Speaking Spirit
Adam
had tremendous power with his words. He lost that ability when he submitted to
Satan in rebellion and the Glory of God departed from him.
- Have faith in God.
- Whatever your mountain is, speak to it to be removed.
- Do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will happen, and you will have what you said.
- When you pray for things, believe you receive them and you will have them.
Paul said that when praying in Jesus Name for what God has promised
the answer is always yes and amen, 2 Cor 1:20.
Got knows what you need.
If you pray according to the promises of God, you know that your
loving Father will supply your needs.
Mt 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much
speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth
what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Some Christian religions chant things over and over. God is not
deaf, nor does he perk up because you say the same thing again and
again. Some of my most effective prayers have been a whisper. There
is nothing wrong with reminding God of His promises. Be thankful for
the answer. Trust in our Heavenly Father.
9 ¶ After this manner therefore pray ye:
The Lord ’s Prayer gives us His pattern in which to pray.
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
The opening of your prayer should be with Praise and Thanksgiving.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in
heaven.
Praying for Jesus’ return, and for His will to be done on earth,
for in your world, you need to be doing His will.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Thanking the Father for supplying your needs.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Accept and be thankful that Jesus’ Blood has cleansed you from all
sin. This prayer was under the Old Testament, under the New
Covenant, we are forgiven in Christ and that is not based on our
works, but Jesus’ works. We are to forgive others, but that is
natural when we realize our forgiveness by the Lord. Our forgiveness
is from God through the sacrifice of Jesus, and we receive it by
faith.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For me to better understand, I like to think of a comma after “us”.
God does not tempt man, James 1:13. God does lead us away from
temptation, and He delivers us from all evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. End your prayer with praise for the Lord along with your heart’s admiration.
To speak God’s Word to objects, circumstances, and problems will make
your life better. It is a positive thing and needs to be done with
authority and love.
Ps
33:6 By the word of the LORD were the
heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Paul talks about us as Christians using the same principles of God when we speak:
2
Cor 4: 13 We having the same spirit of faith, according
as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and
therefore speak;
We
receive the Spirit of Jesus into our spirit also by speaking:
Rm 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
The
Hebrew word for speak is debar דבר . Read
right to left, Dalet, the first letter
is a picture of a door. Bet and Resh are the next two letters which is the
word Bar or Son. By a basic interpretation
of the word debar we see that speaking
is the door to the Son.
To speak negative and with fear will bring bad things into your life
and into the life of others you affect. That is the way of evil, and
one of the ways witchcraft works.
Solomon, the wisest man ever except for Jesus said: Life and death are in the power of the tongue, Pv 18:21.
Pv 13:3 ¶ He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Pv
15: 1 ¶ A soft answer turneth away
wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Pv
15:4 ¶ A wholesome tongue is a tree of
life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Pv
16:24 ¶ Pleasant words are as an
honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
James,
the Lord’s half brother wrote: Jas 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the
same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
James describes the tongue like a rudder on a ship; which though little turns a huge vessel where ever the pilot wants.
Ja 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and
boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity:
so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and
setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and
of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of
mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an
unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and
therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and
cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
We
are to listen to the Spirit within us and be guided in what we say. Quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
Jam 1:19.
Sower
It
is very fortunate that the Holy Spirit included this parable and explanation in
the synoptic gospels for us.
Mk
4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a
sower to sow:
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell
by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had
not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and
because it had no root, it withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns
grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield
fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some
sixty, and some an hundred.
9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear.
10 And when he was alone, they that were about
him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given
to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all
these things are done in parables:
12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive;
and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be
converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Jesus here is explaining the importance of receiving God's Word, believing it, and using it in your life. All of this involves speaking the Word by faith.
13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this
parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
14 The sower soweth the word.
15 And these are they by the way side, where the
word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh
away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 And these are they likewise which are sown on
stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with
gladness;
17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure
but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the
word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
18 And these are they which are sown among
thorns; such as hear the word,
19 And the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the
word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20 And these are they which are sown on good
ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some
thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
So
here is the roots for our faith, God’s Word. Paul tells us that the faith we
have comes by hearing the Word of God, Rm 10:17.
When
God’s Word is in you, you will speak it, for as we have seen “out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
It
is important to speak what the Word says over whatever mountains you are
facing. All was created by God’s Word, and when you speak the Word over a
circumstance, it will change to conform to the Word.
Rm
4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it
might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to
that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of
Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17
¶ (As it is written, I have made thee a
father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth
the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he
might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So
shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered
not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet
the deadness of Sara’s womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had
promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for
righteousness.
Abraham was known as the friend of God. God had cut the blood covenant with him long before the covenant of the law. Very similar to the Grace covenant of the New Testament written in the blood of Jesus Christ, Abraham believed God, and God counted that to him for righteousness. Notice that Abraham acted in faith as he learned from God and called things that are not as though they were. We as Christians must do the same today to be victorious in this life.
Do
not let the devil fool you into thinking that your prayers are not
effective. “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”, Ja
5:16b
James
example here is of Elijah:
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray
one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as
we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on
the earth by the space of three years and six months.
So what was this effectual fervent prayer that Elijah prayed?
In
1 Kings we read about the story of King Ahab, Jezebel, and Elijah. Ahab was
evil, and so was his Queen Jezebel. She had 850 prophets that worshiped a
demon god, Baal. Elijah was sent to be a prophet to Israel and because of the
evil actions of the government, he went straight to Ahab and confronted him
about that. Ahab was not receptive and Elijah said;
1
Ki 17:1 ¶ And Elijah the Tishbite, who
was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel
liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
according to my word.
As James said, it did not rain in Israel for 3 ½ years.
The point is this: your faith, your belief in God and His Word, are put forth from speaking. You as a speaking spirit have tremendous power in your words. Elijah spoke as God's representative. His "prayer" was a statement that God honored.
By words, God had set in place the taking back of the earth’s dominion from Satan through Jesus. We, the Church are part of this process as the body of Christ.
Speaking to the
Rock
We
have seen in this study that speak in Hebrew is debar which when broken down means; speaking is the door to the
Son.
Rock here is the Hebrew word zur which means boulder. This was done with Moses’ rod with which he had turned the Nile to blood, and parted the Red Sea. It was a rod of judgment. This story is a type representation of Jesus being smitten at the cross to bring forth the water of life by His passion and sacrifice. Jesus fulfilled the law in all ways and delivered us from the law of sin and death into the law of righteousness, Rm 8:1-2.
In Nu 20 at the close of the 40 years in the wilderness, once again the people murmured and God sent Moses and Aaron to the “rock” to speak to it and the LORD would bring forth water for the congregation. Rock here is the Hebrew word Sela which means cliff or the high place and strong hold of Jehovah.
This was the command of the Lord to take Aaron’s rod
which is the rod of the High Priest and had shown the miraculous power of God by
budding, blooming, and producing almond fruit all at once; and once at the Rock,
there to speak to the Rock and the Rock would bring forth water. This story is a
type of the risen Jesus, who brings us the Holy Ghost when we ask (speak to) the
Father by Jesus Name as His children, Lk 11:13. Jesus is our High Priest, and as
Aaron’s rod was cut off and placed into the Ark of the Covenant. Jesus was Himself
cut off from the living as a human and raised from the dead as King forever. The
Ark itself is a representation of Jesus our Lord.
(Note:
Moses was impatient with the people and took Aaron’s rod and stuck the cliff twice. God still brought forth water, but
Moses and Aaron lost the leadership to bring the people to the Promised Land because
he did not sanctify God in front of the people and speak to the rock.)
We have seen that the Hebrew word for speak is debar דבר. The Hebrew word for wilderness is midbar מדבר, this is adding one letter, mem, to the front of debar. Meaning: the way out of the wilderness is to speak to the Son.
Rm 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
I
bring this scripture out again because not only is speaking the way that we receive
salvation, but it is the way that we receive everything in this life, good or bad.
We want to speak God’s Word for if you speak it in your mouth, it will get into
your heart. Our confession brings God’s promises to pass.
1 Cor 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;…
Paul is talking here about the Christian way of life, the Glory of God in you through Christ Jesus.
Rom
5:17 For if by one man’s offence death
reigned by one (Adam); much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
God’s
Word is never void, and accomplishes His will. Be part of that. Let God’s Word
be in your heart and mouth and be victorious as a child of the King.
