The Process Of Faith (Part 7)

Foundation Statement: Words are the most powerful things in the universe.  Words carry the power to create or destroy physical things on this Earth.  If you can change what a man is saying you can change the man.

Foundation Scripture: Mark 11:23, James 3:14

I.        The law of confession is that you can have what you say (Mark 11:23)

A.     The law of confession says that if you say something with your mouth and believe it with your heart that you will have what you say

1.      You have to say

2.      You have to believe you have what you say

3.      You will have what you say

B.     This is a law because Jesus said if you do this, then this will happen; that's a law

1.      If you get involved in these principles then you will get this result every time

C.    A law is something that will produce a predictable outcome when the principles of that law are applied

1.      A law is something that will work the same way all of the time, no matter what, every time that you apply the principles of that law

2.      It's already been pre-determined that when you believe and speak, you will have what you say

D.    Words that are believed and spoken will affect the physical realm (Mark 11:23, Luke 17:5, Matthew 17:20)

E.     The law of confession will override natural law and enable the believer to accomplish the impossible (Matthew 17:20)

1.      We are using God's power therefore when we release that power we are not limited to anything but what God can do (Romans 1:16)

II.    The Heart - Mouth Connection: Whatever is in your mouth is going to produce a belief/image in your heart, and whatever belief/image you have in your heart is going to come out of your mouth in words and create your life (Matthew 12:33-37)

A.     Words are seeds that you sow into your heart when you speak them out of your mouth

1.      Those words that you speak will either produce faith or unbelief

B.     Whatever you believe in your heart in abundance will come out of your mouth and determine what you have in life

1.      Jesus said what you believe and speak you'll have in life

a.      You are bringing forth the things in your life by the words that you believe in your heart and speak out of your mouth

2.      The words that are coming out of your mouth are a result of what you've deposited in your heart (Matthew 12:34)

a.      What you believe in your heart will come out of your mouth

b.      You're speaking from the belief you have in your heart 

C.    You bring forth good things in your life by depositing good things in your heart, by speaking words.  Then when those words have produced a belief in your heart and you speak those good things out of your mouth, they will come to pass in your life

1.      Matthew 5:37 - You say what you mean and mean what you say and stop

2.      Make the connection between what you're saying and what you have in life

3.      You will rise and fall to the level of your confession

III.    Words are the most powerful things in the universe

A.     The power of life and death are in the tongue (Proverbs 18:21)

1.      Life - State of living

a.      The power that produces your state of living is in your tongue 

2.      Power - direction, control, dominion, force

a.      Your life is going the direction that your tongue is going

3.      Fruit - offspring of any creature, result of any action

a.      The results of your life are merely the reproduction or offspring of what you believe in your heart and say with your mouth

4.      Not in the power of the devil, but in the power of your tongue

B.     Source of Life - Your life is a sum total of the words that you've been speaking

1.      Proverbs 10:11 - Your mouth is producing your life

a.      Well (maqor) - source (of a flow), spring, fountain

b.      Life (hay) - life, state of living,

2.      Proverbs 15:4 - The tongue bears the fruit of your state of living 

a.      Life (hay) - life, state of living

b.      Your tongue is connected to your spirit/belief/image/tree and it bears fruit according to what kind of  belief/image/tree it is

c.      Your life is in your mouth

3.      Your life will rise and fall to the level of your confession

C.    Healing

1.      Proverbs 16:24 - Any ailment in any part of your body, whether the doctor's have a cure or not, can be healed with your words

a.      Health (marpe) - Healing, remedy, calmness, composure, cure

b.      Bones (esem) - the whole body, any part of the body, limb, one's bone and flesh

2.      Proverbs 12:18 - There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health

a.      Health (marpe) - Healing, remedy, calmness, composure, cure

b.      The healing or the cure is in your mouth

3.      The Woman with the issue of blood (Mark 5)

a.      The world didn't have a cure, but she had a cure in her mouth

b.      Jairus - His daughter was dead, obviously the doctors couldn't do anything, but the cure was in his mouth    

D.    Protection

1.      Proverbs 13:3 - He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction

a.      Keeps his mouth (nasar) - guards, watch, protect, preserve, watchmen, besieged,

i.        I'm not just saying anything anymore, I guarding my mouth

ii.      Proverbs 4:23 - Keep your heart by putting away from you a perverse mouth

b.      Keeps his life (samara) - to keep, to guard, to be secured, to be set aside, circumspect, preserve, to keep oneself

i.        Circumspect - The idea is your words will set up a wall or bubble of protection around you so that nothing evil can get its hands on you

c.      Psalm 91:2-16 - The Psalmist surrounded himself with protection by speaking words

d.      1 John 5:18 - You keep yourself by keeping your tongue and the wicked one touches you not

e.      Your protection is in your mouth

2.      Proverbs 12:6 - Your words can deliver you and rescue you from the fiery furnace

a.      Deliver (nasal) - saved, delivered, rescued, preserve, escape, taken away, taken out, defend

b.      Mark 4:35, Daniel 3, 1 Samuel 17 - They were protected by faith-filled words

3.      Destruction and bondage is in your mouth

a.      Proverbs 10:14 - The mouth of the foolish is near destruction

i.        Destruction (mhitta) - ruin, undoing, dismaying, terror

b.      Proverbs 18:7 - A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul

i.        Destruction (mhitta) - ruin, undoing, dismaying, terror

ii.      Snare (moqes) - snare, trap, trap that captures prey

c.      Proverbs 6:2 - You are snared by the words of your mouth

i.        Snared (yaqas) - set a trap, to be trapped

ii.      Taken (lakad) - to be taken captive, to be seized, caught, frozen

4.      Proverbs 11:11 - By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked

a.      By the good things that come from the righteous' mouth the city is lifted up

b.      Overthrown (haras) - break down, to be in ruins, destroy, pull down

E.     Prosperity

1.      Proverbs 12:14 - A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth

a.      Satisfied (saba) - to be satisfied, to have enough, the filling and even overfilling of appetites and desires, have plenty, filled

b.      Good (tob) - pleasing, desirable, better, best, prosperity, precious, wealth, anything better

c.      You can be filled up and overflowing with anything good by the words of your mouth

i.        Your money is in your mouth

2.      Matthew 14:15-20

a.      They were in a desert place and natural law says you can't have enough food in a desert place

b.      Jesus spoke faith-filled words over what he had

c.      They were filled and overflowing by the words of His mouth

F.     Desires

1.      Proverbs 18:20 - A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled

a.      Belly (beten) - In most part, the inner person, the heart, the seat of emotion, thought, and desire

b.      Satisfied (saba) - to be satisfied, to have enough, the filling and even overfilling of appetites and desires, have plenty, filled fill, fill

2.      Proverbs 13:2 - A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence

a.      Good (tob) - pleasing, desirable, better, best, prosperity, precious, wealth, anything better

G.    Sin

1.      Proverbs 10:19 - In the multitude of words there is no lack of sin

a.      You'll spout some unbelief if you keep yapping

2.      Romans 14:23 - If they're not words of faith, they're sin

a.      If you can't say what God says then shut up!

•V.   All you need is the Word of God in your heart and the Word of God in your mouth (Romans 10:8-10, Deuteronomy 30:12)

A.     If you can believe and speak, nothing is impossible for you

V.     Your life is going in the direction that your tongue is taking it (James 3:2)

A.     Wherever the bit goes the horse goes, wherever the rudder goes the ship goes, and wherever the tongue goes your life goes.

B.     James 3:2-5,11

1.      2-If you can control your tongue you can control you body and your circumstances

C.    3-You put a bit in an horse's mouth and when you pull the reigns to the right, that horse's mouth and head goes up and sometimes his tongue will come out because you're putting pressure on the tongue

1.      If you want to turn your circumstances you're going to have to put pressure on your tongue

2.      You have to put pressure on your tongue because your flesh is not going to want to cooperate

3.      Your flesh is going to tell you you're not making sense

D.    4-A ship is going in this direction and I have a very small helm in the back (helm is like a rudder), this big ship has a rudder in the back and now I want to turn the ship so I have to turn the rudder, but I don't turn the rudder by getting in the water and doing so, I got a wheel up there in the captains deck that I can turn and when I turn the wheel it turns the rudder and so the rudder turns.  If I want to go to the left then I turn the wheel to the left and the rudder will turn. Now the water is still coming in at that rudder and at first I'm plowing water, but if I leave the rudder in, then the water will cause that pressure to pull the back of that boat, push it on around and the front of that boat changes direction.

1.      I want to put pressure on my tongue because at first when I say the Word I'm just plowing water, but if I leave it in and hold fast to the confession of my faith pretty soon this boat will start turning around and my situation will start changing and everyone on board won't be thrown off

2.      The governor is the heart, it's the thing that controls the rudder

E.     5-Kindling is easily ignitable.  You light this kindling and put it in the fireplace and then put other larger pieces of wood over it and then the kindling would catch the larger pieces of wood and then you have a fire.

1.      Your tongue is the kindling.  Whatever the raging fire is in our lives, words started it even if you don't know how.  What happens to the kindling when the fire starts raging is that it disappears.  You can't find the source of that thing because the source is so small in comparison to the raging destruction that this thing is causing.

2.      Nothing just happens.  Words are behind any kind of destruction that you see. 

3.      We can put the rudder in.  If words started this, then words can stop it.  I'm going to get the Word of God in my life and when I say it, God is going to do it. 

F.     There is nothing in the Earth that is so great and so powerful that you can't turn it around with your tongue