Set Your Course with Your Tongue

Matthew 12:34b-37

….For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks.

The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things.

 But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.

For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.

In Matthew 12:34-37 we read about what is in our hearts in abundance is what we will speak. Our words either condemn us or by our words we are set free. When we receive Jesus into our hearts Romans 10 verses 9 & 10 tells us with our lips we acknowledge him as Lord and believe. The decision we made for Jesus was believed and acknowledged with our mouth based on the truth we heard from His word. We set a new course for our life when we spoke our confession of faith regarding salvation. Before we were on a course of sin and death and now we are on a course of righteousness and life in Christ Jesus. We started our course with the foundation of God's Word and our acknowledgement of it with our words. Why would our continued walk in our new life in Christ Jesus or keep on our new course in life be any different?

James 3:2-4 Amplified

For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature.

If we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole bodies about.

Likewise, look at the ships: though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the helmsman determines.

Like a ship sailing on the sea, so is your life. You don't like the direction your life is going take the small rudder that God gave you (your tongue) and turn it around. Like the helmsman who is steering the ship's rudder to change course of the ship, you steer your rudder (tongue) to change your course. If the ship needs to be turned to go the opposite direction it's going, they start turning the rudder, and the ship slowly changes course. It doesn't happen all at once it takes time for that ship to correct its course. You start speaking the word of God over your life, your family, and your circumstances things may not change overnight. It may take days, weeks, or years for the course to completely change. As with a ship you don't always know the ship is being turned in a different direction and you can't always go by what you see to know that things in your life are changing their course.

Last fall Pastor Diana & I talked about the acid in our bodies and how it affects our body. Since then I have been getting in my spirit "change the course of your body by your tongue". Too much acid in your system speak "excess acid in my body be neutralized in Jesus Name" Sinus issues: my sinuses are healed and whole, clear and open, tissue is healthy and whole. To change the course my body is on physically I need to speak right things over it. Just like James 3:3 says a bit in the horse's mouth can turn the whole body of the horse about, we can change or turn our body around. The Amplified version of James 3:6 says "setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man's nature)". I have heard our body renews itself in cycles every so many months our whole body changes. New cells grow or regenerate, new skin, and our hair growth. Our body is on cycles wake cycle; sleep cycle. Like the bit in a horse's mouth, I see this as you can use your tongue to turn the direction your body is going. If you have a stubborn horse that refuses to turn or is not trained well, you have to put firm pressure on that bit to get the horse to turn around. You have to be determined that this horse is going to learn who is boss; same with your body, put pressure on your tongue to speak the word and positive things over your body. Your body may be stubborn or untrained to listen to the words but it will if you keep that pressure constant, firm, and immovable on the word your body will turn about.

Man alone cannot tame the tongue. Through God's Word and the Holy Spirit we can put pressure on our tongue to tame it. Allow God's Word to put pressure on your tongue to control it by only speaking in agreement with His Word. The baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues brings your tongue in submission to supernatural heavenly words. James 3:2 tells me if we control what we say, what we let our tongue say, we will be fully developed in character and we will be able to control our whole nature (body, spirit, & soul).

The tongue is a powerful force! Keep advancing in the new course you are on with Christ Jesus by putting pressure on your tongue.