SERVANT LEADERSHIP by Calvary Chapel

My words can be an outlet of spiritual power. God can use what I say

There are five outlets of spiritual power that I can think of. One is your words, what you say. God can use your words to touch lives. It is not necessary that they be eloquent words. It is necessary that they be anointed words of the Spirit. I have heard some of the greatest orators alive in the world today.

They were so polished. They were so smooth. The words just rolled out of their

mouths. But they just rolled right off of me as easily as they rolled out of their mouths. It did not

stir me. It did not touch me. It did not move me though it was marvelous speech. Looking at it

from a homiletical standpoint it was perfect, but yet there was nothing behind it.

Several years ago on vacation up at Bass Lake, we went over to North Fork to a little country

church. The pastor was not there and some woman was speaking and she was from the hill

country of Kentucky. She was a little hard to understand because it sounded like she has gravel in

her mouth when she talked. She truly butchered the king’s English. But as this precious saintly woman spoke, my heart began to burn.

There was such an anointing of God’s Spirit upon her life

and upon her words that I was really ministered to that morning.

My words can be an outlet of spiritual power. God can use what I say