There's Power In Our Words?
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- Words do three things, I want you to write these down. Words create. They create your reality.
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- Speak that which is not as though it is. Words convene. When you speak what's on God's mind, everything connected to that has to show up.
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- Words create, words convene, and finally words conquer. It was the sound of a shout that made those walls fall at Jericho.
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- Okay, so first he said that words create reality and then butchered Romans 4 .17 which says God gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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- God does that. Nowhere in the Bible does it say we declare reality. Second he says words convene and when you speak what's on God's mind, everything connected to that has to show up.
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- Where's he getting that? The Bible says nothing of the sort. Third he says words conquer like a shout brought down Jericho.
- 00:48
- By the miraculous power of God, not the powerless noise of Israel. Do you know what kind of power the
- 00:53
- Bible does say our words have? It says the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. It stains the whole body setting on fire the entire course of life set on fire by hell.
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- Every beast has been tamed by man but not the tongue. It is a restless evil full of deadly poison. With it we bless
- 01:09
- God and then curse those made in the image of God. On the day of judgment we'll give an account for every careless word we speak.
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- By our words we will be justified and by them we'll be condemned. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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- So let us surrender to God as David did. Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth.
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- Keep watch over the door of my lips. Do not let my heart incline to any evil when we understand the text.