Death and life are in the power (yod: hand) of the tongue. Proverbs 18:21.

Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:

Be perfect as I am perfect. My sun shines on the good and the evil, My rain falls on the righteous and the unrighteous.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:43-48.

No rancor, no hate, no malice, no gossip, and no wicked speech—a pure and clean heart where My Spirit dwells.

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 1 Peter 2:1-3.

Jesus commanded you to be perfect as I am perfect, therefore, you know that I have made this possible and accessible to you or I would not require it of you. Growing up in the Spirit, if you wish to develop to full maturity, I must teach you how to talk. A baby must learn the language of the parent to communicate with and receive communication effectively from the parent and mature thereby. The same is true with you. I am your Father.

And where do you learn how to talk? The same way a baby does, from the parent. I have put My Words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of My hand, the hand of power. And I ask you to use the hand of your tongue to speak words of life and not death, words of blessing and not cursing, I have the Words of eternal life. And you chose what words you will speak, the death words of the world, the flesh, and the devil, or the words of life of your Father, creator, and LORD. I am your maker, there is no other. And I know and understand your thoughts from afar. And to teach you how to talk effectively with Me and all I have made, I have given you My thoughts and My Words as your own.

Listen to Jesus and learn from Him:

“For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” John 12:49-50.

Now let Me define to you a perfect man as I revealed it to My servant James.

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says (in word), he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. Jame 3:2.

This is a very important statement that I want you to take to heart if you want to be perfect as I am perfect. My Words create and so do yours for you are in My image and according to My likeness. I made everything by My Word, I sustain everything by My Word, and I answer you, save you, and deliver you by My Word. There is life and medicine for healing in My Words. I tell you that if you do not speak idle, careless words that cause you or others to stumble, that is, fall from doing My good, pleasing and perfect Will, then you are perfect and able to restrain, control, check, and keep your body functioning and behaving at the maximum level of fruitfulness. Clean and pure you become perfect as I am perfect.

I am very careful in what I say, for My Words are powerful and sustain the universe.

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. Hebrews 1:1-3.

My Words are the words of eternal life. There is life in My Words.

My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body. Proverbs 4:20-22.

Most people do not watch over their words, they use words loosely to vent or speak negatively. People speak more of what they do not like, do not want, or fear than of what they like, want, and have faith to receive. Complaining, grumbling, and blaming is much more common than praising, rejoicing, and taking responsibility for things done or received. Imitate Me as My dear children and walk in love, and you do that by thinking, speaking and doing what is lovely.

When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, he said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law. For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.” Deuteronomy 32:45-47.

I speak those things that be not as though they be and they come into being. I call them in as I did all creation in the beginning. The plan, the thoughts, the designs are birthed in My heart and then I speak them out and by My Spirit the words frame and build what I speak, whether spiritual, physical, emotional, or financial. Think of your words as doing the same, for they are, maybe not quite so dramatic as Mine, though you can bring those things to pass and move mountains, stop storms, and heal bodies with My Words and the Name of Jesus, but what you call in will come. Some of you have been doing some very negative calling and need to repent, as Job did, by retracting the harmful things you have said. Do not speak death but speak life.

Remember the centurion that came to My Son for the healing of his servant? He knew the power of the Word of authority. He told Jesus there was no need to go with him to the house, just speak the Word of healing and it would be done. I send My Word to heal you and deliver you from all your destructions. My Covenant with you is My Words in your mouth and My Spirit upon you to bring them to pass. I thus raise you up to perfection, to the God level in your walk.

The word you see translated “perfect” in the New Testament is “teleios (τέλειος),” which means having reached its end, i.e. complete, perfect. Téleios is an adjective, derived from “télos,” which means “consummated goal,” mature (consummated), maturity resulting from going through the necessary stages to reach the end-goal, i.e. developed into a consummating completion by fulfilling the necessary process. You will see the same Greek word translated “complete” and “mature.” In other words, you grow up and no longer speak as a child.

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the sanctified (by being born again from above) ones for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature (teleios: complete, perfect) man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Ephesians 4:11-16.

If, even though you have received Jesus as Lord, you get stuck in the child stage, or even below that, and do not let Me work with you to complete the process of perfection, if you refuse to yield to the Spirit in you, which grieves Him by curtailing His perfect work, you will be perfected at your entrance to Heaven by the fire of love purifying the words and works that sum up your life. But if you never advanced you will lose your reward.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 2:10-16.

It is My Word that judges you. Simply put: did your words agree with Mine? Homologia, is the Greek word meaning speaking the same thing in perfect agreement of heart. Jesus is the High Priest of your confession, which is the word, “homologia.” He brings your words of agreement with Mine before Me, such as healing, prosperity, victorious outcomes, and I watch over My Word to perform it. You will receive mercy and find grace to help you right when you need it.

Just trying to control your words outwardly, however, may work for a few hours at most but without putting a watch over your heart you cannot control your tongue. For your mouth speaks from the abundance of your heart. I know what is in your heart already, but after talking with you for any length of time, so does everyone else. You are known by the fruit of your lips which becomes the fruit of your life.

If you are not setting your thoughts in line with Mine, your words will never be in line with Mine. To be perfect it must become who you are inside as well as out.

I have commanded you not to be worried, anxious or upset about anything but in EVERYTHING to immediately bring it to Me in prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, so I can take care of it and guide and sustain you through to victory. Jesus gave you His peace but your part is to take that by faith and not let your heart be troubled or afraid. I told Joshua to be strong and courageous by meditating on My Word day and night and permitting nothing else to enter his mind or come out of his mouth. He had battles to win and a reward to seek.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:8-9.

But how do I tell you to do this? By SPEAKING MY WORD whether in season (you feel like it because all is going well) or out of season (when everything seems to be coming against you in the opposite direction and you do not feel like agreeing with My Word, let alone thanking, rejoicing and praising). This is the narrow way that leads to life.

Speak to your thoughts, “Calm down you have a Healer, you have a Provider, your Father looks ahead and provides before you ever knew the problem was coming!” Encourage yourself with My Word. That is what David was doing with his songs to Me that you can sing with him in the book of Psalms. But you can sing your own songs as inspired in your heart by My Spirit as well. When My Word becomes your song you know it has entered your heart.

REMEMBER, DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER (HAND) OF YOUR TONGUE. You will eat the fruit of your words. Make it the fruit of the Holy Spirit at all times.

Do not be surprised that you say things that you don’t want to say and it is difficult to control your tongue. No man can control his tongue on his own, for born from below as a descendant of Adam, the fire of hell is lighting your tongue. Just listen to the toxic speech of so many people spilling out in words of scorn and hate, complaining and bitterness, chastising one another or gossiping about the faults of others. Just watch the news and you will hear it and people think it is witty and entertaining to hear their leaders spoken of disrespectfully.

See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race. But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. James 3:5-8.

But with My Spirit in you and on you and My Words in your mouth, you can control your tongue. Not by human power or might but by My Spirit.

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 1 Corinthians 2:11-13.

Do you remember what happened on the day Pentecost was fulfilled and the church, the body of Christ, was born as a new creation on earth in each heart that received Him as Lord and was born again from above? The strong driving wind came and manifested as TONGUES of fire descending upon each person and then entering their hearts, clothing them inside and out with power from on High. And what happened? THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE! Born again it should not be the fire of hell lighting your tongue but sacred fire, the sacred fire of love.

When the day of Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance. Acts 2:1-4.

The power of the anointing which is My love poured in your heart, and it is the anointing of the oil of JOY! I told you that if you are willing and obey, I can help you and have you eating the good of the land. The fruit of your lips is where your sweet life starts but it comes from in your cleansed and sweetened heart.

Do you remember how I made the bitter water sweet when I had just redeemed the Israelites out of the slavery of Egypt? I had Moses throw in the wood of a cross into the water. Jesus has made you bitter life sweet by the Cross. He made peace through the blood of the Cross and it is yours. You and I are no longer striving in our spirits, we are joined as one and thriving together.

Be perfect as I your Father am. A perfect Father, with perfect children, for you are joint heirs with Christ. Receive My implanted Word it has the POWER to save your souls.

When anxious, dark thoughts try to enter your heart, ANSWER THEM WITH MY WORD, and in that way take them captive to the obedience of Christ, the anointed One, who was obedient unto death so that in Him you died to sin by identification and substitution and when I raised Him above all that is devilish and cunning that is in the earth, I raised you and seated you with Him at My right hand in Heaven. The devil is now beneath your feet. Tread on him; never walk with him. Keep your mind above with Christ where I seated you and off of the dirt below. The devil eats dirt but you should not be joining him at the dining table. I set a table before you in the sight of your foes and anoint your head with oil until your cup overflows, washing out all the darkness with My own marvelous light, so that you, with Jesus, are walking in the light of life now and forever. Let the light keep you cleansed, for the revelation of My Word gives light and understanding to the simple. It always comes back to My Word.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. John 1:1.

I love you. Let Me teach you how to talk like Me so you can control your whole being with love. And love is good for you and will keep you strong and perfect forever. Love never fails. Come live in the light of My love, the perfect place where the evil one cannot touch you.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool. If you are willing and obey, you will eat the best of the land.” Isaiah 1:18-19.

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