Righteous Lips
Righteous Lips
(Zadok and Abaithar Priesthood)
David Wilkerson
Uncircumcised Lips. We’re gonna talk about gossip in preachers.
God’d been dealing with me. Nobody gossip more than preachers and their wives.
“But the things that proceed out of the mouth
come from the heart, and those defile the man.”
Matthew 15:18
“For out of the heart come evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.”
Matthew 15:19
“These are the things which defile the man;
but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
Matthew 15:20
Let’s admit it right now. Let’s admit it that we are guilty. It’s truly the sin of shepherds.
I consider it to be one of the most important areas in my life to be dealt with. I want to be delivered from corrupt lips like Isaiah.
When I got that out of my system, I saw the Lord and I saw how unclean my lips were. God began to show me something about my lips.
There can be no circumcision of the lips without circumcision of the heart.
For it’s out of the abundance of the heart that mouth speaks
(Matthew 12:34)
It’s not enough to stop talking about our brothers. We’re gonna stop thinking about it.
Because He said, “It’s out of the abundance of heart that mouth speaks.”
(Matthew 12:34)
I’m so focused on this sin in my life. Because I know I’ll never come into the fullness and usefulness that I believe God wants to bring into my life until He has given me total victory in this area.
And I pray that the Lord would start convicting me and speak to my conscience, every time I begin to open my mouth and speak something that was not of God about any brother, I hear a voice saying, “Shut up. Don’t say it.” and quickened in my spirit.
If you’ll ask God for that He will do it and usually we raise right over it. And we’ll hear that, we just quiet that voice.
That conscience it says,
“Don’t go any further. Stop! Back off.
Say you are sorry.
Say ‘I’ve said wrong thing.’ Back off!”
Whatever we have to do, back away! Don’t touch it!
God’s been doing that more and more. I hear that as if saying, “Don’t do it.”
(But you see) I thought my victory was in not saying it anymore, but then I’ve found that I just as excited about listening to it. I was not saying it but I was hearing it.
It was feeding something in my heart.
“For out of the abundance of heart that mouth speaks”
(Matthew 12:34)
There is a root in the heart.
The reason I talk about people is that there is something in me yet undealt with in the Spirit. The reason I want to hear it is because it’s still there. Simply because I don’t let it come out of my lips
it does not prove I have a victory.
There’s got to be a circumcision. It has to be cut out in other words. Circumcision is a cutting out from the heart.
“Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise
your heart and the heart of your descendants,
to love the LORD your God with all your heart
and with all your soul, in order that you may live.”
Deuteronomy 30:5
That’s circumcision, brother.
Brother, sister, the greatest thing needed in ministry today
now is to heal foreskins in the heart
of men who are looking and say,
“Why am I doing this?
Why am I hearing it?
There’s something in me that’s been fed!
There’s something wrong!
Basically wrong! I’m not seeing!”
That’s what’s frightening me about this thing in my life, after all that is been doing me and I was so excited about being so free of lust and so free of these big things. How I was rarely seeing what God saw of this heart purity, and that He was digging down deeper looking it something that I did’t even see.
Even though I had an anointing and though I had hunger and thirst for the Word, I was not seeing something in my heart and it’s a form of evil.
It’s profanity that He has to circumcise out. He has to cut it out. You can not subdue it. It has to be cut out. You can’t play with it. You can’t just press it.
It has to be circumcised.
My prayer is
“Oh God, I want You to dig in.
I want to see it.
Whatever it takes,
I want it cut out.
I want the circumcision of the heart!
I don’t circumcise just my lips.
I circumcise the heart.
When my heart is circumcised,
my lips will have the fruit of that righteousness.”