THE CREATIVE POWER

OF SPOKEN WORDS

PART TWO

Our words have the power to impart life and hope and blessing to those we speak with, if they come out of the overflow of hearts filled with the Holy Spirit, and the love of God. At the commencement of His earthly ministry, Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth says of Himself, in quoting Isaiah 61:1,2 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."

Jesus brought salvation, healing, deliverance from demons, hope to the hopeless, impartation of faith to His hearers and more by the words He spoke under the direction and anointing of the Holy Spirit, as He was motivated by great love and compassion for people everywhere He went.

As followers of Christ, born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, we too are to expect God to use our words to minister life and hope and healing and health and wholeness to our hearers.

When we study the early chapters of Genesis, the first book of the Bible - the book of beginnings, we see clearly the creative power of God's words to create the universe, and in particular the earth on which we live, in all its complexity.

Looking at chapter One and the six days of Creation, the Bible records ten statements of God prefaced by "Then God said..." Each time God spoke, His words created tangible physical realities out of nothing. Amazing! Simply amazing!

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was without form and void;

and darkness was on the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

The God said: "Let there be light,"

                      and there was light.

                      And God saw the light, that it was good

                      And God divided the light from the darkness.

When, in verse 3 it says: Then God said, "Let there be light," the literal Hebrew meaning of the statement is apparently: Then God said "Light be!" providing an added sense of awe at the creative power of the Word of the Living God.

Verse 5 of Genesis 1 says: God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. (Emphasis mine). So God spoke a command which brought creation into being in all its various aspects, and after the word of creation followed a calling of the things He had created. Such was the fellowship the first man, Adam had with the Creator God, that the Lord brought every creature of land animals and birds before him, and he had the honour of naming each one.

The prophets of the Old Testament were called to speak powerful words to the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, as the Holy Spirit anointed their mouths to speak as God's mouthpieces to the nations - words of correction, judgment, and also words of comfort and hope.

In the New Testament, every believer can be filled with the Holy Spirit's anointing power to be used to proclaim words of life, words of edification, exhortation and comfort to other Christians, and to those who are yet to come to the Lord. In a real sense, we, as Christ's ambassadors, can create life and hope and impart blessing by the words that we speak. What a wonderful privilege to speak, as Peter says in 1 Peter 4:11 as the "oracles of God."

It is certainly true, as Kenneth Copeland says that: One word from God can change your life forever.

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