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Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21 informs us of a spiritual law that few Christians have a grasp on. Its implication is staggering to our minds when we realize that God has put whether we succeed or fail in life into our own hands through the words of our mouth. We have authority to speak life and success, or death and defeat to our lives. It is all up to us!
The wise Christian will make a habit, of making a positive TESTIMONY based upon God’s Word. And tell how their life has changed. And tell how anyones life can also be changed if they are willing. And if you find yourself talking to someone in reference to their salvation, I would venture to believe that God is already working. Not every situation is an ordained moment, you will know.
How about God when He says, Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). This verse means that what you say can produce death or it can produce life. And whatever you do not name and claim, you are not going to get.
The Bible says it is impossible for God to lie (Hebrews 6:18). As a result, whatever God says I am, or whatever He says I have and am able to do must be true. Once I recognized that, I began to set my life and my mouth in line with that, I began to see results manifesting in my life. I spent years in the gutters of New York and I knew that Jesus Christ was the way the truth and the Life, I chose to be who I was. I can only imagine people looking at me then. And I know people see a change in me today, and they see it without me opening my mouth. So today as I farm for Jesus I’m careful to place seed in the heart the right way. In every opportunity. God works through us, we are only the vessel delivering the word. A Farmer would never plant his good seed without care, and in the wrong season. We say man I’ve heard this over and over about this seed business. Hear it again! Repetition of the word is what we all need to properly spread that seed!
This law of God has operated in the realm of farming since time began — no seed planted, no crop harvested. Nobody has a problem with that. They do not call the farmers the “Name It and Claim It bunch,” because they understand and have accepted the idea that there is a law of sowing and reaping and that the reaping is predicated upon the sowing.
The same law that operates in nature also operates in the spirit. In nature, seed has to be planted in good soil and given time to germinate, grow and mature before harvesting. In the spirit, you plant your seed with your mouth-your confession. The seed you should be planting is the Word of God. Luke 8:11 tells us, “The seed is the Word of God.”
I said today in Sunday school that I would pray for the Lord to put people in our lives that we can witness to. I have been praying for that all week. In fact Friday night we were sitting around a table talking, and I said the same thing. God had done it! We need to be alert to the spirit working in our life! The man sitting to my left I had never seen. After the meeting God laid out the gospel through me he asked the Jesus back into his life. If we make ourselves available he will use us. God had already sent someone, he knows when we are willing and obedient. And the Holy Spirit will use us daily. In the realm of the spirit, there is seed; there is ground; and there is also a harvest. There is a spiritual methodology just like there is a natural methodology in farming. It goes like this. You take the seed, dig a hole in the ground, put the seed in the ground, cover the seed with dirt, fertilize it, water it periodically and it will grow. That is the modus operandi of planting. This is exactly the same in the realm of the spirit. I am a “spiritual farmer.”
When the farmer goes to the granary or feed store and asks for corn seed, his desire is to produce corn. He is naming and claiming it by specifying what he wants. And he does not expect to get peaches when he planted corn. When he puts corn seed in the ground, he begins telling everybody that he is going to have a corn harvest. He is naming and claiming! If we plant the seed of God’s Word in our heart by faith and we say that we are going to have a yacht, a house, a Rolls Royce or a new suit, why would someone get on my case? Or, if I plant and say I have good health and have healing, I am planting the seed of God’s Word.
Luke 8:5-11: “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.
“Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. “And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. “But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold.” When He had said these things He cried, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” Then His disciples asked Him, saying, “What does this parable mean?” And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.”
According to verse 10, these spiritual truths are mysteries-until revealed. The critics have seen and they do not understand, but they would never admit that. In order to cover up their inability to perceive mysteries, they shoot the truth down and jump all over us who have learned how to interpret the mysteries.
But I cannot stop declaring the truth because someone cannot or does not want to understand it. As for the critics, I want them to get it. It is so good. I just hate to see them choosing ignorance and being cheated out of the blessings God wants them to have. I just want to say one more thing that’s on my heart. It came to me today from a brother. In the second chapter of Mark, Mark 2: 3-12 we all know the story about the men who lowered their brother in the church who was paralyzed. Well you know why they lowered him in right? It was because Jesus took the time out earlier in chapter one to heal a man with leprosy who asked Jesus if he was willing to heal him. When he healed that man, he asked him to go to the Priest but instead he was so excited about what the Lord had done in his life he had so many people following Jesus after hearing his TESTIMONY that Jesus could not even enter a city. People came from everywhere. One man very excited, with a passion for Christ can make fantastic changes in his community. He was the reason that Jesus could not go into towns. They had no place large enough to hold the crowds. I Love what Jesus say’s in Mark Chapter 4: verse 21 “A Lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? It is brought to be put on the lampstand” Is your witness shaded by something?
Ron Von Fricken
TLC Ministries