Have you ever thought about how important your spoken words are? Just the other day, I was folding clothes on the bed and Gracie was 'helping' me. Will came in the room and said, "Gracie, please come play with me!" Gracie told Will rather matter-of-factly, "I'm busy Will. I don't have time to dilly-dally around!" Hmmmm....wonder where she's heard that before?
Genesis 1 says the Spirit of God moved on the face of the earth, but nothing happened until God said something. The Holy Spirit will move upon you, but nothing is going to happen in your life until you say something. This God-kind of faith will work for anyone and will work on anything.
Mark 11:23 says, "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be 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." Jesus said, "You shall have whatsoever you say, because of your faith." Notice, He didn't say that you would have the leftovers or second best. When you limit your faith, it limits the blessings God wants to give you. Jesus didn't say that you would have what others said about you; He said that you have what you say.
Matthew 17:20 says, "For verily I say unto you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you." Here, Jesus used the example of a mountain in this scripture to reference our authority over demons and evil spirits. When you and I speak, our words have an impact not only on the seen, but on the unseen. I've been making sure to speak things outloud just for the devil's benefit because I want to make sure he heard me say it! That mountain is something that seems too big for you--something that seems impossible.
Then, I read the story of the Roman centurion in Matthew 8. Jesus had told him, "I'll come to your house and heal your servant." But the centurion replied, "No, you don't need to come to my house. Speak the Word only, and my servant shall be healed." Jesus was floored! He turned to His disciples and said in verse 10, "I have not found such a great faith in all of Israel!" It was almost like He was looking for somebody who had faith and was thinking, "I wonder if I can find any faith here?"
After hearing 17:20 all of my life, I thought all I had to do was 'speak'. But notice Jesus said nothing happens with that mountain in our life until we have faith. He said, "if ye have faith..." then the rest will come. Our words have alot to do with what blessings we have in this life. And I don't know about you, but I don't want leftover blessings because I wasn't exercising my spoken faith.
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Perfect timing. This morning while I was getting ready I decided that it was time to eliminate those smokes. What is really strange was on the drive to work, I was at complete peace about it. That has never happened.
Genesis 1 says the Spirit of God moved on the face of the earth, but nothing happened until God said something. The Holy Spirit will move upon you, but nothing is going to happen in your life until you say something. This God-kind of faith will work for anyone and will work on anything.
A marvelous observation that makes me really think...thank you!
You have got a smart little girl on your hands. And for someone as young as her to use the words dilly dally around sounds like something a teenager would say. That girl is wise beyond her years. I can really tell she's the older sibling.
My own faith is something I am working on. Especially learning how to be still and just listen. And when something bad happens to me, I find myself looking down at the floor and (not literally) yelling for Satan to just back off and leave me alone followed by praying that God will just take over the situation. I'm still working on it but I'm getting better. Thank you for this post.
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