Confirming the Voice of the Enemy in someone’s life can be extremely dangerous.  Many times the Enemy speaks to us, internally harassing us, with the same old thoughts and phrases.  He knows where to jab at us and when it will hurt the most.  He knows how to whisper the right things to the people near us and encourage them to repeat it as well.  When those closest to us begin to speak the very words that the Enemy is whispering to our hearts, what happens?  What does that do to us?  Have we ever even thought about what effect our words have on those around us?

In Matthew 4, we read of how the Spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  During this passage, we see in verse 8 the devil tempts Jesus to have “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory…. if He fell down to worship him.”  Essentially, Satan wanted to give Jesus an easy way out.  A way to have the glory of the nations without ever dying on the cross.  He was promising a way without the cross.  To normal, fleshly ears, that would be quite a temptation.  To Spirit-focused ears, Jesus combated that temptation with Scripture, and overcame the Spiritual battle.  Just a few short chapters later, we see that Peter offers the same opportunity.  In Matthew 16:21, Jesus shares of His upcoming death on the cross and resurrection.  Peter quickly rebuked Him for saying such things and said, “God forbid it, this shall never happen to you!”  Peter never wanted to see His Master endure the torture He spoke of.  He desired for Christ to gain the keys to the Kingdom another way.  A way without the cross.  Christ knew such options were not available and turns to Peter in verse 23 to say, “Get behind Me, Satan!  You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”

Did Peter know the fullness of how Christ had been tempted by these exact same words?  In Peter’s ignorance, he was attempting to confirm the Enemy’s words in Christ’s heart.  How often do we do that?  In our ignorance, do we confirm the Voice of the Enemy in others?  It is easy to think of the times when others have done such things to our hearts, but what about when we do it, unknowingly, to others?

Science has proven that words matter.  I recently read an article about how scientists took dishes of water and froze them.  They spoke words of life to one dish and words of destruction to another, and the results of how they froze are completely different.  Words matter.  Below on the left is a picture of water that froze with prayer, then a picture of the water that froze without prayer.  Dr. Emoto (Dr. Emoto’s Water Experiment, The Power of Thoughts) conducted this experiment and you can read up on it more by googling the experiment.  Don’t forget, our bodies are made of mostly water.

(http://highexistence.com/water-experiment/)

How can we be cautious with the words that we speak?  How can we protect our minds from hearing and believing the Voice of the Enemy in our hearts and minds?  How did Jesus…. Scripture.

“Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is anything excellent and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things” Philippians 4:8.