Walk with Power: Think, Say, and Do the Word

Please turn in your Bible to Proverbs 23:7

What if I told you that you have POWER to make things happen in your life? Supernatural power, power from God to live the more abundant life. Not just life, getting by kind of life, but the MORE abundant life. Having all your needs met all the time in every category of life?

You’ve come to the right place.

We’ll learn from the Bible how to have Power in our lives

We have power in our lives by thinking, saying, and doing the Word.  

You and I, born-again believers according to Romans 10:9 & 10, have easy access to power in this world.  

This power enables us to be more than conquerors in every situation (Romans 8:37).

This power brings release to any mental or physical prison (John 8:36) and victory (1 Corinthians 15:57) to our lives.  

This power is from God.

Whatever we believe is directly reflected in what we confess. 

What we confess in the innermost being (our heart) is what we bring into reality in our lives.

Confession of belief = receipt of confession; believing = receiving

The law of believing works for both believers and unbelievers.  

However, believers, because of the spirit from God within, will bring forth more abundantly. 

Right believing is constantly knowing God’s power and presence are in you and with you in every situation! 

How you think about a situation at this very moment will determine the outcome.

Mark 9:23 If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

We want to align our thoughts, words, and actions with what God says in His Word so that we receive the abundance and power He promises. 

We can shape every part of our lives for success by thinking, saying, and doing the Word to the end that our confession of belief is God’s Word.

Walk with power by thinking the Word

Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he

Thoughts are the seeds of words and actions, and we receive the outcome of the thoughts we hold in our hearts. What we think, we are.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right. Henry Ford

Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

Think those thoughts Jesus Christ thought.  Jesus kept his thinking lined up with the Word, but he had to work at it.  He had to direct his thinking to the Word.  

Keeping our thinking on positive truths is the key to power for abundant living.

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

God tells us exactly what to think about.  Think about what you think about.

Science tells us that the average human has about 6,200 thoughts every single day. 

Retemorize (retain & memorize) verses. This means you memorize verses to believe them, to make them the joyful meditation of our heart, so we receive what we confess.

Job 3 is an example of what continual negative thinking can produce in one’s life once it takes root in someone’s heart.  Job 3:25 and Job 1:5 show that Job continually feared. - This is not what we want in our lives.

In contrast, Mark 5:25-29 is the record of a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years. She spent all her money on doctors and only got worse. The Amplified Bible, Classic Edition of  Matthew 9:21 reads “For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health” - this is what we want in our lives. We continue to say the Word.

This is the contest we have in our minds.  We have the freedom and authority to think the Word, which produces positive, successful fruit in our lives

Walk with power by thinking the Word

We just finished a class called Power for Abundant Living.  One teacher said that we replace our thoughts with God’s word.  He went on to say that if you go for a run or go to the gym and do a hard, sweaty workout, you don’t put on clean clothes over your smelly ones; you take off the old, smelly ones and put on new, clean ones. We replace our thoughts with God’s word to walk with power.

How do I do this, Alicia? I’m glad you asked

Here’s an example

My friend has five kids. He told me that when his kids say something negative or something that doesn’t line up with the Word, he says, “Renew your mind”.  

Renew - it’s as simple as that.  We put away our thoughts and think what God says. 

For example, “I’m never going to get this project done, it’s just too hard.” NO! “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Let’s go God!”

We walk with power by saying the Word

Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Spoken words are referred to in God’s Word as coming from the ‘tongue” and the “mouth.” Whether positive or negative, they have power. 

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Proverbs 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

We can keep, or hold our tongue, until the words of our mouth and the meditation of our heart are acceptable in God’s sight

My mother always said, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Our words can build up or tear down.  Before you say something, run it through your heart and ask, “Is this going to build up or tear down?

This applies to words we say to others AND to ourselves.

You are the person that you spend the most time with. You are the person who does the most talking to you.

What are you saying?

Is the Word dwelling in you richly so that you speak it to yourself, so that you speak it to others?

Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

We speak the positives and power of the Word, which minister grace to ourselves and others

Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be 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.

Can any challenge or issue in life be bigger than moving a mountain?

We walk with power by doing the Word

The “doing” of the word is sticking with our choices and refusing to back down on what we know to be the truth of the Word in any situation. “Doing” keeps us moving forward with power on what we decide to think and say.

James 1:22-25 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

This verse shows a man who looks in the mirror, sees his face, turns around, and forgets what he saw. We don’t want to read the Word and then turn around and forget what we read.

We line up our actions with the Word; we do the Word. As we move, God can move and open doors for us to bring about godly impact, as you can read about in Acts 2, 3, and 4.

To walk powerfully in life, we must do what we have decided to think and say.  We are fully equipped to be doers of the Word (2 Timothy 3:17).

There are over 900 promises in God’s word; we can only do what we know.  We can search God’s Word to see what it says about our situation, or we can ask a fellow believer for help.  Once we find God’s promise that meets our need, we think it, say it, and take believing action (like the woman with the issue of blood - she continually said if I may touch his garment, and then she took action on her believing) and do the word.

Believing = receiving.  What we confess in our innermost being withwhat we bring into our lives. We can determine to think, say, and do the world so that our confession of belief tracks with God’s Word and we reap God’s abundance and power in our lives.

We can walk with power by thinking, saying, and doing the word.