Setting the Course - by Harriett Ford
“Truly, I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. (Mark 11:23 NIV)
It is a spiritual law that our words produce results. Look at the Tower of Babel. God said man could achieve anything his heart imagined (Gen. 11:6). So how did God stop this first attempt at a one-world government? He confused their language. Language gives us tremendous power (Prov. 18: 21) because our mouths can speak God's Truth, or they can speak Satan's lies which always begin with “Has God said?”
Look at The Great Deception of our modern age, the commonly accepted theory of evolution. When it comes to what we believe about how the world was formed, we have only two choices: Nothing formed everything or God spoke it into existence. If a society believes nothing created the world, moral accountability is eliminated leading to increased moral breakdown. Jesus said people who deny the Father are children of the devil (Jn 8:44). They talk, walk, and act accordingly.
Those who serve God have His very words to talk, walk, and act on. We can speak blessing or cursing over ourselves every day. I can say, “This task is something I'll never get done; I'm just too tired.” Or I can say, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
What kind of harvest do I wish to have? I will say like King David, “Father because I set my love on You, You shall be with me in trouble and deliver me. With long life will you satisfy me and show me your salvation” (Psalm 91: 14-16). Amen.
Harriett Ford is a board member of the Awesome Kingdom Experience ministry, in Branson, Mo. Contact
