Latest / truthunedited / God Made Covenants Through Words _ And Your Mouth Is Still Signing Them
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What if every word you've spoken in the last twenty
- 0:02Speaker 1: four irichi avanaf for thunder twenty four hours wasn't just
- 0:06Speaker 1: speech but a signature, not metaphorically literally. What if your
- 0:13Speaker 1: mouth has been signing invisible contracts this entire time and
- 0:17Speaker 1: you didn't even know the terms.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Here's what most people miss.
- 0:22Speaker 1: In the Hebrew Bible, there's no separation between speaking and creating.
- 0:26Speaker 1: The same word that means to speak also means to
- 0:30Speaker 1: establish reality. When God spoke the universe into existence, he
- 0:36Speaker 1: didn't just describe what would happen. He made it happen
- 0:40Speaker 1: through speech itself. And here's the problem. You were made
- 0:45Speaker 1: in his image. That means your mouth carries the same
- 0:49Speaker 1: creative authority, the same binding power, the same covenant making force.
- 0:55Speaker 2: But nobody taught you how it works.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Nobody warned you that every day declaration you make about yourself,
- 1:02Speaker 1: your future, your identity, isn't just an opinion. It's a
- 1:08Speaker 1: spiritual contract being signed in real time. The ancient Hebrews
- 1:13Speaker 1: knew this. It's written into the very shape of their alphabet,
- 1:17Speaker 1: hidden in the structure of their most powerful words, embedded
- 1:22Speaker 1: in their most sacred rituals. In the next few minutes.
- 1:25Speaker 1: I'm going to show you five moments in scripture where
- 1:29Speaker 1: human speech literally rewrote history, and one ancient Hebrew secret
- 1:35Speaker 1: hidden in the shape of a single letter. And by
- 1:38Speaker 1: the end of this video you'll understand why the Bible
- 1:42Speaker 1: says life and death are in the power of the
- 1:44Speaker 1: tongue and it's not a metaphor.
- 1:48Speaker 2: But first you need.
- 1:49Speaker 1: To see what's hidden inside a single Hebrew letter that
- 1:53Speaker 1: represents your mouth. There's a Hebrew letter you've probably never
- 1:57Speaker 1: heard of, but it controls every thing that comes out
- 2:01Speaker 1: of your mouth. It's called pay or pay, not pay
- 2:06Speaker 1: as in money.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Pay.
- 2:08Speaker 1: The Hebrew letter written like this p ee, and it
- 2:12Speaker 1: literally means mouth. But here's where it gets strange. This
- 2:18Speaker 1: letter has two completely different forms in Hebrew, two distinct shapes,
- 2:23Speaker 1: and they don't just look different, they mean different things.
- 2:27Speaker 1: The first form is the regular pay p in ancient
- 2:31Speaker 1: Hebrew thought. This represents the closed mouth, the mouth at rest,
- 2:37Speaker 1: the mouth in humility, the mouth that listens before it speaks.
- 2:43Speaker 1: The second form is called pay sofit p. It's used
- 2:48Speaker 1: at the end of words and it represents the mouth
- 2:52Speaker 1: wide open, the mouth in full declaration, the mouth releasing
- 2:57Speaker 1: its creative power without resist two forms one letter one
- 3:04Speaker 1: profound teaching. There is a time to keep your mouth
- 3:08Speaker 1: closed and a time to open it with authority. But
- 3:13Speaker 1: most people spend their entire lives doing the opposite. They
- 3:17Speaker 1: speak when they should be silent. They stay silent when
- 3:20Speaker 1: they should be declaring truth. And here's the problem. The
- 3:24Speaker 1: Bible doesn't treat speech as neutral. In Genesis one, every
- 3:29Speaker 1: act of creation begins with the same phrase. And God said,
- 3:35Speaker 1: not God thought, not God imagined, he said. Psalm thirty
- 3:43Speaker 1: three six confirms it. By the word of the Lord,
- 3:47Speaker 1: the heavens were made, and by the breath of his
- 3:50Speaker 1: mouth all their host Speech wasn't a commentary on creation.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Speech was the act of creation. And then God made
- 4:01Speaker 1: humanity in his image, which means you didn't just inherit
- 4:05Speaker 1: his likeness in appearance. You inherited his creative mechanism, the
- 4:10Speaker 1: power to create reality through words. But here's what the
- 4:14Speaker 1: Church doesn't emphasize. That power is still active right now
- 4:20Speaker 1: in you. Every time you speak, you're not just making noise.
- 4:26Speaker 1: You're invoking the same creative force God used to form galaxies.
- 4:30Speaker 1: You're establishing spiritual realities. You're signing covenants with the invisible realm.
- 4:36Speaker 1: The letter pay teaches you when to speak and when
- 4:41Speaker 1: to stay silent, but it doesn't tell you what happens
- 4:44Speaker 1: when you speak at the wrong time, or worse, when
- 4:48Speaker 1: you speak the wrong words. That's where the real danger begins,
- 4:53Speaker 1: because the Bible records five specific moments where human speech
- 4:58Speaker 1: changed the course of history, not because of miracles, but
- 5:02Speaker 1: because words themselves became the weapon or the shield. And
- 5:08Speaker 1: in one of those moments, an entire generation was sentenced
- 5:12Speaker 1: to die in the wilderness because of what ten men
- 5:15Speaker 1: said out loud. If you are hungry for biblical truths
- 5:19Speaker 1: most people overlook, subscribe to this channel right now because
- 5:24Speaker 1: what we're about to uncover will change the way you
- 5:27Speaker 1: read scripture and the way.
- 5:30Speaker 2: You use your own voice.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Let's go to the five moments where words literally re
- 5:35Speaker 1: wrote reality. First, the Book of Esther, chapter four, verse fourteen.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Esther is standing at the edge of annihilation. Her people
- 5:46Speaker 1: are marked for death. Hayman's decree has been signed, the
- 5:51Speaker 1: execution date is set, and Mordecai tells her, who knows
- 5:56Speaker 1: whether you have come to the kingdom for such a
- 5:58Speaker 1: time as this? Esther makes a declaration, not a prayer,
- 6:04Speaker 1: not a wish, a declaration, I will go to the king,
- 6:10Speaker 1: and if I perish, I perish. That sentence changed the
- 6:15Speaker 1: fate of an entire nation, not because it was eloquent,
- 6:20Speaker 1: because it was spoken out loud in faith with authority.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Second Passover Pesach. The Jewish people don't just remember the Exodus.
- 6:32Speaker 1: They verbally proclaim it. Every year during the setter meal,
- 6:36Speaker 1: they recite the Hagadah pronounced hagahdah, a formal declaration of freedom.
- 6:43Speaker 2: We were slaves, now we are free.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Why speak it out loud, because, according to Hebrew thought,
- 6:50Speaker 1: the declaration renews the Covenant. The spoken word reactivates the promise.
- 6:56Speaker 1: It's not nostalgia, its spiritual legend. Third Acts, chapter two,
- 7:04Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descends like tongues
- 7:08Speaker 1: of fire. And what's the first thing that happens? They
- 7:13Speaker 1: speak in languages they never learned, not quietly, not in
- 7:19Speaker 1: their heads, out loud with power.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Why.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Because the Spirit doesn't just fill you, He activates your mouth.
- 7:28Speaker 1: He turns your speech into prophecy, into declaration, into the
- 7:32Speaker 1: same creative force God used in Genesis one. Fourth Numbers,
- 7:37Speaker 1: chapter thirteen. This one is devastating Moses sends twelve spies
- 7:43Speaker 1: into the Promised Land. They all see the same thing,
- 7:47Speaker 1: a land flowing with milk and honey, giants, fortified cities,
- 7:53Speaker 1: abundance and danger side by side. Ten of them come
- 7:57Speaker 1: back and say we can't do it, grasshoppers in their sight.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Two of them, Joshua and Caleb, say we can absolutely
- 8:07Speaker 1: do it. God is with us, same evidence, two different declarations.
- 8:14Speaker 1: And here's what happened. God didn't punish Israel for seeing
- 8:18Speaker 1: the giants. He punished them for speaking defeat numbers fourteen
- 8:25Speaker 1: twenty eight. As you have spoken in my hearing, so
- 8:30Speaker 1: I will do to you. An entire generation sentenced to
- 8:35Speaker 1: forty years in the wilderness, not because of unbelief in
- 8:38Speaker 1: their hearts, because of the words they spoke with their mouths.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Their speech became their sentence.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Fifth.
- 8:48Speaker 1: The month of Alul in the Jewish calendar Ellen is
- 8:52Speaker 1: the month before the high holy Days. It's a time
- 8:55Speaker 1: of repentance, of self examination, and one of the primary
- 8:59Speaker 1: focus is speech. What have you said, what have you declared?
- 9:04Speaker 1: What covenants have you signed with your own tongue? Because
- 9:08Speaker 1: according to rabbinic teaching, your speech during Alul determines your
- 9:12Speaker 1: spiritual trajectory for the year ahead. So yes, words change history.
- 9:20Speaker 1: But why what is it about human speech that carries
- 9:23Speaker 1: binding authority. The answer is hidden in a single Hebrew word, davar.
- 9:29Speaker 1: Davar pronounced d h var. It's the Hebrew word for word,
- 9:36Speaker 1: but that's not all it means. The root is dbr
- 9:41Speaker 1: dalit bet reresh, and this route carries multiple meanings that
- 9:46Speaker 1: English can't capture in one term. To speak, to declare,
- 9:51Speaker 1: to command, to ordain, to establish. In Hebrew, davar doesn't
- 9:58Speaker 1: just mean a word word you said. It means a
- 10:02Speaker 1: word that does something, a word that creates, a word
- 10:07Speaker 1: that establishes reality. That's why the same root appears in
- 10:11Speaker 1: the phrase dever eloheim. The word of God, not a
- 10:16Speaker 1: message about God, the active, living, creative word of God.
- 10:23Speaker 1: And here's the shocking part. When you speak, you're using
- 10:27Speaker 1: the same linguistic mechanism, the same spiritual technology. Isaiah fifty
- 10:34Speaker 1: five eleven says, so shall my word be that goes
- 10:38Speaker 1: forth from my mouth? It shall not return to me void,
- 10:42Speaker 1: but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall
- 10:45Speaker 1: prosper in the thing for which I scent it. God's
- 10:49Speaker 1: word doesn't just describe reality. It commands it into existence,
- 10:55Speaker 1: and you created in his image, were given a mouth
- 10:58Speaker 1: that operates on the same principle. When you declare something
- 11:02Speaker 1: over your life, you're not just expressing a hope. You're
- 11:06Speaker 1: invoking Davar. You're releasing a word that establishes, ordains, and creates.
- 11:12Speaker 1: But here's the problem. If Davar works for blessing, it
- 11:17Speaker 1: also works for cursing. Because there's another Hebrew phrase you
- 11:21Speaker 1: need to know, and this one is so dangerous. The
- 11:24Speaker 1: Talmud says it kills three people every time it's spoken,
- 11:28Speaker 1: the person who says it, the person who hears it,
- 11:33Speaker 1: and the person it's about. The phrase is lashan haa
- 11:38Speaker 1: pronounced lashon ha rah. It means evil tongue, or more literally,
- 11:46Speaker 1: the tongue that does harm, and in Jewish tradition, it's
- 11:51Speaker 1: one of the most serious sins a person can commit,
- 11:54Speaker 1: not murder, not theft, speaking badly about someone. The Khlmud, specifically,
- 12:01Speaker 1: Tractate Arakin fifteen B says that lashonha is equivalent to
- 12:06Speaker 1: the three cardinal sins combined idolatry, sexual, immorality, and murder.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Why murder, because when you speak negatively about someone. You
- 12:19Speaker 1: kill their reputation, You destroy their credibility, you damage their future.
- 12:25Speaker 1: And unlike physical death, this kind of death is irreversible.
- 12:31Speaker 1: You can't take back words once they've been released. Think
- 12:35Speaker 1: about the last conversation you had, were you building someone
- 12:39Speaker 1: up or tearing them down? The Rabbis taught that gossip, slander,
- 12:44Speaker 1: and negative speech don't just hurt the person being talked about.
- 12:49Speaker 1: They poison the speaker, corrupt the listener, and contaminate the
- 12:53Speaker 1: spiritual atmosphere. And here's the part that will make you uncomfortable.
- 12:58Speaker 1: You don't have to lie for it to be lashanhara.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Even if what you're saying is true, if it harms
- 13:05Speaker 1: someone's reputation, it's still forbidden. This is why James Chapter
- 13:11Speaker 1: three uses such extreme language. The tongue is a fire
- 13:16Speaker 1: a world of iniquity. The tongue is set among our
- 13:20Speaker 1: members as that which defiles the entire body and sets
- 13:24Speaker 1: on fire the course of our life. James isn't exaggerating,
- 13:30Speaker 1: He's confirming the ancient Hebrew teaching. Your tongue is small,
- 13:36Speaker 1: but it steers your entire life like a rudder steers
- 13:39Speaker 1: a massive ship. One sentence can destroy a career. One
- 13:44Speaker 1: rumor can end a marriage. One declaration of defeat can
- 13:48Speaker 1: sentence you to forty years of wandering. Now, let me
- 13:52Speaker 1: ask you a question. What have you been saying about yourself,
- 13:56Speaker 1: not to other people, to yourself in your head, out loud,
- 14:03Speaker 1: in moments of frustration, in moments of fear? Have you
- 14:07Speaker 1: been declaring I'm not good enough, I'll never change, I
- 14:14Speaker 1: always fail, nobody respects me. I can't do this because,
- 14:20Speaker 1: according to the principle of daver, those aren't just thoughts.
- 14:25Speaker 1: They're creative declarations. They're establishing spiritual realities. They're signing covenance
- 14:31Speaker 1: with failure, with fear, with defeat, and the invisible realm
- 14:39Speaker 1: is listening. Proverbs eighteen twenty one says it plainly. Death
- 14:45Speaker 1: and life are in the power of the tongue, and
- 14:48Speaker 1: those who love it will eat its fruit. You will
- 14:52Speaker 1: eat the fruit of your own words, good or bad,
- 14:56Speaker 1: blessing or curse.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Faith.
- 15:01Speaker 1: If you've been declaring poverty, you'll harvest poverty. If you've
- 15:06Speaker 1: been declaring sickness, you'll harvest sickness.
- 15:11Speaker 2: If you've been.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Declaring that your children are rebellious, guess what covenant you
- 15:16Speaker 1: just made with rebellion. But here's the hope. If death
- 15:20Speaker 1: is in the power of the tongue, so is life.
- 15:24Speaker 1: If your mouth has been signing contracts with defeat, your
- 15:29Speaker 1: mouth can cancel them. If your tongue has been a
- 15:32Speaker 1: weapon of destruction, your tongue can become an altar of covenant.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Because every word you speak is a form of bear it,
- 15:42Speaker 1: bear it the Hebrew word for covenant. And that brings
- 15:47Speaker 1: us to the final revelation. What if every major covenant
- 15:51Speaker 1: in the Bible was sealed not by ritual, not by sacrifice,
- 15:56Speaker 1: but by spoken words. And what if your mouth is
- 15:59Speaker 1: doing doing the exact same thing right now, signing invisible
- 16:04Speaker 1: covenants every single day without you even realizing it. Let's
- 16:09Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. Genesis fifteen. God makes a
- 16:13Speaker 1: covenant with Abraham. How does he do it? He speaks
- 16:19Speaker 1: to your descendants, I will give this land. Genesis seventeen.
- 16:24Speaker 1: God establishes the covenant of circumcision. How by declaring it,
- 16:30Speaker 1: this is my covenant, which you shall keep. Exodus nineteen
- 16:34Speaker 1: twenty four The Covenant at Sinai. Moses reads the words
- 16:39Speaker 1: of the covenant out loud, and the people respond out loud.
- 16:43Speaker 1: All that the Lord has said we will do. Every
- 16:47Speaker 1: major covenant in scripture was verbally declared, spoken, sealed with words,
- 16:53Speaker 1: because in Hebrew thought, a covenant isn't just an agreement,
- 16:57Speaker 1: it's a bart, a binding spe spiritual contract activated by speech.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Numbers thirty two says if a man makes a vow
- 17:07Speaker 1: to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself
- 17:11Speaker 1: by some agreement, he shall not break his word. He
- 17:15Speaker 1: shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Whatever proceeds out of your mouth becomes binding. Ecclesiastes twenty
- 17:25Speaker 1: five four to p. Five warns, when you make a
- 17:28Speaker 1: vow to God, do not delay to pay it, for
- 17:31Speaker 1: He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
- 17:40Speaker 1: Your words create obligations, spiritual contracts, binding agreements. And here's
- 17:46Speaker 1: what most people don't realize. You've been making covenance your
- 17:50Speaker 1: entire life. Every time you said I'll never forgive them,
- 17:55Speaker 1: Covenant with bitterness, every time you said I'll never be
- 18:00Speaker 1: like my parents, Covenant with rejection, every time you said
- 18:06Speaker 1: I'm cursed, Covenant with defeat, every time you said nothing
- 18:12Speaker 1: ever works out for me covenant with failure. Your mouth
- 18:17Speaker 1: has been signing contracts, and the spiritual realm has been
- 18:22Speaker 1: enforcing them.
- 18:24Speaker 2: But here's the breakthrough.
- 18:26Speaker 1: If you sign them with your mouth, you can break
- 18:29Speaker 1: them with your mouth, because the same power that binds
- 18:34Speaker 1: can also release.
- 18:36Speaker 2: Romans ten to nine says.
- 18:38Speaker 1: If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
- 18:41Speaker 1: believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- 18:45Speaker 1: you will be saved. Why confess with your mouth, Why
- 18:49Speaker 1: not just believe in your heart? Because covenant requires verbal declaration.
- 18:55Speaker 1: Salvation isn't just an internal decision. It's a spoken agreement.
- 19:00Speaker 1: A bear it sealed by speech. And if the greatest
- 19:04Speaker 1: covenant of your life, your salvation, required your mouth, then
- 19:09Speaker 1: every covenant after that requires your mouth too. You want breakthrough,
- 19:15Speaker 1: Declare it, you want healing, Speak it, you want freedom,
- 19:23Speaker 1: Confess it. You want your children to walk in faith,
- 19:27Speaker 1: Stop declaring their rebellion and start declaring their destiny. Let
- 19:32Speaker 1: me bring it all together. The letter pay taught you
- 19:36Speaker 1: that your mouth has two modes, closed in humility, open
- 19:41Speaker 1: in authority. You must discern which mode is needed. The
- 19:46Speaker 1: five Biblical Moments showed you that human speech has rewritten
- 19:49Speaker 1: history for good and for evil. Navar revealed that words
- 19:55Speaker 1: don't just describe reality. They create it, establish it, they
- 20:01Speaker 1: ordain it. Lashinhara warned you that the tongue kills reputations, futures, destinies,
- 20:10Speaker 1: and it kills the speaker too ver. It showed you
- 20:13Speaker 1: that every covenant in scripture was sealed by spoken words,
- 20:18Speaker 1: and your mouth is still signing them. So here's the
- 20:22Speaker 1: final question, and this one I can't answer for you.
- 20:27Speaker 1: What kind of covenant have you been establishing with your
- 20:30Speaker 1: own mouth? When you wake up? What's the first thing
- 20:34Speaker 1: you declare? Fear or faith, complaint or gratitude, defeat or victory.
- 20:44Speaker 1: When you talk about your spouse, are you signing a
- 20:47Speaker 1: covenant of honor or criticism? When you talk about your children,
- 20:53Speaker 1: are you declaring their identity or their mistakes? When you
- 20:58Speaker 1: talk about your future, are you partnering with God's promises
- 21:03Speaker 1: or with your own limitations? Because I promise you this,
- 21:07Speaker 1: whatever you speak consistently, you will eventually live. Your words
- 21:14Speaker 1: aren't just commentary their construction. They're building something invisible, something spiritual,
- 21:22Speaker 1: something real, And one day you will walk into the
- 21:27Speaker 1: house your words built. The question is will it be
- 21:31Speaker 1: a prison or a palace. Here's my challenge to you
- 21:36Speaker 1: for the next twenty four hours. Pay attention to every
- 21:39Speaker 1: word that comes out of your mouth. Write them down
- 21:43Speaker 1: if you have to, notice the patterns, notice the covenance
- 21:48Speaker 1: you're signing without even thinking, and then make a choice.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Will your mouth be a weapon of destruction or will
- 21:57Speaker 1: it be an altar of covenant. If you know someone
- 22:00Speaker 1: who's been declaring the wrong things over their life, share
- 22:04Speaker 1: this video with them right now because what they don't
- 22:09Speaker 1: know is costing them. And if you're hungry for more
- 22:12Speaker 1: biblical depth that most churches won't teach, subscribe to this
- 22:16Speaker 1: channel because we're going deeper every single week.
- 22:21Speaker 2: Your mouth is powerful, use it wisely.