Powers In a Silver
Tongue
There are incredible
powers in the human
tongue. We can walk in a
gutter and spew the
language of filth and
sorrow; or we can walk
on the Milky White Way
and talk the language of
angels. Of all our
physical abilities and
God-given creativities,
the power of the tongue
is the grandest. The
language of the human
tongue is one of our
likenesses to God
Himself. He can speak
and things that do not
exist are immediately
created.
There is Divine creation
in the language of our
God, and there is great
human power in the
language of His created
sons and daughters. We
best learn this great
truth because it will
usher us into His world
of grace and beauty or
lead us into despair and
ruin.
Solomon warned us about
our tongue. He stated,
“Death and life are in
the power of the tongue:
and they that love it
shall eat the fruit
thereof” (Proverb
18:21). He enlarged on
the positive side by
promising,
“A wholesome tongue is a
tree of life: but
perverseness therein is
a breach in the spirit”
(Proverb 15:4). He
added,
“The tongue of the just
is as choice silver: the
heart of the wicked is
little worth. The lips
of the righteous feed
many: but fools die for
want of wisdom”
(Proverb
10:20-21). There is
power to kill or power
to give life in this
great gift of our
Creator.
James, our Lord’s
half-brother, became the
writer of the New
Testament proverb,
“Even so the tongue is a
little member, and
boasteth great
things. Behold, how
great a matter a little
fire kindleth! And the
tongue is a fire, a
world of iniquity: so is
the tongue among our
members, that it
defileth the whole body,
and setteth on fire the
course of nature; and it
is set on fire of hell.
But the tongue can no
man tame; it is an
unruly evil, full of
deadly poison. Out of
the same mouth
proceedeth blessing and
cursing. My brethren,
these things ought not
so to be” (James
3:5-6, 8, 10). There is
no doubt that the human
tongue is truly a gift
of God or a trap for
wreckage. With the
majority of our world
and even the church, it
is a door to hell.
It is also a door into a
spiritual world right
here on earth. The
wicked person has been
promised,
“If we confess our sins
(regardless of how evil
or perverted), he is
faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and
to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness”
(I John 1:9). Apostle
Paul said,
“For with the heart man
believeth unto
righteousness; and with
the mouth confession is
made unto salvation”
(Romans 10:10). Every
sinner has but to
confess their sins and
confess the Lord Jesus
Himself and they will be
a new creation in
righteousness. Both our
own heart and the Lord
of grace and mercy
respond to the power of
a true confession.
Righteousness is the
most joyous
characteristic in a
person’s life. You can
seek happiness with
unlimited riches, but
lasting joy will never
materialize. You can
visit the most exquisite
sites on earth; but, if
your heart is wicked, it
will all be in
vain. But, change
courses and use your
thought life to consider
the God of the Holy Book
until your lips begin to
echo what that Book has
promised. You will be at
the door of a life so
superior to this carnal
world that there is no
comparison. When you
start talking God-talk,
you will chase gloom and
doubt completely out of
your mind.
Many good people within
the church world have
never learned the power
of a pure
confession. They talk
about their pains and
heartbreaks until they
are miserable to
themselves and everyone
else. The faith of the
Bible is so supernatural
that when a pure soul
begins to constantly
claim and confess its
promises, powerful
changes occur. You
cannot confess God’s
promises with absolute
determination and faith
without results. It may
start slow, but, if you
persist you will chase
the doubts away.
In the past the church
world was a place of
great
celebration. Methodist
churches were some of
the most excited
congregations of the
Great Awakening. Reading
the life of the
Methodist, Peter
Cartwright, is like
reading the New
Testament. The
Presbyterian evangelist,
Charles Finney, stated
in his biography that
when he was filled with
the Spirit, “He
literally bellowed out
the unutterable gushes
of his heart.” The
sounds of praise and the
exclamation of faith and
exceeding joy drew the
sinners to watch the
saints rejoicing. Most
often, the sinners were
smitten with conviction
and filled the altar
with tears and
repentance. The tongues
of the redeemed were
like angels singing
their glad refrains.
On the Day of Pentecost
the sanctified tongues
of the one hundred and
twenty saints became the
sounds of the Spirit’s
arrival. The unruly
instruments of human
flesh were God’s initial
manifestation that the
human tongue can be
tamed for His
glory. Every language
present in Jerusalem
found one of the one
hundred and twenty
speaking God’s glory to
them.
Bodily healing is almost
nonexistent in today’s
churches because we have
not learned to confess
the promises. We wait to
be accosted by healing
powers, when healing
powers are waiting to be
confessed and
possessed. In fact,
confession of Biblical
promises is the first
step to possessing all
of God’s Biblical
promises.
No confession that is
not thoroughly rooted in
the Holy Bible is
valuable to the
saints. Biblical
Confession is not a
greedy desire for things
but a passionate hunger
for God and His
Word. Fill your mind
with the Bible and then
fill your mouth and
tongue with simple rest
and confession of every
truth. Talk of them in
your home, your vehicle,
and during your every
waking moment. If you
awake at night, drive
your insomnia away with
your Biblical
confession. There is
power in your sanctified
tongue, so walk with
angels the rest of your
life.
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org
