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The Miracle In Our Mouth

Posted on by Patrick Weaver
Has your heart ever been so heavy, or your world in such chaos that the pain silenced your praise? Have you been in a spiritual battle or suffered a major loss and your hope felt like it was slowly fading away? This is our moment of weakness, the wilderness of our faith. We will all go through the wilderness of faith beloved. The enemy uses our wilderness seasons to attack our mind and to stop our mouth from releasing miracles.  
 
Have you heard yourself or someone else make statements in a wilderness season like:
 
“God has forgotten about me”
“God doesn’t like me”
“God is blessing my enemies”
“God let them harm me”
“God doesn’t answer my prayers”
“Things will never change”
 
I don’t know about you but when the walls seem to be closing in, when it’s hard to see what God is doing, when our enemies seem to be prospering while we’re suffering, it can be hard to speak life. It’s during these times that we’re vulnerable to the enemy’s attack. When we’re vulnerable, hurting or feeling defeated, the enemy will send in mental reinforcements to add fuel to the fire. Before long, the thoughts that the enemy sends in become the words that come out of our mouth. And if you’ve experienced the attack of the mind, you know that the longer we speak a thing, the more we believe it. That’s why the enemy won’t let up when we’re down. 
 
You have a miracles in your mouth, and the enemy wants to kill, steal and destroy your prophetic voice.
 
The enemy attacks our mind for two reasons — to cause our pain to be intensified and to overwhelm us with lies. And before you know it, if we’re not careful, we will start to hurt ourselves by speaking lies that the enemy planted.  It’s a vicious cycle…the enemy will use us to attack ourselves with our own words.
 
Listen beloved, the enemy knows He can’t stop you but he can disrupt, delay and send you on a detour — with your mouth. The enemy wants us to count ourselves out, to declare defeat, to even deny the will and plan of God for our lives. In the heat of the battle, the enemy doesn’t want our mouth to run to God, the enemy wants our mouth to run away from God beloved.
 
To attack our mouth, the enemy knows he has to defeat our mind. How? By making his lies appear to true. Remember when Jesus was led up into the wilderness to be tempted by the enemy (Matthew 4:1-11)? A lot of folks incorrectly say that Jesus was “tempted” in the wilderness but that’s not true. The bible said, “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1). He wasn’t tempted by the enemy, the enemy attempted to tempt Jesus. And he failed…Jesus defeated the enemy with His mouth!
 
Did you know that the enemy uses the same warfare on us that he used on Jesus? The enemy’s attack plan is straight out of the bible (Matthew 4:1-11). The bible tells us that the enemy attempted to tempt Jesus when Jesus was physically vulnerable and weak: “After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.” (Matthew 4:2). You see, the enemy waits for the right time to mess with our mind. He waits for you to get weak…vulnerable in the flesh. You know, right after all hell breaks loose or the disappointment or the betrayal or the emotional trauma or the appearance of a loss. The enemy is intentional not random beloved. 
 
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8).
 
When the enemy thinks you’re in position for your mouth to be used, he will use demonic warfare to attempt to turn you, to flip your mouth. In our wilderness season, the enemy will come at us in the same three ways that he came at Jesus in His wilderness season:
 
  1. “After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread” (Matthew 4:2-3). The first attempt Jesus faced, and the first attempt you will face in your wilderness, was the temptation of his flesh, The Lust of The Flesh…his weakness. Like Jesus, the enemy will use what your weakness is at that exact moment to try to turn your flesh against your faith. When we’re weak, we’re likely to want an immediate fix, revenge instead of God’s justice, or a microwavable solution to shorten our wait. And the enemy knows it. Jesus used His mouth for His miracle: “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4)
  2. The second attempt the enemy will come at you with is Pride of Life. The enemy told Jesus, “Throw yourself down from the highest point of the temple and God will save you…” (Matthew 4:5-6). How many times have crazy thoughts ran through your head in a wilderness experience? Pray attention, this is one occasion the Devil himself quoted scripture. He quoted Psalm 91:11-12, to Jesus! But watch this…The bible tells us, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son…” (John 1:14). In other words, the devil used the word to attempt to tempt the Word. If the enemy used the word against the Word, you be can sure the enemy will twist the word in your wilderness to cause you to turn against the word! And again, Jesus used His mouth for His miracle by defending the word: “Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test” (Matthew 4:7).
  3. The third attempt the enemy will use in your wilderness season will attack the Lust of Your Eyes. The enemy told Jesus, “If you bow down and worship me, I’ll give you everything your eyes can see…”  Haven’t you been tempted in your wilderness season to put God down for a flesh plan or, a flesh thought that felt better or looked better than God’s will? In other words, the enemy was saying to Jesus, “What you want, baby I got it…what you need, do you know I got it? All I’m asking…is that you bow down and worship me” (No disrespect to Aretha Franklin’s song — RESPECT). The enemy did Jesus just like he does us in our wilderness — offer us something that appeals to our flesh in exchange for faith, trust and hope in God. He’ll offer the appearance of a relationship when we’re lonely. He’ll offer bitterness to support our hurt. But Jesus gave us the words for our miracle: “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only” (Matthew 4:10). 

How does this relate to using your mouth for your miracles? If you know what the enemy wants — your prophetic voice, and you know how he attacks your mind to get to your mouth, you can defeat the enemy. The words from your mouth resist the enemy. The words from your mouth declare victory in advance.  Your mouth is a miracle worker, the fist for your faith fight in your wilderness — life and death are in the power of your tongue. 

You have authority to speak a thing that is not as though it were. Your mouth can cause heaven to come into agreement with what you speak — “Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.” Your mouth is a game changer and a danger to the enemy, because your words have power!

“I Will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth” (Psalm 34:1)

The bible said, “The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” To speak miracles and blessings over your life beloved, you have to keep your heart wrapped in God’s love and filled with God’s truth. Miracles and blessings flow from your heart: “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (Proverbs 4:23).

Keep your heart wrapped in God’s love, feed your soul with God’s word…and change the atmosphere by prophetically speaking miracles, blessings and favor over your life! 

 

 

 

 

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