In this episode of Victorious Faith, Cherry Campbell delves into the profound impact of testimonies and the power of spoken words. Explore how sharing miraculous stories can unleash the power to repeat those miracles, providing encouragement and empowerment to others. Listen as Cherry discusses the contrast between words that liberate with faith and words that bind with fear.
00:00:00 Introduction to Joy and Peace, the Fruit of Righteousness
Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherry Campbell. This morning I’m going to continue and conclude sharing with you a short teaching that I did called Joy and Peace, the Fruit of Righteousness. So join me now for the conclusion of this teaching, Joy and Peace, the Fruit of Righteousness. A preacher, Bible teacher in the Greek language preached a lesson on it and I was listening. It was a sermon about the word testimony. The Greek word actually means And I don’t remember exactly what that Greek word is. But as I recall, well, like Hebrew. Okay, Hebrew. In Hebrew, the word testimony. In Hebrew, words have pictures. And the picture is like a corkscrew. And what it means is that as you say it, a testimony happens. Every time you say it, it has the power to repeat itself or the action repeats. So every time you tell your testimony, this is why you want to tell people how you got saved. Tell people how you got healed. Tell people how God did a miracle for you. A provision came through. Because in the telling is miracle working power to repeat the miracle. Telling about a miracle, something God did, the power is released in the telling of it to do it again, to bring forth the same manifestation again so that the person hearing it can experience what you experienced. So it means to repeat and repeat, but it’s not just repeating the telling, it’s repeating the miracle. So that the miracle goes on and on and on and on. The power keeps being released to do it again, do it again, do it again as it passes on. One person tells another, they had a miracle and then they tell it. And then they had a miracle and they tell it. They had a miracle. And it’s just not, in other words, words are not just words. Words are carrying the anointing. And it’s either the anointing of God or the bondage of Satan that brings fear and doubt that will bring bondage. That comes out in words. You speak fear and doubt, it’ll bring bondage and slavery. But you speak faith and hope, it’ll bring freedom and deliverance. So in the speaking of God’s words and the testimony, okay, speaking of God’s words, confession of the word. And there are people in the body of Christ and preachers who despise what we now know and call as confessions of God’s word. I’ve heard them tell me that because they just think it’s, oh, that’s just that name it and claim it, that blab it and grab it. But the Bible says it. And it says that the power of life and death is in the tongue. And that when you speak the word, you are releasing the power in the word to produce what it is, what it says. When you speak the word, you are releasing the power in the word to produce what it says, what it promised. Well, in the same way, not only the written word has the power to produce, but the testimony of what God has done in it, in the speaking of it, is the power to do it again. And every time you tell it, there’s the power, do it again, do it again. So that every time you tell it, the next person can receive the same thing. The same miracle power comes to them that you had. It is a multiplication and a passing on of miracles. That’s why testimonies are important. But it’s the same way with speaking words of fear and doubt. You’re speaking the devil’s words and they release, it’s kind of a weird word to use, bondage. Maybe they should say they put people in bondage. It puts people in the chains of what is said. And I’m reminded the same thing can happen. And I heard this testimony of a woman who was delivered of demons and got saved. And she was free for a long time. Until somebody wanted to write a story about her life and what she used to be in. So she spent weeks talking about all that she used to be in. And it was demonic. It was demon, devilish, hellish stuff that she was doing. And she was demon possessed when she was doing it. In the telling of it and going over it and rehearsing it and rehearsing it as somebody wanted to write the story on it, she got filled with the demons again. The telling of it brought back the demons. That’s why you don’t want to tell about what the devil did because it keeps you in bondage. So a person who wants to tell about all their griefs and sorrows of all the bad things that happened to them and what everybody did bad to them, they’re staying in bondage by talking about it. Because every time they tell the story, chains. They’re just… Chains are being wrapped around them. They’ll tell it, and they’re binding themselves in chains again. They tell it, they’re binding themselves in chains. Every time they say the story, they are putting themselves in chains. And it might have been something happened 15, 20, 30, 35 years ago. But every time they tell what somebody did to them, they’re putting themselves in chains again. It’s like, stop it. Don’t talk about it anymore. And the way to break free… is to forgive. I’ve used this example. Unforgiveness is keeping you in chains, not the person that harmed you or wronged you. And when you hold the unforgiveness, that unforgiveness toward that person and the wrong they did, and you think they did this. I mean, it might have been awful. I can understand. There are Things you can’t even speak of that we know happen are detestable. But if you keep talking about it, you’re repeating it. You’re reliving it every time you tell it. But the example the Lord gave me was that you are chained to a corpse. Well, actually more like the corpse is chained on your back. That experience might have happened 35 years ago and you’re talking about it and talking about it and talking about it. You’re keeping a corpse chained to you. Do you know that strapping to a living person can cause the living person to die? It produces disease in the living person and it spreads bacteria and decay and it will hasten the death of the living person. There have been, like I said, detestable practices where people have been bound to chained to dead bodies and the dead body produced a quick death in the person living. That’s exactly what’s happening when you hold on to offense and especially when you keep talking about it. But even if you’re not talking about it, but you just have it hidden and buried, you’re still carrying a corpse. Get rid of it. The only way for you to break it off of you and get off of me and get free is to forgive. Forgiveness of that person for what they did, it sets you free, not just them. And yeah, they may or may not have changed. You say, well, and this is nothing. Forgiveness is not a feeling. It’s not a feeling. People say, well, I just don’t feel like forgiving. Forget your feelings. It has nothing to do with feelings. It’s like a debt and you owe $4,000 and riding across it canceled. And you match it and you burn it up. It’s a decision. It’s done. I forgave them. I don’t care how I feel. See, forgiveness, people are wanting healing in the heart. But they still feel angry. they still feel bitter they still feel resentful guess what the forgiveness will produce the healing of your heart you will not be healed in your heart until you make the choice i forgive them i cut them off because it’s cutting off that corpse and it’s breaking cutting off that chain cutting the chain breaking off that corpse getting it off of you get it off of me And once you made the choice to forgive, forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling. Once you get it off of you, then you will gradually begin to heal in your heart. Anger will gradually heal and subside. Bitterness and offense and resentment will subside, but it will not subside until you forgive. Forgiveness is the first step, not the last. Don’t wait for your feelings to change. They will never change. Until the act of forgiveness is made and the decision is made and you cut it off and then you can start walking away free. Get rid of that thing. Let that thing fall away from you and walk away from it and say, I’m free of that. It will not hold me anymore. I forgive that person for what they did to me in Jesus name. And I hold no offense against them by choice, not by feelings. And then as you walk away, your healing will begin. I’m not going to say it’s going to happen overnight, but it will begin. And as you stay in faith, in forgiveness, the healing will continue and continue and continue. And I guarantee you, if you stay on that path of forgiveness, days, weeks, months, or maybe years later, but you’ll be saying, I have no anger for that person anymore. I have no bitterness, no resentment. It’s gone. It’ll just fade. That’s what happens. It fades. It’s a gradual fading. It doesn’t happen instantly. You might have to keep saying, I forgive them. I forgive them. I forgive them in Jesus name. And you’re doing it by faith. I forgive them. I cut it off and I’m not going to hold on to that offense anymore. And you might have to do it every day for days and weeks, but it will start breaking off of you because you’re doing it by faith and by your words and And it’s going to set you free. And now your feelings can start to adjust and start to heal in that process. So the speaking of the word produces fruit. The fruit of righteousness, peace, and joy. The speaking of a testimony produces fruit. It repeats the miracle. It releases the power to repeat. Let me say that. It’s like the picture of that Hebrew word for testimony is the picture of a corkscrew so that every time it’s spoken, it repeats the miracle. It repeats the miracle. It repeats the miracle and can keep going on for infinity. As long as you keep telling it, it keeps going. But it’s the same with the bondages of Satan and what Satan has done. If you keep telling it, it’s going to keep you wrapping in chains, wrapping in chains, wrapping in chains. You want to stop the bad and replace it with the good. Amen. What you just heard was the conclusion of a short teaching that I did called Joy and Peace, the Fruit of Righteousness. And we will begin another faith-inspiring message next week. And if these messages are blessing you and encouraging you and building your faith, then I invite you to partner with us in supporting the radio broadcast airtime. And you can do that by going to our website at victoriousfaith.co, victorious like a champion, V-I-C-T-O-R-I-O-U-S, faith, F-A-I-T-H, .co, CO like Colorado, and go to the giving page where you can give online by Zelle Bank Transfer, PayPal credit card, or debit card. 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