HAKEEM COLLINS: I want to begin to talk about the power of the spoken word. I want to begin to give us an understanding of what the Bible talks about the power of the spoken word. The Bible says that there is life and death in the power of our tongue. We have to understand that within us we have the ability to change and to shape and to reshape things. A lot of things happen in our lives is because something’s maybe cause when we spoke. Sometimes you know when you’re speaking and sometimes when you’re angry things just come flying out and sometimes it’s hard to get it right back. You know you ever said some things that you didn’t really mean at the time or because you were upset it just came out? And I believe that we have to become stewards and become more conscious of what we speak because we can change things. We can alter things. The Bible allows us to understand if there is life and death in the power of the tongue then that means that we can speak life to a situation or we have the ability to speak death to a situation. I believe that we are in an hour where God is releasing the prophetic anointing and causing the prophetic power to be released through voices. I believe that it’s not for one individual, one person but God is raising up a prophetic people that will carry the Word of God in their mouths. Some of us sometimes don’t even like the way we sound. Some of us may not even like our own voice. Because one voice may be high-pitched. Some voices may be too deep. But God wants to use your unique voice.
AUDIENCE: Yes.
HAKEEM: God wants to use you and be the voice and be the vessel that can bring life to a dead situation. I’m reminded of Ezekiel when Ezekiel, in Ezekiel chapter 37, God sent him and took him up in vision in a place where there was dry and brittle and scattered bones. He took him in a vision and put him in a landscape where there were all these bones. Can you imagine God taking you in a vision and He takes you into a graveyard but there’s no, there’s no tombstones, there’s just bones that are broken and that are scattered. And God was showing Ezekiel this condition of the church or more so of Israel. He wanted to show them something so Ezekiel had to have the heart of God. He had to see the condition. And what God is saying in this hour is He going to show you the conditions of some things. Usually I always say your holy frustration or dissatisfaction is the greatest vehicle that God will use for your ministry! What frustrates you, what angers you, what makes you mad is the area that God is calling you to. Some of us may have even missed the call cause we’re just happy.
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER)
HAKEEM: But God is looking for somebody that can be a little angry, angry at what’s going on in the world.
AUDIENCE: Amen!
HAKEEM: Angry at what society is saying. While we’re waiting for society and government to change things but it can be in your mouth. The change that you’re looking for is in you!
AUDIENCE: Amen! (CLAPPING)
