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Sunday, December 02, 2007
Change Your Mouth!
Dr. Frederick K.C. Price
Death and life are in the power of the tongue. For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
That is awesome! Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Your heart is your spirit. This is the part of you that has been born again.
I have to let God's Word come out of my mouth to give God something to confirm in my life. If you do not like what has been happening in your life, then change your mouth!
Do not blame the white folks, and do not blame the blacks in the ghetto. They are not your problem. Do not blame the Communists over in another country, and do not blame the moon men or the Martians. Go look in the mirror when you are in the bathroom by yourself and the door is locked. The person you see in the mirror is your problem.
I do not know about you, but I am thrilled to find out that nobody can mess me up. I like that. Thank God, I am the one who decides. Not because it is me, but because God designed the system to work that way. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. Jesus did not say, "by their words."
What you say does not make any difference. Not when it comes to me and my personal life and relationship with God. Thank God, I am the only one who can mess that up. My wife cannot mess it up. My kids cannot mess it up-not my personal, individual life. When we do something corporately as a family, then they can hinder me. If we do something corporately as a church, then they can hinder me. But I can step out of that role and get over here in my own thing and the Lord and I can go for it! And, I like that.
We cannot blame anyone else. If I mess up, that is me. I have to go ahead and admit, "I am the one who messed up." Some people are always giving excuses. "Well, it if wasn't for those folk down there; if it wasn't for the people over there; if it wasn't for the Democrats' if it wasn't for the Republicans." Take the responsibility yourself! You are the one! It's no one else's fault.
It has nothing to do with where you were born. It has nothing to do with your mother, your father, your sister or your brother. It has nothing to do with anything but you and God, and you ought to thank God on a daily basis that this is the case. Thank Him that nobody can mess you up. If you are messed up, it is your own fault and not God's. You cannot blame anyone else, because you can climb out of that pit!
I do not want to hear about how bad you had it. "Well, you just don't know how abused I was when I was a kid." But you are not a kid now. What is your excuse now? Besides that, that abuse is under the blood of Jesus and that blood will cleanse that abuse. If you will do what His Word says, casting all your care on him; for he cares for you (1 Peter 5:7), then it will not rise up to threaten you or be a specter in the dark of night to frighten you while you are in your bed alone.
They could have raped you, beat you on the head and done everything they wanted to do to you. That has nothing to do with the blood of Jesus. It has nothing to do with the fact that you are a child of God right now. Stop copping out with all that junk of the past! It means nothing. It is over. It is done!
No, it should not have happened. No, your father should not have molested you, but he did. It is over. Forget it, and go forward. Stop living in the past. It will do you no good.
Philippians 3:13-14: Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
What happened to you should never have happened. They should not have done that, but they did, and your thinking about it and carrying it to your grave is not going to change it. Put it under your feet. Bury that garbage. Forget it and get a hold of the Word of God.
Let the Word get down in your heart so that there is an abundance there, so that when you open your mouth, out comes the Word of God and then He will confirm that in your life. Nobody or nothing can stop you!
This devotional was excerpted from Dr. Price's book, "Name It and Claim It! The Power of Positive Confession." Please call us at (800) 927-3436 or visit our website: www.faithdome.org for a complete list of his products.