Use Your Power for Good: Your Words MatterSample

Agree With the Bible

The Bible is our answer book. It’s where we get a vision for our lives. If you want to find out what God thinks about something, go to His Word. It’s His guidebook on all the affairs of life. It shows us the way to go.

Hebrews 4:12 says in the NIV that His word is “alive,” and The Message adds that “His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything.” The Bible is what separates the truth from untruth. In other words, we need to watch what we’re saying. We don’t want to see the good news in the Bible, pray and ask God to bring it to pass in our lives, then go out and say exactly the opposite of what we just asked for.

That’s easy to do if the situation looks bad or the circumstances look the opposite of what we prayed for, but that’s not what faith is. Faith is believing what God has said no matter what we see or feel. That is the fight of faith.

You see, there is creative power in your words. God Himself created the entire universe with words. Read Genesis 1:3 and you will see that “God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” He created light with words.

Amazingly, God has given that same power to you. There is creative power in your words too. Mark 11:23 says it like this: “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says” (emphasis added).

Take a good, hard look at what you’ve been saying, and make sure you’re saying what God says. Agree with His Word by saying what it says, instead of what you feel or see. Get your words in agreement with His Word. That’s where the power of faith really begins to work for you.