THE POWER OF THE WORD
We need to grasp the authority and power God gives us whenever He speaks His Word to us, whenever He leads or corrects us. The words we speak have power for good or evil. (Ja. 3:2-12, Mt. 15:11) We will be judged for every idle word, and an idle word is a word God didn’t speak through us. (Mt. 12:36) When God speaks through us, we speak the living Christ. We are speaking forth the power, glory, and authority of the One by Whom everything holds together. The power of agreeing verbally with God rather than agreeing with the accuser cannot be overstated. As we cooperate with the anointing, we have no doubt in our minds and God says “Amen!” through us, He speaks with the same authority that said “Let there be light.” (1 Co. 14:16) And yet, if we harbor doubt or use “Amen” as a cliché, it has no power. “God bless you” is an exercise of God’s authority. So is prophecy, a word of wisdom, or a word of knowledge. When we pray the will of God as He says His prayer through us, we are truly praying in Jesus’ name. Our lives change as we understand what God has put into our hands. God gives us a vision for healing, and health springs forth as He speaks words of healing from our lips. He will heal broken relationships as He speaks His word through us. He will break every yoke of bondage and solve every problem. And we are participating in it as we yield ourselves to Him. The Creator of the universe abides in us. May the Holy Spirit give us a vision of that power. His Word lives in us, and whatever He leads us to must conform to His will.