GREAT NEWS: YOUR TONGUE IS A PEN THAT CAN CAUSE YOU TO EXPERIENCE HIGH ENERGY LIVING!
SCRIPTURE: Psalms 45:1
“My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.”
Can you recall times when you have been listening to someone talk and you felt an excitement well up in you? Those words they were speaking were being written upon your heart!
Our Scripture says what we speak with our tongue is to our heart what a pen is to paper!
In Dr. Cho’s book, “The Fourth Dimension,” he writes about a conversation he had with a neurosurgeon. The neurosurgeon stated that it had just been found that the speech center in the brain has total dominion over all other nerves! Dr. Cho replied, “I have known that for a long time because I read in the Bible in the Book of James, Chapter 3, that the activity of the tongue and speech can bridle the whole body!
Every day we have the opportunity to write good things on our heart by reciting verses from the Word of God.
Jesus said some profound things about our speech. We can use our tongue to record vibrancy, joy, love, hope, expectation and peace in our hearts or our tongue can be used to deplete life energy by writing fear, doubt, pessimism, etc., in our hearts.
Luke 6:45 “A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up
in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
When we put the Word of God into our heart, our mouth will speak words that produce fruits of righteousness, which is the life Jesus paid for us to have. Also, as we meditate on good things, these thoughts will mingle with our spirit which will cause us to walk in success, peace, joy and expectation of good. Of course, the opposite is true if we meditate on words of defeat, guilt, judgement, fear, etc.! Our Scripture says, with our tongue, we can write noble things!
By listening to our heart, we can ascertain what the pen of our tongue has been up to!
I heard a story about a lady that was walking home from work when she was suddenly attacked. She had been studying Acts 2:38 that says: “Jesus went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil because God was with Him.” In a frantic state, the Scripture came to her mind that she had been meditating on and she starting shouting “Acts 2:38.” Within seconds the man dropped her and started running. When the police caught him, they asked why he had dropped her and he said, I heard her saying she had a 38! It is a humorous story, but she had been storing good things in her heart with her tongue and it sure paid off!
But seriously as mentioned above, Jesus brother, James said in one Translation, that if a man can control his tongue, he is a perfect man in control of his entire being at all times. He said the tongue may be small, but it can cause tremendous destruction! However, we want to keep in mind and reinforce that it is also the means by which we receive all the blessings that have been stored up for us. Our part is believing, receive and declare the good things God said belong to us as heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus.
1 Corinthians 2:12 says: “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.”
Understanding that God framed the universe we live in with His Words and that we are born of His Spirit, and made in His image and likeness, helps us to understand why words are so important to our receiving the “things freely given to us by God.” Our Scripture is so beautiful because it says, “We recite verses for our King,” who is Jesus, and He watches over His word to perform it! Jeremiah 1:12
Jesus said, “the Words I speak are spirit and life.” John 6:63 This statement of Jesus helps us to realize the importance He placed on what He said. Proverbs 18:21 says: “The tongue has the power of life and death and those that love it will eat its fruit.”
The word of God is like a seed that when planted through our spoken words, has the potential to germinate, take root and grow to bear fruit. If you think about it, you would not plant garlic, onions or turnips if you were desiring sweet potatoes, tomatoes or carrots.
It is good to take time to take an inventory of what is written in our hearts and, if it is not what we want to harvest, pray crop failure on it in Jesus’ Name and start planting new seeds! I find myself doing this on a regular basis. We know that weeds grow faster than seeds, for some reason, and must be pulled out so the seed will produce!
Hebrews 4:12 says “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow, it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
The Bible refers to the Word of God as not only alive and active but also as a mirror for us to view our lives through. With that in mind, it is very exciting to realize that we can use our tongue today to write God’s living word on our hearts together with our heart’s desires and anticipate the seeds we have planted are germinating and will produce the fruit that will bring God glory and cause us to experience the abundant life Jesus said He came for us to have!
With so much going on in the entire world today, our confidence and comfort come through knowing God’s plans have not changed nor the reason Jesus came to earth.
Several Scriptures that are so meaningful to me are:
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6 Notice the work He began is a GOOD WORK!
“When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy. Restore our fortunes, Lord, like streams in the Negev. Those who go out weeping carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy carrying sheaves with them.” Psalms 126 This is such a powerful promise! The word fortunes are also translated “turned the captivity and restored health” and Zion refers to the Church as well. This says God has a big plan and as we sow our seeds of faith declarations based on His word and our intercessory prayers, God’s promise is our tongues will sing songs of joy and we will experience the great things He has in store!
Let’s all be encouraged to use our tongue as a pen and as skillful writers to write God things upon our hearts which will honor our Lord, and we will also be framing our world with good things that according to our Scriptures, He wants us and those we pray for to experience!
Diana M Sykes
