Sensitivity of Speech by Kenneth CopelandPosted by admin on June 3rd, 2009

As believers, we should make a decision to become sensitive to the words we speak. Our words are what bind us to one another. Our ability to speak makes us like God. God spoke His Word and would not change. He gave authority over the earth to Adam, and Adam gave it to the devil. God stuck by His Word even though it cost Him His Son. No other being on earth but man has the right to choose words and speak them in faith.

It’s time that we as Christians remember the covenants we make, even if we have to swear to our own hurt. We have broken too many contracts thinking it was all right because the other party was not honoring it. When we make a covenant, and say, “I will,” “I do,” “I shall,” “I’ll be there on time,” we had better be there on time.

Until we learn to become sensitive to the integrity of our own word, we will not understand what it means to act on God’s Word. His power comes from His keeping His Word—from His keeping it and from our keeping it. Without knowing this, it is almost impossible to grow spiritually and experience the better things of God.

That is what is wrong in so many marriages. People are insensitive to the covenant they have made. They said, “I do,” and forgot it fifteen minutes later. Men and women who begin to have trouble in their marriages should know the Bible marriage vows so well, that the very moment strife comes in, they run to the communion table.

If they would get on their knees and reaffirm the covenant they made before God, reciting their vows to one another again, they would find themselves as tender with one another as they were on their wedding night.

If you say, “But Brother Copeland, we are too far gone,” you’ve just admitted that you are too selfish to even try. Many think that adultery is the major cause of divorce, but Jesus said the rite of divorcement was given “because of the hardness [or insensitiveness] of your hearts” (Matthew 19:8). The Body of Christ must act like God, and swear to our own hurt, where marriage is concerned. It will cause us to be as victorious as God. He is not a loser.

When you, your wife and your children become sensitive to each other’s needs, rather than your own, no sin on earth is big enough to stop the love of God from flowing in your household. The love of God never fails. Your marriage will not fail when it is based on God’s love.

God is moving in this hour. His eyes are going to and fro across the earth seeking those who have a perfect heart: those to whom He may show Himself strong. A perfect heart is a sensitive heart. It is one that has matured in sensitivity to God, to the needs of those around it, and to the Word of God.

Kenneth Copeland