Inhale-Exhale Faith

"Our words have power. We must stop speaking death and destruction both in our life and in the lives of other people."

SPEAKING FAITH SHOULD BE AS EASY AS BREATHING. Our first impulse should be to quote the Word. Over ourselves. In our opinions of others. Instead of tsk-tsk, So-and-so probably won’t survive this illness, we speak faith. It should be foreign to us to speak doubt, over ourselves or over others.

We shouldn’t have to “get in the mood” to say the right thing. We shouldn’t have to search for hope. Yeah, I know it takes practice to become like this. Speaking faith has to become a habit. My mom tells a story about a woman who meditated on Acts 10:38 so much that one day, at the grocery store, the clerk said, “That’ll be $10.38,” and the Scripture fell out of her mouth.

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil.

We should be that full.

It’s not about positive thinking. Nor are we keeping our hopes up under our own strength. We speak faith because the Holy Spirit is within us. We press forward with God’s Truth in our mouths and His outlook in our vision. We say, “This won’t be a big deal,” and we believe that. Then because we believe it, because it is such a part of us, it isn’t a big deal.

Our words have power. We must stop speaking death and destruction both in our life and in the lives of other people. Ask yourself, “Would Jesus do that?” Would He say what we just said?

Did He shake His head at Peter when he denied His name? No, He knew who Peter would become. It was Peter who preached to the crowd at Jerusalem after the Holy Spirit fell at Pentecost. According to history, it was Peter who refused to be hung on a cross right-side up. Peter was bold and so full of God that his shadow fell on people, and they were healed.

Jesus prayed for Peter in the garden, that his faith would not fail, and it didn’t. We should do the same for those around us. We should commit ourselves to speaking faith, to praying in faith, to being examples of faith.

It is not a brief moment in time. It is a lifestyle. Faith has been made difficult to procure when it’s the main ingredient to who we are. We shouldn’t have to “find faith,” but be overflowing with it. How do we get to that point? We stay in the Word daily. We spend time with God daily. I walk with the Spirit, with the Messiah, every second of every day. I speak to them like I speak to my family.

I live with my husband and my daughter. We share a home and meals. Of course, I speak to them. I work for my mother. I’m at her house a lot. I don’t avoid conversation with her. Jesus promised to never leave me or forsake me. The Holy Spirit is in me forever. Who you live with, you will have a conversation with. But here’s the thing. When you decide to speak to God 24-7, it will change how you think, how you react, and how you talk.

You will not be the same person one day, one week, or one month later. And the faith of God, birthed from the love of God, will become just as easy as breathing. How it should be.

“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:” (Acts 2:14)

“And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,” (Acts 4:29)

“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” (James 5:16 ESV)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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