Ephesians 4:29
Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear.
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It is so very important for all believers to understand the power of the tongue. Everything that the Lord God did, He did with a word right from the beginning! He said 'let there be light' and there was light. {Gen.1:3} And that was followed by Him speaking everything else into existence! It is no wonder that Solomon wrote that death and life are in the power of the tongue. {Pr.18:21}

James would compare the tongue with the rudder of a great ship, a very small thing directing the path of a great ship. {Jas.3:3-4} And so it is with our lives! Our lives are directed by our words—which will be a blessing if those words have been placed in your heart and mind by the Lord! Every single word that Jesus spoke He had heard from the Father {Jn.12:49} and everything the Father told Him to do He did. So the apostle Paul would write that we are to be imitators of God. {Eph.5:1}

I have heard a number of preachers tell people that the Lord has given them creative power to bring the things they want into existence with a 'positive confession', and that is simply not true! We have however been given the authority, even the obligation, to speak what He has spoken to us! And guaranteed, what He has said will come to pass! Jesus, when the Father told Him that the time had come to fulfill His ministry to die in our place on the cross, expressed His own desire: He prayed saying, "Father, if Thou art willing, remove this cup from Me." But that was followed immediately by Him saying, "Yet not My will, but Thine be done." {Lk.22:42}

Now that is for sure a positive confession. We all will render account for every word we speak in the day of judgment, the good, the bad, and the ugly! And that is true whether it was carefully thought out or a careless word. {Mat.12:36-37} We should start right now heeding the instruction of the apostle Peter, ‘If any man speaks, let him speak the oracles (the words) of God’ {1Pt.4:11} or consider emulating the prayer of David when he said, “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.” {Ps.141:3}

Then Paul would proclaim:
“That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10)

After all is said and done it is a glorious certainty that you and I will join with everybody who ever lived — saint and sinner alike —to proclaim that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father. {Php.2:10} So do not wait, do it now!

SPEAK THE WORD OF GOD