2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether) the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
If the above scripture written by the Apostle Paul is true (and you know it is), then everyone who is born-again is different from any other being who has ever existed before on earth. We've tried patterning our lives after previous generations, without realizing we are not like them. We can't try establishing the Body of Christ (the Church) after anyone, not even those who lived under the Law.
Although the people under the Law were in covenant with God, they weren't like the new creation people in God's family today. These people were still spiritually dead and shut off from the Spirit of Life (God) in their spirit man. They were spirit people, because they were made in the Image and Likeness of God and God is a Spirit. When Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden, they were severed from God and therefore, Life Himself.
Under the new covenant, we've not only had Life restored into our spirit man, but we have God's Own Spirit (which is Life) infused into our new spirit man. Through Jesus, we've become one with Him and the Father. This isn't like it was in the Old Testament, where the Holy Spirit would come upon the men and women and they would do miraculous things. Now, the Holy Spirit, Who is God, is now intertwined with our spirit and has made us one spirit with God Himself. There couldn't be a Body of Christ, if we are not one with Him.
We are one with God and His spirit is one with our spirit. We have the same God Who created everything, living within us, in our spirit man. We are infused together with God and have an awesome power and responsibility to not only proclaim Jesus by our actions, along with the responsibility to watch over the very words we speak.
When Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River and filled with the Holy Spirit, He could then (and only then) to speak things that came to pass. Before the Holy Spirit was infused with Jesus' Spirit, like ours is now, Jesus never said or performed a miracle. Since we are His Body and are one with Jesus and the Father, we have the responsibility to say things that have power in the earth. Jesus simply spoke healings and miracles, by His Words that came out of God. Now, we have God's Word written down, so that we too can speak God's Word like we should, and get results like we should.
There have been many teachings about the confession of our mouths. Some of those contained truth, while others didn't. We are to know the Truth and the "Truth will set us free." There have been any who simply dismissed this revelation completely, but if we are in the Likeness and Image of God, then we have at least some of His attributes operating in our new creation spirit man.
We are not Jesus and we are not the Lord, but don't confuse the fact and the truth that we are still like Him. I am not my earthly father, but I was born with his DNA and have his attributes operating in me. We are not God, but we are His children and have been made in His Image and Likeness. The power of words, control this entire universe and everything in it. God spoke this entire world into being and He holds it in place by His Word.
I wrote another blog about the power of words and the use of them. The universe still operates by Words. The Constitution is nothing more than words and the Declaration of Independence is only words. If we hold fast to and stand for these words, then we have liberty. If we allow someone to change the meaning of these words, then we will lose liberty. The laws of our Land are only spoken, written words, to be enforced. God's Word is the very same thing.
One would think that the new creation people would understand the power of the words that are spoken from our spirit man and understand what these words could do. Instead of speaking God's Words of blessing, healing, victory and liberty, we speak sickness, death, cursing and bondage and then wonder why nothing is working in our lives. I'm not talking about our creating a new universe, but we can make changes in the home, family, town and even the country we live in. Do you think it was an accident that we have political correction to alter our speech? Or, do you think it has something to do with what we've been speaking?
When we alter our words, we alter the power of what we say. We have the ability to speak God's Word, while we have God living in our own spirit. Do you think that God or His Word has changed? If Jesus only said, "What the Father said" and got the Father's results, then do you think God doesn't "Watch over His Word to perform it" anymore? You might not change the universe with your speech, but you can change your life by it. Didn't we go from death to Life, by speaking and confessing Jesus as our Lord? Do you think salvation is the only part of God's Word we can depend on, to work in our lives? As the new creation, we have God's Own ability to speak His Word and get results.
We've been so programmed by the world for years, that we don't pay attention to what we say and how we say it. Jesus told His disciples in Mark 11:23 (Amplified), "Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart, but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him."
You might not "Throw a mountain into the sea" (even thou you could), but do we believe in our hearts that our words will take place? Because what we "believe in our hearts, come out of our mouths," are we to have faith that whatsoever we say will happen? Jesus didn't say that "only good things," but "whatsoever" we believe in our hearts. Do we believe and speak words from our hearts, about our children? Do you speak good or bad things? Do we confess the curse or the blessing, sickness or health? Do you really believe that words can shape our lives or do you believe they make no difference and we can simply say whatever we wish to?
Paul wrote in Romans 3:13 (Amplified) that, "Their throat is a awning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (to be misled and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps i beneath their lips." These are evil doers who change men by their words. How much more power must there be in the Word of God spoken from new creation people (who are filled with God Himself)? Why have evil doers discovered the power of words, while God's people have not?
Instead of speaking the things the world says and think, why don't we simply listen to the Holy Spirit and keep our words lined up with God? Words made the grass, the trees, the water, all the animals, the mountains, the stars, the sun and the universe. Words created mankind and everything we see or don't see. The "Word was made flesh and has lived among us," and now this Word has made a new creation, to bring about a new kingdom by words, preaching a new creation.
Stop, listen sometime to what you are saying and see if your faith filled words are creating good and blessing or sickness and chaos in your life. You have the Holy Spirit to "tame your tongue," according to James 3:8-9 (Amplified) which says, "But the human tongue (natural man) can be tamed by no man, it is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison with it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse men who were made in God's Likeness." Words coming from the heart of the new creation, have power to bless and curse. We can even bless or curse our own lives, by yielding our tongues over to the devil and the world and speaking what they speak, instead of what God speaks. The power if in the words.
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