2 Cor 5:20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. Eph 6:20 – I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming the kingdom I may speak boldly.
Phil 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven. Col 1:13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son. We are citizens of a heavenly kingdom.
1 Cor 1:27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, 28 and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are.
1 Cor 1:26-31Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”?
Ambassadors occupy a very distinguished position; The ambassador is the personal representative of the government; Ambassadors need to know the position of the government on a particular issue and then speak the message for that government.
I must represent Christ to the world. I am not here on this earth to represent myself. I am not here to promote my own ideas, or personal ideology. I am not here to impose my opinions about life and God on others. I am here only to represent Christ.
Higher standards of behavior. Representing heavens’ superior authority, power, wisdom. Under kingdom authority, new attitudes new lifestyle, new speech.
Matt 12:34- For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. Matt 12:36- But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Prov 4:20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.21 Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.22 For they are life to those who find them And health to all their body.23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
Words are powerful they created and sustain the universe. John 1:1- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
Heb 1:3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
John 6:63 – the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. Spirit words are from another dimension – heaven. There is the supernatural voice of God and the natural sounds of earth. Natural & supernatural sound waves.
God’s word is spiritual or supernatural. Matt 11:15- He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Repeated 15 times.1 Cor 2:14 But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them, and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
Words sustain the universe. Heb 1:2 – through whom also He made the world 3 and upholds all things by the word of His power. Heb 11:3- By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
Jesus words are spirit & life Resurrection life can only be imparted through speaking the word of God Impartation of the invisible powerful spirit realm is communicated through prophetic declaration of the word of God.
Luke 4:32 They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority. Luke 4:36- All the people were amazed and said to each other, ‘What words these are! With authority and power, he gives orders to impure spirits, and they come out!’
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Active = energizes. Col 1:29 For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His energy, which mightily works within me. Divine word power energizes our lives & the entire physical universe.
Rom 1:16 The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Heb 4:12 The word of God is living, active & powerful. Natural sound waves can impact and reconfigure matter but cannot create. Supernatural sound waves can, they are creative.
John 12:49- For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. 50 I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore, the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. 23 Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.
Matt 21: 21 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen. Rom 4:17 in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.
John 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. Mark 4:39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
John 15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. Word of God is the verbal expression of the Spirit of God Spirit of God is the creative power of God.
John 15:26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, 27 and you will testify also.
Matt 10:19 But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say. 20 For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Jesus under God’s initiative spoke to: Sickness, disease, Demons, Waves, storm, fig tree, Death. He Commanded with words of authority.
I must represent Christ to the world, I am not here on this earth to represent myself, I am not here to promote my own ideas, or personal ideology. I am not here to express my opinions about life and God. I am here only to represent Christ.
Do you want to be an ambassador? Do you want to speak for God? Do you want to speak with authority & power? Do you want your words to move mountains? Do you want your words to carry creative power?
Build a relationship with the living word of God. Meditate on the word of God. Listen to God’s word. Fill your heart with God’s word. Allow the Spirit to work through you. Become an ambassador.