David Diga Hernandez - The Power of Your Words

Now, there have been some abuses of this biblical truth that I’m going to minister to you about. Some have taken the biblical idea that there is power in your words a little too far, even bordering on superstition, and I’m going to talk about that in this message. But before I even get into that, I want to lay the foundation to help you understand the power behind the words that you speak. You see, the authority and the power behind the words that you declare come from your heavenly Father. Now, we have to understand how God speaks and how God makes declarations before we can understand where we fit in the line of authority in the chain of command.

So, first of all, I want to show you about the Word of God. The scripture teaches us very clearly that, number one, God’s Word is creative. Genesis chapter one, verses one through three, say, «In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.» Verse three: «Then God said, 'Let there be light, ' and there was light.» Here, we see that God spoke to the darkness; God spoke to the vast nothingness. By the sheer command of His word, by the sound of His voice, He called into existence all that we know as our reality. The scripture tells us in Hebrews chapter 11, verse number three, «By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.» In other words, faith gives us the understanding that God spoke all things into existence. Everything that you observe, everything that you experience, everything that you can touch and sense was spoken into existence by the Word of God.

The origin of all things finds itself in the declaration of the Father. The scripture says in Psalms chapter 33, verse number six, «The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created; He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.» Now, this is incredible. From nothing, God brought about everything. From nothing, God brought about all that you see and know. Everything that can be known about our universe, everything that is known about our world, was brought into existence by the Word of God. He merely spoke; He simply willed it into existence, made a declaration, and caused all things to be. His will is so powerful that reality bends to it without question; His word is so potent that reality obeys it without question.

So that’s number one: God’s Word is creative. Number two: God’s Word is sustaining. Not only did God create all things by His word, but He sustains all things by His word. The scripture says in Hebrews chapter 1, verses 1 through 4, «Long ago, God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets, and now in these final days, He has spoken to us through His Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son, He created the universe.» Remember, the Son is the Word. Verse number three: «The Son, or the Word, radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and He, the Son, the Word, sustains everything by the mighty power of His command. When He had cleansed us from our sins, He sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.» This shows that the Son, or the Word, is far greater than the angels, just as the name God gave Him is greater than their names.

Did you know that in physics, there is a theory called string theory? I’m going to give you a very oversimplified explanation. I don’t fully understand it, but what I do know is that string theory is one of the models that cosmologists use to try to describe the universe as a whole. String theory says that everything ultimately is held together by tiny strings vibrating. In other words, everything, the theory goes, can be said to be held together by sound. It was the voice of God that spoke all things into existence, and it is the vibrations of His eternal command that holds everything together. His word holds you together; His word holds all of the laws together. Think about it: it holds the spiritual laws together; it holds the physical laws together; it holds the moral laws together. His word holds the universe together. All matter, all space, and time are held together. They are threaded together and kept stable by the command of God.

So, God’s Word is creative, God’s Word is sustaining, and number three: God’s Word is powerful. Hebrews chapter four, verse 12, says, «For the word of God is alive and powerful; it is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.» Isaiah chapter 55, verse 11, says, «It is the same with my word; I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.» God’s Word always accomplishes the goal that He intended it to accomplish. God’s Word never returns void. Once God has spoken something, it cannot be undone. It could be said this way: God’s Word is the code of all reality. God’s Word, like a computer code written out, tells everything how it should act, tells everything how it should respond to its surroundings, tells everything how it should function, move, and exist. God’s Word is the code that reality is built upon. It supersedes all laws; it is outside of time and cannot be constrained by it.

This is why the Lord declares several times, «I am.» That is a name of God—the «I Am"—meaning He is ever-present and eternal. He is not someone who is going to act in the future, nor is He someone who was only relevant in the past; He is living in the now, having existed in a now forever, and is constantly moving in power. He has no time, and He has no boundaries. His word accomplishes its goal; His word accomplishes its purpose. I want to share some thoughts I had concerning this topic. Once the word of God has been spoken concerning a matter, there is no force, no will, no action, and no opposition that can stop or even slow the fulfillment of that word. What God declares will happen when He destines it to happen, according to how He desires it to happen, where He wants it to happen, and to whom He wills it to happen. God’s word is final, and Jesus carried this same power. You see, that creative, sustaining, powerful word became the express image of the Father because Jesus is the Word. Now, God’s will and His word are inseparable; His word accomplishes His will, and His will is reflective of His word. That’s why Jesus fulfilled the will of God unto perfection; because He was the will, the word, the intention, or the idea of God in action on earth in full perfection. The scripture says in John chapter 1, verses 1 and 14, «In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.» That’s so powerful! We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. So Jesus is the Word; He’s the will of God in action on earth. This is something I want you to recognize: there is a difference between the way Jesus spoke and the way the Father spoke. They both spoke the same things, but they spoke them from different positions. I’m going to tell you more about that in just a moment, but first, I want to look at the power that Jesus had in His words. With His word, Jesus delivered the captives. Matthew chapter 8, verse 16, says that evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and He healed all the sick. With His word, Jesus influenced the physical world. Matthew chapter 21, verses 18 and 19, say that in the morning, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem, He was hungry and noticed a fig tree beside the road. He went over to see if there were any figs, but there were only leaves. Then He said to it, «May you never bear fruit again,» and immediately the fig tree withered. In Mark chapter 4, verses 39 through 41, the scripture says, «When Jesus woke up, He rebuked the wind and said to the waves, 'Silence! Be still! '» Suddenly, the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then He asked them, «Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?» The disciples were absolutely terrified. «Who is this man?» they asked each other; «Even the wind and waves obey Him.» With His word, Jesus had authority over angelic beings. The scripture says in Matthew chapter 26, verse 53, «Don’t you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect us, and He would send them instantly?» With His word, Jesus raised the dead and healed the sick. In Mark chapter 5, verses 38 through 42, we see Jesus raising a little girl from the dead. In Luke chapter 7, verses 6 through 10, we see Jesus merely speaking a word and healing the servant of a centurion. This is the power that Jesus carried with His word. He brought deliverance with His word; He brought healing with His word; He commanded the forces of nature, and even the physical laws that govern the universe bowed to the authority of Jesus’s word. This is the power He carried. Now, as I said, they spoke from different positions. You have to realize that when Jesus came to earth, He stripped Himself of certain abilities and certain divine qualities. This didn’t make Him any less God; Jesus was fully man and fully God. I should say truly man and truly God. Jesus chose, in humility, to strip Himself of certain divine powers. Now this means that the way Jesus spoke the word was different from the way that God the Father spoke the word, and in seeing how Jesus spoke the word, we see a revelation of truth. We see the power that you and I have when we speak. This is what I want to show you. I want you to notice the difference between how the Father and the Son used their words. You see, when the Father speaks, He creates; when the Son speaks, He shapes. God created man, so the Son healed and delivered. God created the physical laws, but the Son spoke and was able to command those physical laws. So Jesus certainly could have done as His Father did, but He chose to model something for you and me. He chose instead to be an example for you and me of how we should exercise our divine authority. John chapter 5, verse 19 says, «So Jesus explained, 'I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself. He does only what He sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.'» Now look again at the context where Jesus cursed the fig tree. Look at what He says after this. Matthew chapter 21, verses 20 through 22, the scripture says the disciples were amazed.