The Key to Receiving Healing is in Your Mouth

I have good news for you! God not only wants you healed, but He has also given clear instructions on how you can receive healing. One of the most important instructions for receiving has to do with your mouth: you must say the outcome you want!

When God created mankind, the Bible says He created speaking spirits. And by creating man to be like Him, He gave man the power of WORDS. Speech is what sets humans apart from animals. Like God, humans can speak words and create their destiny.

The power of our words pertains to every part of our lives, including our health and bodies. According to God’s Word, what we speak controls our health. It is imperative to understand that our words are connected to our healing. Jesus taught us this truth.

“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.” Mark 11:23 NKJV

Notice that Jesus did not teach us to talk about the mountain or problem. He taught us to talk to the mountain. According to this verse, what we believe in our heart and say with our mouth is what we will have! Now, a mountain can represent sickness or disease. If we talk about the sickness or disease, instead of to it, that is what we will have. Conversely, if we will say what God says—“By His stripes, I AM healed,” for example—we will live healed.

The Old Testament, too, addresses the power of words. Proverbs 18:21 tells us, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” This means that because of the power in our words, we ourselves determine whether we will have death or life. Sickness and disease are nothing more than the beginning stages of death. So, if we want to stop the death process in our bodies, we must stop talking about how sick we are—that is, talking about the mountain.

Now don’t misunderstand me. I am not saying that we will not eventually die, but rather that we do not have to die from disease. When it’s time to depart and be with the Lord, our spirits can simply leave our bodies. That is the perfect will of God for us!

Now let’s look at another passage about the power of our words.

For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature. James 3:2 AMPC

Notice that we can control our whole body if we don’t say the wrong things! This includes the health of our bodies! Now I want you to get the full picture of how this works by seeing the comparisons James makes.

Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.  James 3:3-5 NKJV

The tongue is a little member of our bodies, and yet it is the most unruly part. So many people think they are powerful because they can cut people up with their words. However, all they are revealing is that they are unruly and immature!

Again, notice the comparisons:

- A tiny bit can control a very large and strong animal—a horse.

- A very small rudder controls the direction of a very large ship.

- A very little tongue controls the destiny of your life, including the health of your body.

We see that we have the power to control our health by what we say! Our words have substance—and that substance is either faith or doubt and unbelief. We want to be sure the substance is faith in God’s Word, because that’s what will help us receive what we desire:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1 KJV

In Mark we read the account of a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years! Let’s see how her words were directly connected to her healing.

And [the woman] had endured much suffering under [the hands of] many physicians and had spent all that she had, and was no better but instead grew worse.

She had heard the reports concerning Jesus, and she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment, For she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health. And immediately her flow of blood was dried up at the source, and [suddenly] she felt in her body that she was healed of her [distressing] ailment. Mark 5:26-29 AMPC

Notice that she KEPT saying the same thing. And what she repeatedly said is exactly what she received! Declaring she would be restored when she touched Jesus’ garment was her faith speaking.

In order for you to receive healing, you, too, must keep saying what God says. It’s not enough to say it one time. And don’t vacillate, speaking God’s word one day, but the next day talking about the disease again. When you change what you are saying, the Bible calls that being “double-minded.” The woman with the issue of blood received her healing because she wasn’t double-minded. If she had spoken both faith and doubt, she wouldn’t have been healed.

He who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:6-8 NKJV

Speaking God’s Word is not hard. It is simply agreeing with Him! Always remember, nobody receives anything from God by disagreeing with Him. So let’s just agree with Him and speak that out.

You may be wondering, “How long do I have to say what God says?” For the rest of your life on earth! You keep your healing the same way you receive it: by speaking and agreeing with God.

So, let’s start using our words wisely. God gave us the power of words to bring life and health to our bodies, in Jesus’ Name! Let’s follow His simple instructions and use that power He entrusted us with!

I highly encourage you to get a copy of my new daily devotional, Healing Nuggets: 31 Days of God's Word for Health, Wholeness, and Peace, to help you meditate day and night. I believe it will be a blessing to your life.

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