A teenage girl in our church shared her testimony about passing her secondary school certificate examination (WASSCE) with excellent results, despite taking it a year early in SS2. She had confidently told her parents she would pass with flying colors since SS1, and they enrolled her for the exam. She achieved seven distinctions and two credits, reinforcing the idea that what people say can shape their outcomes.
Friend, your words determine your outcomes. You will have what you say (Mark 11:23). What you constantly say will eventually shape your future and destiny. You should not be surprised at what your life becomes. You decided it when you started speaking in a certain way (Hebrews 13:5-6). Also, you should not be clueless as to what the future holds. It’s already in your mouth.
If God can help your words, He would help your life (1 Peter 3:10). Sometimes, the greatest gift God can give some people is the gift of silence. Some people are using their own mouth to stop their own miracles and destroy their own destiny. Perhaps Zechariah would have used his mouth to hinder the prophecy about John and Jesus if not for the gift of deafness and dumbness (Luke 1:20).
There are things you must be deaf to, and there are things you must be dumb to (Isaiah 8:11-13). Stop listening to what the devil is saying and stop saying what He wants you to say. If you don’t have anything positive to say, learn to keep quiet. Don’t cooperate with the devil by what you say (Job 1:5, 3:25). Rather, corporate with God by saying what He says.
You will eventually become what you continually confess (Psalm 91:1-2). If you keep saying you are poor, you will end up poor. If you keep saying you are weak or sick, you should not expect to be strong and healthy. This is why the Bible tells the weak to say that they are strong (Joel 3:10). Refuse to confess your circumstances. Rather, confess your expectations in God.
Like the young girl in our opening story, if you believe that you can achieve what others call difficult, you will eventually achieve it (Philippians 4:13). Success and victory begin with what you say, not what you have or do. David finished Goliath with his mouth before he finished him with the catapult (1 Samuel 17:45-47). Your mouth is your weapon of victory. Use it well.
‘Demola Awoyele
Lead Pastor,
Destiny Impact Church
Akure, Nigeria