Why should you guard your mouth?

7 September 2017

Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech

Proverbs 4:24 (NLT)

We are told that we should avoid all perverse talk and stay away from every corrupt speech. Why is it important to guard what comes out of our mouth?

1, It keeps you out of trouble

The first reason we should guard our mouth is that it keeps us out of trouble. For example, many people have pronounced curses on themselves and on their loved ones without even knowing it. Think of the example of Jacob who pronounced death on his beloved wife Rachel without even realizing it (Genesis 31:32). We must therefore make every effort to guard what comes out of our mouth:

Watch your tongue and keep your mouth shut, and you will stay out of trouble.

Proverbs 21:23 (NLT)

2, Death and life is in the power of the tongue

We should guard what comes out of our mouth because death and life is in the power of the tongue. We can release death or life over every situation depending on what we say. That is how powerful the tongue really is therefore let’s be mindful to say things that will only release life and not death:

The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences

Proverbs 18:21 (NLT)

3, It helps us to avoid sin

When we guard what we say with our tongue, it helps us to avoid the sin of lying, gossiping, slander and every kind of evil. This is why we must, like David, watch what we do and not sin with what we say:

I said to myself, “I will watch what I do and not sin in what I say. I will hold my tongue when the ungodly are around me.”

Psalm 39:1 (NLT)

Prayer

Dear Lord, please help me to avoid perverse talk and stay away from corrupt speech in Jesus name, amen.

 

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Do you wish to know the secrets of God?

 

For the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord,

But His secret counsel is with the upright.

Proverbs 3:32

 

Some people think that God is mysterious and they cannot really know Him, however the scripture above tells us that God does share His secret counsel with certain groups of people. For example, God made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the people of Israel (Psalm 103:7). So if you wish to know the secrets of the Lord, this is what you must do:

 

1, Be upright before God

To know the secrets of the Lord we must be upright before Him. To be upright is to have a right relationship with God and to live a right life before Him. We can have a right relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ:

For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT)

 

2, Fear God

To know the secrets of God we must fear and reverence Him because of Who He is and how awesome He is:

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and He will shew them His covenant.

Psalm 25:14 (KJV)

 

3, Call on the Lord

To know the secrets of the Lord, we can call on the Lord and He promises to answer us:

‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Jeremiah 33:3

Prayer

Dear Lord, I am calling on You to show me great and mighty things which I do not know in Jesus name.

 

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God is a shield for the upright

Wednesday 15 March 2017

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;

He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;

Proverbs 2:7

 

This verse tells us that God actually stores up sound wisdom for those who walk uprightly, He is a shield to those who walk uprightly. What is a shield?

A shield is a gate or door (or “door-shaped”); used of the large, oblong ancient Roman shield (which looked like a full door), large enough to provide full protection from attack. Why do we need the Lord as our shield?

1. He provides protection

The Lord provides protection for the person who has a right relationship with Him. This protection always extinguishes (takes the fire out of) the missiles of the enemy so that he cannot harm us:

God protects me like a shield; He saves those whose hearts are right

Psalm 7:10 (NCV)

2. The Lord gives us faith

Every believer has been given a measure of faith and faith is described as a shield that provides protection against the fiery darts of the wicked:

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked

Ephesians 6:16 (NKJV)

3. The Lord provides favour

The righteous are surrounded with favour as with a shield. Favour is kindness from God that is undeserved. In other words, as believers, we wear favour like a shield and receive grace and blessing because of the favour of God:

For You, O Lord, will bless the righteous;

With favor You will surround him as with a shield.

Psalm 5:12 (NJKV) 

Prayer

Dear Lord, I thank You that You are a shield for those who trust in You. Today let Yourfavour surround me as with a shield in Jesus name.

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We must bind the strong man over our finances and take back our goods

Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

Matthew 12:29

This scripture asks us how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Once the strong man is bound then we can plunder his house. In this case once we bind Satan the strong man we can take authority and plunder his influence over us. When Satan no longer has influence over us we can expect to prosper in all areas of our life including the area of financial stability.

1, Bind the strong man

The “strong man” is Satan who possesses, or works in human beings by means of his wicked spirits. Satan is as clearly a person as the Lord Jesus Christ is a Person! The Lord Jesus Christ dwells in those He redeems by His Spirit, Who imparts to them the very life of the Son of God, thus making them children of God. In the same way the prince of darkness has influence over the fallen race of Adam. Until we know how to take heed to the Lord’s warning and “FIRST bind the strong man,” the attempts we make to “spoil his goods” will only enrage him, and enable him to strengthen his armour, and guard his palace in peace. The strong man must be bound with authority in the name of Jesus.

2, Take authority over the strong man and demand what’s rightfully yours

In the authority we have in the name of Jesus we can tear down the strong man and bind his power from working in our life.

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Luke 10:19

We have the authority in the name of Jesus to have dominion over all the power of the enemy and take back what belongs to us. God promises us abundance. It’s God will that we live in authority, in accordance with God’s will for our life, and to live in financial abundance as a by product of that authority. John 10:10.

3, Walk in your authority over the strongman

Once we take authority over the strong man/enemy, in the name of Jesus, we can begin to live a life of abundance and expect to be blessed in all areas of our life. The bible reminds us that God gives us wisdom to acquire wealth.

And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 8:18

Summary

God wants us to take authority over the enemy and then to plunder his house. We can only plunder the house of the enemy once we have bound the enemy. Once the enemy is bound we can expect to live in the promises of God and to live life’s of abundance. It is God’s will for us to proper in all areas of our life, including the financial arena. (Psalm 92:12

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How do you overcome focusing on things that are natural and not spiritual?

For the past six weeks we have been looking at the meaning behind the names of the seven nations that the Children of Israel were commanded to destroy before they could enter into the Promised Land:

And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites:

Joshua 3:10 (NKJV)

These seven nations though they were physical nations now represents seven types of evil spirits that we as believers in Jesus Christ must totally destroy and overcome before we can enter into our spiritual inheritance. In order for us to enter into our spiritual inheritance we must overcome fear, pride, carnality, small thinking, living for earthly pleasures, and rejection.

Today, in our final overcoming series we are going to look at how to overcome the spirits that entice us to focus on the things that can be seen and ignoring the things that cannot be seen.

“Girgashite” means, “clay dweller”, which refers to “dwelling on earthliness”. This type of spirit promotes a focus on earthly, temporal things, and produces a dislike for things that are “spiritual” and eternal. Girgashites or people infected with this type of spirit tend to focus on things that are visible. Whereas the Bible tells us to focus on things that are not seen:

While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:18

How do you overcome focusing on things that are natural and not spiritual? 

1. Be born again

When Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews came by night to speak with Jesus, Jesus told him that unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus being puzzled, asked Jesus how a grown up man can be born again. Jesus replied and said that you must be born of water and the Spirit (John 3:1-5). In other words, you must accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour. When you believe in Jesus you are sealed with His Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13). To be born of water is to go through water baptism which Jesus instructed His disciples to do (Matthew 28:19). When you are born again then, your spiritual senses come alive and you are able to discern things in the spiritual realm which cannot be seen with the naked human eye;

2. Ask The Lord to open your spiritual eyes so that you can see

We must pray like the Psalmist prayed and ask The Lord to open our spiritual eyes so that we can see wonderful things from His law (Psalm 119:18). You see, as you have natural eyes so you have spiritual eyes so if you are spiritually blind you need to cry out and ask The Lord to open your eyes so that you can see the things that He wants to show you;

3. Ask The Lord to open your spiritual ears so you may hear

Jesus in His letters to the Seven Churches in Revelation ended his letters by saying “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” In other words, we all have spiritual ears that must come alive if we are to hear things from the Spirit of God. Again if you find that you are spiritually deaf and cannot hear the voice of God, cry out and ask The Lord to awaken your ears so that you can hear as the learned (Isaiah 50:4);

4. Ask The Lord to give you His Spirit of wisdom and revelation

We must pray like Paul did that God will give us His Spirit of wisdom and revelation, Who will let us know truths about God and help us understand them, so that we will know Him better. It is the same Spirit who will open our minds to see His truth so that we will know the hope that He has chosen us to have (Ephesians 1:17-19);

5. Fasting

Fasting is a discipline that sharpens our spiritual senses so that we can tap into the divine power of God. Jesus expected His disciples to fast and He said that “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). When we abstain from food and feed on nothing but the Word of God, the Word nourishes, fuels and strengthens our spirits. In so doing we tend to focus less on the natural things that are visible and look at the eternal things that are invisible.

Prayer

Dear Lord, please help me to focus on the things that are eternal that cannot be seen and let me take my eyes off the things that are natural and temporary in Jesus name, amen.

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