WORD POWER!
3.
Importance of Words
God created the world and all that is in it by speaking
words. He even upholds the world by the Word. And the words
that God speaks always accomplish and prosper in what He
sent them to do. (John 1:1-3, 14; Genesis 1:1, 3; Hebrews
1:1-3; Isaiah 55:11)
With that in mind, I want us to consider that God created
us in His image. Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7 says, “Let us make
man in our image, according to our likeness. So God created
man in his own image. And the Lord formed man of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life, and man became a living being (soul).” One
translation says ‘man became another speaking spirit’.
Another fact we should know about God is that “God is not a
man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should
change his mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He
promise and not fulfill?” More simply put, “God cannot
lie.” (Numbers 23:19; Titus 1:2)
God cannot lie. His Word is true, therefore we can believe
that what He says is true, and He will perform or finish
whatever He has spoken. God created us in His image, of His
essence, and breathed His life into us, making us living
souls, or speaking spirits. Words are so important to God
that He made the whole world with words and upholds it with
words. He even sent His Word to earth as a man, who is the
Son of God, Jesus. That’s a mighty emphasis on words! And
He created us to be just like Him. He wants us to think
words and speak words like Him (We are not
God, but we are
made in His likeness, and of His essence.) In fact,
Ephesians 4:15, 25 tells us that the way to “grow up” and
be more like Jesus, who is the
Word, is to speak
the truth in love, to put off falsehood and lying, and
speak truthfully to each other.
“Death
and
life
are
in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21. And God says
in Deut. 30: 14-15, “The Word is very near you, in your
mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. See, I set
before you today life
and
prosperity, death
and
destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your
God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, His
decrees, and His laws; then you will live and increase, and
the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are
entering to possess.”
And Jesus says in John 15:7, “If you shall abide in Me, and
My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it
shall be done for you.” When we read and meditate on God’s
Word daily, we are abiding in His Word. We are putting His
Word in our heart so we can speak it. So we can speak life!
And God says we can ask what we desire, and it shall be
done for us! As I read these scriptures, I’m struck over
and over again what power there is in God’s Word! I get
more and more excited, the more I study about words!
We’ve discovered that God is into creating life with His
tongue, with His words. Since we are made in His image, He
is into our creating life and prosperity with our tongues.
That’s a lot of power that God has trusted us with. He has
given us the choice which kind of words we speak - words of
life and good or words of evil and destruction. But He
wants us to speak words of life, encouraging words, words
that uplift or “uphold”, and impacting words that
accomplish His purpose in our lives and the world around
us. He wants us to join Him in His purposes! When God
speaks, He creates, upholds and accomplishes! And He
encourages us to do the same.