SNARE - Dag Heward-Mills

READ: Judges 11:29-40

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof

Proverbs 18:21

Did you know that there is power in your tongue? Moreover, it is no ordinary power! The power of life and death is found in the tongue.

The power to live on is in your tongue. There are two types of confessions or claims: conversational confessions (claims) and commanding confessions (claims). You must be careful with what you say, even in casual conversation. Often, it is in casual conversation that you declare the things that you really believe. At other times, you can make deliberate commanding confessions. During these commanding claims, you lay hold on victories and breakthroughs by conscious and deliberate confessions. Both of these types of confessions (conversational and commanding) have power.

You must know from today that your words will trap (snare) you whether you spoke intentionally or unintentionally (Proverbs 6:2). A trap is a trap! Whether you put your foot in the trap intentionally or unintentionally does not matter. The trap will still function and grip your leg.

I remember how a distant relation would jokingly speak about a pimple on his face. He would point to the pimple and say, "This is my cancer." Obviously , he did not expect to develop cancer on his face. A few years later, this same man developed a cancer on his face and eventually died of it.

You are trapped by the words that you speak. Don't say things you don't mean.