After I speak

• A lot of believers have mastered the church talk (I am favored, I am blessed, I’m walking in miracles, I cannot fail, I am more than a conqueror, etc).

• Christian talk seems ineffective because most do it out of excitement and not full understanding - Matthew 13:20-21 “As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.”

• We are quick to speak the promises of God from scripture; yet when things go south we are sometimes the first to go the opposite direction. 

• What happens when what you spoke has not happened and you then face the same people you spoke with?

Ezra 8:21-23 NKJV

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions. [22] For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him." [23] So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.

With love,

Pastor Tadala