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November 8, 2007

A God Controlled Tongue

Ezek 3:26-27

I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house. But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

Do you allow God to have this kind of control over your mouth? When you speak do people wonder whether you are speaking by God’s authority or your own?

Can He trust you to speak His words without interjecting your own? God wanted to make sure that the people of Israel knew that when Ezekiel spoke, it was God and not Ezekiel. He wanted there to be no mistake!

James 3:8-11 says, “But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.”  No man can tame the tongue, but we can submit to God and allow the Holy Spirit to remind us to only speak faith and life!

Consider another scripture reference where God supernaturally muted a man’s tongue. In Luke chapter 1, Gabriel appears to bring the good news to Zacharias that his wife Elizabeth was to bear a son who would make ready a people prepared for the Lord. In verse 18, Zacharias begins to speak from his flesh and questions Gabriel by speaking the facts in the natural. Let me paraphrase with liberty. “My wife and I are old. She can’t have a baby!” Because his first words were unbelief, Gabriel said he would be mute until the day these things took place. This was an important event in the Kingdom of God . It would fulfill prophecy written hundreds of years earlier. There would be no tolerance for unbelief or a chance to curse the blessing God was bringing. In verse 24, we are told that indeed Elizabeth did conceive in her old age and then we are told that she hid herself for five months. Why? Could it be that Zacharias and she had learned their lesson? It would be about five months before she would be obviously showing, proving what God had promised had come to pass. There would be no chance of man interjecting doubt and unbelief with an untamed tongue!

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Proverbs18:21

Whoever guards his mouth and tongue, keeps his soul from troubles. Proverbs 21:23

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. Proverbs 15:4

We too must learn to allow God to guide our speech. We must speak from our Spirit. We must sound different than the world. We must exercise our faith and speak truth from the Word regardless of the circumstances we see with our natural eyes. We must speak life!

Will you allow God to have this kind of control over your mouth?

Janet F.

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