Charles Capps - The Tongue, a Creative Force Gift Edition

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Charles Capps is a former farmer and land developer who travels throughout the United States, teaching and preaching the truths of God's Word. He shares from practical, first-hand experience how Christians can apply the Word to the circumstances of life and live victoriously.

Besides authoring several books, including the bestselling, The Tongue, A Creative Force, Charles also has a nationwide radio ministry called "Concepts of Faith."

Charles and his wife Peggy make their home in England, Arkansas. Both their daughters, Annette and Beverly, are involved in full-time ministry.

"If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain" (James 1:26).

"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature: and it is set on fire of hell ... But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison" (James 3:5-6,8).

Words

God's Word that is conceived in your heart, then formed by the tongue, and spoken out of your own mouth, becomes a spiritual force releasing the ability of God within you.

That's why Paul said, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philip- pians 4:13). His heart (spirit) had received God's Word. It was not Paul's ability that made him say that, but the ability of God formed in him by the Word, and out of the abundance of his heart his mouth spoke.

Those that say they can and those that say they can't are both right. Words are the most powerful thing in the universe. We read in John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." We must learn to use our words more effectively. The words you speak will either put you over or hold you in bondage. Today, many Christian people have been taken captive by their own words. By the prayer of their own mouth they have been set in a position where they cannot receive from God. We have all done it at one time or another. We have used our tongue to form the very words that defeated us. We have even prayed contrary to the Word of God. We have prayed defeat and received it. We have prayed the problem and it became greater. Even prayer produces after its kind. In Mark 11:24 the Word says, "... What things soever ye DESIRE, when ye pray, BELIEVE that ye receive them, and ye SHALL have them." Jesus has set forth a great truth about spiritual law. GOD'S WORD is spiritual law. It functions just as sure as any natural law.

We have learned how to work with natural law. In dealing with the natural law that governs electricity, we have learned that if we work with that law by obeying and enforcing it, that electrical force will work for us. But if we continually violate that law that governs or controls electricity, we will get in a "heap of trouble". As long as we enforce the law that controls electrical forces, it will produce energy to give us light, heat our home, cook our meals, and wash our clothes; and yet it will produce no harm to us. It is very useful and safe, when we understand, and apply the law by which it is controlled. However, this same force can burn, kill, and destroy, if the law that governs electricity is not enforced.

So are the words that come forth out of your mouth. They will work for you to put you over in life, IF you control those words and bring them into obedience to spiritual law, which is THE WORD OF GOD. Words governed by spiritual law become spiritual forces working for you. Idle words work against you.

THE SPIRIT WORLD IS CONTROLLED BY THE WORD OF GOD.

THE NATURAL WORLD IS TO BE CONTROLLED BY MAN SPEAKING GOD'S WORDS.

THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IS CREATIVE POWER.

Therefore, even the words of our prayers should be chosen carefully and spoken accurately. We have often prayed, "Lord I have prayed and it's not working out. The devil has defeated me." But the Word said, "What things soever you desire when you pray, believe you receive ... ". Defeat is not what you desire, so don't pray it or say it. You can see how the wrong choice of words can cause even your prayers to work against you. You have prayed, "Lord, I've got this problem and it's getting worse."

Now let's compare this prayer with the Word of God. First, you have prayed the problem, and not the answer. The Word said, Pray the things you desire. You desire the answer. Second, you have released faith in the ability of the enemy. To make it worse, you established the words of the devil that prayer doesn't work and things are getting worse. You are walking by sight and not by faith. You have denied the Word of God. You have done it because of the lack of knowledge. In Hosea 4:6 God said, "My people are destroyed (cut off) for lack of knowledge ... ". Lack of knowledge has caused men to be destroyed and lives to suffer needless loss.

A few years ago I came upon the scene of an accident. A car had gone out of control and cut off a power pole. The high line wire was hanging about three feet above the ground. Many people had stopped and gotten out of their cars. They were standing no more than three feet away from that live wire, thinking that it was insulated, or that the power was cut off. But this was not true, the wire was "live" with over 17,000 volts of electricity. I watched from my car, a safe distance away, as the ambulance attendants carried a woman on a stretcher up the highway embankment. As they crawled under the powerline one of them got too close, and the electrical current arced to his body like a lightning bolt. He died instantly and the other attendant was critically injured.

He violated the natural law that governs electricity. No doubt he did it in ignorance, yet it was fatal.

Lack of knowledge did not stop the electrical force. It continued to work, It was the same force that cooked his meals, heated his house, and washed his clothes. It was created to work for him to make life more enjoyable. The very reason for its existence was to supply his needs, but when he violated the law that controlled that force, it destroyed him.

SPIRITUAL LAW IS FOR YOUR GOOD. It is to produce the things you need and desire. But, speaking and praying contrary to the Word of God (spiritual law) will be just as disastrous as violating the law of electricity. We have prayed in all manner of prayer that the Bible doesnt teach. We have prayed to Jesus, and that is an unscriptural way to pray. Words are important. Begin now to become WORD CONSCIOUS. Words are like little seeds that produce after their kind. Learn to pray according to the Word of God. God's Word will produce after His kind. "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things" (Matthew 12:35).

Jesus said, "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full" (John 16:23-24).

PRAYER IS YOUR LEGAL RIGHT TO USE FAITH FILLED WORDS TO BRING GOD ON THE SCENE IN YOUR BEHALF, or for another that your JOY MAY BE FULL.

It is the Word abiding in you that causes faith to be present in your words. "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples" (John 15:7-8). Notice it glorifies the Father when you get your prayer answered and your needs met. Verse 11 says, "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." Your joy can be full if the Word of Mark 11:24 abide in you, ".... When you pray believe ... ".