Kenneth Copeland — Words are Powerful!Posted by admin on October 14th, 2009
Words are powerful. They are containers
that can carry faith and love—or fear and
hate. Words are so important, they can determine
our eternal destiny. Romans 10:9-10
says that if you confess the Lord Jesus and
believe that God raised Him from the dead,
you shall be saved. Proverbs 18:21 says that
death and life are in the power of the tongue.
And you are the one who chooses which of
them you speak.
In fact, this is the part of you and me that
is so like God. We have the unique privilege
to choose and speak words.
Just think about the power you have to
speak words! No other creature has that
power. You may say, “Well, angels can speak.”
Yes, but they don’t have the power to choose
what they say. They say what they are told
to say.
Lucifer once chose his own words, but it
doomed him forever. He said, “I’ll be like
God and exalt my throne above the most
high God.” (See Isaiah 14:12-14.) But he
didn’t have the right to choose those words.
Words can destroy—or they can create. They
can project an inner image to the outside world.
Once you understand this, you’re well on your
way to putting the principle of the inner image
to work in your life. But there’s one important
question we still haven’t answered.
What do you do if your inner image is all wrong?
That’s a problem all of us face. You may be
struggling to be thin while your inner image
of yourself remains fat. You may be working
to be a winner while seeing yourself as a loser.
How do you change that?
With the Word of God—and only with the Word of God!
You see, words not only release the creative
force of faith, they also produce images. When
you hear the word dog, the letters D-O-G don’t
run across your consciousness, do they? No,
you immediately form a picture in your mind
of a dog. You may even think of your dog.
But if you heard “big, black, mean dog,” you
would get a totally different picture in your
mind. Words paint pictures in our minds.
That’s why, in Joshua 1, God told Joshua
not to let the book of the law (God’s Word)
depart out of his mouth. God told him to
meditate in it day and night. Why? “…That
you may observe and do according to all
that is written in it. For then you shall make
your way prosperous, and then you shall
deal wisely and have good success” (Joshua
1:8, The Amplified Bible). To observe means
“to see.” God was telling Joshua that if he
would meditate on the Word day and night,
he would build an image of that Word inside
him. And Joshua needed that image. He
would be leading an entire nation and step
into the shoes of a man who’d literally been
with God Almighty.
Joshua couldn’t afford to see himself as a
loser or even as simply an ordinary man. He
had to become what God intended for him to
be by meditating the Word of God. And God
promised him that the result would be wisdom,
prosperity and good success. The Word of
God would change what was happening on
the inside and the outside of him.
It’s important to understand that we’re not
just talking about improving your self-image.
We’re talking about getting your inner image
to line up with the Word of God.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries