You are either aligning with God's will and heaven's agenda or you are empowering hell's agenda. That's the question you have to ask yourself.
When we look at the Proverbs in the scriptures, we see clearly that the wisest man on earth, solomon besides Jesus, obviously was able to differentiate between the language of a fool and the language of a righteous man or a righteous woman, one who was full of wisdom.
And this power that is found in this little member in your mouth called the tongue, is creative, and it has the ability to either cause you to be a landing strip for God or in a landing strip for the enemy. My name is Tammie Southerland and I am the host of Burning Messengers podcast, author of Wordless Prayer and another book called Permission to Burn, among other teachings and e-courses. Today, I'm going to talk to you about how your words can shape worlds, and we're in a moment right now, in the world that is full of chaos, and I want to challenge you that your voice and your words matter. It matters what you say. It matters how you respond. It matters are you responding or are you reacting, and that's a huge difference.
A response is a place of waiting for the right words to come that bring wisdom, either bring order to chaos, or they can bring life into death, or they can shift atmospheres. But a reaction or a quick, hot-headed response is one from, as the scriptures call one who is foolish.
Why?
Because the foolishness of a reaction actually sets chaos into order instead of brings order into chaos. And we want to be those who are used by God the gift of speaking, the gift of communication in order to bring or build peace and righteousness and holiness into our world, and you know what I'm talking about. We're standing in a moment where a man was executed yesterday because he used the power of debate. He used the power of words in order to bring dialogue on college campuses. And this power of debate is not just a thing for Christians or non-Christians, thing for Christians or non-Christians.
Debate goes back as far as into the biblical times and before biblical times as being a tool to bring about dialogue that sharpens a society. The iron sharpens iron. If there's not disagreement in topics, then there's no sharpening. We need to have healthy debate and healthy dialogue.
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But your words, if you're a believer right now, if you're a believer in Jesus Christ, if you are filled with the Holy Spirit, which the majority of my audience is. You need to understand the power of what you're saying. In these moments, it's not just about how you come across or if you have restraint in your words or if you're not being a you know, a keyboard warrior right now. It's actually a place that you have been given a space, that you've been given by the Lord, a sacred space to have a language to speak into. Moments like this, that goes beyond this fleeting moment of social media fury. You have the ability to create what I said before worlds with your words.
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I want you to hear this proverb Proverbs 18, 20 to 21 says A man's stomach is satisfied from the fruit of his mouth. You need to pay attention to that. These words are not just words written on a page. This is actual truth that activates something in you and in your life. A man's stomach is satisfied with the fruits of his mouth. From the produce of his lips, he shall be filled. What are you being filled with? What fruit is being produced through what you're saying, what you're doing and how you are either reacting or you're responding right now? It says that life and death are in the power of the tongue. We quote that, but do we really understand the power of that it says, and those who love it, the tongue will eat the fruit of it. And so when you plant a seed into the ground, it's going to bear fruit after the kind of seed that you have planted. This is goes back to creation. God forms worlds with his word. He speaks, and whatever he speaks multiplies after its own kind, whether it's birds or it's animals or it's fish, it's going to multiply after its own kind. So whatever kind you put into the ground spirit or flesh or demonic you're going to see a multiplication of fruit come from that. And so you are actually held accountable in the throne room of God for what you say or what you do.
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The Proverbs that we read in the scriptures, they're not just moral sayings, they're wisdom, literature that reveals how to rule and reign from God's heart and God's mind. I'm calling you up higher. I'm calling you to attention. Don't get into the political chaos. Come up here Revelation 4. Come up here Revelation 5, and see from the view, the standpoint of heaven, what must take place. I want to challenge you Don't get into taking a hold of some of the patterns that you begin to see in this, spinning out from these circumstances and begin to call them prophecy. Step back, come up, be in the presence of the Lord and have dialogue with him before you react and call what you're saying super spiritual. I'm talking to all of us.
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So our words are spiritual seeds, and so they will reproduce after their own kind. So when we speak, we're aligning with either heaven and hell. We're either empowering God's will to come forth on the earth as it is in heaven or we're empowering chaos. We're called to bring chaos into order. That is the beginning.
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The original intention of God for Adam and Eve was their commission. Their function was to bring order into chaos, and so the Proverbs actually flow from this worldview of being a divine counsel in the Garden of Eden before the fall, and Solomon begins to take on the wisdom of God. The fall, and Solomon begins to take on the wisdom of God and he's able to begin to apply that in a way by being in the counsel of God that those that have gone before him can't. It is, humanity was created to co-rule with God, and so you need to understand. You are an intercessor. Regardless if you understand that or not, if you don't know Jesus, your words are still creating chaos. Your words are still creating life or death. But when you give your life to Christ, you're redeemed.
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Whenever you come in and you receive Yeshua as the exact representation of Yahweh, the incarnation of Yahweh in the earth, you step back into order, the same order that was found in Genesis 1 and 2 before the fall of man and the rebellion of the heavenly hosts. There is an order between God and man that you're restored to as you receive what Yeshua did as the perfect sacrifice, laying down his life on the cross. He gave you back the authority that god intended for man to have before the fall to bring order into chaos. Jesus was the first seed sown it to bring order into chaos. His words matter. He endured a 40-day wilderness testing that Adam failed and that also the Israelites failed as they wandered in the wilderness. Jesus endured that same wilderness testing. He endured everything that we would endure in order to restore us back to this divine counsel interaction.
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We see it in the Garden of Eden. We see it again in the book of Revelation, revelation 5, where John steps into that divine counsel. We see it in Jeremiah 23, when there's a rebuke on the prophets. It says if they would have entered into the counsel of God, they wouldn't have been prophesying falsely, and God wouldn't have had to bring about judgment on those false prophets. And so we are invited into this. There's a heavy, heavy importance on what we say and what we do.
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In salvation, quote unquote it's more than you go into heaven when you die. It's about you being restored to your rightful place as sons and daughters of God to bring forth the commission, the mission between God and man that was intended in the garden, and that's to bring order into this chaos called the broken world, the demonic realm, the demons that we are battling against our wars, not against flesh and blood, but principalities, the powers and rulers of darkness of this present age. Those principalities and powers and rulers of darkness are brought into order because Jesus Christ, yeshua, is the incarnation of Yahweh, bringing both heaven and earth into order, and then he hands that authority back off to the sons and daughters of God, as it was meant to be at the beginning. Salvation is bigger than you think, and your words are more important than you think, and so this is intercession. Intercession is stepping into that place of the cross of Christ and taking that authority that is given to us, and we see laid out clearly for us in Romans 8, what that looks like to be the sons and daughters of God, what it looks like to step into the groan of the Holy Spirit when we know not what to pray.
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Intercession highlights this reality. Jesus is the greatest intercessor that the world has ever seen, and our words carry weight and authority in both the realm of the earth and the realm of the spirit. Your words are courtroom decrees. Whether you realize it or not, you're either aligning with the throne of God or you are empowering hell's agenda, and I really want you to wake up to that. If you already understand intercession, if you already understand the prophetic, if you already understand being filled with the Holy Spirit, then you are actually held at a higher account than those that are hearing this for the first time.
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You don't want to function in charismatic witchcraft. You don't want to move worlds with words that have aligned with hell's agenda or fleshly agenda. You want to say Father, what is your will? On the earth as it is in heaven? I want to function like Jesus did, doing what Jesus said and saying, I'm sorry, doing what the Father says and doing what the Father does, just like Jesus functioned. Our yeshua, the incarnation of of god in the flesh modeled for us on the earth so that we can do it as ones who, whom he's given his authority to on earth as it is in heaven.
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And so the hebrew word for power here, the power and death or the power of the tongue is actually yod, which means hand. It means that the tongue either builds up or it destroys. It's a reaching out, it's a hand that can move things. Your tongue is hard to be bridled without the power of God. Submitted to the fear of the Lord and intimacy with him, you have no desire, you just want to flippantly say whatever you want to say. You just want to step into chaos. But God has called us to bring order, and so it says in James 3, you can read it yourself, 1 to 12, that the tongue is a member that can steer the course of life or death. It can set the world on fire or it can build up. And it says that that tongue is so difficult, almost impossible to tame. And the reason that he makes this point? Because the only way the tongue can be tamed is in its redeemed state, back into the commission, being the piece that God uses to move and bring identity and to bring order into chaos in the same way as before. You know the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, and also we see the restoration to the cross, where man's brought into this ability to bridle the tongue by way of the Holy Spirit. To bridle the tongue by way of the Holy Spirit, and so every sentence that you speak is a seed that either grows a garden of life or a graveyard of death.
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Be very careful with what you say. Even fools know to be silent when they have nothing to say. But as soon as a fool opens his mouth and speaks too many words, that says in in the Proverbs that his foolishness or his folly is exposed. Even a fool appears wise when he is silent, and so Proverbs 18.2 saysa fool has no delight in understanding. So before you speak foolishly, get understanding. Begin to get understanding. Yes, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might, the spirit of the fear of the Lord. Isaiah, chapter 11, the seven spirits of God. Begin to ask for this fullness before you open your mouth or you begin to type on your keyboard. You express the heart of God if you're able to quiet the noisiness of your soul, your mind, will and emotions and give ear to what he's saying or what he's doing. Wisdom listens first. A fool speaks impulsively. So we have to wait on divine insight.
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You want to use your words as intercession. You want to use your words to move and create and to bring peace and to bring understanding and bring revelation. You want to use your words to call forth the will of God on earth as it is in heaven, to call forth the Lord to move angels into place to fulfill his word. You know to begin to understand. Cause people to understand that our war is not against his word. You know to begin to understand. Cause people to understand that our war is not against flesh and blood. Yes, it's a very demonic war that we're bringing peace into. We want divine insight.
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We want to be those who actually speak the oracles of God and not just the words of man. Jeremiah 23, 18,. If you take time, read that entire chapter. It's very important to understand, not that there aren't supposed to be those who speak prophetically the word of God, but those who speak on their own accord of how the Lord feels about that. And actually it helps us understand that that actually can happen. We can speak on our own accord, and so we have to come into the counsel of God Fools.
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Echo chaos. Don't echo chaos. Don't be an echo. If you're going to echo anything, echo what's being said in heaven into the earth. The wise carries the thunder of God's decrees. Be one who decrees what is being said in the heavenly realms into the earth. You're in the right courtroom. You're in the right realm Because the words of God will align with the scriptures.
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And you know, if you follow me, I teach you how to approach the scriptures. I'm going to begin to release courses here really soon how to approach the scriptures. I'm going to begin to release courses here really soon. How to approach the scriptures. Are you approaching the scriptures in the context of the ancient Near Eastern world? How do you interpret the scriptures? Because how you interpret the scriptures, how you approach the scriptures, really helps you understand if you have the right alignment and litmus test from what you're hearing whenever you're actually speaking. All these things are important. That's why it's important to be still and to only speak. What you know is the Lord, especially in times of crisis.
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So true intercession is birthed in the depth of the agony, of the silence, of the quiet of the waiting on the Lord. God speaks through us when we wait on him. Romans 8, 26 and 27,. I've taught extensively on the groan of the spirit. When you have no words to pray, you don't know what to pray. The spirit himself is praying. He's interceding. But this is a dialogue. It's not just without language, it's a heavenly language. It's not without understanding. You have to ask for understanding. Heaven weighs your words. You're going to give an account for what you say. Intercession is forged in the agony of silence. Three words of wisdom come forth. As you've waited and you've allowed your flesh, your mind, your will, your emotions, your human impulses to submit to the presence of God, then you can roar with authority, but that roar should always come from the place of waiting on the Lord.
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Again, when Jesus flips the tables of the money changers in the temple, he didn't do that right away, he noticed it, but he went away and we see him braiding a whip. Well, he's actually pausing and he's doing what he sees the father do. He's gonna say what he hears the father say he's the incarnate Christ. He's the incarnate christ. He's the incarnate. He's yahweh incarnate. And so there's a connection in that moment between the father and the embodied son to bring a what seems like a rage-filled moment, but an overturning of a system that it doesn't look like yahweh. It doesn't look like Yahweh, it doesn't look like heaven. But he didn't doesn't do it reactionary, he does it as a response from what he hears in heaven. He models all of this for us.
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So Matthew 16 to 19 talks about the keys to the kingdom. We need to understand the keys of the kingdoms. You can bind, you can loose. This is the authority you've been given. But you've got to understand how to sit with him first, and so I just want to encourage you your moment of silence. You're waiting to hear from the Lord. This is spiritual warfare. We're in the moment of an intensity of spiritual warfare.
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Let those who are of Christ bring order into chaos. Don't bring more chaos. Don't just begin to spew out on social media. Your words can be revival and, hey, unless a seed falls to the ground and dies, it doesn't bear fruit. Murder is a real thing. Blood being shed and the voice of the Lord being amplified is a very real thing, but you need to be careful how you speak into that, because you want to know that you're speaking into the voice of the Lord. May the Lord raise up a billion burning ones who are bold with their faith, bold to speak the truth, humble to have dialogue and conversation and begin to see from different points of view as well.
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Let's be messengers of Christ and not reactionary chaos stirrers. Let us exude his glory and his beauty. The pathway of wisdom brings silence before the throne of God, personal, soulish silence. Before the throne of God, we come in peace in our hearts and if we're in frustration, we lay that over before him and then we begin to hear from heaven and then, in that, we speak what he tells us to speak and the world shakes in response. I want to challenge you right now to receive peace. Pray for those that have been affected. Charlie Kirk is a husband and has children and a wife. It's not okay to turn this into some big ugly, civil war. It's not okay. It's not okay. Let's be those of the kingdom. Weep with those who weep, weep with those who weep and rejoice in what God's doing in this hour. Let him use you for his glory not to bring extra chaos into this thing. I love you very much. My name is Tammy Sutherland.
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Again, thank you so much for listening to this Burning Messengers moment.
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Again, I'm actually going to be releasing soon a whole devotional on the power of life and death, the river of life and death that comes from your words. I hope that you will jump in with me on that 10-day journey of bringing your words into order so that you're able to be used with power as an intercessor or messenger.
You know, whether it be in your home or it be in your region, god's calling you to be a voice. You don't have to burn alone and you don't have to be confused about the beauty of the topics within the scriptures and how they apply to your life.
And so follow us and share this out, if it's administered to you, and hey, be kind in the comments.
But I do want to hear from you how is God using your words and what's your triggers? Using your words and what's your triggers?
You know, identify triggers that cause you to just kind of react versus to respond, and how can you begin to step more into responding instead of reacting?
What questions do you have?
