Giving Faith a voice (The victor's Mentality 53)

I welcome everyone to today's article. My prayer is that you will be blessed as you go through it in Jesus’ name.

Today, I will continue the series on Victor’s Mentality. At this stage, I have been focusing on how to handle the Word of God. In the last article, I discussed the first approach, which is handling the Word with the heart.

Today, by God’s grace, we will examine the second approach to handling the Word: with our mouth.

The Bible says in Luke 6:45, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.”

In the previous article, I said the first channel through which the Word of God must enter a man is through the heart. I also explained that handling the Word with the heart means we keep receiving it, embracing it as truth, aligning with it, and making it our own.

As this happens, the Word will naturally begin to flow out of our mouths. That is the principle behind this verse.

And this works in the opposite direction as well. The reason it is so easy to say things that negate God’s Word, whether about situations, people, or our own lives, is simply that we have been exposing our hearts to those wrong views and perspectives. But when your disposition toward the Word changes, when you stop arguing with it and begin accepting it as your reality, faith is produced. And when faith is produced, speaking words of faith becomes your natural expression.

When the Word of God has become your personal reality, your mouth will give voice to it. Faith has a voice, and it finds expression through what we say.

When a man says he believes but consistently struggles to speak it, it often reveals that doubt or uncertainty is still present. And if care is not taken, that doubt will find a voice of its own. But one of the ways you silence doubt is by speaking the Word. As you declare what God has said, you are aligning your heart with His truth and refusing to give doubt the floor.

Scripture says in 2 Corinthians 4:13, “We believe, and therefore speak.” Every time you speak the Word, you are reinforcing faith within yourself. You are choosing truth over fear, truth over confusion, and truth over how you feel.

So when we talk about handling the Word with the mouth, we are really talking about two things:

1. Expressing the faith in our hearts by confessing the Word over our lives.

As we have read before in Romans 10:10: “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Your mouth must always give voice to your conviction. What you believe in your heart must have an outlet, and that outlet is your confession.

2. Reinforcing the Word within ourselves.

There are sincere seasons when it feels as though faith is weak. Discouragement, opposition, pressure, and other external forces can take a toll. In those moments, the words of faith in our mouths help to reignite the faith in our hearts.

Let me explain. Romans 10:8 says, “But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith which we preach).”

Notice the order: in your mouth and in your heart. Now, I am not building a doctrine out of that order alone, but it is saying something important. There are times you speak the Word because you already believe it. And there are also times you keep speaking the Word so that your heart can come into alignment with what God has said. As you consistently declare the Word, you are reinforcing it within yourself. You are hearing yourself say it, and over time faith begins to rise.

The Bible says in Romans 10:17 that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. You do not always need to wait for a preacher to speak the Word to you. You can begin speaking it to yourself.

However, I want to be clear: speaking the Word without an open and willing heart will become what Jesus calls vain repetition. This is not a ritual. It is a partnership between the mouth and the heart, where both are engaged and moving in the same direction.

The Word in your mouth feeds your heart, so that faith can be ignited. And the Word in your heart empowers your mouth to keep speaking with conviction. So we speak because we believe. And we keep speaking, not as a ritual, but so that we can believe more deeply.

The mouth and the heart must always work together.

God willing, we will continue from here in the next article.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Prayerfully meditate on this article.

Written by Peter Ayoola Fakeye—PAF