9th

 

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at

 

thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee (Psalm

 

91:7).

 

As a child of God, there’s a hedge of

 

protection over your life; it’s placed there

 

by God. Sadly, many breach that hedge

 

without realizing it, through perverse or

 

unwholesome communication. Proverbs 15:4

 

says, "A wholesome tongue is a tree of

 

life: but perverseness therein is a breach

 

in the spirit." 1Peter 3:10 (GNB) says, "…If you want to

 

enjoy life and wish to see good times, you must keep

 

from speaking evil and stop telling lies." Speaking evil

 

means saying things that contradict God’s Word. The

 

cardinal lie is the contradiction of the Word of God.

 

There’s a lesson in the story of Job in the Old

 

Testament. Job, through his negative talking, gave Satan

 

the inroad to his life, to wallop him. Job was a righteous

 

man, who feared the Lord, and did what was right in His

 

sight, and God blessed, fortified and protected him on

 

everyside. The devil couldn’t afflict Job, despite trying

 

several times. In Job1:10, Satan, admitted this much: "…

 

hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his

 

house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou

 

hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is

 

increased in the land."

 

Yet, with all the spiritual walls of protection built

 

around Job, he overthrew himself through the

 

perverseness of his lips. He dug holes in the hedge God

 

had built around him through his confessions of fear,

 

discouragement and danger. Read part of his negative

 

confessions in Job 3:25-26: "For the thing which I

 

greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was

 

afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither

 

had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came." This

 

is completely at variance with the reality of his life, and

 

what God did for him, which even Satan acknowledged in

 

Job 1:10.

 

Don’t speak words of fear, or admit that you’re not in

 

safety, irrespective of the perceived danger. Rather,

 

affirm always that no evil shall befall you, because your

 

life is hidden with Christ, in God (Colossians 3:1). Declare

 

that God’s angels are watching over you everywhere you

 

go, to keep you in all your ways.