“Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken [captive] with the words of thy mouth.”
Proverbs 6:2
No longer need you talk of FEAR because God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)
No longer need you talk of DOUBT because Jesus said all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23) and according to your faith be it unto you (Matthew 9:29).
No longer need you talk of DEFEAT because God always causeth us to triumph in Christ (2 Corinthians 2:14).
No longer need you talk of WEAKNESS because God is your strength and power (2 Samuel 22:33) and the joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10).
No longer need you talk of SICKNESS and DISEASE because Jesus Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses (Matthew 8:17) and by His stripes ye WERE healed (I Peter 2:24).
No longer need you talk of UNWORTHINESS because He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21) and if any man, be in Christ, he is a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17).
No longer need you talk of DISCOURAGEMENT because we can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth us. (Philippians 4:13).
No longer need you talk of POVERTY because my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19) and seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things [ye need] shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33).
No longer need you talk of LACK or NEED because the young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing (Psalm 34:10).
No longer need you talk of FAILURE because this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (I John 5:4).
No longer need you talk of INSECURITY because safety is of the Lord (Proverbs 21:31) and when thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid, yea, thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet—the Lord shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken (Proverbs 3:24, 26).
No longer need you talk of CARES and WORRIES because God said cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved (Psalm 55:22) and cast all your care upon Him, for He careth for you (I Peter 5:7).
No longer need you talk of LONELINESS because Jesus said “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world” (Matthew 28:20) “and I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5).
No longer need you talk of CONFUSION and FRUSTRATION because God is not the author of confusion but of peace (I Corinthians 14:33) and we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God (I Corinthians 2:12); – God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on God because he trusts in God (Isaiah 26:3).
No longer need you talk of TROUBLES because Jesus said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33) and whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (I John 5:4).
No longer need you talk of FAITHLESSNESS because God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith and faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God (Romans 12:3; 10:17).
No longer need you talk of BONDAGE because whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered (Joel 2:32). Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free; if the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:32, 36): Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17).
No longer need you talk of FEAR OF THE FUTURE because His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue (2 Peter 1:3) and bodily exercise profiteth little but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come (I Timothy 4:8).
No longer need you talk of IGNORANCE because “when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13). If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him (James 1:5).
No longer need you talk of MURMURINGS because death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21); and we can say “O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory” (Psalm 108:1).
No longer need you talk of DEATH because Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly; I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish” (John 10:10; 28).
No longer need you talk of HATE because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:5).
No longer need you talk of CURSES because Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us . . . that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles [us] through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith (Galatians 3:13, 14).
No longer need you talk of PERSECUTION because if God be for us, who can be against us and who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Romans 8:31, 34).
No longer need you talk of CONDEMNATION because there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1). For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned (John 3:17, 18).
No longer need you talk of SIN because the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2). As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:12).
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my Redeemer! (Psalm 19:14)
—Mrs. C. D. Wood (Jean)
Coushatta, LA 71019