Out of Thin Air

Church around the breakfast table was phenomenal again yesterday. It seems as often as I feel guilty (a sure sign of the enemy— conviction is from the Lord, not guilt) for not casting in my lot with the organized, traditional church, He pulls something out of the bag like this. We talked hard and prayed hard and laughed hard and the Kingdom was expanded. What follows is the much-abbreviated version.

We talked about how there is so much more to Words than most of Christendom recognizes. This is something my best friend and I have covered extensively, and as a family we've explored it quite a bit too, but this time the Holy Spirit just busted stuff open.

Note:
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Ps. 18:21 Literally. We forget that.
“The WORD became flesh and dwelt among us.” John 1:14 (No, Jesus did not have a human form before He was physically born. He was the WORD!)
“All things were made through him [the WORD] , and without him was not any thing made that was made.” John 1:3
We think words are intangible. Unreal. We say, "It's just words!" as if they are somehow lost once spoken. But if God does not create anything greater than Himself, His WORD is "realer" than what it spoke into being. Think about that! Reality as we know it is only a shadow, ala Narnia, which has its source in the TRUE reality of God's WORD. And I don't just mean the Bible because He is constantly speaking life into the world in other ways too— birth, dreams, visions, through the blessings of His saints on other people, etc.

In fact that was a second facet of the discussion. If words are that REAL, that solid in the Greater Reality of God's side of the tapestry, why not speak more words of life? It's not as if the blessings of the Lord will ever run short. We can afford to "spew" them, as Boomer put it. We'll never run out! Is it any wonder that Satan tries to thwart our tongues so much? Everything James says about it reminds us that this is war, and Satan recognizes that much more often than we do. He can see some of that other side, see the life and death we are speaking, so he does his level best to coerce us into vain speaking, pointless jabbering, teasing, even cursing (which takes many forms). And we don't notice because it's "just words." Agh!!!

So we decided to engage in the battle over our tongues and our words and start blessing more. If the Word of God becomes real in the form of food on our table and freedom in our souls, why won't our words of affirmation bring light to downtrodden spirits? Why won't our words of praise wake a truer understanding of one's talents? We laugh at “I believe I can fly,” rightly so I think, but the underlying principle deserves consideration. Perhaps it's time to stop wishing and start fighting for our dearest held desires with the mighty weapon of our words. You tell me what thing lies dead in your life only because you haven't spoken life over it. What hope might grow shoe leather out of thin air if we would only speak?!