Power of Life and Death

UV 4117/10000 Power of Life and Death The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18 v 21 The tongue, in this uni-verse, is made out to be equally a source of life or death depending on whether we love life or death, whether we use it as an instrument of life or of death. If we speak lies, abuses, curses from it, we speak death. If we speak truth, encouragement, confession, appreciation, blessings, we speak life. It is a double-edged sword. It is a spiritual sword sheathed in human mouths alone of all species. If we use our tongues to praise God, we should not also use it to curse, accuse, criticize our fellow beings who are made in the image of God. The tongue can keep us young and healthy if we use it in a way to edify ourselves and others. The tongue gets it power from love. It gets negative power from the love of death. If we love earthly life, we are loving death, we are loving the world. Such a tongue produces negative fruit or the fruit of death or the fruit of the evil spirit. If we love eternal life, it will produce the fruit of the spirit, the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The nine fruit of the spirit, namely, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self control can all be expressed verbally or are functions of the tongue. These are the nine rivers of life giving water that the Holy Spirit produces from our belly. It flows against the current of this world, the world of death and hatred. If we use the tongue to agree with the promises of God, the promises will begin to unfold and be fulfilled in our lives. Like Jesus uttered after reading the scripture, we should say, “This day this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” When we use the authority of God to command the evil spirits, power is released into this world, our homes to take the spirits of darkness captive, to set them to flight. We are using our tongues to affirm the word of God, then, our tongues become veritable spiritual swords that are moving in all directions, defending our lives. When our tongues are anointed by the Spirit of God, our prayers and even sighs are heard by the Lord and Giver of Life, by our Redeemer. Jesus said, “Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.” But those who live by the word, will live forever by the word and their tongues will be spiritual life giving and life enhancing weapons of power.