Putting Your Words to Work - Part 5 - Pastor Michelle Steele - September 27th, 2026

Hi, my name is Michelle Steele.

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Praise the Lord.

As you're turning to Proverbs chapter 18.

Proverbs 18 · chapter mention

For the opportunity to tell my testimony on Day La Fe Ministries.

If you have not had the opportunity to watch it, the Holy Spirit really ministered through this testimony.

Every time I tell my story, God will give certain emphasis based on who's in the room.

What a honor.

And they said, even though I read the story in your book, to hear it from your voice, and your heart.

All the glory to God.

Praise God.

Proverbs 18, did you find it?

Now I will be doing a little bit of review.

Because my last few times with you, we've talked about putting your words to work.

And we've dealt a lot in the first part of this teaching.

On your responsibility.

And disciplining your mouth.

So that your tongue is accurate.

That you're you're speaking words that align with God's words.

And so I feel like we've covered a good foundation on that side.

Today I want to emphasize more having the power in your mouth.

To really like load your mouth with the ammunition of God.

Verse 21 of Proverbs chapter 18 says death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Proverbs 18 · chapter mention

It didn't say the power of death.

It didn't say the power of life.

It says the power of the tongue.

The power of the tongue.

Your tongue has power.

Your tongue has ability.

And so he says it has the ability of death.

Or it has the ability of life.

Death is in the power of the tongue.

Life is in the power of the tongue.

But we have a choice.

So life is in the power of the tongue.

You can speak life.

To your marriage.

Your finances.

Your health.

You can speak life.

To your home.

To your situation.

To your car.

I mean, your car can't live, but we can speak good things to our car.

So it's in the power of the tongue.

And because God created us.

In his image.

In his likeness.

The Bible says be imitators of God.

We are to follow his example.

And we are to use our words the way he uses his words.

So Romans chapter 4.

Romans 4 · chapter mention

Gives us a great example.

Or illustration or illustration of how God uses his words.

We talk about faith from this chapter.

How Abraham operated faith.

And we find out that he learned from God.

So in Romans 4, in Romanos 4, verse 17, verse 17, he said, as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations.

Before him whom he believed.

God calls things which be not as though they were.

Now, did you hear I almost said are not?

Because in English we have the the way it would, it's not the same in Spanish, but in English.

We would conjugate it.

But the verb be is the original form of the verb.

So in English class, they would have a little chart of the verb.

And it would say be.

And so we would have I am.

Right?

And then it would say you are.

And so that's how you conjugate it.

But the verb is be.

Right?

And so it says things which be not.

Cosas que no son.

Things which be not.

How does God call them?

Things that are not, and that would be past tense.

Or present tense.

So things that are not.

Things that were not.

God calls them as though they were already.

Because I was healed.

Right?

When was I healed?

When I felt better.

When the pain left my body.

No, when the price was paid.

So God calls me healed.

Because of the stripes.

We're in time.

God's not stuck in time.

He's operating outside of time.

And that's where sometimes people find the difficulty.

Because they want it to fit in time.

They want their the time.

But faith is not under time restraint.

So my faith, for instance.

Galatians 2, Galatas 2, says I was crucified.

How was I crucified with Christ?

By faith.

I believe that Jesus Christ died in my place.

When he was on the cross.

Do you believe that too?

That was your death.

That was thousands of years ago.

But you were crucified.

But fueron crucificados with Christ by faith when you received what He did for you.

God who is outside of time.

The moment you accept Jesus sees you on the cross.

And the debt paid.

He sees you.

Crucified with.

Buried with.

You went in the water.

Fueron in the agua.

You came up.

Salieron.

In the newness of life.

But Jesus was raised from the dead.

Thousands of years ago.

But you've been raised together with Christ.

Buried with him.

Enterrados con él.

Amen.

How?

By faith.

So my faith connects me outside of time.

To things that exist for me.

Provisions that exist now.

That are available in the spirit realm.

Or the account.

My spiritual account.

Of redemption.

And so I access it.

With a spiritual access.

Faith is the substance of things.

One translation.

Faith is that which gives substance.

To the things God has promised.

Faith is substance.

It's not a feeling.

It's not an emotion.

It's a supernatural force.

That gives substance.

So when God wanted to create the world, he said, Light, Luz, B.

C.

Light B.

It's a command.

It wasn't an idea.

That he had in his mind.

And oh, I'd like to have some.

It was a command from his spirit.

Light be quea.

Heavens be.

He brought out of his spirit.

And words transported the substance.

You are created to transport substance para transportar substancia.

From your spirit de su spiritual into your situation with words.

You are equipped.

Están equipados with words con palabras.

Your heart is supernaturally equipped.

To accept God's word para aceptar la palabra de Dios.

And in your heart y in su corazón it changes.

It comes off the page.

It's brought through the ears and the eyes.

But those words go into the heart.

And produce a force.

A force of faith.

And that faith gives substance.

To the things you're hoping for.

The things God has promised.

So God said, I have made thee a father of many nations.

I have made you.

He didn't have a child.

But God said, I have made you a father of many nations.

In the natural, that looked impossible.

In the natural, all they could see was their limitations.

They had to take their attention and put it on the word of God.

I have made you a father of many nations.

Why did God say that?

Because that's how God produces.

He speaks it.

So that's when it began.

Not when Abraham saw the son.

Not when he saw children.

When God said it, that's when it started.

That's why I ask you to remove the phrase from your vocabulary.

I'm just saying.

Because if I'm saying, I'm doing something, it's a serious business.

This is kingdom business.

If I'm using my words, I'm establishing something, a direction.

So that's when it started.

That's when he became the father of many nations.

When God said it is when it started.

Not when he saw it, not when there was physical evidence.

The evidence of God's word is more than enough.

Do you remember the centurion in Matthew 8?

Your word is enough.

We've got to train ourselves.

And it is a process.

Because your mind wants more evidence.

Your emotions want to feel something.

You want the pressure off.

You want to see the bills paid.

You want the symptoms to leave.

All those outside things.

But to bring the change.

In the heart al corazón, coming out of my mouth.

So God calls things which be not.

As though they were.

Because Abram kept wanting to talk about what he could see.

Genesis 15.

Genesis 15.

And so God will teach you too.

He's teaching me.

I'm going from glory to glory.

Genesis chapter 15, I'm glad it's here.

Genesis 15 · chapter mention

You know, when I got saved, I thought perfect people went to church.

And then I went to church.

Like, oh.

But my eyes were really open when I started reading.

Right here in the book of Genesis.

I thought, who needs a soap opera?

Genesis had the soap operas don't have anything on Genesis, hey.

Wow.

There are some very imperfect people.

But God still he taught them.

He was patient with them.

Praise God, there's hope for me.

And I'm so glad that Genesis 15 is in the Bible.

Because when I first started learning about Abraham.

I started in the New Testament.

And the New Testament doesn't show us the days that he faltered.

It doesn't talk about that he was.

Had this conversation with God that we see in Genesis 15.

What are you going to give me?

Seeing I go childless.

It's focused on what he could see.

Why?

Because that what he could say is I don't have children.

And three chapters ago you called me the father of many nations.

So he's having a conversation where he's questioning God.

I am childless.

And so God had to work with him.

And so here in this God it says in verse 6 of all, what did God do?

God again restated to him that out of your out of your lineage will be an heir.

And so he gave him something to focus on in verse 5.

He said, Look now toward heaven.

And tell the stars.

As well as counting them.

So he is looking at the stars.

This is his homework.

And he is imagining.

He's counting.

And losing count.

Right.

See?

And recognizing this is how many my children are going to be.

So he gives him, he's training him, he's giving him something to look at.

And he said, if you are able to number them, he said to him, So shall your seed be.

And that's what he hold held on to.

We have that back in Romans 4.

So according to as it was he spoken, so shall your seed be.

So he's he has his homework to focus on.

And then verse 6 says, and he believed in the Lord.

And it was counted to him for righteousness.

He believed.

And it was counted as.

Righteousness como justicia.

Hallelujah.

Faith.

La fe.

He believed God.

And it was it was registered on his account.

It was acknowledged as a right position.

Right standing.

We're in a right relationship.

Why?

Because you're believing me.

Because you believe what I said.

But nothing changed.

The situation has not changed yet.

He's believing God.

And the situation's not changing.

Anybody found yourself there?

I'm believing God.

I'm believing.

I do believe you, God.

Paralyzed from the waist down.

Paralítico.

Reading through his grandmother's Methodist Bible.

And he said to the Lord, Lord, if you stood by my bed today.

And told me I'm not believing.

I am believing with all my heart.

What was he lacking?

What was Abraham lacking?

Well, let's see what God did to help him change the situation.

Genesis 17.

Let's look at verse 5.

So by this time Abraham is Abram is 99.

And God appears to him.

And he rehearses the covenant he has made with him.

And he said in verse 5.

Neither shall your name anymore be called Abram.

But your name shall be Abraham.

For a father of many nations have I made you.

What God called him.

So God changed his name.

To force Abraham to put Abraham in the position of identifying himself differently.

I can't call myself.

I've got to call myself.

Abraham.

I've got to call myself.

What I don't see.

What I don't have evidence of in the natural.

I've got to call myself.

You are the establishing witness.

You're the one who establishes.

So when Abram believed, it was counted to him for right standing.

Romans chapter 10.

Romans 10 · chapter mention

Shows us that believing is the first half, but it's not the total.

It says in Romans chapter 10 and verse 10.

Romans 10 · chapter mention

For with the heart dice, con el corazon man believes unto righteousness.

He believed.

Until he did the next step.

Confessing with the mouth.

With the mouth confession is made se confiesar unto salvation para salvación.

So with the mouth I establish.

With the mouth I activate.

With the mouth I authorise.

Your voice is unique.

You can set up certain security systems that are voice operated.

Right?

Your voice is unique.

Your voice establishes.

I accept Jesus as my Lord.

Here in Romans 10.

With the heart man believes.

What do I believe?

I believe Jesus died for me.

I believe God raised him from the dead.

Right?

I believe the price was paid.

So with my heart I believe that.

You know the apostle Paul.

He was preaching.

And he looked at a man and recognized he has faith to be healed.

But he wasn't.

Nothing had changed yet.

He had to get him to act on his faith.

He looked at the man and saw the man had faith.

So what I'm wanting you to see is it's possible to have faith.

That has not been applied.

It's possible to have faith.

You haven't activated.

You haven't changed the situation with it yet.

So there's another step.

And I could write on the equation of faith for you.

People say, I'm believing.

That's the first part, believing.

Plus, speaking.

We having the same spirit of faith.

Nosotros teniendo el mismo spiritual.

What do we do?

We believe.

So faith isn't finished.

Till you speak it.

Believing it alone is not enough.

It's not enough to change it.

Because it's not turned on, it's not applied.

Glory to God.

Glory to God.

So let's let's review one important point.

Words are containers that carry God's will.

God uses words to transport his power.

If you want God involved in your situation, he's going to give you his word.

But I want a miracle.

I want something supernatural.

The word is supernatural.

The word of God is more sure.

You can depend on the word.

You can rely on the word.

And we love his miracles.

Because they display his goodness.

But they're not his best for you.

The life of faith is the best for you.

Because it's not dependent upon a miracle coming or not.

It is sure.

It's steadfast.

It is a stable way to live.

And so God's words transport his will, his power, his ability into the situation.

Again, the centurion in Matthew 8.

He identified.

Because Jesus said this man's got great faith.

What was the identifiability with the identifying factor?

This man's faith.

It was, he said, your word is enough.

Because when I want something done, I say to my servant, go.

They go and I tell my soldiers to do something.

How do I get my will across to them?

I say it.

And so if you'll send the word, my servant will be healed.

Hallelujah.

And Jesus marveled.

This is great faith.

Why?

Because he understood.

It's the word.

He's gonna do it by the word.

So when God created everything he created, he left his script for us to read.

We have the evidence of the words God used to create everything that exists.

Genesis chapter 1.

Genesis 1 · chapter mention

Genesis capital 1.

God created his desired result with words.

He spoke it.

Now the first mention is a rule that we use in Bible interpretation.

The first time it's mentioned in the Bible establishes the way it is supposed to be understood, the rest of the Bible.

And the first mention of the use of words is for to create, for the purpose of creating.

You and I, Usted, should also make that the primary purpose of our words.

Say this, digan esto, and I'm gonna say it in English, and when and then we'll come say it in Spanish.

So say this with me in English.

I will use my words to create God's will in my life.

Okay.

So God's primary use of words is to create.

So framed, structured or constituted.

It means to arrange.

To put in order, because there are things in your life that will get out of order just because there's a curse on the earth.

There are other people making decisions around you.

I mean, Ziklag was not David's fault.

Saul disobeyed God.

David had to deal with something.

The Amalekites con los Amalekites because Saul didn't obey God.

There are things you're gonna deal with.

Because people on your job, people in your neighborhood, in sure, people in your life are making decisions, but you don't have to suffer.

You can put things back in order.

You can keep it in order.

Number one, words to create, number two, number two, words to keep things in order.

And then the third thing God did was communicate.

Which is usually what most people do with their words is communicate.

But that's third on the list.

So I've got a lot of talking I need to be doing.

There's a lot, there's some things that need to hear my voice that I'm not communicating to human ears.

Lynn Hammond.

Lynn Hammond.

She was uh uh getting she was getting symptoms in her body.

Coughing and a sore throat.

And she woke up in the night.

She said that she coughed for a little bit.

And she said to her husband, she goes, I'm gonna get up and pray.

He said, You better get up and say.

That always stuck with me.

Why?

Because something's trying to get out of order.

You better get up and say.

Exercise your authority.

So John chapter 1.

John 1 · chapter mention

Let's look a little bit more at how God does this.

Because he's the example we need to follow.

We're created in his image.

We are told to be an imitator of him.

So John chapter 1, verse 1.

John 1:1

In the beginning was the word.

And the word was with God.

And the word was God.

Glory to God.

In the beginning was the word.

We saw that in Genesis chapter 1.

Genesis 1 · chapter mention

In Genesis 1, we saw God the Father.

We saw the Holy Spirit.

And we saw the Word.

Amen.

And here we see that the Word has always existed.

With God.

The Word is God.

Verse 2, the same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him, the Word.

And without him the Word.

Everything that exists.

That means everything that exists.

Respond to the Word.

Everything that exists was created by the Word.

It will require the Word to keep it in place.

To keep it operating correctly.

All things.

All things.

So when you're dealing with anything in your life.

He has said six.

So that we may boldly say.

So that we may boldly say.

So there are things that need to hear me command it.

So I've got I've got a job here.

I've got a responsibility.

I'm in the other room talking.

Long before Lily's ever awake.

Because there's some things that need to hear our voices.

We need to get the motor running.

On the this faith machine.

Because all things will respond to the word.

All the host of them.

All things.

All the hosts of them.

By the word of the Lord.

They were made by the word.

Verse nine says, For he spoke and it was done.

He commanded and it stood fast.

That's how God wants it to be for you too.

That you speak.

It's done.

When you command it, it stands fast.

When you speak and say depression, you back off me.

Leave my house.

You will not put heaviness on me.

No, that stands.

And you stand in your peace.

Stand in your joy.

When you speak, it's done.

Glory to God.

Glory a Dios.

Glory to God.

Glory to us.

Because all things.

All the host of them were made by the breath of God's mouth.

Colossians 1.

Colosenses 1.

Verse 16 and 17.

Versos 16.

For by him were all things created.

That are in heaven and that are in earth.

Visible and invisible.

Whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.

All things were created by him.

And he is before all things.

And by him all things consist.

Well, we generally in our mind think of Jesus.

But Jesus is the word.

Before he existed in the form with a physical body, he existed as the word.

Yes, by Jesus.

But it was his word form.

Doesn't change the fact that he's in a physical body today.

By him the word were all things created.

So by the word, your debt freedom can be created.

By the word the peace of God can be created in your mouth.

By the word a strong marriage can be established.

By the word.

It says, and by him all things consist.

So that's the sustaining.

You are word reliant.

Yes, you're born again.

You're alive unto God.

But without the word, you don't have light.

Without the word.

You don't have food.

No hay comida.

Your spirit requires word food.

Amen.

So the word is the seed, the word is the food.

You are word reliant.

And God designed you to be sustained.

By his word.

So the more time you spend with the word.

Reading.

Leyendo.

Meditating.

Meditando.

When I say meditating the word, I mean you're reading not for long chapters and many, many verses.

But you're taking a scripture.

And you're you're focusing on it.

You're putting it in your eye.

You're repeating it out of your mouth.

That's what he was talking about in Joshua 1.8.

And Psalm 1 1 through 3.

He says that we meditate the word.

And one of the definitions of the verb is to mutter.

And like to chew on it.

Like a cow.

And it chews that grass in its mouth.

And you pull that scripture up.

How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

You're chewing on it.

And the nutrition that's in that verse is getting into your spirit.

And then that cow will swallow that cut.

Into its first stomach.

And then it regurgitates it.

And then you go through your day.

How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity.

Every single cell inside my body.

I'm talking about giving your attention to the scriptures.

You pull the light into your spirit.

Ephesians chapter actually let's go to Hebrews 1.

And let's look at verse 2 and 3.

God is the subject from verse 1.

God has in these last days spoken unto us by his son.

When he had by himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.

So before he had a body, he existed.

He's been with God always.

As the word.

By the word.

He upholds it how?

By the word.

Hallelujah.

That hasn't changed.

That hasn't changed.

That's his stable plan.

That my life is to be upheld by the word.

Not just the word that's in me.

But how do I establish it?

But activate it.

It's not only in my heart, where is it?

In my mouth.

This word of faith, it says in Romans 10.

Is in my mouth and in my heart.

In my mouth.

And in my heart.

Romans 10 has it mouth first.

In Romanos 10 dice primero in laboca.

It's in my mouth.

In my boca.

And in my heart.

You want to get it in your heart?

Put it in your mouth.

And then once it gets in your heart, your heart will put it back in your mouth.

Full.

When you've got a heart filled with faith, then your heart will load your words.

Every word of God is full of power.

God doesn't have an empty word.

Every word is filled with his power, con su poder.

That's active.

It's energizing.

God wants your words to have the same report.

Every word of Lucy is full of power.

Every word of Ralph is full of power.

He wants your words to have power.

So if you take his word, it's going to get in your heart.

Once it gets in your heart, it'll load the words coming back out of your mouth.

With power that changes things.

So everything was created by the Word.

So it will respond to the Word.

Everything you have to deal with.

Including demons, demonios, sicknesses, enfermedades.

Jesus talked to a fever.

And it obeyed him.

It obeyed his word.

Why?

Because his words were full of power.

So Ezekiel 12.

Verse 25.

Verse 25.

I am the Lord.

I will speak.

And the words that I the word that I shall speak.

Shall come to pass.

It shall no more be prolonged.

For in your days, O rebellious house.

I will say the word and will perform it.

Says the Lord.

I will say it.

I will perform it.

Verse 28.

Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.

There shall none of my words be prolonged anymore.

Ninguna de mis palabras se demorará más.

But the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord.

Not one of God's words are impossible of fulfillment.

God says it.

And then he performs it.

We want God to do something.

He's gonna say it before he does it.

What did he say he would do?

We can't believe him for something he didn't say he would do.

But if he said he would do it.

I can't believe God to make me the winner of a lottery.

I'm believing! Lord, I believe you! Señor, yo te creo that you make me the winner of a lottery.

This uh uh brother Hagen.

He was uh teaching in his Bible college.

And one of the students decided he was gonna claim Brother Hagen's uh uh Ford Explorer.

He said, uh, I'm gonna give you a few more weeks to drive it, but I want to let you know I'm claiming your bronco.

He said, it doesn't work that way.

He said, I drove it 14 more years.

Why?

Because he doesn't have a promise to have Brother Hagen's bronco.

He can believe for his need to be met.

He can believe that God will supply his need for a vehicle.

That God would give him the desire of his heart to have a bronco.

But he can't believe for brother Hagen's bronco.

We had a young lady who came to the church a number of years ago.

And uh she started bringing gifts to our at the time our youngest daughter.

She started dressing like me.

And uh she went up to the pastor in a prayer line and told him that she was believing to be his wife.

I was right on the front row.

And pastor's pastor's in the prayer line going or her.

She could believe for her own husband.

She didn't have any scripture, no tenía.

There's no promise that God will perform something.

To take away somebody's husband or wife.

Amen.

So if he's spoken it, if I have a word on it, God's gonna work with the word, he'll perform what he's spoken.

So he said, I will perform it.

What I have spoken shall be done.

That's what we want to give our emphasis to.

What God has spoken.

What God desires for Dios desear para nuestras vidas.

Hallelujah.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Lord, you're so faithful.

Praise your name.

Alabamos tu nombre.

Would you just lift your hands to Him praying?

Father, we thank you.

In our home, in our health, in nuestra salut, in our future, in nuestro futuro.

Father, we desire your will.

We don't want ideas, plans, plans, purposes, propósitos that originated in the flesh, or were influenced by the world.

So we bring our desires to you, Father.

And we ask you, Lord, to identify things.

Search us, our Lord.

Search our hearts.

If there are things that we've been reaching for that we've been moving towards.

That we've been establishing.

That are not your best for us.

We want to move those things out of the way.

And we want to change our direction.

So Lord, you give us the desires of our heart.

When we delight in you, you give us the desires of our heart.

So I ask you, Lord.

If we've not been believing big enough, you're the lifter of our head.

I'm gonna pray for all of us.

Father, I pray for boldness.

A supernatural strength in our spirit.

Our inner man fortaleces en nuestro hombre interior por tu espíritu.

So that we may boldly proclaim.

In line with what you've said, Father, even when the mind goes on tilt.

When we think, how could that be?

But let our words line with your words.

Let our declarations be birthed by your light.

What you reveal is your will for our marriages, our health, para nuestra salud, finances, our children, nuestros hijos, what your word reveals.

We will boldly declare it.

We will boldly call those things.

Not gonna be in the future in the future, but as they are established, in Jesus' name.

Gonna be.

But it's not faith.

Faith calls those things that be not.

As though they were como si fueran.

You could say until they are.

So we're gonna adjust our words.

And you may find yourself being bold in some things that you say.

Because that's what I'm praying for you.

Because if you'll say it, if you'll say it, you'll see it.

Hallelujah.

I think I passed out bullets today.

You came in here, now you're loaded.

Amen.

You're equipped to overcome.

Stand with me to your feet.