Changing Your World Through The Power Of The Spoken Word

Changing Your World Through The Power of the Word

Rev David Odunaiya

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The Word of Truth Ministries International Rev David Odunaiya

† Published by Beyond The Veil Ministries International

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Pst David Odunaiya

Contents

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Introduction ……………………… 5

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What Is A Problem?........................7

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What Must I Do?............................10

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You Need Light…………………...11

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Speaking The Word………………16

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Created In His Image…………….18

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Words Are Seeds…………………21

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Re-creating Your World…………23

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The Heart Connection…………...26

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Speak To Your Mountain……….29

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Conclusion……………………….31

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Introduction

"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT: and there was light” Genesis 1:2-3 It is very important as a child of God to understand that challenges are an inevitable aspect of life. It is a proof that you are alive and a resident of the planet earth. The amplified bible version of the above verse of scriptures, says, "The earth was without form and an empty waste...” does this best describe where you are right now? Are you at a point where you think that your life has been wasted and nothing good can come out of it? Are you struggling in life, and finding it hard to make ends meet? Have the trials and challenges of life so overwhelmed you that you feel your life is sinking before your very eyes? Or are you at a point where you are about to say, “I give up? Then I have good news for you. The tide is about to turn in your favour, so do don‟t give up or lose hope. You were born to be an overcomer! (1 John 5:4). 5|Page

The magnitude of the challenge(s) facing you today does not matter at all. You were created by God to walk all over it! And come out victorious. Remember the story of David and Goliath. Goliath was described as a monstrous giant, and David was just a little boy, backed by a big God. And the rest is history. David commonized the size of the problem and conquered the enemy of Israel. Your situation is not a permanent one, neither is it an impossible case. What I am trying to say to you in other words is that your situation can and will change! The only reason that you are calling what you are going through, “a problem", is because you don’t have a solution at hand.

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What Is a Problem?

WHAT IS A PROBLEM? The term "problem", is one that is commonly or universally used by many, every time an unfavourable situation arises. For the purpose of this write-up, I will like to define the term "problem", as, "anything that impedes your 'progressive' forward movement in life". In other words, any situation or event that arises and poses a threat to your successful and prosperous existence on the earth can be called a problem.

3 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR PROBLEM!

1. It has a life span - Every problem in life has a life-span. There is no permanent problem. You are the one that will determine how long that situation will remain in your life. Goliath presented himself to the Israelites for 40 days and 40 nights, harassing and tormenting them non-stop, until David stepped up to silence him. Your problems will keep staring you in the face until you are ready to confront them and manifest your giant-killing potentials.

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2. It is has a solution - There is no problem today that defies solution. Every problem has a solution. That you don't have one does not mean there is none. The problem you have is that of "ignorance. God speaking in Hosea 4:6, said,” My people are destroyed (perish) for lack of knowledge”. You are still in that problem today because you don‟t know how to get out of it. But the day you get the answer, that situation will no longer be a problem to you. There is no problem to hard for God to handle, and because you are created in His image, then no situation must be too hard for you to handle. You just need to find out what needs to be done. 1 Cor 10:13, says, “there is a way out"!

3. It is not beyond you - None of the problems confronting you today, have the power to keep you were you are. Again 1 Cor 10:13, tells us, that, God will not allow any situation that is beyond your ability to come your way. The reason why God has allowed that situation to confront you, is because, He knows that you have what it takes to solve it. You are the only one that is ignorant of your capabilities. God knows what he deposited in you when He created you. Your ignorance has kept you bound and rooted in that problem for so long, but

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through His word, God is going to impart your life with light, shattering every form of darkness around you.

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What Must I Do?

You must do something if your situation or circumstances are going to change for good. Not just doing something, but doing the right thing. Doing the right thing, means, to do things the same way God will do them if He was the one in that situation. Ephesians 5:1, says, “Therefore be imitators of God (copy Him and follow His example), as well-beloved children (imitate their father)” – Amplified Bible.

In our opening verse of scripture – Genesis 1:2-3, we saw God faced with a situation, and the first thing that He did was to say, “Let there be light”. I would like you to take time to read the whole of Genesis chapter one. There you will find a brief account of how God recreated the earth. How God turned the once horrible and wasted earth into something very good –Gen 1:31. The situation in that chapter changed because God decided to do something about it. And it all started with God saying, “Let there light”.

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Stage 1

You Need Light

God introduced light into a situation that was full of darkness. And this is the first thing that you must do if you want to see a happy ending to the story of your life. You need light! And by this I am not talking of natural light, but light that comes from the word of God. Psalms 119:130, says, “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. John 1:5 rounds it up, by saying, “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. You need to have a divine encounter with the word of God, because that is the only way your life can be imparted with the light that you need to turn things around. Until the word enters your heart it cannot affect your life. I like to break thing down a bit, so that you can have a good understanding about what the bible calls light. The term “light” as referred to by the two scriptures quoted in the above paragraph

refers

to,

“revelation

knowledge”.

Revealed

knowledge about the complete work of Christ on Calvary and the right and privileges that you have in Him. In other word you have to possess a revelational about what God is saying about your situation, just like He did in Gen 1:3. 11 | P a g e

Having foreknowledge about what God is saying about your situation helps to shed light on the whole situation as it is. It helps you to know from God‟s perspective, what should be and what should not. You can then make your choice of what you want. Whether to remain in the mess you are, or to enforce a change! Like is a product of choice.

Without revelational knowledge from the word of God concerning your situation it is going to be a hard or impossible task enforcing a change in your life. It will also hinder God‟s plan and purpose for your life. God cannot do anything in your life without the word in your heart. Because you need the word for you to have the kind of faith – Romans 10:17 - that will provoke God to move on your behalf – Hebrew 11:6. I would like you to take some time out and go through the bible looking for scriptures that best address the issues that you are going through. Not just any scripture, but the ones that provide the answers. For example for someone that has problem of health, the kind of scriptures you will be looking for are as follows:

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1 Peter 2:24 – “Who his own self bare our sins in

his own body on the tree that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes YE WERE HEALED.

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Mathew 8:16-17 – “When the evening 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: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself (Jesus) TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES, AND BARE OUR SICKNES. 3.

Exodus 23:25-26 – “And ye shall serve the LORD

your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I WILL TAKE SICKNESS FROM THE MIDST OF THEE. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

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Mark 11:23-24 – “For verily I say unto you, that

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thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

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John 8:36 - “If the Son therefore shall make you

free (from all sicknesses and diseases), YE SHALL BE FREE INDEED. These are just five of the many verses in the bible that provide answers to any health problem in life. When you encounter light from these scriptures, it will deliver to you the power that you need to live a sickness-free life (divine health). Remember that David took five stones from the brook when he was preparing to face Goliath, but at the end of the day he only had to use one of them. The insight here is that each one of the above verses of scriptures quoted above is powerful enough to uproot any sickness or disease from your body. So having five at your disposal makes you more than able.

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So you need to go back to the bible, and bury your head in it, searching every page until you find the scripture that best deals with your problems. You have to do all you can do to get away from your busy schedule to get busy in the place of study. If you don‟t pay attention to God‟s word, God will not page attention to your situation – Proverbs 4:20. Don‟t forget the story of Mary and Martha. Martha was busy in the kitchen preparing food for the master, but Mary sat at His feet listening to the word from his mouth, and Jesus said that she has made the right choice! – Luke 10:38-42

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Stage 2

Speaking the Word

According to the bible, God is a creator, and everything He ever created He did so by the power of the spoken word! Hebrew 11:3, says, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear”. When you study Genesis chapter one, you will notice that the phrase, “And God said...” appeared about nine times (vs. 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26 and 29). Everything that was created by God in that verse of scripture was created by the power of the spoken word. God created the heavens and the earth by “speaking the word”. Take a close look at these two phrases from Genes 1:3-4:

Verse 3: “And God said...” Verse 4: “And God saw...”

God could not see anything, until He said it. Everything that God saw come into existence was a product of the word He spoke from His mouth! Nothing happens by chance in God‟s kingdom every manifestation of God is a result of the spoken word. God„s word is His power. And by it He upholds the whole universe together – Heb1:3. Every word that is spoken 16 | P a g e

from the mouth of God is potent and has the ability to create – (Heb 4:12)

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CREATED IN HIS IMAGE “And God said; Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” Genesis 1:26-27 God created Man in His own image. In a more simple term, God created Man to be like exactly just like Him. To act, walk, talk and live like Him. Man was created to operate in the class of God. This statement may sound too far-fetched or blasphemous. So I would like to take you back to what God said in the same Genesis one while in the act of recreating the earth.

Man was created after the law of creation, which states, “that everything on the earth should bring forth after their” – Gen 1: 11, 12, 21, 24, 25. After God had finished the creation of all things on the earth after their kind, He now turned to Himself and said to the God head, “let us make Man after our own kind (image)”. So man was created after the kind of God. He was 18 | P a g e

created as a god on the earth to rule in power and majesty! That was why God came to the Garden of Eden every day to fellowship with His new friend – Man. Adam was the first man and he possessed the wisdom of God, and God trusted him with the task of naming all the animals of the earth. Adam‟s word was law in the garden.

The point I am trying to make here is that, whatever God is in heaven, man is on the earth. Man was created with power in his mouth just like God his creator. It is no wonder that the bible says in proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. You have to be very careful what you say from your mouth, because your words can either make you or break you. Many destinies have been destroyed because of this. That tongue in your mouth is a fruit-bearing instrument and it will produce whatever you say with it.

If God said, and then God saw, it means that as a kind of God, you will see the manifestation of everything you say from your mouth whether good or bad. That is why Proverbs 6:2, says, “Thou art snared (taken captive) with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth”. A lot of believers 19 | P a g e

today have been taken captives by the words of their own mouth. When you take a critical look at your circumstances, you may discover that the way you speak is largely responsible for the situation you find yourself in today. You cannot talk down and expect to be up, nor can you talk sickness and expect to live in health, and the list goes on and on.

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WORDS ARE SEEDS “Hearken; Behold there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred...And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower SOWETH THE WORD”. Mark 4:4-14 Words are like seed, and they have the power to produce after their kind. The word of God is seed and it produces after the law of spirit and life. Wherever the word is sown it produces the power of God. And wherever the power of God is there are miracles and signs in abundance – Luke 5:17. Genesis 8:22 say, “While the earth remaineth, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, and 21 | P a g e

cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”. You will always reap the harvest of the words you speak, because when a seed is sown, it must produce a harvest. This is a spiritual law.

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RECREATING YOUR WORLD

If things are going to begin to turn around for you, one of the things you will have to do, is to change your language. You have been speaking the language of the world for so long. Now it is time for you to start speaking the language of the Sprit. And the language of the Spirit is the word! Stop talking about your problem and start talking about the solution. Rather than speaking about how bad things have been, start talking about how things are going to turn around for you. Jesus spoke about His resurrection even before He was crucified – John 2:18-22.

You must arm your mouth with the word of God. Speaking the word into your life and circumstances by faith, releases the power of God in your direction. God gave Joshua the keys to a life of distinction, by saying, “This book of the law (The Word) shall NOT DEPART OUT OF THY MOUTH; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way PROSPEROUS, and then thou shalt have GOOD SUCCESS”.

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When you have located the solution of your problem from the word of God, you need to speak it out so that your problem can hear it. When God said, “Let there be light”, darkness gave way! Look at those problems facing you today and begin to speak the word of God at it. When David confronted Goliath, he began to declare to him what was going to happen to him.

David said, “Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands. And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David PREVAILED OVER THE PHILISTINE with a sling and with a

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stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. David had already defeated Goliath by the words of his mouth even before he ran towards him. He ran forward to accomplish that which he had already declared. It is time for you to open your mouth and speak at that mountain that has stood in your way all these years. Declare your victory with boldness, and see God move on your behalf with power and might.

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THE HEART CONNECTION

“For verily I say unto you, that whosoever SHALL SAY UNTO THIS MOUNTAIN (sicknesses and diseases), be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and SHALL NOT DOUBT INHIS HEART, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith”. Mark 11:23

There must be a connection between your heart (spirit man) and your mouth, if the words that you speak from your mouth will produce a change in your situation. The word of God must first be resident in your heart before it will work in your mouth. The word of God will only produce power in your life when it is first mixed with faith in your heart – Heb 4:2. Power is conceived in your heart, formed in your tongue and released through your mouth. A lot of believers today only read the bible when they are faced with a problem. But I like to tell you this, that the word that will work for you is not the word that you read on the day of battle, but the word you have stored in your heart through study and meditation over time. Remember in 1 26 | P a g e

Samuel 17:40, that when David went to the brook (the bible), he chose five stones (5 scriptures), and put them in the shepherds bag (the heart). After that he then began to speak!

Jesus said in the above scripture that there must be faith in your heart if the things you say must come pass. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God – Rom 10:17. It is the word of God that injects faith into your. It is the place where the word becomes light. Proverbs 4:20-22, says, “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. KEEP THY HEART with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. You see it talks about the heart again.

The solutions of life are conceived in the heart. It says that you should keep the word in your heart, not on your shelf, or under your pillow, but in your heart. It is through mediation and speaking the word to yourself that the word becomes a permanent resident in your life. Take those scriptures that talk about your situation and put them in your heart and prayerfully meditate on them night and day until they produce 27 | P a g e

faith in your heart. Faith is your sling and the word is the stone that you need to bring down your goliath.

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SPEAK TO YOUR MOUNTAIN

“For verily I say unto you, that whosoever SHALL SAY UNTO THIS MOUNTAIN... Mark 11:23

This is where a lot of believers miss it. Jesus said, “Say unto this mountain”. This means speak to the problem and not about it. If you want a problem to leave your live you speak to it with the word of God in your mouth. Many a times, when we go to God in prayer, asking for His help, we hardly ever go back to speak to our problems.

Problems have ears, and they can hear whatever you say from your mouth. Look at that sickness in your body and speak to it using the word of God , and command it to leave your body, and it will! That is the word of God. Jesus spoke to the fig tree in Mark chapter 11 and cursed it. David spoke to Goliath and cut off his head. It is time for you to tell that mountain to move, and give way for you.

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I believe Moses also was crying unto God in his heart, God had this to say to Moses. “And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore CRIEST thou unto me? SPEAK unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But LIFT UP THY ROD, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea”

You see God does not want you bombarding His throne room every time you are confronted with a problem; He has put a rod in your hand – The Word. He wants you to turn around and speak at your problem and command it to give way, then come back and give Him thanks and the glory.

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Conclusion

From now on make sure that every word that proceeds out of your mouth is in line with God‟s word. It does not matter what you see with the eyes, or what you hear with the ears, do not let the word depart from your mouth, and before long you will see things turn around for good. Stop exaggerating your problems and start eradicating them! You are loaded with enough power to light up your world, so open up your mouth and declare, “Let there be light”.

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