We typically think that God gave humans language for the purpose of communication, but this is not the primary purpose of words.
The Bible teaches that God created humans in His image, which means, in our original created state, we would have been able to think, talk and act like Him.
Humanity lost connection with our original design when we decided to rebel against His perfect leadership.
But when God sent Jesus, His Son into the world to pay the penalty for humankind's rebellion, He restored us back into a relationship with our Good Designer!
Now, because of what Jesus has done through His death on the cross, each of us can experience daily interaction with God, our loving Father.
By following the Father's advice each day, our lives can find meaning and purpose. Each of us is designed to flourish in this world and accomplish great things for God and ourselves.
So, getting back to the purpose of language, God and people use can words to communicate ideas to one other, but the Bible teaches that God's first purpose for language, was to create things.
"In the beginning [of things] God said [by decree], 'Let there be [things]!' And the result was THINGS. (see Genesis 1)
"Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, and walk in love..." Ephesians 5:1 CSB
This is a big verse! It tells us to imitate God by walking in LOVE. That means loving people the way God loves them. That, dear friends, will take a lifetime of practice!
But that verse also means we can imitate God by using language as He does. This also, fortunately, comes with more proficiency in a lifetime of practice.
Jesus, God's Son [the Word (John 1)], used words to communicate God's TRUTH and to release God's sovereign, creative power through Decree.
He was imitating the Father, not just to prove that he had power, but also to show His followers how we would rule the world in the age to come.
By decree, as royalty.
The AGE TO COME began with his death burial and resurrection! Indeed, it is NOW time for us to imitate Jesus the way Jesus imitates the Father!
Modern science has proven that your voice can release power to your environment. Those who farm or garden will attest that TALKING to your plants, or PRAYING for your crops will produce better results!
“The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.” (Proverbs 18:21, NLT)
The Bible is full of examples of people talking to animals, rocks, bushes and trees. Elijah shut up the heavens, Elisha split the river, and Jesus calmed the wind and the waves, by decree.
Skeptics and many who worship science believe these Bible stories are merely fairy tales, but lately, Quantum physics brings those stories and teachings of the primitive church into the realm of scientific probability.
Speaking kind and loving words will open up a new reality of possibilities for you, and when those words are grounded in the truth (what you know in your heart to be true) the power from your words increases exponentially!
Moses was commanded to bring water from the rock by decree, but he disobeyed and smote the rock with his trusted staff. God was not happy about it. He really wants us to get this.
Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. Then Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” Jesus replied to them, “Have faith in God.
Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, everything you pray and ask for — believe that you have received it and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing.”
Mark 11:20-25 CSB
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