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CHANGE YOUR WORDS SO YOUR WORDS CAN CHANGE PEOPLE!
Jeremiah 15:19-21 (MSG)
This is how GOD answered me:
“Take back those words, and I'll take you back. Then you'll stand tall before me. Use words truly and well. Don't stoop to cheap whining. Then, but only then, you'll speak for me. Let your words change them. Don't change your words to suit them. I'll turn you into a steel wall, a thick steel wall, impregnable. They'll attack you but won't put a dent in you because I'm at your side, defending and delivering.”
GOD's Decree. “I'll deliver you from the grip of the wicked. I'll get you out of the clutch of the ruthless.”
Jeremiah 15:19-21 (NLT)
The LORD replied, “If you return to me, I will restore you so you can continue to serve me. If you speak words that are worthy, you will be my spokesman. You are to influence them; do not let them influence you! They will fight against you like an attacking army, but I will make you as secure as a fortified wall. They will not conquer you, for I will protect and deliver you. I, the LORD, have spoken! Yes, I will certainly keep you safe from these wicked men. I will rescue you from their cruel hands.”
The Christian is to be a WORLD-INFLUENCER! (And not the other way around either.). The way we become WORLD-SHAKERS, WORLD-CHANGERS and WORLD-INFLUENCERS is by cramming our hearts full of Gods Word, then letting THOSE WORDS roll off our lips into others' hearts, be they welcome or unwelcomed. The results are up to God; the speaking is up to us!
Jeremiah 15:19-21 (KJV)
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
GODS WORD IN THE MOUTH OF THE BELIEVER IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH.
GODS WORD ON THE LIPS OF ANY ONE OF HIS CHILDREN IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING IN THE WORLD!
Never underestimate even the most obscure or unknown believer who chooses to place Gods Word in his or her mouth.
Even a brand new convert is a FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH when he chooses to let the Word of God come out his or her mouth. Nuclear power: Eat your heart out!
GODS WORD SPOKEN IS NEVER WITHOUT RESULTS!
WHEN WE MAKE GODS WORDS OUR OWN WORDS, WE BECOME A THREAT!
Jeremiah 1:12 (AMP)
Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.
WHEN WE MAKE GODS WORDS OUR WORDS WE BECOME EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL IN THIS EARTH!
Jeremiah 1:12 (GW)
Then the LORD said to me, “Right. I am watching to make sure that my words come true.”*
GOD WILL NOT LET ANY WORD OF HIS BECOME EMPTY OR WITHOUT FULFILLMENT!
1 Samuel 3:19 (KJV)
And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
1 Samuel 3:19 (MSG)
Samuel grew up. GOD was with him, and Samuel's prophetic record was flawless.
1 Samuel 3:19 (NET)
Samuel continued to grow, and the LORD was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled.
1 Samuel 3:19 (GW)
Samuel grew up. The LORD was with him and didn't let any of his words go unfulfilled.
Recently I have been amazed at the cowardice of some famous preachers of huge congregations who refuse to answer national media interviewers with the truth of Gods Word. When asked, they will not say that homosexuality is sin, and they won't even say that there is no such thing as gay marriage. INSTEAD THESE SUCCESSFUL (BUT YOUNG AND NAIVE) PREACHERS REFUSE TO TAKE A STAND WITH GOD... and by default CONDONE HOMOSEXUALITY WHICH GOD CALLS AN ABOMINABLE SIN. Their silence is deafening! They have CHANGED GODS WORD on the subject by HIDING GODS WORD on the subject. (By the way, THERE IS a way to say something is sin but still give people hope that there is a way out of it. Last time I checked that way is someone named "Jesus!" How hard is that?)
Psalms 40:9-10 (KJV)
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. I have NOT HID thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
HIDING GODS WORD from hungry human hearts who are begging for truth and answers is SIN!
CONCEALING TRUTH is a grievous sin!
Refusal to speak and align oneself with the SCRIPTURE is to automatically align oneself with the OPPOSITE of scripture on any subject.
There is NO NEUTRAL in this world!
Deitrich Bonhoeffer: "Not to speak against evil is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless."
It is high time believers in this nation be willing to pay the price and take their licks and endure the backlash for TAKING A STAND FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Proverbs 24:11-12 (NLT)
Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death; don't stand back and let them die. Don't try to avoid responsibility by saying you didn't know about it. For God knows all hearts, and he sees you. He keeps watch over your soul, and he knows you knew! And he will judge all people according to what they have done.
Whatever wickedness we as the body of Christ do not take a stand against now will come back like a hurricane to destroy us in the future.
WE ARE WORLD-INFLUENCERS! ...and make no apologies for it!
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