Matthew 12: 35 The good man from his inner good treasure [q]flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse [r]flings forth evil things. Just by listening to a person, you can hear what they are about and what they believe. For yourself, you also have to catch what you say. You have to see what you say. Matthew 12: 36 But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every [s]idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. We must use our mouths effectively. Not for idle talk. We must ask the Lord for a guard before our mouths so that we can speak what is proper and true. Our yes must be our yes, and our no should be our no. We should not just say things to make people happy. We must mean what we say. There is a angel and a devil that’s writing down everything we are saying. Our consistency and faithfulness are being checked all the time. It’s about what we believe in our hearts. Because what we believe in our hearts, is what we confess with our mouth. Proverbs 6: 1 – 2 My son, if you have become security for your neighbor, if you have given your pledge for a stranger or another, 2 You are snared with the words of your lips, you are caught by the speech of your mouth. Our words can be a snare for us. What we said we will do is enslaving us. We become a captive of what we said. This is also why we must ask God to help us tame our tongue. Most Christians are defeated in life, because they confess and believe wrong. Fearful words will produce after their kind. It’s seed. If you sow fear, you will see fear come up. If you sow faith, you will see God’s will be done. If we say things like “We always battle”, this then will be your reality. I believe the curse of poverty is just a mindset, it’s because of the way people believe. They believe wrong. They believe half empty. They don’t say what God says. We have to say what God says. Words are the most powerful thing in the universe. By God’s Words He made the earth. We are made in His image and likeness and we have creating power now in our words, just like God. We create with our mouth. We don’t produce the results; God does that but our part is to say what He says. Continue to say what God says, and it will come. But when you say something else after speaking words of faith, you undo the direction your life was heading. It scratches the words of faith. Mark 11: 23 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!’ and [f]does not doubt in his heart [in God’s unlimited power], but believes that what he says is going to take place, it will be done for him [in accordance with God’s will] The power is in our saying, without any doubt in God’s unlimited power, if it’s according to God’ will. This is a spiritual law. It doesn’t change. Like gravity. You just say it, you keep on doing this, and it WILL happen. Control issues is a block for faith. People try to figure out how God will do things, instead of just believing. James 3: 4 Likewise, look at the ships: though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the helmsman determines. Our tongues are like the rudder of a ship which determines the direction we will be going. I have seen in our business as well that sometimes we are moving in shallow waters with many rocks, and I really need to stay close to God to know what to say and believe to get through that place to the other side. Amos 3: 7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing [a]without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets. God does nothing before He says it. He first speaks, and then He does. We must imitate His ways and be like Him. Say before you see. We speak the things through faith into existence. From the beginning God worked like this, we can see it in Genesis. God first spoke, and then it came to being. Our words bring the results from the supernatural into the natural. Mark 11:22 Jesus replied, “Have faith in God [constantly]. WYC TRANSLATION says: And Jesus answered and said to them, Have ye the faith of God; What’s the faith of God? It’s calling things that are not, as though they were. Declaring the end at the beginning.