I know that you all get tired of repitition of certain things, but this bears repeating. A teacher repeats a certain subject time after time until the student "gets" it. I write this for myself as well as for any of you out there ... we all need to hear it over and over until we "get" it.
Proverbs 18:21 says that "death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they shall eat the fruit thereof." This says that we shall reap what we sow. So when we say things contrary to God's Word, they'll come to pass in our lives. Doesn't matter ... good or bad. So we must know what the Word says and speak those words into our lives ... or pay the consequences of our wrong speaking.
This word came from the Lord to a minister friend of ours. "My people perish (or die) for lack of My knowledge (Hosea 4:6) I have told them that they can have what they say, but they are saying what they have. Now, if they keep saying what they have, they will keep having it; but if they speak My Words and believe that they shall have what they say, I shall bring to pass what they say."
Mary C. Butler