Psalm 45:2 - May 19

Ps 45:2 "You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever." NIV

Have your lips been touched by heaven? God is at work in you to capture your mouth! The book of James says in Ja. 3:2, 6 “If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man…6 the tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person.” A tongue under the influence of our human nature is a weapon of evil. With it we wound people, rob them of their dreams, steal their confidence and warp their identity. Prov 18:21 instructs us that “the tongue has the power of life and death.” With every word that we speak we have the power of choice. We have been given the ability to bring life and to create death with every word that flows out of our hearts. Words are not neutral, they flow out of the very power of our being and express more than just concepts. Paul even warns us in 2 Tim 2:16 of the power of careless speech when he says “Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.” At times we think we are speaking harmless words but the absence of Godly speech impacts our hearts and the hearts of others more than we know.
We have been called to restrain our tongues from evil but God’s work in regard to our lips does not end with the restraint of evil. God desires to shape and empower our speech with words of life that change the world around us as we speak under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Peter writes 1 Peter 4:11 “If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God.” We are created to speak as God’s representatives, promoting life, resisting evil and declaring the kingdom and will of God as prophetic voices ushering in God’s purposes everywhere that we are sent by the leading of the Holy Spirit whether locally in our own towns, jobs and families or in the nations of the earth. Isaiah 6:6-8 illustrates God’s intention: “Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” God is searching for a man or a woman who will welcome the fiery coals that burn in His presence, who will embrace the burning confrontation of the Spirit of God as self-revelation in the midst of God’s glorious presence brings personal transformation. “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” God does the refining and then He searches for the willing! Are you willing to be a voice for God? Are you will to kiss the coals of personal transformation? This is what the psalmist has tasted a portion of as he writes “You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace.”
God is working to raise up excellent men and women who walk the earth with lips that have been anointed by fire, empowered by grace. This word grace is founded in the concept of divine influence upon the heart. When a life has been changed in God’s presence, touched by the coals of heaven, the lips speak with a different kind of passion, a different kind of power. The kingdom of God is advancing in the earth through anointed vessels who have been changed at the altar of God and whose lips speak with heavens fire words of God that pierce the hearts of men with convicting grace. Seek the Lord until you too have been touched by heavens flames and take your place as God’s spokesmen in the midst of this desperate generation!