God created the world with faith filled words. He demonstrated that words have the power to create and that creation responds to words. If you can understand that, it will change your life
welcome to gospel truth with Andrew
Wommack a teaching ministry that focuses
on God’s unconditional love and grace
and now here’s Andrew welcome to our
Monday’s broadcast of the gospel truth
today I’m going to begin a brand new
series talking about the power of faith
filled words and I am really excited to
be sharing on this you know back in the
beginning of my ministry this is one of
the teachings that I used to teach on a
lot and I had an entire series talking
about the creative power of words but
that’s been like 30-something years ago
maybe thirty five years ago and I
recently was in one of our Bible College
classes and I just made a comment about
how powerful words were and the things
that you say and I made this comment in
passing and after the class was over I
had a student come up and say do you
have a series on this and I said well I
used to have a series on it 30-something
years ago and I said it’s so old that we
don’t even reproduce it anymore and he
says you need to put out a whole series
on this again and so I got to thinking
about that and I thought you know I do
because I refer to this lot if you’ve
heard my teaching on the authority of
the believer you’ve heard me teach about
this if you’ve heard my teaching on
faith builders you’ve heard me teach
about this if you’ve heard my teaching
on you’ve already got it you’ve heard me
teach about this I talked about it but I
haven’t just gone back and taught
extensively just on the subject of how
powerful our words are and so recently
in when I was in England back in 2011 I
did an entire series on this during our
Grace and faith conference over there in
England and I tell you it was powerful
and we saw a lot of miracles happen and
this is one of the keys and I know that
just by the topic that I’m describing
many of you are going to say oh you know
your words because we don’t put any
importance on our words we certainly
don’t put an importance on
other people’s words and we listen to
things that we shouldn’t be listening to
and most people do not understand the
power of words even most Christians who
say that they understand the power of
the words you can tell by listening to
them that they don’t and so I’m saying
these things by way of introduction
saying that I know many of you are going
all the power of faith filled words
again and I’ve already heard this or I’d
like to hear something different and if
that’s your reaction then I can promise
you you do not have the revelation on
this because this is powerful and it has
a potential of really changing your life
you know before our meetings I usually
stand out in in the crowd for at least
an hour and we have people come and I
visit with them many of them want prayer
and I just don’t have time to teach
everybody all of these things and so I’m
not always able to tell them or explain
these things to them and so many times
I’ll just go ahead and pray for him but
I know that they aren’t going to receive
the healing that they desire because of
the words that they say the words that
you say just show me the volumes of
what’s in your heart we recently have a
situation where somebody had to be dealt
with and I was meeting with my staff I
was kind of giving them some
instructions of how I would talk to this
person and and one of the things that I
told them I said you know you just tell
them the situation and then you listen I
said don’t go in with a preconceived
idea you listen to what they have to say
in how they respond and if they go to
trying to justify themself if they
respond in anger if they do this and
this and this I said words tell a lot
about what’s on the inside of a person’s
heart in Matthew chapter 12 Jesus said
out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaks and your mouth will say
what’s in your heart now you can be a
hypocrite and you can lie and you can
say things contrary to what’s truly in
your heart on a brief period of time but
if you just listen to a person the
dominant thing that comes out of their
mouth is going to betray
a what’s in their heart and as we get
further into this series I hesitate to
say this now because some of you might
just disagree with this and blow it off
and not even listen to the series
because you think this isn’t important
but as we get further into this series I
am going to show you that out of your
heart though if you could sit down and
honestly objectively analyze the words
that you’re saying it would tell you
volumes about where you are in your
relationship with God and again I know
that there’s many other disciplines not
ready you don’t understand my problems
over here you don’t understand the
creative power of faith filled words and
so what I want to do is to share some
things with you about how important your
words are and this is really how you
release the power of God in your life
the power and the authority that we use
is god-given it comes from God that
means it’s not your power it’s God’s
power and it operates according to his
laws according to the way he does things
and you can’t sit there and just say
well I don’t like this and I’m not going
to do things this way and here’s how I
believe it’s going to be done the real
power in the Christian life is a gift
from God it’s his indwelling power and
it’s going to have to operate according
to his laws and I’m going to be teaching
you as we talk about the power of faith
filled words how his kingdom operates
and you will find out that the vast
majority of us as Christians people who
are watching this program and the
extreme vast majority of non-christians
and all of this secular world and the
things that we are being taught and
plugged into on a daily basis they are
operating contrary to what God said in
his word and if you are plugged into
this it is going to defeat you and so
this is not a matter of you just saying
well I reject this I think I’ll do it
another way there is no other way for
God’s power
parade one of the things I’m going to
show you through the Word of God is that
this is how God operates and if you are
going to see God flow through you in his
power work in your life you’re going to
have to adopt his way of doing things
and this is how God functions let me
just start over here in mark chapter 11
I’m going to come back to this and teach
on this in more detail so this isn’t
going to be an in-depth teaching on this
but I just want to make this point use
this as an illustration we’ll go to some
other scriptures and begin to show you
about how God has operated through the
power of words and I’ll come back to
this and go into much more detail but in
the 11th chapter of the book of Mark is
an instance where Jesus right at the end
of his ministry this is his last time
not the very last instance that he was
in Jerusalem but during that last week
the Passover week that he was there
ministering and he was going into
Jerusalem and as he was walking into the
city he was staying at Bethany and as he
was walking into the city of Jerusalem
he was hungry and he saw a fig tree that
had leaves but it didn’t have any fruit
on it and you know fig trees I’ve had
some people challenge this and there are
different types of fig trees but I
actually had a person who is a member
I’m not sure the exact name of it but
it’s some kind of a government agency in
Israel verify that the fig trees in
Israel produce figs at the same time or
right before the leaves come out so if
there are leaves on a fig tree in Israel
it should have figs it wasn’t time for
the figs yet but it wasn’t time for
leaves and this tree already had leaves
on it and so Jesus went to this fig tree
fig tree expecting to get some fruit off
of it when he got there it had leaves
but it didn’t have any figs and so he
cursed this fig tree and like I said
I’ll go into this in more detail and
some people think well how could he have
done this well he’s the creator he’s one
that created these fig trees he’s the
one that
told them how they were supposed to
operate and this big tree was a pervert
his fig tree was not operating the way
that God created it – and Jesus as the
creator had every right to kill this fig
tree because it was not operating
according to the way that he created it
– that is a powerful truth and there’s a
lot of things could be said about that
but anyway the way he did this he just
cursed it he didn’t take any salt and
put on it he didn’t cut it down he
didn’t dig it up he didn’t break off a
limb he didn’t do anything in the
natural to cause this but here’s what he
did in verse 14 mark 1114 he said no man
eat fruit of the hereafter for ever and
it makes special mention in that verse
that it says his disciples heard it and
so they went on into the city of
Jerusalem they came back that evening we
don’t know for sure but it would be
consistent to think that they took the
same Road that they passed the exact
same fig tree that evening nobody said
anything about it that evening but the
next morning it says in verse 20 and in
the morning as they passed by they saw
the fig tree dried up from the roots if
you read this same instance over in
Matthews account over there it says that
when Jesus spoke to this fig tree that
anon are immediately it died and yet you
read here it was the next morning that
they saw that the fig tree was dried up
what’s the how do you balance those was
it instantly or did it take 24 hours
well the answer is it was dried up from
the roots it died immediately instantly
the roots were dead and he just took a
period of time for what had happened
below the surface that was unobservable
to manifest in the leaves that were
above the surface you know this is
similar if you cut off a rose or a
flower you can put it in a vase and put
it in water and it’ll still look
beautiful and it’ll hold its color and
and it won’t wilt for maybe a week or
two weeks depending
how you take care of it but the moment
you sever it from that plant it’s dead
and it just takes a period of time for
that death to manifest itself in the
flower likewise the moment Jesus spoke
he didn’t touch it he didn’t do anything
in the natural but the moment he spoke
that fig tree was dead and it took a
period of time for what had taken place
in the roots to manifest itself in the
leaves and in the portion of that fig
tree that was above-ground and so here’s
Peters response in verse 21 Peter
calling to remembrance said unto him
master behold the fig tree which you
cursed is withered away you know we
don’t have the benefit of hearing the
inflection of Peters voice and sometimes
we just read this in a monotone and we
don’t catch this but I can guarantee you
that Peter didn’t just say master the
fig tree that you cursed his withered
away I believe he was overwhelmed it was
more like Jesus look at this fig tree
you cursed it you just spoke to it and
it’s dead he was absolutely shocked and
here’s Jesus answer in verse 22 and
jesus answered and said unto him have
faith in God and we don’t have the
benefit of hearing Jesus inflection of
his voice either but I don’t believe he
just said have faith in God Peter no it
was more like Peter
have faith in God what’s wrong with you
don’t you understand the power that I
have why are you shocked to see this fig
tree withered away this reaction most
people would think man Peter was really
in tune with God and he was impressed
with the things of God but what it
really did it revealed the unbelief that
was in his heart he was shocked to see a
miracle happen without anything physical
taking place it was all just Jesus spoke
words out of his mouth and he was
shocked by this and did you know
likewise it shocks people today to
understand the power of our words but
Jesus said have faith in God you ought
to be able to believe
and see things like this happened and
then he gave an explanation of how he
was able to do this miracle on the fig
tree in verse 23 he says for verily I
say unto you that whosoever man that is
a powerful statement right there
this means it’s not based on your gender
it’s not based on your education it’s
not based on your holiness it’s not
based on any of these natural things
many times people will listen to
somebody teach on this use an example
about Jesus and Peter and they’ll say oh
those people were different than me
they were whosoever Peter was a
whosoever all of these disciples were
whosoever you are whosoever I am a
whosoever this is not just for people
that were 2,000 years ago this will work
for people right now in our modern age
this still works whosoever will say unto
this mountain be thou removed and be
thou cast into the sea and shall not
doubt in his heart but shall believe
that those things which he saith shall
come to pass he shall have whatsoever he
said there are three times in this verse
that Jesus talked about the power of
words he says whosoever shall say unto
this mountain be removed be cast into
the sea and shall not doubt in his heart
but shall believe that those things
which he saith shall come to pass he
shall have whatsoever he said three
times he emphasizes the power of words
so here’s Peter just shocked overwhelmed
at this miracle and again I think
sometimes we miss how impressive this
was but if we were just walking down the
street and if I looked up at a tree and
I said you’re dead and that’s all I said
and we just walked on and then the next
day we were walking by and if that tree
was all dried up and you could tell that
it had died overnight and all I had done
is talked to it I guarantee that would
be impressive you’d be probably saying
look at the fig tree that you cursed
just like Peter did and Jesus is
explaining how it happened
he just spoke words I know that there
are some of you watching this program
right now that is thinking it’s not this
you can’t do this with words well then
just cut this instance out of your Bible
because this is what it’s all based on
and I’m going to be linking many other
scriptures to this and if you really get
into the words you’re going to find out
that your words are powerful super
powerful but notice here it’s not only
words you have to believe that the
things that you say come to pass and
this is why most of us aren’t seeing the
power of our words really affect things
in a positive way the way we shoot is
because we don’t believe it we have just
gotten to where we think words are
unimportant you can prove that by the
way that people listen to doubt and
unbelief of other people they will sit
in churches I’ll quit preaching down I’m
gone to prayin I’m talking directly to
some of you that are in churches that
are deader than a hammer man I was in a
church one time that a person died and
they called the 911 11c number and the
rescue people came and they carried out
half of the congregation before they
found the dead person that’s how death
at church was there are some of you that
are in dead churches I mean if a person
lifts their hand to praise God they’ll
say it’s down the hall on the left
first door on the left I mean that you
couldn’t praise God there aren’t people
there it’s just dead and you listen to
preaching that is not benefiting you
it’s speaking doubt and unbelief because
you do not believe the power of words
and some of you might think oh I would
never say any of these things let me
share this passage with you out of first
Corinthians chapter 15 verse 33 it says
be not deceived evil communications
corrupt good manners and that is a
strong statement right there it’s saying
don’t be deceived evil communications
corrupt good manners the
Communications here is not only limited
to words this is talking about a
lifestyle a way of living you can
communicate with more than words you can
communicate with actions you can
communicate in a lot of different ways
but evil communications includes the
words that you say and it corrupts good
manners you know if you take a rotten
apple and put it up next to a good apple
the good apple doesn’t change the rotten
apple it’s the rotten apple that will
change the good Apple it seems like that
in our fallen world everything goes from
a state of good to bad a state of order
to disorder and unbelief and doubt tends
to influence and affect good manners
people with good intentions and stuff
and this says don’t be to see if you’re
saying that all I can watch this movie I
can I can be involved in this church I
can have this circle of friends that
they’re all ungodly and everything
they’re saying and doing is bad and yet
it doesn’t affect me you’re deceived
that’s about as blunt as I can put that
you’re deceived because the Bible says
don’t be deceived evil communications
corrupt good manners you could turn over
to second Peter chapter 2 I’m running
short of time today maybe I’ll go into
more depth on this tomorrow but the
second Peter chapter 2 it talks about
lot and it calls him a righteous man in
seen and hearing their evil
communications he vexed his soul from
day to day and he wound up he didn’t
lose his faith in God he still had faith
in God but he cost him everything he
went down to Sodom and Gomorrah because
of the financial benefit and the lush
pasture and it was good for his cattle
and his sheep and things like this and
he did it for a monetary reason but he
wound up losing his family his wife his
daughters it cost him everything he just
barely escaped with his life because of
the evil communications of other people
and
tell you there are many people that are
listening to me as I give this
introduction talking about how powerful
our words are and you’re just sitting
here downplaying this and saying oh it’s
not that important and it really doesn’t
matter what I listen to
and you’re you’re discounting this and
you’re doing the same thing that Lott
did to himself I guarantee it’s going to
harden you it’s going to harden your
kids it’s going to harden your wife it’s
going to harden other people it’s going
to cost you the the power of words is
not only your words but it’s every word
you hear right now you’re hearing faith
filled words that line up with the Word
of God things that can benefit you and
help you but that’s not all you listen
to you listen to the news you watch
movies you watch TV shows you read
magazines you read books you do all
kinds of things and every word not only
every word that you speak but every word
that comes to you is either life or
death it’s either building you up or
tearing you down and if you say but I
can endure this it’s not that big of a
deal I reject it I it doesn’t bother me
then according to first Corinthians
15:33 you are deceived because evil
communications corrupt good manners
you cannot indulge yourself you cannot
let the sewage of this world flow
through you without it affecting you
something is going to stick something is
going to happen to you and I tell you as
we go through this series and talk about
the power of faith filled words I
believe it’s going to give you an
impetus to start using your words and
speaking faith filled words but it’s
also going to show you that you need to
protect your heart and you don’t need to
expose yourself to the doubt and the
unbelief you may not be able to avoid it
a hundred percent but we could avoid a
lot of it the majority of it we could
change our situation easily if we just
understood how powerful our words are
and so I’m beginning this series to talk
about the power of faith filled words
and I want to just once again go back to
mark
11:23 and say that Jesus said this is
how he performed his miracle this
miracle on the fig tree and you will
find it in many other places matter of
fact when he talked to the Centurion in
Matthew chapter 8 the reason he marveled
at this man’s faith because this man
says I don’t need to have you come here
I don’t have to see you touch him you
speak the word only and he marveled at
this man’s faith because of a person
understood the power of faith filled
words I tell you this is a key to
walking with God and understanding the
things of God and I’ve got a lot to
share about it so I encourage you to
listen in and to make a priority on
getting hold of these truths I’ve also
got this teaching and this is a brand
new teachings first time I’ve taught
this as a series in something like 35
years so I’ve got this brand new
teaching entitled the power of faith
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the power of faith filled words John
chapter 14 verse 1 the very first thing
that Jesus told his disciples he says
let not your heart be troubled when I
looked into his face I saw his eyes
flittering and so um I yelled at him and
I said you are not gonna leave me next
thing I know I’m down an emergency room
at the stroke center and err semester
this in Fort Worth one third of Alan’s
brain had not received blood the MRI
scan of the brain showed a massive
stroke they told me he was paralyzed on
the left side they told me that he could
not swallow they told me he could not
speak they were saying he’s going to
need a stomach to to be fed the rest of
his life we were not really optimistic
about the outcome we had spent that time
in Christian survival we had spent that
time in harnessing your emotions and I
was harnessing my emotions I was
completely under control and that’s what
disturbed the doctors the most they were
not going to speak death over him
because his life was in the balance and
I knew the truth and the truth
was going to set him free and I knew it
I knew it would set complete it would
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need-need doesn’t motivate God God is
motivated by his own love to meet our
needs that his a power is available but
the thing that will release are
appropriate this power of God is faith
when Andrew and Jamie were young they
went to a conference on Biblical
prosperity they desperately wanted to
get the teaching but simply could not
afford it
Andrew promised God that if he was ever
in a position to make his teaching
available he would never deny it to
someone for lack of funds and that’s
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