Your mouth can bring sickness or health to you, life or death. If you want to receive healing, you’ve got to say it!
For some reason, this is the part that we stumble over. If you want to receive healing, or anything else from God, your mouth has to get in motion. That is not a problem for most of us; the problem is getting our mouths to say something positive that we can’t see. We balk at that. Isn’t that lying? Didn’t our parents warn us not to do that?
Here’s the odd part: We don’t have any problem speaking negative things that we haven’t yet seen. We can talk all day about what the negative things that we don’t have evidence for, but that MIGHT happen. We don’t consider that lying at all! But when it comes to proclaiming what the word of God says in a positive vein, we clam up.
The Bible is clear. We must not only believe something in our heart, we must say it with our mouths. (Romans 10:9,-10) Out loud. Not necessarily around other people, but loud enough for our own ears to hear it. And that awkward feeling is what trips us up.
Jesus did this all of the time. I’m sure His disciples often thought He was strange, but they learned not to question when they began to see results. Jesus talked to a tree in their presence and told them it would never again provide food. Within 24 hours it had withered from the roots up. He said that Jairus’ daughter was not dead but sleeping. After the mourners laughed Him to scorn, He politely put them out and raised her from the dead. Jesus renamed Simon His disciple to Peter, which means “a rock,” when Peter’s track record showed that he was a reed tossed in the wind. He told 10 lepers to show themselves to the priests (as a sign that they had been cleansed) while they still had leprosy. It was only when they obeyed that the healing came. Over and over, Jesus not only foretold His death, but His resurrection from the dead, although He had no physical proof that this would happen.
No proof, that is, except the word of God. That is our evidence. God does not expect us to live in a make-believe world. We are to live in a world that is governed by what God’s word tells us about our situation and our heavenly resources. Then we are to speak that out so that change can come to this natural world in which we live.
Confession: I use my mouth to speak what God’s word says about my body: By Jesus’ stripes I am healed!
Scriptures for meditation: Romans 10:9-10, 2 Corinthians 4:13; Mark 11:20-24
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