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WE DARE NOT KEEP OUR MOUTHS SHUT
Revelation 1:3 tells us: "Blessed is the one who READS ALOUD the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near." We know this is talking about the book of Revelation, but I believe it applies to every word in the Bible. It is more powerful to read God's Word aloud than silently. It seems to penetrate our hearts and minds far more intently.
It is also powerful to listen to God's Word. God's anointing is upon the father as he reads out loud God's Words to his family each day. Isaiah 39:19 says: "The father to the children shall make known thy truth." How can the father make known God's truths to his family without speaking them OUT LOUD? "Make known" is "yada" in the Hebrew and means "to make them known intimately." We get the message again in Deuteronomy 4:9 (ESV): "Make them known (yada) to your children and your children's children."
Let's look at Psalm 78:1-7. In this passage God commands families to pass on His truths to the following generations. Fourteen times He reminds us to open our mouths and speak God's words OUT LOUD! Check them out:
"Give EAR O my people (your ears can't hear unless the word is spoken OUT LOUD), to my teaching: INCLINE YOURS EARS (once again, the ears are listening to spoken words) to the WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
I will OPEN MY MOUTH in a parable. I will UTTER (the Hebrew word is "naba" and means "to gush forth, belch out, pour out, abundantly utter) dark sayings of old.
Which we have HEARD (how can our children hear if we don't speak God's Words OUT LOUD?) and KNOWN ("yada" again), and our FATHERS HAVE TOLD US (the Hebrew word for "told" is "caphar" and means "to enumerate intensively, to recount, to celebrate, to declare, tell out").
We WILL NOT HIDE (we dare not keep our mouths shut because we have a commission from God to speak His truths to our children and following generations) them from their children, SHOWING (declaring) to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
For he established a TESTIMONY (witness) in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should MAKE THEM KNOWN ("yada") to their children:
That the generation to come MIGHT KNOW THEM ("yada"), even the children which should be born; who should arise and DECLARE ("caphar") them to their children:
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments."
Do we taken notice of what God says? Do we speak God's words OUT LOUD and teach them to our children each day? We not only have to open our mouths, but have to get them into our children's mouths so they can speak God's Words from their mouths to their children and each generation following.
By the way, this is not a joke. It is God's command.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
