Today's Faith Food by Kenneth E. Hagin really needs no further explanation!
"Who so keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles" (Prov. 21:23).
When trouble comes, most people want to blame God. "Why did God let this happen?" they ask.
After Job's troubles came, he said, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me" (Job 3:25). Job opened the door and let the devil in!
We cause our troubles ourselves much of the time. Many dear Christian people don't keep their mouths and tongues under control. They're always saying wrong words. Just about all they ever talk about is what a battle they've had with the devil.
Words of defeat are wrong. Words of failure are wrong. Words about how the devil is hindering you, how he's keeping you from success, how he's making you sick and keeping you sick, are wrong. Such words give Satan dominion over you and create troubles.
But when you have God's Word in your heart, and speak it out of your mouth "right in the face of apparent contradictions, right in the face of pain, right in the face of alarming symptoms, right in the face of excruciating circumstances," such adverse conditions will disappear.
Confession: I keep my mouth, and I keep my tongue. Therefore, I keep my soul from troubles. I believe God's Word in my heart. I purpose that the Word shall be in my mouth and on my tongue, and I shall only speak according to God's Word!
This IS a vital TRUTH to meditate on in the Word of God so that you can begin to change YOUR thinking to agree with GOD'S thinking. What we think about is what we will say and eventually do! The ONLY way to control what we think, say and do is to control what goes IN by way of our "eye-gates" and ear-gates"! Philippians 4:8 gives the BEST instruction for this:
8 For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].
AMEN! THAT is the only sure way to control your life! Here is Hillsong with "For Who You Are":
Shalom in Him!
