I am reading a book at the moment called God’s Creative Power, by Charles Capps. Its all about the Word of God and how we need to speak the Word over our situations, our health and finances. I’m only through the first chapter but I can’t wait to finish it!
Capps talks about how our faith is released with our words. When faith is released through our words, whether positive or negative, they set spiritual laws into effect. Now I’m not trying to get super spiritual here but it makes sense. A good example of how we need to confess the right things over our lives is Galatians 6:7-8.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.Galatians 6:7-8
Growing up in church I would always hear that scripture being used for offering. I don’t really think its a bad scripture to use for offering but it makes sense to use it when thinking about the words we use.
The words you speak are seeds that produce after their kind. just as sure as they are planted, you can be equally sure a harvest will follow.
God’s Creative Power, Charles Capps pg 15
At a Believer’s Convention in 2006 Gloria Copeland told a story of a man they knew that had a problem with his words. In very situation, when times would get rough, money was tight or he was sick he would always say,
“I’m not going to make past 40.”
The man’s family can recall him confessing that as far back as age 6. As the years went on he would always say that wouldn’t make it past 40. Now what he didn’t realize is that from the first time he said that he was setting that into motion. He was setting himself up to not live past the age of 40.
The man never really got sick, he didn’t have any major illnesses or injuries during his life until he was 39. While he was 39 he developed a tumor in his brain. It affected him so bad that he went into a coma and eventually passed away before he turned 40. His whole life he had been confessing that over himself and sure enough without missing a beat it came true.
In the hospital before he passed his family was there praying for him asking God to heal him but legally God couldn’t do it. That might sound weird but without that man confessing life over himself or confessing healing in his body God couldn’t reverse the laws that were in place from all the years of negative confession. It wasn’t that Lord didn’t want to heal him or that He didn’t want him to be alive but without that man confessing positive things over himself to cancel out the negative, He couldn’t do anything.
Please don’t misunderstand me and think that if you say, “Oh that just kills me” or “I’d rather be dead” that you will drop on the spot. Also that the Lord doesn’t want us healthy living long on the earth or that He doesn’t answer prayers because I am living proof that He does answer prayer. The point I am making is that our words are very important. The things we let come out of our mouths will dictate what happens around us, what happens to us and the world around us. You will sow what you reap.
Imagine if that man would have said that was going to live to be 140 instead of saying that he wouldn’t make it past 40. You know he would still be alive and in good health now so that he could make it 140!
Charles Capps said it this way,
Words are containers. They carry faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
I know in myself I need to be more conscious of the things that I let come out of my mouth.
Charles Waugh 