Understanding that Your Breakthrough (or Breakdown) is in Your Mouth
Positive thinking is great, but sometimes it’s difficult to keep negative thoughts from working their way back into our consciousness. Have no fear, God has given us a solution. He’s designed us so that the words we speak out of our mouths can drown out any thoughts we are thinking in our head. So, if we speak positively into our lives, that is what we are going to experience. Your power to experience a breakthrough, or a breakdown–is in your mouth. That is what Proverbs 18:31 means when it says, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.”
God knows exactly how many hairs you have on your head. He also already knows all about your problems. What you need to realize is that God has already made available to you everything you need to overcome them. He’s given you His word. God’s word, rooted in your heart, is your weapon for battling every problem you will ever experience in your life. Instead of making the common mistake of speaking to God about your problems, you need to (literally!) speak to your problems about your God.
God has given us authority over our problems by giving us scriptures to speak over them. In Mark 11:23, Jesus says: “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Your job is to find out what God’s promises are, and begin to use those scriptures as your swords.