Speak the Word of Faith from God's Word and Watch It Work!
GOD’S WORD IS TRUE AND SURE
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Speak the Word of Faith from God's Word and Watch It Work!
Faith, has transformed my life and showed how to overcome fear and the attacks and lies of Satan. Stand on God’s word and your life will NEVER be the same. Amen? My saying, is if Gods says it, then I stand on it, as His word shall never return void.
Summary: Believing God is wonderful. But Jesus urged us to do one more thing: to speak the word of faith, to verbalize what we are seeking from God. Such a believer — who understands the power of speaking the Word of God with boldness and faith — "shall have whatsoever he saith".
Mark 11:22-23, KJV ...Have faith in God. [23] For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
We see here three foundation stones of faith that gets great results:
(1) Have faith in God [vs. 22] — faith in His Word and in the promises of God, faith in His Son Jesus. It’s not “faith in faith” or in memorized formulas that gets results, but faith in God.
(2) Believe in your heart, without doubting.
(3) And say with your mouth what you believe. Speak the Word of God out loud.
•• Believe in your heart and say with your mouth. Believing God and His Word is of great importance. But Jesus encourages us further to articulate, to say aloud, what we are believing God for. There is great power in the spoken word of faith.
1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. [15] And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of him.
•• We can’t just say any and everything that comes to mind and expect God to grant it. Our saying must be "according to His will". And His will is found in His word, the bible.
We can’t say with faith, “Lord, give me seven Rolls Royce’s, one for each day of the week.” That’s not God’s will for you.
•• We can say with faith, “Lord, I believe that you are Jehovah-Rapha, the Healer of my sickness”, because we find in the bible God’s promises of divine healing. The power of our words, when they are solidly based upon Scripture, is irresistible.
•• We can say with faith, “Lord, through you I can defeat the devil, not be defeated by him”, because we find various New Testament verses declaring Jesus’ defeat of the devil on our behalf.
•• Having thus determined from God’s Word that which is in accordance with His will, we can confidently believe God for these things — and speak these things with our hearts full of faith.
• Hebrews 13:5-6 “...because God has said ... so we say with confidence..." When God has spoken on a subject, that emboldens us to speak forth on that subject. The bible is the word of God Almighty, and His words on our lips have immense power.
KJV: [10] ...with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (Greek: soteria).
•• Our mouth confesses unto “salvation” (the Greek word has various biblical meanings):
• the new birth, “getting saved”
• health and healing
• deliverance
• rescue
• safety, and more
•• That’s why it’s so important to help new believers pray a “sinner’s prayer”. Help them to confess, to verbalize, their newfound salvation with their mouths.
•• If you’re sick, believe God for your healing. And vocalize it! Articulate it! Speak the word of God aloud. Don't just hold it inside. With the mouth confess faith in God unto healing. There is great power in the spoken word of faith!
• Several decades ago, a pastor in Alaska was found to have cancer. Some faithful Christian brothers counseled him to pick three favorite divine healing Scriptures and speak them often, day after day. He did so and was healed of his cancer and went on to have a long and effective ministry. The spoken word of faith applied the awesome power of God’s Word to the man’s sick body, with spectacular results.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
•• And for each of the six days of creation, as recorded in Genesis 1, “God said...” and dramatic creation events occurred.
•• The words that God speaks have unlimited power.
• He spoke the universe into existence!
• For our benefit He has summarized for us a revelation of Himself in 66 books, the Bible. There is immense power in those words in the Bible. Learn them, believe them, speak them.
•• You don’t have to wonder what to believe God for. You’ll find in the bible a wealth of promises to believe God for.
• And then when you find what God’s Word says about your situation, speak the word of faith, vocalize it as God did in the Creation. Speak the Word of God to your situation.
John 6:63 [Jesus said] The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Proverbs 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death.
•• Jesus was alive on earth — and full of faith — for 30 years before His Holy Spirit anointing at River Jordan (Matthew 3:16). Then He began to speak forth publicly and confidently His words of faith (Matthew 4:17). Only then did His healings, miracles, and other signs and wonders begin to happen (John 2:11). 30 years ... no miracles or healings. Then (1) the Holy Spirit anointing came upon Jesus and (2) He began to preach, teach, and speak aloud the things of God. And then dramatic healings, miracles, and other supernatural signs began to be manifested. He had become an anointed, faith-filled speaker.
•• The words of Jesus in your mouth are still His words. Therefore, they are still “spirit and life”!
•• Jesus' words and promises spoken by your mouth have the “power of life and death”. Speak life!
Luke 6:45 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
•• The mouth tends to speak what is in the heart. So store the Word of God up in your hearts, and let it overflow from your mouth. Here are some examples of the spoken word of faith coming from a faith-filled heart full of God’s Word.
• “I’m not going to go around afraid of you, devil, because Jesus has given me ‘authority ... to overcome all the power of the enemy’ ” (Luke 10:19).
• “This sickness or infirmity must go, because Jesus Himself ‘took up our infirmities and carried our diseases’ ” (Matthew 8:17).
• “I will not fear an untimely death because God’s Word says, ‘I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord’ ” (Psalm 118:17, KJV).
• “I’m not going to struggle in poverty all my life, because ‘God will meet all [my] needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus’ ” (Philippians 4:19).
•• Fill your heart with the truths and the promises of God’s Word, then speak them. They will come forth with power and will bring great success (as God counts success) to your personal life and your ministry.
2 Corinthians 4:13 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” With that spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak.
•• Do you have faith in God? — Then speak the word of God!
•• Do you believe God’s promises in the Bible are for you? — Therefore speak them!
•• Do you believe that the words of Jesus are spirit and life? — Therefore speak spirit and life!
•• Does the bible reassure you that what you are believing for is according to God’s will? — Therefore, speak it with confidence!
•• And Jesus says to such believers, “He shall have whatsoever he SAITH” (Mark 11:23, KJV).
If you have found this sermon on the power of the spoken word of faith helpful, may we suggest our related sermon entitled The Awesome Power of the Word of God.
Foundation scripture: I Kings 8:56 (KJV)
56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
God’s Word is true and sure. He never fails to do what He promised. You can trust His Word absolutely. We all make promises, but none of us have ever kept 100 percent of the promises that we have made in our lives. How wonderful that God has kept every promise that He has ever made. Men have failed God, but God has never failed men. God is full of righteousness and justice – He never lies and His Word never lies.
Psalm 33:4-9 (KJV)
4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
God created the world by and with His words. He spoke and it happened exactly as He spoke it. If He created the whole universe with His words, then surely anything else He says and anything He promises will also come to pass. His Word is true, righteous and just. If we really believed that - then we would conduct our lives very differently from the way we do now. We would not lack, we would not fail, if we were founded and established on the truth of God’s Word. Psalm 107:19-21 (KJV)
19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
God gave us His Word to heal us and deliver us from sin and destruction. God’s Word is the source of our deliverance. God’s Word is the blueprint for our lives. He made us. He knows what we need and He knows how we tick and He knows what is good for us. Our lives should be ordered according to His Word. However, we will not order our lives in the way God desires until we know His Word and until we believe it to be absolutely true and sure. We must know that we can trust His Word in our lives. God’s Word will never fail us; it will never let us down. We can praise God for His Word, because it is true whether we see it or not. As we praise Him and as we believe His Word then we will see it come to pass in our lives.
Psalm 138:2 (KJV)
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
God’s Word is full of integrity. He holds His own word in high regard. There is a saying, “You are only as good as your word.” This means that your worth depends on your integrity. God is as good as His Word. Numbers 23:19 (KJV)
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
There are some things that God cannot do. One of them is that He cannot lie. If He speaks it, He will do it. If He promises it, He will make sure that it comes to pass. When you understand that God’s Word is absolutely true, then you can begin to receive it exactly as it is written and you can receive it as true for you.
Isaiah 55:11 - Bible Gateway-God word shall never return Void.
So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things
Psalm 19:10 They are more precious than gold ... - Bible Hub
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