Jesu, juva
THE POWER YOU’RE NOT USING
Most people treat words like noise. Just sounds. Just communication. Scripture shows something very different.
When Jesus spoke, sickness left, storms stopped, bread multiplied. Reality itself shifted at His word. Jesus did not have to use any effort to change anything before Him. Even when He used spit and dirt, the power was not in the mud. It was in His logos.
If His way of speaking was a pattern for us, then in Christ, we should seek to never speak the same way again.
TWO THINGS WE CAN’T IGNORE
Miss these, and everything else becomes theory, that’s it.
The world was created by the use of words. Genesis does not say God wrestled chaos into order. It says God spoke, and it was so. Light appeared because it was spoken. Order came because it was declared.Words in Scripture do not just describe reality. They shape it.
WORDS CARRY THE WEIGHT OF THE SPEAKER
In Scripture, words are never neutral. They carry intention, authority, and the inner state of the one who speaks. The same sentence, spoken from fear, doubt, or worry, falls flat. Spoken from alignment, it carries weight.
When we repeat lies about ourselves, we are not being “honest”; we are quietly agreeing with the enemy instead of our Creator. Negative self‑talk is not humility. It is internal rebellion against what God has already spoken over us, which is why those thoughts must be taken captive and made obedient to Christ.
That is why “death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Our words reveal what we are aligned with. Our inner world leaks into our speech, and that alignment shapes outcomes.
WHAT LOGOS REALLY MEANS
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1
“Word” here is logos.
John writes in Greek, but the Jewish mindset behind it is Hebrew. The closest Hebrew idea is davar – word and action as one.
In that frame, a word is never passive. It always does something. In Genesis, God does not describe creation. God speaks, and creation responds. “God said… and it was so.” So when John says “In the beginning was the logos,” he is saying: before creation, there was divine intention, order, and power to act. And that logos was God.
Jesus did not just say holy sentences. He expressed the active order of God. Reality did not respond to sound. It responded to authority aligned with God’s design. That is logos. And that is why His words worked.
WHY JESUS’ WORDS WORKED
Watch how Jesus speaks in the Gospels. He does not beg. He does not panic. He does not pray, “God, please, if You want to…” He says, “Be healed.”
He is not speaking toward God, trying to convince or change His mind. He is speaking from union with the Father. “Not My will, but Yours be done.” Once that inner alignment is settled, there is no uncertainty about the Father’s will.
“The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” Spirit first. Then life.
His words did not create alignment. They flowed from alignment. That is why they carried authority, not desperation.
Most of us speak toward God, hoping something will happen. Jesus spoke from God, knowing it already had.
HOW WE CLOSE THE GAP
If that is the difference, how do we move from religious noise to words that carry weight?
STEP 1: SETTLE THE INNER WORLD
“Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” Luke 5:16
He did not withdraw because He was weak, but because authority requires alignment. Before He spoke, He rested. He returned to the Father. For us, that means: before we talk, we get still. If the heart is anxious, speech is scattered. If the mind is frantic, words are thin. When trust replaces fear, our words carry a quiet weight.
Stillness aligns us. Alignment gives words power.
STEP 2: SPEAK FROM IDENTITY, NOT NEED
“Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.” John 11:41
Jesus says this before Lazarus walks out. He thanks the Father before the miracle, not to pretend, but because He knows the Father’s heart.
Need-based speech sounds like begging. Identity-based speech sounds like sonship. A beggar hopes to be noticed. A son knows he is heard. This is not arrogance. It is relationship.
Negative self‑talk is not harmless; it is speech that denies what God has already declared over us as sons. When we speak as if we are still orphans, our words fight our own adoption. Authority does not come from how badly we want something. It comes from knowing who we are in Christ and where we stand.
STEP 3: CALL, DON’T JUST DESCRIBE
Most of us narrate our problems. Jesus called outcomes. In the storm, He did not analyze the wind. He said, “Peace, be still.”
“God calls those things which do not exist as though they did.” Romans 4:17
Calling is not pretending. It is agreeing with heaven’s perspective. We are not ignoring reality. We are speaking from a higher one.
Fear reports what it sees. Faith declares what God has determined.
STEP 4: LET WORDS MATCH WALK
Jesus’ words carried power because His life matched them. No divided loyalties. No secret resistance.
“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8
When our mouth says one thing but our habits preach another, our words lose weight. Reality responds to integrity, not vocabulary. This is not about perfection, but alignment. When our walk agrees with our words, our speech stops sounding hollow.
Logos is alignment made audible.
THE CHALLENGE
Brothers, we have access to the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead. So are we using words the way God intends?
Let’s stop speaking from fear, from raw need, from distance. Let’s settle the inner world. Remember who we are in Christ. Then speak. Not as beggars. As sons. Not just describing problems. Calling God’s outcome. Not with our lives pulling one way and our words another, but with integrity.
Here are simple ways to practice this:
• Let each of us focus on one recurring negative phrase we happen to notice this week. Then, determine to confront it with Scripture instead of rehearsing it.
• Let’s focus to speak truth out loud each morning from one passage that anchors our identity in Christ; let our ears hear what God says.
• Ask a trusted brother to call us out when our talk does not match our calling, and give him permission to speak truthfully and help guide us back into truth.
When that alignment is in place, our words will not just fill the air. They will carry weight. They will release life. We will not just be making noise. We will be releasing logos.
IN REFLECTION
Where is one place this week where our words and our walk are out of alignment, and what specific steps will we take to bring them under Christ’s authority?
Blane
SDG
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