The Power Of The Tongue

March 7, 2025, 10:06 a.m. SAST

DR. LYDIA

Jesus raised Lazarus by calling him. He used His voice, but it was not just an ordinary call—it was the power in His voice that a dead man could hear, commanding him: "Come out!" And Lazarus came out alive.

The tongue is the means by which we  bring out or express the contents of our hearts in words.

Luke 6:45 (NKJV): A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Our heart is like a storeroom—it contains both good and bad. Each person brings forth from the abundance of their heart.

What is inside your store room , your heart—good or bad?

You can only give what you have. What you have comes from the power that influences you, the force that leads you, and ultimately rules over you. It dictates what you do, what you say, and what comes out of your tongue.

When you express what is in your heart, it carries power.

Galatians 5:16-18 (GNT): What I say is this: Let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature. For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do. But if the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the Law.

Human nature (the flesh) has its works, while the Spirit has its fruits. Both reside in the heart of man depending on what leads him, and man brings them out of his storeroom—the heart.

Proverbs 18:21 (NKJV): Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

There is power to bring life and power to bring death. It depends of the power  you love , you will eat its fruits—the fruit of death or the fruit of life.

What is leading you? What has power over your tongue?

The Holy Spirit is the power that gives life. When He is inside of us, we will bring forth life and even resurrect things because of His presence within us.

John 6:63 (NKJV): It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

Without the Holy Spirit, the tongue can become an instrument of destruction , even to families. James 3:6 warns us of how the tongue can set a whole life on fire.

You cannot have both the power leading.

As also ask us Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? James 3:11 (NKJV).

You can only have one. Just as a spring cannot produce both bitter and fresh water, you cannot produce both good and evil, death and life, from the same source. You can only produce from the source you are connected to. Our source is God and we must take on the nature of the One we serve—our Lord Jesus—who has called us so that we can walk in His Spirit, which gives life, rather than in the flesh. The Spirit is who God is and He is calling us to be in, to enter in the Holy Spirit to serve Him in His  reality

John 4:24 (NKJV): God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

Jesus calls us to be led by the Spirit, to serve and worship God in His divine nature. Every child of God is called to enter into the Spirit, for the Holy Spirit is available to all.

The Holy Spirit is for everyone.

John 7:37-39 (NKJV): On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Jesus calls the thirsty to come and drink. The Holy Spirit is available for those who thirst—to drink as much as they desire. It all depends on how thirsty you are.

Acts 1:4-8 tells us that after Jesus left His disciples, He told them to wait for the promise—the Holy Spirit. They could not go from place to place witnessing because they were full of fear. They could not do the work until they received the promise of the Holy Spirit. But when the Spirit came upon them, all fear was gone. They travelled from place to place, fearless—even in the face of death. Their only joy was fulfilling the Great Commission. Today, we read their writings—the Acts of the Apostles. Their time has passed, and now it is our time!

Joel 2:28-29 / Acts 2:39: For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

It is our time to serve the Lord in the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit must take full control of us. We must be baptized in Him—completely immersed.

Ezekiel 47:1-12 describes the waters that cover and consume us, leaving us with no choice but to swim in them, following the movement of the Holy Spirit. When He is in control, and we are fully covered in Him, we will bear fruit.

Hallelujah!