We are learning that we can get away with saying, or thinking, anything… totally without consequence. For this reason, the world today is filling up with meaningless words. People make entire careers out of just talking. Lies are becoming standard fare in conversation, and are considered okay in a relationship.... so long as they were spoken with good intention. But is that true? Are words really meaningless and without importance?
The belief that words don’t matter have made liars of us all. Have you ever said, “I was blown away” or “I thought I was going to die”? These are phrases used constantly in our culture, yet people understand it doesn’t really mean a tornado blew you over, or you really thought you were about to meet your maker.
I don’t even want to talk about phrases like “I laughed my ass off.”
It’s become so common to exaggerate, embellish, and make up stories to tell our friends that no one takes words seriously. It is equally common for mothers to tell their children, “if you do that, you’ll die!” or “I’ll kill you!” It is clear that no one really believes that words have any weight. After all, when all of our leaders are always lying, making promises they don’t keep, and exaggerating, we feel it’s ok for us to copy them. If the President or the celebrities can do it, it must be fine for the rest of us.
There is only one problem with this situation. The fact is that the physical world is governed by the spiritual world (see Spirit, Soul, Body). And the spiritual world, because of how God made it to work, is controlled by WORDS.
God said “let there be light,” and there was light. In the same way, whatever we speak with our mouth long enough, it is going to come to pass. It won’t usually happen immediately, because our spiritual power is a lot smaller than God’s, but with enough repetition, enough built-up pressure, if we say it with enough true belief, if we really mean it with determination, if we really believe it, it will eventually happen.
Now words that have absolutely no real belief behind them won’t immediately happen. So if you start saying, “I’m a millionaire,” it probably won’t do any good at all because you have lied so often with your words and said so many things that are not really true (like “I felt like I was gunna die!”) that your own mind knows that your words are worthless.
But any word, no matter how insignificant, can become a seed. If you say it enough, and keep saying it long enough, you will teach your spirit to hope, and hope will turn to faith, and eventually faith will take upon itself form, and what you have said will happen.
The classic example of this is a man who has an old car, and every night when he comes home, and every morning when he gets into his car, he tells the car, “you are just a piece of junk. What a lemon! You junk bucket, you’re going to fall apart any day now.” Watch what happens. Because this man honestly, down deep, really believes what he’s saying (he believes the car really is a junk bucket), one day that car will simply obey his words and fall apart all at once. And what will the man say? “I knew it!”
Or how about the old auntie who keeps saying, “he’s a good-for-nothing and someday he’s going to be thrown in prison.” I bet you two things will happen to the poor kid she’s talking about: he will become a good-for-nothing, and then he will get thrown in prison. The really sad thing about this situation is that the old Auntie will now feel smug as if she prophesied something and foresaw the future, when really all she did was help push the kid over a cliff. She shouldn’t be so happy about her own involvement in his crimes. Someday, when every idle word spoken by every human being is judged, that old Auntie will be considered accessory to everything that kid did, and she will be considered a criminal along with him because it was her words that added momentum to his ill-doing.
Ever said anything like these?
- “I have a bad back/heart/hearing (etc). It just keeps getting worse.”
- “My arthritis is just taking over my whole body.”
- “My kids hate me and they won’t come home.”
- “I’m expecting to get the flu soon.”
- “I keep getting farther and farther away from God.”
- “My marriage is going to fall apart.”
- “I feel so depressed all the time, and I just can’t find joy anymore in anything.”
- “People just don’t like me.”
- “I always get lost.”
- “I’m not photogenic, I always look terrible in photos.”
And yet people feel superior when their dark prophecies come to pass! They think it proves how much they know, or how right they are, that they could foresee this event happening. What they don’t realize is that they helped — or in most cases entirely caused — the event. If only these people actually understood that they are MAKING these things come to pass! The more they say it, the more they believe it, the sooner and more often it will happen.
Why do our words come to pass? Because we are made in the image of God. That is how God did it: he spoke, and the world was created. Then God taught us to imitate Him. He taught the Hebrews to bless one another all the time and recite over and over that they were blessed. He did that on purpose. We speak, and our life is created. It is a true fact that whatever you are living in today is the direct result of whatever you said yesterday and all the days before.
The universe can’t help it, it was created to obey the voice of God and anything like God (or in His Image). It has no choice. Physical things cannot disobey you, they don’t have a will. The spiritual world follows orders: it will just do exactly as told.
Adam was made in the Image of God. He was told in the Garden of Eden to guard the Garden, to keep it – and this was how he was supposed to keep it. By blessing it, by speaking the blessing over it, and over himself, and over his wife. But instead he didn’t say any words at all, and he allowed events to just happen to him. He was standing right there when Eve picked that fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and he could have opened his mouth and stopped the whole thing right then. He didn’t. Like most of us, he just stood there and let someone else speak the words that would become his life.
So if this is true, and what we say is what we get, why can’t we tell the physical world to become paradise, and watch it blossom overnight? Because of what Adam did. By allowing evil to become his reality, he traded faith in God (or goodness) for faith in evil. As his offspring, all of us are born with faith in evil. Evil faith comes natural. It takes effort to develop faith in good.
For example: if you were to go out into your weedy backyard and tell it to become a tropical paradise, you wouldn’t have an ounce of real belief in you that such a thing would really happen. But if you were to go out into your weedy backyard and tell it to just wither up and die and become a desert, yah, you could believe that. So the bad would happen, because we are all trained from birth to have faith in bad.
The human race has been programmed by Satan for millennia to believe in evil. We believe in it so strongly that we think good is “not realistic.” In fact, both good and evil are equally “realistic.” Either of them have an equal chance of happening, depending on what kind of faith you are putting into the situation. It’s just really hard to find a human being who has switched their natural faith in evil into faith in good.
Take a lonely single person looking for love. If you told them, “no problem, your true love will probably show up tomorrow,” they wouldn’t believe you. But if you said, “life is hard, your true love will probably never show up,” they’d believe you in a heartbeat. The fact is that both possibilities are equally valid. Forget statistics, we are talking about faith here. Faith BRINGS ITSELF to PASS. If you truly 100% believed you’d meet your true love tomorrow, guess who you’d meet tomorrow? Statistics only have power because they usually confirm whatever faith we already had! And it’s usually bad!
I am not talking about simple optimism here. I am talking about real faith. When a person has real faith, they don’t “hope so.” They don’t “wish.” They don’t “keep their fingers crossed.” When you have real faith, you KNOW it’s a fact. It’s so absolutely real to you, there is no question. There is no wondering, no hesitation.
Real faith is like when, as a child, you went to sleep Christmas Eve night (substitute your birthday for those who don’t do Christmas) knowing that tomorrow, there would be presents to open. Period. You just knew. If you were one of those families that hid the presents until Christmas morning, this is especially a good parable for faith. You did not see the presents, you did not watch your parents buy the presents, you did not watch them wrap the presents… but you knew there WERE presents, and you knew that tomorrow you would open them all in an insane ripping frenzy of joy!
Faith is exactly like that. When your faith is complete, you KNOW you have what you say in faith. You know your words are 100% truth. You know it’s out there. You know it’s coming. And you know that soon, you will have whatever you’ve been saying for days or weeks or months. You know, because it’s so real to you.
And watch… when it becomes that real, it will arrive. You won’t even be that excited, and you certainly won’t be surprised, because you’ll have been expecting it so determinedly that you’ll just receive it like getting an expected package in the mail. Happy to have it yes, but also totally confident that it was coming.
But how do you GET this kind of faith? Actually, the process is pretty easy.
Words spoken over and over can change more than just the physical world. They can also change your heart. If you don’t believe me that words can hurt more than sticks and stones, just look at what words do in an abusive household to a child who grows up in that environment. They break that child’s personality until it takes some serious healing for them to recover. If that healing never occurs, they will never recover.
Words can change the heart. Good words will change the heart for good, and evil words will change the heart for evil. This is why it is dangerous to listen to all kinds of movies, television, radio, and also reading miscellaneous words without paying attention to what exactly those words are going to produce. What seeds are you putting into your heart? Because you will have whatever words you hear (or read) over and over.
How? The words will produce a dream, a daydream, an imagination of what it would be like. This is called “hope.” Once you can see what the words are describing, you are ready to start working your faith. All you have to do is start saying it. Imagining it. Saying it. Imagining it. Saying it. The more you say it, the more you will be able to SEE it. And the more you see it in your imagination, the more you will SAY it. They build on one another, like a generator building up electricity, more and more until there is discharge.
If those words, and the resulting daydream, is evil, just watch. Pretty soon you will be speaking evil over and over. The more you speak it, the more your faith will grow, and eventually you will totally believe… and you will have what you say. And if it was evil seed, it will eventually hurt you or someone close to you. If you keep hearing (and/or watching, or reading) pornography for example, it will build up dreams and images in your thoughts, which will drive you to watch/hear/read more, which will build up even stronger dreams, which will drive you to get more… eventually you will act out in evil fornication, commit adultery, or something worse because what you put into yourself will grow and produce harvest.
But you can use this principal on purpose to do good for yourself also. First, you have to have a hope – a dream of something that you really want. Once you can see this thing as a daydream, and you can imagine it, then start SAYING it. Even if you feel really stupid at first. Start saying it.
Have you ever dreamed of being beautiful, or good-looking? Start saying it. “I am good-looking.” Ignore the mirror. Say it! Say it for a year straight, every day. Say it every time you get up or go to bed. Say it when you do dishes. Say it when you go to lunch, or when you drive to work. Pick some time during the day that you say it to yourself. The more often you say it, the faster the seeds of your words will grow.
The words will lodge in your heart like seeds lodge in dirt. The more seeds you plant, the more likely you’ll get a crop. The more words you say, the faster your faith will begin to grow, and the sooner you will get whatever it is you are working for. And yes, honest to God, your words can and will change your physical body. You will actually look different after a while. Your complexion will even out, your hair will improve, your color will clarify, I am not kidding. It’s been proven by science that people can change their eye color by will alone, surely they can change other things by faith… if fear can turn your hair white, why can’t faith turn your hair dark again? It works. You can change the physical world with your faith-words.
But the most important thing is to give it TIME. Give it time, and don’t stop dreaming, don’t stop saying it. Saying it is very important; if you give up on speaking it out loud, your faith will wane and lose power and eventually die. It’s like watering your plants. If you stop giving the plants water, they will shrivel up and turn to dust. If you stop speaking your dreams, they will fade and fall apart to nothing. Keep saying it.
When do you stop? WHEN YOU HAVE IT. Don’t stop before. You are not allowed to stop before it happens. Even if you cry half the nights because you know it’s not working, keep saying it anyway. Even though you feel stupid and you feel angry at me for teaching you this, keep saying it anyway. Honestly, is this going to cost you something? Do you have to put a quarter in a jar every time you say your dream? No. So just do it. That’s the best thing: words are free, and at the same time, words are what knit you a life. SAY IT.
Yes, you will get sick of saying it. Yes, it will take a LOT longer than you thought it would. But the person who will not give up on saying it, one day a miracle will happen. You will be saying it (by this time you won’t even be able to hear yourself, you’ll just be muttering it and totally ignoring it) when suddenly you’ll hear it as if you’ve never heard it before. Suddenly, it will just dawn on you. BAM, you will be filled with confidence and passion over this thing you’ve been saying so long that you are sick of it. The dream, the vision will sparkle with new life you’ve never experienced before, you will be inspired! You’ll be so inspired in fact that you’ll tell everyone you know all about it, as if it’s a brand-new revelation!
THAT is when faith has arrived. That is when you KNOW the package is in the mail. That is when you are now only hours, or days, or weeks away from actually seeing it in real life. Because once faith shows up, real belief, deep-down knowing, then it’s done. You have it.
Once you have it though, and it has actually arrived physically in your life and things are different, what do you do next? Pick a new dream, and start over. And this is how you build, one step at a time, a completely new life. Yes, it takes work. A lot of work. But if you never start, then you will never get anything at all. Don’t be like Adam; don’t stand there and let past mistakes and stray weed-words plant your future into your heart. Take control, and start saying what you want. Because one way or another, you WILL produce a harvest. Whether that harvest is something you purposefully chose, or something you just allowed to happen, is totally up to you.
