YOU ARE WHAT YOU SPEAK. “YOUR
THOUGHTS, AND WORDS, ARE
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS”. “GOD’S THOUGHTS, AND
WORDS, ARE RIGHTEOUSNESS”. “MAN’S THOUGHTS, AND WORDS, ARE DARKNESS”. GOD’S THOUGHTS, AND
WORDS, ARE LIGHT. BY YOUR CELESTIAL
WORDS YOU ARE JUSTIFIED. BY YOUR
TERRESTRIAL WORDS YOU ARE
CONDEMNED: EVERY IDLE WORD, OF MAN,
IS WRITTEN DOWN, FOR JUDGMENT. AN IDLE
WORD IS THAT WORD THAT DOES
NOT INCREASE THE KINGDOM, OF GOD.
1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of
God.
How many times has His Word
expressed the power, of speaking???
Proverbs 10:14. A man shall be satisfied with good by
the fruit of his mouth: and the
recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God:
Isaiah 3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
1 Corinthians 15:33,34 Be not deceived: evil communications (terrestrial words) corrupt good (celestial works) manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame
(Apocrypha) 2 Esdras 13:14,15 Let go from thee mortal
thoughts, cast away the
burdens of man, put off now the weak
nature, And set aside the thoughts that are
most heavy unto thee, and haste thee to flee from these times.
Reference: Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being
evil, speak good things? for out of
the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.
Proverbs 18:4 The words of a mans mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, yea, yea: nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
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Psalm 19::14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: ___
1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Revelation: Unleavened bread is the sincere word of God without mixture of earthly words . Always bringing in sincerity, God tolerates no foolishness in the temperate man.
Titus 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you,
Titus 2:15. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority, Let no man despise thee.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth (speaks) itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing (speaking) into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
Reference: James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Conclusion: Ashamed that speaks evil of you when you have sound speech of truth. Shame being sin, and his sin will show as he speaks evil.
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away (spoken out) from you with all malice:
1 Peter 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Psalm 34:13. Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile.
1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God;
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Ephesians 6:19,20 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Psalms 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
Philippines 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.
Isaiah 64:6] But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
2 Corinthians 1:17,19,20 When I was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay. ___but in Him was yea. For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Luke 6:45 ___: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh,
Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Matthew 15:20 ___; if they have kept my saying they will keep yours also.
Revelation 19:21 ___, which sword proceeded out of his mouth.
2 Thessalonians 2:8The Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.
2 Timothy 2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Matthew 22:12-14 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.
2 Timothy 2:16,22,23 Shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase into more ungodliness. Flee also youthful lusts ___. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
Proverbs 20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
2 Esdras 8:2 As when thou askest the earth, it shall say unto thee, that it giveth much mould whereof earthen vessels are made, but little dust (terrestrial temples) that gold (body of Christ) cometh of: even so is the course of this present world.
Proverbs 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth: that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee.
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Psalms 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Ephesians 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Romans 3:3 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings; and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the heavens.
Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. 8. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Joel 2:11 ___; for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great, and very terrible; and who can abide it.
Titus 2:1. But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Matthew 12:32-37 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by the words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Luke 6:43,44 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Mark 9:49,50 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Leviticus 2:13 Every oblation of
thy meat offering shalt thou season with
salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Mark 9:49 For everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Luke 14:34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour , wherewith shall it be seasoned?
2 Timothy 4:5. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Titus 2:1. But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
1 Timothy 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
Ephesians 4:22. That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
Philippians 1:10. That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
Romans 2:18 And knowest His will, and approves the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.
Philippians 3:20. For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Ephesians 2:6,19 Hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.
James 4:11,12 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Ephsians 4:31,32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
1 Peter 1:15. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:15. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Isaiah 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Luke 18:14 Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Proverbs 10:18,19 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Proverbs 10:22. Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him. A lying tongue.
Jeremiah 23:36 And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
SPEAK NOT
Jeremiah 11:21. Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:
Isaiah 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
Amos 2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Micah 2:6 Prophesy ye not,
say they to them that
prophesy: they shall not prophesy
to them, that they shall not take shame.
SPEAKING
Matthew 8:3 And Jesus put forth his
hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be
thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Reference: His Word goes forth to accomplish
that which He pleases.
Matthew 8:7,8,13 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
Matthew 8:14,15 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
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1 Corinthians 9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Matthew 8:16. When the even (12 PM to 6 PM) was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that was sick:
Matthew 8:26. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Psalms 65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Matthew 8:32. And he said unto them, Go And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
Matthew 9:2. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
Matthew 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
Matthew 14:19. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Matthew 15:28. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Matthew 15:36. And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Matthew 17:18,21 And Jesus rebuked the devil: and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
There are many scriptures that
speak of God’s Power , i.e.,
Word
,
and only a very few listed here. Let this
Word
be conceived, in your heart: that you too will come forth with those
powers , God has invested in us, as His body,
to go forth and accomplish that which
He pleased.
