Day 253
Reading: Mark 10:1 - Mark 13:37
Words are powerful. Words are loaded with either life or death Proverbs 18:21. Many today are suffering from a words-said problem. For example, some people have never become what God designed them to be because someone ridiculed them. Words by an authority carry weight. When a ruler or a person of authority speaks the spoken word it releases or binds the hearers. This is what the Centurion understood when he approached Jesus about his sick servant. He understood that Jesus only needed to speak the Word and his servant would be healed. The Centurion also understood that his part was to believe the word spoken carried authority. The Centurion honoured Jesus as he understood that Jesus operated with an authority that mere men didn't have Matthew 8:5-13.
Creation reveals to us the power of the spoken word. Look up and see the sky, and remember that God spoke a word calling for a separation of the heavens and the earth. God before making man had a conversation Genesis 1. God used words to create this earth. Words create your universe. Words create your marriage, home, children, career, business, academics and life in general.
Jesus while walking here on earth meets a fig tree with leaves but no figs. He spoke a word that caused the fig tree to wither. I always wondered why however as I read today I realised something. How could what God created not have fruit when the Creator demanded of it? The Miracle Worker asked fruit of a tree and it didn't have. Let me pause and remind you that we are God's planting here on earth. May He not meet you without fruit!
Jesus then declared that no fruit would ever be found in the tree and as a result, the tree withered from the roots. The One on whom creation stands had declared something that simply meant that tree wouldn't stand any more. When Peter saw the tree and questioned Jesus about it the response he received was a lesson on faith and your words. Jesus made it abundantly clear that your words carry weight. What do you need to see the creative power of words?
- Faith. Total confidence in God. When you seat down on a chair you don't check whether it can support you. Faith in God is similar. Total implicit trust in God that what you are saying will come to pass.
- Speak in line with God's Word. Jesus when dealing with the devil spoke the Word why would we do any less. The Book of Job reveals to us that when we decree a thing it is established and light shines on it Job 22:28. When you speak God's Word you commit Heaven to back His Word. Remember God has exalted His Word above all things Psalms 138:2.
- Deal with unforgiveness. One of the reasons many decrees don't come to pass is because there is a veil hindering their coming to pass. David said that if we regard iniquity in our hearts then God doesn't hear us Psalms 66:18. Let go and let God take over.
Memory Verse: Mark 10:27
Decree:
Mark 11:23
For assuredly, I say to you, 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. (italics mine)
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