Psalm 81:10 - August 18, 2009

Ps 81:10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. NIV

When it is time to speak we must speak in faith. When we speak in faith we must speak with the faith that God is speaking through us. Jesus taught His disciples that they should not prepare ahead of time the things that they should say when standing before people of power and position. In Matt 10:19-20 Jesus taught them “when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, 20 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.” Our role is to be the mouthpiece of God in the earth, declaring His thoughts and His values into a generation that is far from the heart of God in its values and practices.
Our confidence in life is not our own wisdom, not our own abilities or understanding. Our confidence is that we are servants of the most High God and that He has promised to impart to us wisdom to respond in every situation. This sentence of the psalmist, “open your mouth and I will fill it,” enlightens us to the process of faith in action! The words are not given in advance. It is as we open our mouth that a living river of inspired speech begins to flow through us by the power of God. Jesus consistently faced with the attempts of the religious rulers to snare Him with trick questions and compromising situations and yet the responses of the Spirit of God through Him in the hour of need were sufficient in every case to both deflect their ensnaring words and also expose their hypocrisy in front of the entire assembly of witnesses.
Live in the confidence that God is with you and yield your mouth to be a vessel of righteousness. Lean on the Holy Spirit and learn to rest in Him. As you do, wisdom will flow from your heart that at times will surprise not only your hearers but you yourself. We have the living God inside of us, ready to arise in the lives of those who live dependently on Him. Yield yourself to Him today and you will see that fountain of life that Jesus promised us flowing out of your inner most being to bring forth His light into every dark situation that you face.