Your Speech can be a Healing Instrument of God, or a Destructive Tool of the Devil!

Isaiah had an experience in the presence of God and said, “‘Woe to me!’ I cried. ‘I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.’ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, ‘See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for’” (Isaiah 6:5-7).

Matthew 21:18 says, “Let no fruit grow on you ever.” The first crops of figs were green and tasteless for the poor peasants to eat. He caused the fig tree to wither; His word only completed and hastened a process that had already begun.

When we truly come close to God, we understand that our speech is what really needs to be cleaned up. Our words are powerful!

Much of the following text was inspired by Steps to The Kingdom by Hannah Hurnard.

Sound waves can cause electrons and atoms to form into different patterns which materialize on the plane of earth-consciousness in many different ways.

In Genesis 1, God spoke everything into existence. This is how everything was originally created. In Genesis 1 and Psalm 8, the word “heaven” is in Hebrew; a dual form meaning the heavens. First God spoke it in His mind, the first heaven, the word of creative imagination. Then the conceived idea became real in the natural sense by His uttered word.

In Genesis God said that everything was good. Then He turned it over to Adam. In Genesis 1:26 He said, “let man have dominion over all.” God gave the authority of the earth to man and man's creative imagination and speech. Planet Earth is ruled by words.

Psalm 8 tells us that the earth is in the hands of man. Psalm 8:6 says, “you have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands, you have put all things under his feet.” Verse 5 says, “Man has been made but little lower than God and you have crowned him with glory and honor.” Genesis 1:28 says, “and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the earth.”

Adam realized his creative power; he named all the creatures. Actually Adam did not really make an independent decision of what to call the animals, he was so one with God, that he was actually speaking God's will as his own will. Adam fell in love with this creative gift of the power of the spoken word. He found that he could imagine things in his own mind and then speak them, and they would materialize. The temptation was “to be like God” (Genesis 3:5).

The Tree of Life was for Adam to come to God for his thoughts and words, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was Adam using his imagination apart from God to imagine and then speak.

Adam began to misuse his gift. The entire earth began to change. Eden was lost and now the earth was subject to the imaginations of a created man who was separated from God. Only man (Adam) had the power of imagination and speech, which no other creature possessed. Today we underestimate this power because it can take years, even a lifetime, for words to create things in the seen world.

God creates and rules by words. He made man in His image. Man is made to be a sub-creator using his words, but under the authority of God. Earth was created by words, and it is ruled by words. It responds to words.

The Flood and the Tower of Babel. The perfect work of The Father had been marred. Genesis 6:5 says (just before the flood), “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart.” Genesis 11:4-6 says, “Come let us build a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower and said, behold they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible to them.”

We know the rest, the Lord confused their language so that they could not understand each other and scattered them all over the earth.

JESUS came and said, “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last” (Revelation 1:11). In other words, He spoke the first creation and He had come to speak the New Creation.

We are co-creators of the new creation. This is a key to understanding this entire issue of our speech!

Every generation creates its own creatures. Ancient uncivilized savages openly spoke their evil desires into living forms; monsters and wild beasts roamed the earth terrifying and destroying their creators. Man was given dominion over all the living creatures in Genesis 1 and 2, so all of man's evil desires and emotions have affected animals until now. In more modern generations we have become more educated, civilized and sophisticated. In so called Christian nations, there are not so many wild beasts, but we see them now in the form of pests and parasites and disease germs and poisonous microbes. As fast as medical science finds a cure for certain bacteria’s and diseases, new ones appear. Tuberculosis (TB) used to be terminal, cancer was, but is now becoming more tolerable, but then comes AIDS on the scene. And now weird viruses all over the world baffle scientists.

Everything we see around us has been spoken into being. If we had eyes to see and could follow the course of every sound wave, we would see that everything we express in speech goes forth seeking other waves of the same quality, kind or species. When they mingle, they unite to produce a pattern of electrons and atoms that finally materialize as seeds, eggs or sperm. I Peter says that the Word of God is the sperm that conceives our new birth. Mark 4 says that The Word is a seed. Jesus inferred there that The Word planted in and spoken by man is the way life works. Matthew 18:19 says, “Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.”

God said, “When two or three are gathered together in My Name I am there with them to produce it” (Matthew 18:20). What about if any two or three come together in some other name, like they did at the Tower of Babel? If you talk with a witch, they will tell you how ignorant many Christians are because they do not realize the power of the tongue.

The sharp stinging words, the poisonous slanders, flatteries or falsities, lies and cruel words that hurt or wound others, the jealousies, hates, fears, injustices, all these things and many more materialize in the forms that belong to their own species. But Galatians 6:7 is also true which says, “whatsoever a man sows, and that only, shall he reap.”

Matthew 12:36 says, “For by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned.” Every idle word that man speaks will have to be accounted for in the day of judgment. Judgment can come now here on earth and later in eternity.

Think of the misuse of this creative power when in earlier generations the silent order of monks and nuns would not speak.

Those who are gardeners and those who worked on the kibbutzims in Israel can testify that vegetables and gardens and flowers respond to music and speech. Think of yourself, when a harsh word hits you how it wounds your spirit.

The answer of course is to allow the Holy Spirit to again control our minds and imagination, and then out of the abundance of our heart we will speak kind, healing thoughts.

This is why criticism is so bad. It does not change anything but the one who criticizes. Jesus so often dealt with evil things not by ignoring them, or embracing the evil and compromising with it, but by exercising a law above the lower law. He could have criticized the woman taken in adultery; sure he knew it was wrong. He was not compromising with immorality, but he was using the creative power of man to heal the wrong. He was not compromising with the world by agreeing to pay taxes to Herod (Matthew 17:27). In submitting to the evil government, he was keeping his power. The devil could not trick him to lose his power by not submitting to authority. But Jesus overcame the evil with a miracle by finding the money in a fish. Jesus tells us in Matthew 7 that we should not judge and criticize and condemn others, for just as we judge and criticize, we will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure we deal out to others it will be dealt out again to us. Gossip and criticism will KILL US!

End of Steps of the Kingdom inspirited text

Tongues - The Heavenly language. Why bother?
There has been much argument and division about this subject. Pentecostals have been mean spirited toward those denominations that do not believe in the gifts of the Spirit for today. They have made them feel like second class Christians if they do not understand speaking in tongues. On the other hand, many denominations have persecuted the Charismatic and Pentecostal groups that do speak in tongues, saying that those gifts ended thousands of years ago, and what they are experiencing is of the devil.

Both sides have the wrong attitude!

A little history:
1 Adam experienced God IN man.
2. In the Old Testament, God was outside of man.
3. In the Gospels, God was with man.
4. In Acts, God returned to be IN man.

In John 14-16, Jesus was telling His men just before his execution that He would be leaving them, but that would be to their advantage because He was sending another form of God in His place, the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit. This Spirit would not only be with them, but He would be IN them.

John 16:7 says, “But I tell you the truth, it is expedient (profitable and for your benefit, advantageous) for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you.”

Now in the Book of Acts, something radical took place.

Jesus told His followers that He was leaving again to come back at some later date that they should not try to figure out. He told them that they should go to Jerusalem and wait for a certain event to take place that would endue them with POWER. Then He took off like a Space Man shot out of a rocket.

As 120 followers of Jesus were obedient to His instructions, all of the sudden on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came rushing into their midst and filled their entire beings. They spoke in different languages and many foreigners understood them in their own languages. Many thought they were drunk because they were filled with the joy of the Lord. When people heard them, 3,000 were saved and the “Church” began.

All of the sudden, common, mere mankind was reborn and became this new species of human that never before existed (not even in Adam).

Acts 1:5 says, “For John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.”

Acts 1:8 says, “but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 2:1-4 says, “And when the day of Pentecost was now accomplishing, they were all together in one place. And there came suddenly a sound out of heaven as of a violent impetuous blowing, and filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues, as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth.”

Something unexpected happened.

II Corinthians 5:17 says, “So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation (as species that never existed before); the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.”

A New Creation? Who expected that?

II Peter 1:4 says, “through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

So a new race was created on the day of Pentecost and Jesus was the firstborn of that race.

Colossians 1:18 says, “And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things.”

Mark 16 is a description of the new race. Mark 16:14-20 says, “Afterward He appeared to the Eleven as they reclined. And He reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. And He said to them, Go into all the world, proclaim the gospel to all the creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. And signs will follow to those believing these things: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will be well. Then indeed, after speaking to them, the Lord was taken up into Heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And going out, they proclaimed everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by signs following.”

Fear was cast out and these followers changed radically! Prior to this time they had received the Holy Spirit after the resurrection, but they were not effective. After they were baptized in the Holy Spirit, they became bold and turned the world upside down. Their character changed, their lives changed, their priorities changed. In short, they became possessed by God, and His purpose was now their purpose. They were about the business of taking a dying world to Heaven.

Each time, in the Book of Acts, that people were filled with the Holy Spirit, something radical took place. There was power in preaching, giving, the places were shaken and they spoke in tongues.

Why Did God give His new race a new language?

ISOB Discipleship Training Manual. Larry Chkoreff Who God is (The Holy Spirit and the Tongue)

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