Have you ever read your Bible and did an honest assessment of your self in regards to who you really are in the passage? If we read the book of Proverbs there is an obvious demarcation between the wicked and the righteous, but do we read the attributes of the wicked and say, that’s me and falls on our face in repentance? Or if we hear the words of Jesus say, “You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man from his inner good treasureflings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouseflings forth evil things” (Matthew 12:34-35 – AMP). How many of us actually listen to what comes out of our mouth more than we remember what comes out of someone else’s mouth?

I was praying for a friend this morning, who is in Israel right now, and the Holy Spirit said to me, “Pray for her to experience a kingdom expression in her heart, so a kingdom expansion can come out of her mouth.” I prayed that for her and I prayed that for me and I prayed that for us as the body of Christ. We need a kingdom expression in our hearts or we will never have a kingdom expansion come out of our mouths. I want to expand the kingdom of God and it expands not by building another church, having another title or by winning the lottery. The kingdom increases or decreases based on what comes out of my mouth, your mouth, our mouth corporately.

The challenge is so clearly identified, “Jesus called the people to Him and said to them, Listen and grasp and comprehend this: It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that makes him unclean and defiled, but what comes out of the mouth; this makes a man unclean and defiles [him]” (Matthew 15:10-11 – AMP). Many are very diligent about what goes in their mouth, but they are not paying attention to what is coming out of their mouth. Friends, the Lord wants a kingdom expression in our hearts, so kingdom expansion can come out of our mouth. Let us examine ourselves so we can be healed and advance the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.