What Are You Saying?

Posted : 22 Jul, 2008 01:35 PM

Faith does not originate in Missouri, the "Show Me" state. In the realm of faith, seeing is not believing; faith is not based on what you see (Hebrews 11:1). If you don�t believe and expect to see the things that you say, you will never see them come to fruition. That's why faith does not originate in the �Show Me� state. If you wait to see it to believe it, you�ll never see it, and if you change what you�re saying to match what you�re seeing, you�ll only have what you see and nothing more.



We have the ability to shape our lives and circumstances through the words that we speak. How? First by agreeing with God and to say the things that He says in agreement with the blessings, benefits and promises that His Word says are ours. Have you been putting these things into practice? Have you become discouraged because you have not yet seen those things which you have been saying?



Changing the way you speak requires training and disciplining of your spirit � the real you � your innermost being. Many of us have spent most of our lives saying negative things and as a result we have reaped the harvest of those negative words. As we make the shift to agreeing with what God�s Word says, we may be tempted to give up and resort to negative words when we don�t see the positive things we are now saying coming to pass. Don�t cancel out your positive confession by declaring that what you�re saying in agreement with the Word is not working!



You may be thinking, I have been changing the way I speak, but I just don�t believe what I�m saying. Keep saying it. As you speak, something is happening in your spirit/heart. As you keep saying it, the words you say will begin to take root in your spirit/heart and you will come to a point where you know that what you�re saying is true. It will become reality in your spirit. When you know that what you�re saying is true, when you speak it will not just be from your mouth, but from your spirit/heart and that is the place from which life comes. That is why we are instructed to guard and keep our spirit/heart with all vigilance, for out of it flow the springs of life (Proverbs 4:23).



If you�ve never put these things into practice, or if you got discouraged because you had not seen any results (yet), you may be wondering how you can get started or restarted. Here�s how: get a promise from the Word of God that pertains to a need in your life and begin to meditate on it. Start speaking that promise to yourself. Every time that need comes to mind, speak the promise. In your prayer time, instead of asking God to provide the answer to this need, pray the promise back to the Father in faith�not as a request, but as a statement of assurance� believing that God does not lie and whatever He says He will do and He will personally back up every word He has spoken (Numbers 23:19).



He tells us to remind Him of what He has said and to plead our case (Isaiah 43:26). The only way His Word will return to Him is if you speak it and He has promised that (as you speak it) His Word will not return to Him without producing results (Isaiah 55:10, 11).

Keep saying it, in spite of what you see or how you feel� keep saying it! Don�t wait to see it until you believe it. Keep saying it until it takes root and you can say it from your spirit.



The Holy Spirit will bear witness with your spirit when this shift has taken place and you will know that it has become reality to you. When it does, you will speak as He speaks, and you will be able to proclaim as Christ did, the words that I speak they are spirit and they are life (John 6:63) and your life and circumstances will change.



(While waiting for the Promises of God!)

:peace:

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