Recently, I was reading Rob McCorkle’s latest book Life & Death– The Power of Words and as I read chapter after chapter, I found myself being able to identify with each heading. I could associate myself with them all, but after completing the book, I knew in my heart that the chapter on “A Righteous Mouth” was the one on which my spirit stuck to..
If I am being totally honest, I can say that I must continually work at chasing after a righteous mouth. Overcoming emotions is hard and if you run on them, then a righteous mouth is not something that comes easily. I must laugh at what I just wrote but I believe it is true. Only God can change us and only we can choose to want to change and work towards having a righteous mouth. Thank God for grace and mercy! We live in a world of unrighteousness, but through Christ we are called to live at a higher standard. God wants to do so many things through us and that is why He chose to purify us at salvation. The plan for Jesus to die for our sins was so that we could continually go back to God and ask for forgiveness. Being right with God starts at repenting for what we produce from our mouths that is not right. As we graft into God through building a relationship with Him, we veer away from what the world says about us, and we become the righteousness of God. This is shown by what comes out of our mouths. Our eyes will be unveiled to see the ways of the world, then we will strive to become who God has already prepared for us to be and it will feel right! This all takes time and a growing up spiritually. Internally the change happens first at salvation and then what we produce from our mouths will be seen externally by the ones in front of us. We will be giving life to others by the words we speak, and those words will dramatically transform the ones in front of us for God. Righteousness is so important in understanding when we become members of the body of Christ. Many who receive salvation do not understand what it was exactly Jesus did for us so we could get back to God’s original intentions for us. He has a blueprint design for our lives, not just for us to get cleansed through Christ. On the other side of that moment in time when we say “yes”, we are opening ourselves up to the spiritual world that God has prepared for us all along. This is the side of salvation that we begin to walking out our inheritance. God made our adoption possible through His Son so that we could once again be connected with Him for eternity while laboring for Him on earth.
When we chose Jesus at salvation, we received our very first deliverance. At that moment we were cleansed and made new. Like the process of how gold goes through the fire to separate the impurities to be refined. At salvation, we begin the refinery process. Sanctification is another name for this action we chose through Jesus. This process will carry us through life.
Through our decision to say “yes” to Jesus, we have chosen to make things right. This is the first step in obtaining righteousness. Jesus begins to transform us at the cross and in turn we are given power and authority to be the mirror image of all that Christ did when He walked the earth. God did all of this to save us from the enemy. He has a destiny for us and has predestined us to be sons and daughters to carry out His mission on earth.
Being made right before God and learning to walk in these ways helps us to produce righteous fruit from our mouths––that is when we gain an understanding of who God is through acquiring an intimate personal relationship with Him. In this, all our human traits and qualities will slowly dissipate, leaving only room for God’s goodness to exude from us. The first change that people will notice will be the way we carry ourselves, and that starts with the mouth. This transformation begins with the hunger to see a change and the choice to come to Jesus. In faith it continues, and our craving for more of God only deepens as we are strengthened and equipped by prayer and the power of God’s word.
Rob McCorkle shares that a “righteous mouth flows with wisdom.” As we continually keep our eyes upon God and walk in all His ways, we learn to hear His voice, and mature. From the moment we said yes to Jesus, God began imparting His attributes in our soul. The Holy Spirit in us partners and equips our soul to bring forth a righteous mind, so that we in turn can lift and encourage the one in front of us. A righteous mouth comes from being led by the Holy Spirit through alignment with the Father. This began the day we said “yes” to Jesus.
A righteous mouth is key to becoming eternally whole in God. Part of our maturity is to recognize when our mouth is trying to get us into trouble. The mouth either produces blessings or curses (James 3:10). When we are producing God’s goodness the world forces of evil are bound by the light of God within us. Evil wants us to expel negativity, but through keeping our eyes on God and listening to the Holy Spirit within, only blessings will manifest out of our mouths. This is where we supernaturally begin to align our mouths with the word of –thus becoming wholly righteous, being aligned with the Holy Spirit and bearing favorable fruit. We cannot produce the “good fruit” if our mouths are not producing life to the one in front of us. As we mature in stature and grace through God, our lives begin to look different. We begin to naturally shift through salvation to acting upon the transformation of God within us through Christ to start taking responsibility for what we produce out of our mouths. We begin to lose the ways of the world and become ingrained into the ways of the kingdom of God.
There is action needed on our behalf to bring God’s plans into fruition for our lives. We are called to not just accept Jesus at salvation but push forward and learn to walk in the ways of heaven. This can only take place if we choose to develop a relationship with our Father. In hungering for more of who He is and what He has to offer us, our mouths will align with Him and bring forth right words to shift the earth. A righteous mouth begins with being able to give gratitude to our Father for what He is doing in and through us.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 NKJV