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Creative power in our human words? [message #14232]

Tue, 12 August 2025 22:30

wishing34
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Registered: March 2009

Senior Member

Greetings,

I want to survey the Faith Assembly diaspora
who are on this forum.

Following are two related doctrines about our
words when we verbalize our faith.

Our human words have creative power . . . or
they do not have creative power.

I always believed that our human words did not
have creative power, but I remember some of
our ministers said our words did. As I recall
HEF never said/believed that human words had
creative power. Rather our words were indicators
as to what we believed and then our faith would
cause God to act. All power to cause change
was within God and not we humans - only that
our faith could cause God to act.

Scriptures relating to "the power of the tongue"
were metaphorical.

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Mk11:24-> Your faith will cause God to answer
your prayer. As you walk for a time in faith
you will only naturally say what you believe.
Your faith moves God and your words/confession
do not matter except they show you and others
what it is that you actually believe.

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Man is created in the image of God. Just as
God's words spoke all creation into existence
so, because we are in His image, our words
also have creative power to speak things into
existence such as our healing, money, family
salvations, etc.

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Did I think that HEF did not think/preach
that human words have creative power because
of my own belief/bias . . . or was I correct
w/r HEF? How do you remember the teaching?

Am I right that HEF never said that our
human words have creative power?

Please - what are your memories of HEF, not
what is the current teaching of other men.

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