Watch Your Mouth!
Part 2: Where is the Love?
Prophetic Intercession & Prayer — May 13, 2026
Apparently, the Wi-Fi decided Part 1 was long enough. 🤣
But the message wasn’t finished.
And when the livestream resumed, the teaching became even clearer:
Choose life.
God has not left us without direction. He has given us His Word, His Spirit, our identity in Christ, and the ability to come into agreement with what He has said.
The question is:
What will we choose?
I Have Set Before You Life and Death
Deuteronomy 30:19 presents an extraordinary choice:
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life…”
— Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV
Notice that God doesn’t hide the answer.
He tells us what to choose.
Choose life.
That means we shouldn’t repeatedly speak death over ourselves, our families, our assignments, or our futures and then wonder why God wants to address our words.
Our mouths should increasingly come into agreement with the life God has provided.
This isn’t pretending that difficult circumstances don’t exist.
It’s choosing whose truth will govern us in the middle of them.
Jesus Showed Us How
Matthew 4 takes us into the wilderness with Jesus.
Satan tempted Him to turn stones into bread.
Jesus responded:
“It is written.”
He didn’t allow His physical circumstances to determine truth.
He answered temptation with the Word of God:
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
There it is again.
Every word that proceeds from God.
Not the words of another.
Not the enemy’s suggestions.
Not the world’s philosophy.
Not even our own feelings when they contradict what God has said.
We live by His Word.
The Same Spirit Lives in You
Romans 8:11 gives believers an astonishing reminder: the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us.
Think about that.
Resurrection power isn’t merely something we celebrate at Easter.
The Holy Spirit lives in the believer.
So why are we constantly speaking as though we are powerless?
Why are we surrendering spiritual territory that Christ has already given us?
Why are we allowing intimidation to convince us that the enemy has more authority than he actually possesses?
We have to remember who we are and Who lives in us.
More Than Conquerors
There is an inheritance attached to our identity in Christ.
Yet sometimes we live beneath what God has provided because we don’t know what belongs to us—or because we’ve agreed with something contrary to it.
We don’t have to forfeit our inheritance.
We don’t have to surrender our peace.
We don’t have to surrender our authority.
We don’t have to surrender our identity.
We belong to Jesus.
Romans 8 reminds us that if God did not spare His own Son but gave Him for us all, how will He not also graciously give us all things?
God is not trying to cheat His children out of their inheritance.
We need to stop forfeiting what Jesus paid for.
Religion Cannot Replace Relationship
Then the message turns toward something even deeper.
Jesus said in Matthew 7 that not everyone who says, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Some will point to what they did in His name.
Yet Jesus’ response is devastating:
“I never knew you.”
That should make every believer examine something deeper than activity.
We can do Christian things.
Know Christian language.
Attend Christian gatherings.
Serve.
Teach.
Pray.
And still allow our relationship with Jesus to become secondary.
God isn’t merely looking for religious activity.
He wants us.
Remember Your First Love
Revelation 2 gives us the picture of the church at Ephesus.
They were doing many things correctly.
They worked.
They persevered.
They rejected evil.
They tested false apostles.
They endured hardship.
From the outside, this looked like a strong church.
But Jesus identified the problem:
They had left their first love.
That’s sobering.
Because it means we can become very good at doing things for Jesus while slowly neglecting being with Jesus.
The lamp can still look polished while the flame is disappearing.
Jesus warned them to remember, repent, and return.
That invitation still matters.
Come Back to the Light
John 3:19 describes the tragedy of people choosing darkness when Light had come into the world.
First John 1:7 gives us the alternative:
Walk in the light.
When we walk in the light, we have fellowship with Him, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from sin.
We don’t have to hide.
We don’t have to defend ourselves.
We don’t have to pretend.
We can simply come back.
Back to truth.
Back to obedience.
Back to the Word.
Back to our first love.
Back to Jesus.
Before Abraham Was, I AM
Jesus declares in John 8:58:
“Before Abraham was, I am.”
Our faith isn’t ultimately in principles.
It isn’t in declarations.
It isn’t even in our ability to say everything perfectly.
Our faith is in Jesus Christ.
The eternal I AM.
That’s important when we’re talking about the power of words because our confidence must never shift from Christ to a formula.
We’re not trying to control life with vocabulary.
We’re learning to bring our hearts, thoughts, and mouths into agreement with Him.
Choose Life
So now Part 1 and Part 2 come together.
Watch what you’re saying.
Watch what you’re agreeing with.
Know the Word.
Recognize deception.
Refuse intimidation.
Remember your identity.
Walk in the light.
Return to your first love.
And when life and death are placed before you—
Choose life.
Not because circumstances always look good.
Not because opposition isn’t real.
But because Jesus is still Lord.
And the Word of God still stands.
Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, thank You for giving us life through Your Son.
Teach us to choose life in our thoughts, our words, our decisions, and our relationships.
Expose every place where we have unknowingly agreed with fear, darkness, defeat, condemnation, or deception.
Bring us back to our first love.
May we never become so occupied with doing things for You that we neglect knowing You.
Teach us to walk in the light, remain in Your Word, and live conscious of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
We pray for those who oppose us, speak against us, or attempt to hinder what You are doing. Bring deliverance, healing, truth, repentance, and transformation. Keep our hearts clean so that we can intercede rather than retaliate.
We choose life.
We choose truth.
We choose Your Word.
And above everything else—
we choose Jesus.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Kingdom Reflection
Am I merely doing things for Jesus—or am I still deeply in love with Him?
And when another voice contradicts what He has spoken:
Choose life. Choose His Word. Choose Jesus.
We can clearly see the progression inside one single May 13 broadcast:
Watch Your Mouth → Choose Life → Return to Your First Love.
So the message isn’t ultimately “be careful because words are scary.” It’s much richer: stay in agreement with Jesus because relationship with Him is the source of the life you’re speaking.
Where is the love? That may actually be one of the deepest threads in this whole message.
Revelation 2 is striking because Jesus acknowledges what Ephesus was doing right: their works, labor, perseverance, discernment, endurance. They weren’t sitting around doing nothing. They were busy doing the right stuff.
And yet: “Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.”
Whew. 😮💨
You can serve without intimacy. Pray out of routine. Give out of obligation. Show up because you’re supposed to. Minister because people expect you to. Study because it’s on the schedule. The activity can continue long after affection has begun to cool.
And I think there’s an important distinction in left your first love: the answer isn’t necessarily to do more. It’s to return.
We can become so committed to doing the right things that we forget Who we’re doing them with and for.
Obligation can keep your body showing up after your heart has gone somewhere else.
You can pray because it’s prayer time.
Serve because you’re scheduled.
Give because you’re supposed to.
Minister because people are waiting.
Read Scripture because it’s on your checklist.
And Jesus can still ask:
“But where is the love?”
The church at Ephesus had works. They had perseverance. They had discernment. They even endured hardship for the name of Jesus.
But Jesus wanted their hearts.
Christianity was never intended to become a collection of obligations performed for Someone we no longer enjoy.
Jesus wants relationship.
Sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do isn’t add another assignment.
It’s return to our first love.
Sit with Him again.
Talk to Him because we want Him—not because we need something.
Open the Bible because we want to hear His voice.
Worship without an audience.
Remember why we fell in love with Jesus in the first place.
Obedience matters. But love is supposed to be in the room. ❤️
Coffee with Christ more than anyone else. The assignments can multiply, the livestreams can multiply, the ministry can grow—but the Person who started all of it can’t become merely the subject of the work.
Before ministry, Jesus.
During ministry, Jesus.
After ministry, Jesus.
Otherwise we’ll have a whole lot of for Him and not nearly enough with Him. ☕️❤️
Charnette Kay ⚔️
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