Lip Service“In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise.” (Proverbs 10:19) We believers need to restrain our lips, we need to quit uttering words aimlessly and start using them like our lives depended on it. According to the Word of God, they do for death and life are in the power of the tongue. (Proverbs 18:21). Yes, you can be a wiseguy without joining the mafia or ratting on your capo. Many of us have the perverted lips of Proverbs 19:1, which means much more than lying and cursing. It means a disobedient mouth saying things that are not in line with the Word of God. All of us are guilty of He Said, She Said for we might say that we’re believing God for healing and then turn around and say, “This cancer is terminal and the doctor says only 3 months to live!” That is perverted because it’s NOT what God’s Word says. The Word of God in Isaiah 53:5 says that by His [Jesus] stripes you are healed. The spiritual world, the supernatural world where the angels are at your service doesn’t operate on what you mean, it operates only on what you say. The Word of God that you speak will not return to Him void but it shall accomplish what He pleases and it shall prosper in the thing for which it was sent (Isaiah 55:11). God watches over His Word to perform it. (Jeremiah 1:12) Mark 11:23 says “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.” The Word of God didn’t say you shall have what you mean. It says you’ll have what you SAY. You should not be tongue tied worrying about what to say. Loosen your lips and use the wisdom God has given you. Get lip therapy, give yourself lip service by training your mouth to be obedient to God’s Word and speak His Word. Be like Michael Douglas, Don’t Say a Word unless it’s God’s Word. You can pass your oral exam and fight truth decay if you brush up on the Word of God daily. Then, when you really need it, you’ll find that rhema Word dwelling richly in you allowing you to call those things that are not – such as healing, deliverance, favor, debt cancellation and prosperity – as though they were.(Romans 4:17) Copyright © 2002 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
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