Years ago, while I was working in the Manufacturing Engineering Department as a designer, I was standing next to one of our machine operators and a good friend of mine, Mark Henline, talking about a fixture I had designed.  As we talked, a fork trucker driver drove by repeatedly and would say in a mocking way, "Look at those stupid Christians."

About his fourth time of passing and saying the same thing, I was getting a little annoyed.  First of all, yes, we were and still are Christians.  But secondly, we were far from stupid.

Turning and pointing a finger at him as he passed the fifth time with his mocking and laughter, I simply proclaimed, "You are next!"  That man's face went blank and he mocked no more.  As a matter of fact, that man, soon after, left Armstrong's.  He is now the pastor of a church in Indiana and doing an extremely wonderful job.

There is one thing I have learned from reading the Word of God and studying the great men of faith like the apostle Paul and Smith Wigglesworth.  We speak things into existence that once were not evident, either by blessing or cursing. 

Faith moves mountains.  Faith is an action.  Our words, as stated in James 3:10, can be a blessing or a curse.  I was proclaiming a blessing on that man who once mocked, but now preaches.

How are you speaking today?  Have you listened to the words that you are speaking?  Do you bless others or curse them? 

Proverbs 18:21 says "Death and life are in the power of the tongue. and those who love it will eat its fruit." 

I received a call from a dear friend of mine from Houghton Lake yesterday.  This godly woman of faith had been diagnosed with Lymphoma after they had taken a gland in surgery that was cancerous.  She looked at it and said, "It is finished!  No cancer in this body now!"  That is faith in action and yesterday, the results of a Petscan from the hospital proved her right.  No cancer in her body.  She had proclaimed it by faith.

Speak life or death today ... which ever you choose, you will eat its fruit.  Maybe someone will end up preaching who once mocked God.