If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.
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James 1:26
Your mouth can cause you to make your faith useless. You can go to church every week and pay your tithe every month, but if your mouth is speaking unbelief, envy, strife, or hatred, your mouth will render your faith worthless. You do not access the spirit realm and the throne of God with your religion. You access the spirit realm and the throne of God with your words of faith. Second Corinthians 4:13 says, “And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak.” The spirit of faith operates this way. You believe it, and you speak it. You are going to speak what you really believe. That is why it is so important to watch the words of your mouth and the meditations of your heart.—
James 1:26
A Christian lady approached another Christian lady for prayer. She prayed what appeared to be a prayer of faith. A few moments later I heard the lady who prayed tell another person that the lady she had just prayed for was in great pain and needed to be healed. She also told that person to continue praying So that the lady would be healed.
This is a great example of how a prayer can appear to be in faith, but not be. Faith is in the heart and the mouth. A confession or prayer without belief in the heart is not a faith confession or a prayer of faith. A positive confession is good, but a confession of faith is where the power is. The Word says, if we pray in faith, we are to believe we have received what we prayed for. Always watch what you say.
Prayer:
I boldly declare that what God says I am, I am; what God says I have, I have; what God says I can do, I can do.Scriptural Reading:
James 1:21-26
