Your Words ARE power, watch your mouth! 💯

SHOW OPENING:

Good Morning Saints and if you aren’t one, consider becoming one so that you can live free, covered by the Redemptive Blood of Jesus. Amen. 

I pray that your day is going well and blessed and if it doesn’t seem to be Bless it yourself! You have the Most High God within you. He gave His Power to you to use so use it! Hallelujah!

Today I will be speaking on (Your Words are powerful, watch your mouth! 💯). So grab your pen and notebook or tablet, your drink and your snack and sit back and listen, and I will discuss this right after our ‘invite’ of the Holy Spirit.

INVOCATION.

{SERMON}

St. Matthew 8:5-17

Mat 8:5  And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,

Mat 8:6  And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.

Mat 8:7  And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.

Mat 8:8  The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

Mat 8:9  For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

Mat 8:10  When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Mat 8:11  And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

Mat 8:12  But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mat 8:13  And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.

Jesus Heals Many

Mat 8:14  And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.

Mat 8:15  And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

Mat 8:16  When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:

Mat 8:17  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

Humans. We use so many words don’t we? Have you ever thought about how much you talk during the day? Especially those who are very active or are around people much of the day, maybe in the office, church, work, store, customer services of some kind. Think about all of those words that come out of your mouth. If you were to measure your positive ‘word-use’ in inches, yards, feet or miles, how many  would you have? How many inches of negativity would you measure? What city could some people have traveled to with that much negativity? Some people could actually travel to countries with all of the words that come out of their mouths. How many of your words can be considered as encouraging, uplifting, healing, and edifying to others besides yourself?

That’s what Jesus did. He was constantly encouraging, edifying and uplifting those who were in need and yet, he also gave correction when needed. His Power was realized when He spoke the Word. Ours is realized when we speak the Word as well. Instead of getting so bogged down with all that is going on around the Word today with this #coronavirus, we should be speaking in prayer or tongues for mankind and all the while rebuking the virus. I see that many have begun to speak that thing down just like we did the Hurricane’s and Tornados a while ago. Put that virus in it’s place like Jesus did in so many examples in the Bible.

Here we have in Matthew 7, a Centurion who came to Jesus (beseeching Him) to ask him to heal his servant who was laying at home sick of palsy and grievously tormented. In other words, this man was in a horrible physical situation. Palsy is a paralysis, especially that which is accompanied by involuntary tremors. That is a serious situation, especially for a servant of a centurion whom, I am sure, needed his services. He even told Jesus in verse 9 that he (the Centurion) was a man under authority, having soldiers under him and when he told someone to move, they moved! He was no joke. He said that when he told someone to do something, they got it done. We don’t know what the, “or else” would have been. He must’ve had heart, and  was different than the rest. He had to be a believer because instead of killing his servant or leaving him like the Egyptian servant  of the Amalekites in 1 Samuel 30:13 (who actually ended up helping Israel because Israel saved and helped him,) this Centurion beseeched Jesus for help. The Centurion’s servant was blessed to have such a leader over him like that. I pray that you all out there have leaders that are caring because they are hard to find.

Centurions usually were great leaders, leading many soldiers. They were the principal professional officer in the armies of ancient Rome and its empire. The centurion was the commander of a centuria, (about 100 men,) which was the smallest unit of a Roman legion. A legion was normally composed of 6,000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria. The centurion thus nominally commanded about 100 men, and there were 60 centurions in a legion. The centurions in a legion were arranged in a complicated order of rank, with variations in authority and responsibility from top to bottom. The last thing that this company needed was to experience a weak link in their legion. Rome was fierce in their battles and the centurions were to make sure that it stayed that way.

“…but speak the Word”……

In Matthew 8:8 the centurion, after beseeching Jesus tells Him, “…but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed.” That required true faith. He knew something. He had most likely heard or been watching the Lord doing His Father’s work. Jesus had a name for Himself, especially with various leadership. He was a threat to many. He still is today. Just as they watched Him over 2000 years ago, they still watch Him today, through us. We are the carriers of His other third (⅓rd), The Holy Spirit and we are supposed to be doing greater exploits than He did while He was here in the flesh. The World is watching us ladies and gentlemen. Especially during this time when there is a weakness running rampant among mankind. “Let’s see if they pray now” they say. “Are they gathering together like they claim to do?” the world says. satan says, “Corona! Kill them off before God even has a chance to put their tears in a bottle.” “Stop them from gathering and let’s see if miracles still take place.” Wow….”stop…them…from…gathering”….

I believe that Jesus, our Big Brother and Savior put this in the bible for us and purposely had me search this out for study on Saturday to let us know that everything is going to be alright. He is telling us not to fear. He was our example. He says to us today, “Just speak the Word.” Quote Him. Quote scripture. Learn it. Get used to it. The Holy Spirit of God will help you. He is waiting for you to call upon him as He said in Jeremiah 33:3. “Call upon me.” Sure, this is a time when our #Faith is being challenged. But we also have to use wisdom. And this may be where I may lose some listeners on Blog Talk Radio or readers on revessie.com so please hang in there with me.

The Bible tells us to obey magistrates (leadership.) This means that we don’t cuss out our Presidents, have coven meetings wishing ill-will over him, (and Leadership around the world), while they are scrambling to make a safe living for us. That is rebellion. 1Sa 15:23  “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee”…   If they are wrong, God is still in control is He not? He will correct them. What we need to be doing is praying either singly or corporately. You can’t serve a God that you don’t talk to.

Tit 3:1  Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Tit 3:2  To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Tit 3:3  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Tit 3:4  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,