2Cor.5:17(Amp) 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 away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation man/woman is born of God and has the very nature of God within our newly created spirit, by the new birth. Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
We can better understand Who the Word is, by reading John1:1-4(Amp), which says, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men." Everything came into existence through Jesus and without Him, "not one thing came into being."
Many Christians wonder why we see so little of the miraculous Presence of God, in the world today. We know that, "without the Word, not one thing has come into being." How many things would come into being in our lives today, if we would read and speak God's Word, instead of accepting the world's idea which tells us that, "God doesn't do these things anymore?"
We, the new creation persons, didn't come into being, until we believed and spoke the Word, Jesus, into our lives. When we believed and confessed the Word, like in Genesis, Life and Light came into being and we were created new creations. Why do we think that the Word of Life only worked in this one thing? The Words of Jesus produced Spirit and Life. The flesh has not profit in it. Speaking contrary to God's Word will not produce Life or Light in our lives.
Few Christians spend time in God's Word, so the Spirit and Life have very little effect in the new creation spirit man/woman. Our spirit is fed and produces Life, not only in the spirit realm, but in the natural body too. Prov.4:22-23(Amp) speaks about God's Word, saying, "For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart (spirit) with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it (your spirit) flow the springs of Life."
Many don't believe that we should watch our words, believing that it's "foolishness," but Jesus cautioned us against hearing and speaking contrary to the Word. Prov.8:8-9(Amp) says, "All the Words of My mouth are righteous, upright and in right standing with God; there is nothing contrary to Truth or crooked in them. They are all plain to him who understands and opens his heart (spirit), and right to those who find knowledge and live by it."
Are the words we're speaking, line up with God's Word? Are you speaking contrary to what God's Word says and speaks to us? Are we adhering to Jesus' directions in Mark4:23-24(Amp), where He says, "If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend. And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the Truth you hear, will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you, and more besides will be given to you who hear."
The measure we receive, is left up to those who hear what the Spirit is saying. John3:34(Amp) says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own Message). God does not give His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit." If the new creation people, who are born of God, were careful to speak God's Own Word, then God would be able to trust us with a greater measure of His Spirit.
Prov.18:21(Amp) says, "Death and Life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it, for death or Life." Jesus spoke to a fig tree and it died. He spoke to a dead man and the man lived. What are we speaking and to what or whom are we speaking too? Are we speaking God's Words, which He can honor or are they inoperative, contrary words that will profit nothing, both in our lives and the lives of those we speak them to? Do our words bring Life and healing or death and oppression? Words of Life bring Life, while words of death, come from the enemy to bring destruction and death in our lives. We mustn't give the enemy any place in our lives, by giving him our words to use against us.
Jesus contended with satan in Luke 4. Jesus used the Word of God to defeat everything the enemy tried using against Him. Paul writes about the Armor of God in Eph.6:16-17(Amp) saying, "Lift up over all the covering shield of faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God."
We must keep our words in-line with God's Word and allow the self-fulfilling Power of that Word work in our lives. Speaking contrary to God's Word, gives God nothing to work with to provide deliverance in our lives.
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