If we want to start seeing the power of God, manifest in our lives, we will have to start paying attention to what we say. Words have power – more than any of us realize, but we often speak to them as though they are meaningless. Because of that most believers at one time or another have been hung by their tongue.
Matthew 12:36-37 says, “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be condemned.”
“Every idle word” simply means nonproductive. These are words that you speak, but don’t believe. For example, I might say, “I’m dying to see my children.” I really don’t mean I’m dying, but I say it anyway to emphasize the importance of it.
Every time we say things, we don’t really mean, it begins to numb our hearts. Unconsciously, each idle word is making it just a little bit harder to believe what we say is actually going to come to pass when we mean it it really counts.
Jesus certainly understood the power of words, and He used them to change the natural things around Him.
Mark 11:13-14 talks about the fig tree, “And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves. He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs, in response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.”
When He and His disciples passed by the next morning, they saw the fig tree had dried up from the roots. Peter remembering, said to Jesus, the fig tree which you cursed has weathered away. Jesus replied and said, “have faith in God. “I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be removed and 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.
Jesus was probably amazed by Peter’s unbelief. He might have been thinking “It shouldn’t shock you to see this tree withered, “Have faith in God.”
Then Jesus went on to explain that it wasn’t limited to the fig tree. He used a mountain as an example, but I believe it could apply to anything. Jesus was making the point that if we say it with our mouths and believe it with our hearts, we can have what we say.
Jesus used the word “say” three times in Mark 11: 23 making it clear that words have power. But He also said, “have faith in God.“ the words that have power are the words that are filled with faith. It’s important to understand that faith that we are filled with isn’t human faith. 
Galatians 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself up for me.”
When I studied this out, it became very clear that it is talking about the faith of God that He placed in us when we were are born again. We cannot even be born again if we don’t have faith. Roman’s 10:17 says, “So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” and 1 Peter 1:23 says, “who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead, and gave Himself up glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.”
If we can’t even believe for salvation with our human faith, how could we possibly use it for other things like healing and prosperity? It’s important to understand this. If we don’t know this, we will always be looking for others to pray for us. We always think that they have more faith than us, and because of that, God will act on our behalf when they pray. That’s wrong and it’s the reason many believers are working to man instead of God for their answers.
Romans 12:3 says, “For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself ore highly than he ought to think, but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.”
Think of this like using a ladle to dish soup. If we use the same ladle every time – and God did, every person will get the same amount of soup. It’s the measure of soup. We have a measure of faith, no born again believer has more faith than any other, some just do a better job appropriating what they have been given.
Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, not seen.” And verse 3 says, By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the Word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible.”
This scripture is not symbolic, God actually created everything with words. He spoke creation into existence, and the substance of His faith manifested into what we can now see. The word of God has unlimited power. Each word is like a little capsule, filled with faith, waiting for us as believers to release it in our hearts and speak it with our mouths.
Everything we see was created by words, and it is a very Word of God that holds the universe together. Therefore, everything we see will respond to faith filled words. They have to respond because words are the parent force.
Proverbs 23:7 says, “that as you think in your heart, so are you.” And Luke 6:45 says, “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”
If we understand that our words have power, then we’ll understand why we can be hung by our tongue.
The only reason every one of us isn’t dead from the many Idol words we have spoken is because we haven’t believed every word with our hearts. This should help us see a powerful truth. If we believe we are going to be sick we believe that we are always going to be poor, and then confess that with our mouths., we will get what we believe in our hearts.
What happens when we take the faith filled words of God and plant them in our hearts where they can root and grow? Everything changes -no longer are we just saying, “I believe I am healed” or I am prosperous,” but we believe it and the faith of God is then released through those words.
When I was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and given one year to live. I believe in my heart that the doctor was right. But then I started believing that God wouldn’t give me a death sentence. That I would be healed. I studied every day, prayer every day and even had elders of the church pray for me. I began to believe in my heart that I was healed. That was 12 years ago.
Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
It not only says life, but death as well. It’s sad to say, but most of the words being communicated today are negative words, words that do not bring about abundant life cause more problems.
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