A Healing Tongue

One of the most important things to understand about divine healing is that you will never receive it without getting in agreement with God. Receiving divine healing requires your cooperation in two main areas. You must believe God’s Word, and you must speak God’s Word on a continual basis.

You will never change your physical condition without believing right and speaking right. Believing accurately is only possible if you will guard your thought life and think accurately first. We would all like to pride ourselves in believing that our thoughts are always right. However, the first step to cooperating with God is acknowledging that your thoughts may not agree with God’s and then obtaining His thoughts.

Isaiah 55:8-9 says,

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

If you want to know exactly what you’ve been thinking and believing, start paying attention to what you regularly SAY. Jesus said, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matt 12:34)

Many do not realize that their words determine the course of their life. James 3:2 tells us, “For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.” If you can control what you say, you can control the outcome of your health. If you continually talk about sickness and pain, you will continue to have sickness and pain. However, if you continually say what God says about your body, healing will begin to manifest in your body.

Here are a few more scriptures that reveal the power of the tongue:

The tongue can bring death or life;

those who love to talk will reap the consequences.

Proverbs 18:21 NLT

A gentle tongue [with its healing power] is a tree of life.

Proverbs 15:4 AMPC

Remember that the tree of life was in the garden of Eden, and if Adam and Eve would have eaten of it first, they would have lived on earth forever in health and peace.

Here’s something else worth noting about words. When God wants something to come to pass, He speaks it first. We see the first example of this in the book of Genesis.

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Genesis 1:3 NKJV

Because we have been created in God’s likeness, we also have the ability to speak things into existence. Jesus taught us this truth in Mark 11:23.

“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.”

Since we will have what we believe and say, we should be watchful over our hearts and our words. We should be agreeing with God by saying what He says about any area of our lives. But what exactly does God say about our health?

“He Himself took our infirmities

And bore our sicknesses.”

Matthew 8:17-18 NKJV

Christ, . . . by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 2:24 NKJV

Through the process of meditation, you will get to the place where you believe this in your heart and confess it with your mouth, and that is exactly what you will have.

There is a spiritual law that few realize: our confessions rule us. Sooner or later, everyone will have what they confess in life. All of us have two choices on a daily basis. We can talk about what the devil is doing, or we can talk about what God has done and what we have in Christ.

The more we talk about the symptoms in our bodies, the more we glorify what the devil is doing, and the more we have the sickness. The more we talk about the Word of God, the more we glorify God, and the more we will have health and healing in our bodies. Our faith will actually keep pace with our confession. Another way to say this is that faith never rises above its confession.

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