Power in our Tongues
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HE SPEAKS THROUGH WHAT WE SAY
God often speaks to us through our mouths, therefore we need to listen to what we speak.
Once I was struggling with the fact that the Lord was telling me no about a certain situation. Yet, I still was asking for His “yes” at every opportunity. After my approaching the Lord for the umpteenth time, my son came into the room and asked me for something. I had already told my son no. My voice was stern as I said, “You are arguing with me.” The Holy Spirit allowed me to hear my words; I had been arguing with God.
God often speaks to us through our mouths, therefore we need to listen to what we speak. Sometimes, He will even speak the answers to questions we have asked Him. During one particular time in my life, circumstances were happening which I did not understand. In my asking for answers, the Lord didn’t reply. I didn’t understand why He wasn’t explaining. I knew two things about that season. One, I was in school, and two, it was a new school (spiritual school). Finally, my answer came.
My son had been attending first grade for about three weeks. I asked him, “Have you noticed the teacher doesn’t give you answers, she waits for you to answer them yourself?” (He said no.) I said, “Teachers try to help the children grow up by encouraging them to discover answers.” Immediately the Holy Spirit quickened to me this was MY answer also. The Lord was teaching me to search and find answers based on what He had already shared in my past.
A few years later as I was seeking to hear more from the Lord, my son was talking about learning how to draw comics through some comic books created by his drawing instructor. He said when he first started reading the comics, he read them so fast he missed a lot of details. I said, “The sign of maturity is when you begin to analyze things.” Immediately, I knew what I’d said was a quickened Word from the Lord to myself. If I digested and internalized what He had already given me, then I would be ready to hear more from Him.
HE SPEAKS THROUGH CREATIVE FORCE: Faith is the creative element that dispatches forces
The Bible says our mouths have creative force. “…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. (Mark 11:23 NKJ) “…If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:20 NKJ) The key ingredient is faith.
People as a whole believe in all kinds of things, without realizing what they believe. An example is someone who has just been exposed to the flu. People are ill all around her, and she says, “I just know I’m next.” Although she doesn’t see the germ, she believes in its potent power and verbalizes through her faith she’s going to get it. People frequently make negative confessions about themselves, about others, about life and circumstances, and they speak it with much faith. Listen to what you say. You may be dispatching the wrong forces. You might ask, what do I do if I’ve really GOT IT? If I “get it” I speak the truth: “I’m fighting a germ right now!” (The truth is I’m fighting the germ physically and spiritually through resistance in Jesus Name.) If I think I am coming down with something, I don’t say, “I’m coming down with something” because that is a statement of faith saying I am receiving an illness. Rather, I again say, “I’m fighting a germ.” The power of the spoken word is a very serious matter. Listen to what you speak.
THE POWER OF THE TONGUE
We need to heed the scriptural promises that we will receive and eat the fruit of what our lips speak. This is a very powerful warning to be accountable in the authority we carry.
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THE POWER OF DECREE: AN EDICT
PARABLE: I went in to get my protein drink in the middle of the night to take my meds. I had complained to Wayne how I could not open the drink with my painful fingers and wrists and Wayne told me to punch a hole with a knife instead. I remembered this, and it was SO simple to use the knife instead of my fingers or teeth and it was the same truth about peeling the banana with the knife.
It was quickened to me that what we decree will open much easier through the realm of the sword of the Spirit, than by using our natural flesh and hard work to do the same thing. This really is a new way of thinking for me, as to daily living and walking out my faith. To decree the natural results as I walk things out in faith.
What does it mean to decree? A decree is an announcement. It is simply a statement of faith announcing something will happen. It is speaking something that is not seen in the natural realm, into existence. Decreeing is a proclamation with the understanding that we have been given power and influence in the words we speak. As we become more consecrated in what we speak, we receive greater authority and greater accountability. Angels go forth on our decrees and God’s kingdom comes to earth as it is declared or decree in heaven.
Heb 4:12 NKJV
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Ps 149:5-9 NKJV
Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples; To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute on them the written judgment — This honor have all His saints. Praise the LORD!
Isa 49:2-3 NKJV
And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiver He has hidden Me.” “And He said to me, ‘You are My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.’
Rev 1:16 NKJV
He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.
Rev 2:16
Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
Rev 19:15-16 NKJV
Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
I was reminded of Bobby Conner’s testimony when many years ago the Lord gave him a vision of a gunman that was about to shoot Bobby. When the vision actually literally happened a few minutes later, Bobby was stunned and the Lord told Bobby to decree what he wanted to happen, because his life depended upon it.
So Bobby started binding and rebuking the demonic spirits, and decreeing the results of a several hour stand off between the police and gunman. It saved Bobby’s life, and the gunman ended up coming out of the water without shooting anyone and without being shot. It was an amazing play-by-play testimony of the power to decree, because as each circumstance played out to catch the man, whatever Bobby decreed ended up happening between the police and the man.
When the police would make a decision and give an order, the Lord would whisper to Bobby, “Is that what you want to happen?” Bobby would see it through the eyes of wisdom and say “No.” So the Lord would encourage him to decree exactly what he wanted to happen in each circumstance. It was an amazing testimony of the power and authority He has given to decree and His power to back our Words.
Job 22:28 KJV
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
WORD STUDY TO DECREE
Job 22:28-30 AMP
You shall also decide and decree [1504] a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways. When they make [you] low, you will say, [There is] a lifting up; and the humble person He lifts up and saves. He will even deliver the one [for whom you intercede] who is not innocent; yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands. [Job 42:7,8.]
DECREEOT:1504
OT:1504 gazar (gaw-zar’); a primitive root; to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide: KJV – cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
Ps 2:7-12 NKJV
“I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.'” Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
Ps 148:5-6 NKJV
Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created. He also established them forever and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass away.
Ezra 5:13 KJV
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree [2942] to build this house of God.
te`em
OT:2942 te`em (Aramaic) (teh-ame’); from OT:2939, and equivalent to OT:294 l; properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subj. and obj.):
KJV – chancellor, command, commandment, decree, regard, taste, wisdom.
(Biblesoft’s New Exhaustive Strong’s Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
BINDING THE FREE WILL OF MEN;
UNAUTHORIZED AUTHORITY
It is important to use the power to decree only according to the will of God as it lines up with scripture. Both new age and witchcraft use this same tool for the power of evil by not honoring the free will of men, but rather controlling it.
We need to understand the way the Father has set up His kingdom. His kingdom reigns with volunteer love and free will. He created every being with free will and one third of His creation betrayed Him and were cast out. Because the Father is the purest form of love, He knows that to demand it, command it, or enforce it does not create a family. It creates slaves to a Master. Free will is VERY, very important to His heart, to His kingdom and to the principal in which He has set up His government in heaven and on earth.
Many have a hard time understanding the Sovereignty of God, when balancing the free will of man, but He does indeed cause His plan to unfold in spite of free will. Nothing or no one can impede His plan from coming to pass.
He taught me the understanding of man’s free will these last 20 years when He would deliberately put me with people who stood in the way of His calling upon my life. The Lord would tell me these things ahead of time and I walked through these seasons with great intercession and heartache. He taught me what it really means to be a servant, to have His purest love in the face of unbelief and rejection and to not defend myself but to lay low and not argue or use man’s ways to try to enforce, control or change their mind-sets.
I learned that it is in the hand of God to either defend His servants, or let them die. I learned that it is in the hand of God to allow any and everything that comes our way in order to equip us for what we need to know and what we are yet to face. I learned that anything and everything that He allows finally resolves with His absolute justice. I learned that His mercy pays for our mistakes, and His grace brings us recompense for every loss we suffer, when going through death to self. If I had to walk through what I have suffered in order to learn these things as my foundation in knowing Him, I would make the same choices all over again. I paid a dear price to learn these truths. These things have become my foundations in knowing His nature and heart.
So I say all the above for a purpose.
There is a weed, a misunderstanding, a deception, that has crept into the authority practiced by intercessors. This deception is the practice of binding another’s will to the will of God which is thought to be a practice of binding another’s will to good things, for good purposes. Beloved ones, this goes directly against the heart of Who He is. If the Lord God does not bind our wills, then we do not have that right either. This practice is using unauthorized authority and power. The practice of binding another’s will is pure witchcraft in its purest form.
Matthew 7:21-26 NLT
“Not all people who sound religious are really godly. They may refer to me as ‘Lord,’ but they still won’t enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The decisive issue is whether they obey my Father in heaven. On judgment day many will tell me, ‘Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Go away; the things you did were unauthorized. Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse, because it is built on rock. But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will fall with a mighty crash.”
The entire spiritual world is based upon gaining the will of men. We are caught between the 2 forces of the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of darkness. They are both doing everything to draw us. It is a fight for eternity and we are the prize. One is the kingdom of love, the other is the kingdom of force.
My dear ones, if you have misunderstood and prayed these kinds of prayers, please confess this, repent of it, and then use the authority God has given you to UNDO the chains and enforcements you have done through unauthorized decrees. Use your authority to loose the bands of witchcraft you placed upon your loved ones, and those you have prayed for and set them free!
Instead of binding their wills, loose the angels of God to fight for the souls of those who are not serving the Lord, and loose their hearts to be melted by His love. Forgive their sins and loose to them the gift of repentance.
Please for your own sakes and for the sake of your loved ones, undo the practice of binding man’s free will. This does not represent our Papa. He wants faithful children who will rule and reign in His Name. He wants their faithfulness to be tried and culled through the fires of this life, so that those who remain will be with Him for eternity. He truly, truly wants a family of volunteer lovers.
Here is the scripture and the Greek.
Matt 16:18-19 NKJV
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Note that in context, it is talking about binding the gates of hell, not the will of man. We tie up, bind the enemy and we destroy his ties or bonds upon people.
TO BIND
NT:1210
NT:1210 deo (deh’-o); a primary verb; to bind (in various applications, literally or figuratively):
KJV – bind, be in bonds, knit, tie, wind. See also NT:1163, NT:1189.
TO LOOSE
NT:3089
NT:3089 luo (loo’-o); a primary verb; to “loosen” (literally or figuratively):
KJV – break (up), destroy, dissolve, (un-) loose, melt, put off. Compare NT:4486.
Luke 13:12-13 NKJV
But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
Above all other role models and standards that we are being presented today, we must not deter from the standard of Jesus Christ. Jesus did not bind the free will of men. He alone was and remains our standard of truth. He walked the way, He walked the truth and He walked the life. He was and is and always will be the way, the truth and the life. Do not be deterred from the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus. (John 14:6; I Cor 11:3)
Abba, please open our eyes to see Your attributes as You are. Let us repent of our blindness and walk in love. Let us repent of practicing unauthorized authority and instead follow after the example that You sent to us, Who is Jesus Christ, Your Son.
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