What is in Your Heart?
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:45
What have you put in your hearts? Are you repeating everything you hear? What you speak has a direct impact on your life. We have to be so careful about what we allow in our heart because we speak our heart and that is what we have in our lives.
Many years ago, I was teaching a young adults class at one of the churches I attended. One of the students in the class had a very troubled life. He would tell me that he was a thug and one day he came to church with thug life tattooed across his chest. As much as everyone tried to help him and pray for him, do you know what happened to him? He ended up in prison living the life as a thug. Our words are containers of power and we have to be so careful what we speak over our lives.
Our words are so powerful that even when we are dead and gone they still manifest in the earth. Joshua spoke over Jericho when he conquered it. The city was to be dedicated to the Lord so Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: “At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.” Joshua 6:26
Do you know that exactly what Joshua spoke is what happened? In Ahab’s time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken by Joshua son of Nun. What was spoken over Hiel’s life is what happened. 1 Kings 16:34, ESV Though the sin was Hiel’s, the consequence included the deaths of his two sons.
Scripture says to be slow to speak, quick to listen and slow to anger. James 1:19, ESV. The word says, “So shall my word be that goes out of my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and it shall succeed in the thing which I sent it. Isaiah 55:11. Our words are containers of power and whatever we allow in our heart…we have what we say. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Colossians 4:6, ESV And remember that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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