What’s Coming Out of My Mouth? #2

What’s Comin Out of my Mouth? #2

By Pastor Gary Wayne

Text: Romans 12: 2, Romans 10:17

Notice this does not say, “faith comes by hearing the word of God.”
“Faith comes by hearing.” “Hearing comes by the Word of God.”
Not just listening to the Bible. But it’s when my ears / heart is tied to the heart of what God is saying.

My hearing has to be tied to the voice / heart of what God is speaking.
His word activates my hearing.

The Greek uses 2 words that are translated into the English word for “word.” “Logos”, and “Rhema.”

Logos = is the message expressed usually through writing.
Rhema = the spoken Word of God.

Logos is the written scripture. Rhema is the word of God spoken. In this verse “rhema” is used.

In this text it would be accurate to read this “Faith comes from hearing, and being able to hear comes from the fresh spoken (rhema) word of God.”
I personally believe this is amplified, enhanced, or supercharged, when I use my voice out loud to say what God says.

Rom.12:2 The word transformed in the Greek = metamorphoo, where we get the word metamorphous.

It’s the process that changes a caterpillar into a butterfly inside a cocoon.
How does the caterpillar get inside the cocoon?

It spins the cocoon around itself by a silk web that comes out of its mouth.
It wraps itself up by what comes out of its mouth.

When we speak the Word of God – it wraps me up and transforms me.

It is fascinating to study how God made our bodies to respond to two different reports – good news and bad news - our bodies respond.

The pituitary gland controls the whole endocrine system, which is a system of complicated glandular secretions that run our bodies.

One set of glands are hooked onto our kidneys called the adrenal glands and they respond when we believe the bad news.

It’s easier to believe bad news 100% then good news 100%.
We have to work on believing good news – bad news comes easier.
When we believe the bad news, our adrenalin glands start pumping.
They pump adrenalin into your system that is designed to mobilize you for flight.

Unfortunately our adrenal glands can’t see what is going on, so when our pituitary glands tell them something bad is going to happen, they start pumping.
When we have adrenaline in our system too often, it starts our destroying our immune system and tears down our body.

Our bodies can’t handle a constant diet of stress – bad news.
From the day we are born there is a conforming pressure (Rom12:2 – don’t conform) to cause us to view life from a perspective different from God’s.
So if I agree and believe a lie….

Now the good news.
Our pituitary gland can also release in our brain an ‘opient” called a peptide molecule, that crates ecstasy, and brings joy to you.

When you say something positive, our brain responds. When you laugh – even a fake laugh, our bodies respond towards the positive.

When I say a positive word I believe, peptide molecules are released in my system.

The endorphins from the pituitary gland kills pain 100 times more than morphine and it accentuates our immune system.

They have proven that you will get well a lot faster if you believe you will.

Prov.4:20-23 “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.”

When we speak a truth: “I know that all things work together for good to those who love God…” (Rom.8:28)

At first our minds resist, saying, “Oh yea? Well what about…”
Half our mind says “it can’t be true.” The other half says, “God said it, it’s true, and I will keep saying it out loud.”

We usually start out with a split mind on every truth God gives us, so we need to wrap ourselves up in that truth until our thinking is “transformed by the Word (rhema) of God.”

What a difference - when out of my mouth – I say and believe: “I KNOW that ALL THINGS will work together for GOOD!”
“I’m God’s Favorite!

1/5 of a second later, my brain is bathed in the Word and I am rewarded physically and spiritually.