as He spoke, light was instantly created.
It is important for you to know that your words create. When you pronounce something, whether negative or positive, there is a power that automatically sees to it that your words receive the force to accomplish what they have spoken.
The Bible says in Proverbs 13:3,
“He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.”
Also, Proverbs 21:23 says,
“Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”
You must be careful what you say because you are creating.
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught in Matthew 12:34,
“O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
Correct your nature because your nature determines what is in your heart, and it is out of the abundance of your heart that your mouth speaks.
You cannot have good in your heart and continually create evil. Your heart cannot be filled with faith while your mouth speaks negativity.
Check your heart. What are you harbouring in your heart?
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth. Do not permit it. Do not give room for it. Fight it with every power and resource available to you.
Many people have used their mouths to destroy all their prayers. You may have prayed for hours, and after all that, one careless response to a simple question is enough to destroy hours of prayer.
We can determine what is in your heart simply by listening to you.
James 3:2-13 says,
“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”
Your words are a reflection of your growth.
If indeed you are studying the Bible and attending a Bible-believing church, yet your mouth is full of negativity, then you are not growing.
It is not God’s desire that you should suffer or live at a disadvantage as His child. So why are things not working for you? Why do you always expect the worst to happen?
When you have released negative words and power has gone forth to accomplish them, you then claim you “saw it coming.” Afterwards, you begin to blame the devil, witches, and wizards.
Whenever a negative word or pronouncement is made, it is your responsibility to reject it immediately and replace it with God’s Word. You cannot allow negative words to settle over your life.
There is always a connection between your heart and your mouth.
What is in your heart?
Is your heart filled with fear, doubt, and negativity? If so, that is what will manifest in your life. Then you deceive yourself by saying, “My heart cannot deceive me. I just know that is what will happen.”
No. You gave power to the words that proceeded out of your mouth.
The Bible talks about the mouths of the wicked, the fool, and the righteous. Which category do you belong to?
1) The Mouth of the Wicked
The Bible says in Psalm 10:7,
“His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.”
If you delight in cursing, do not tell me you are just joking or that it does not matter.
Everything matters.
Examine your life.
Every time you release negative words, you have yielded your tongue for the devil to use. Since there is power of life and death in the tongue, what you pronounce can come to pass.
Many people have been labelled as possessing strange powers simply because whatever they speak comes to pass, when in reality they have no extraordinary power backing them apart from the spiritual law governing words.
2) The Mouth of a Fool
A fool is one who is devoid of understanding and uses his mouth carelessly.
Psalm 32:9 says,
“Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.”
A fool, one who lacks understanding, is compared to a mule.
What a shame.
Do you find it difficult to control your tongue?
Must you always speak negativity?
Do you boast and claim, “I just speak my mind”?
Is it the mind of Christ or the mind of Satan?
If speaking your mind destroys others, what have you gained?
What do you hope to achieve when your mouth is filled with hurtful words?
Proverbs 18:7-8 says,
“A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.”
Think.
Is that what you want to be known for, a fool who simply opens his mouth and speaks without considering the effects and consequences of his words?
3) The Mouth of the Righteous
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom (Psalm 37:30; Psalm 49:3).
He is always watchful and conscious of what proceeds out of his mouth (Psalm 141:3-4).
Proverbs 4:23-24 says,
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”
One translation says to set a sentry, a security guard, at the gates of your heart, that is, your senses which feed your heart, so as to prevent unwanted thoughts from entering and causing your mouth to speak death.
Whatever enters your heart is eventually what will come out of your mouth.
Allow garbage in, and you will speak garbage.
There are no two ways about it.
Friend, fill your heart with God’s Word, and what will come out of you will be life and not death.
Are you a wise man?
The evidence is that you will preserve knowledge (Proverbs 10:11-14).
Wisdom is the hallmark of the righteous.
Do you possess wisdom?
Can people identify you as a wise person by listening to your words?
For your survival and advancement, it is important that you deal with negativity because you will soon discover that only negative things continue happening in and around your life.
Take a notebook and a pen.
Every time you say something negative, write it down.
Do this for one week and observe your life and your surroundings.
You will begin to see the picture your words are painting coming to life.
Then spend another week deliberately refusing to speak negative words.
Afterwards, compare the two weeks.
It is like constructing a ten-storey building, only to bring in a bulldozer at the final stage and pull the entire building down.
Words such as:
“I can’t.”
“It is not possible.”
“Nobody has ever done it in my family.”
“It will fail.”
“It cannot be done.”
“It will not stand.”
“It will be destroyed.”
Or thoughts such as:
“The weather will not be good.”
“What if an accident happens?”
“What if there is a mechanical fault?”
“What if we do not make it?”
“Nobody can do it.”
Be careful, my brethren.
There is nothing impossible to him that believes.
Stay focused.
You will eat the fruit of your words.