Open your Mouth

Psalms 81:10 I [am] the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

This instruction is for our benefit. When we hear God asking us to open our mouths, notice He tells us to do so widely.

Why?

To preach good tidings to the poor; To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to [those who are] bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness.. (Isaiah 61:1-3)

All these require the opening of the mouth; to preach, to proclaim, to comfort, to console, to say, these all need the involvement of the mouth.

Now notice that babies do not know how to speak articulately. They speak in gibberish. They are still learning how to speak. They can’t necessarily preach or proclaim or comfort, an illustration to say that it is so hard for those that are spiritual babes to do this. They can and will do it some day (like all babies who grow up to learn how to speak…) but it takes 3,4,5 years to grasp most of any language.

At 6, some words are still being discovered by a child, and they may not therefore be the best to put on the front to ‘comfort all those who mourn in Zion’. You see, even if Jesus was challenging the religious leaders at 12, something still missed in His dialect concerning proclamation; otherwise, I believe if He had grasped the entire language (not the Jewish but the Word), He would have been launched out into ministry then.

Regardless, the Lord saw it fit for Him to learn 18 years more, in order to have answers for whatever question that was thrown at Him. He was the son of God, yes, but He had forsaken His glory and come down in human form. His walk on earth was just like yours! Initially limited by the flesh, until he refused to conform to the standards of this world, and began to transform every time He renewed His mind proving that which is the perfect, good and acceptable will of God.

In other words, just like a baby learns vernacular, Jesus dwelt with the Bible, whose language He believed was His inheritance, like a Muganda here in Uganda inherits the Luganda language. If the language says this and that are called this and that, then that’s what they are.

If the Bible says Jesus was to heal the sick and to raise the dead, the learning of that language determined how He would call things and how He’d perform things. My mother is an itesot from North Eastern Uganda. To say ‘God is good,’ they begin with good, and end with God (Ejok Edeke). Edeke is God. A learned person knowing the language can’t therefore say Edeke Ejok even if it’d make sense when directly translated. The Itesot people will immediately correct you if you use the latter. Or they might straight away conclude, that you’re a linguist, trying to grasp the language.

Do you therefore know how to speak the Bible language? Do you know how & what to say when sickness comes or when lack knocks? (Selah) …

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To demonstrate Jesus’ opening his mouth wide, and God having filled it, God led me to Isaiah 50:4, which says, ‘The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to [him who is] weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.’

The tongue, firstly, is in the mouth. And it is clarified that it is of the learned. Not babes! Not those just learning the language, but those who know the nooks and ways of the language. Only then can one speak a word in season to one that’s weary.

You’ve seen little children try to speak to their parents in the evening. Some of these could have been just fired from the job. Others could have lost a close friend. But there’s no way a child of 4 can say a seasoned word to soothe their father or mother. This could have been a friend of over 20 years. What can a child with a tongue of the UNLEARNED say!

No wonder still, if I think about it, I do not know if Jesus could have reacted appropriately if they caught the lady in adultery and brought her to him at 12 seeking to stone her. Though he had grown in wisdom and stature, he was still growing & maturing more, to be able to impact the entire globe forever.

He also needed to be filled with the tongue of the word of knowledge, to be able to confront the Samaritan woman at the well. I wonder if at 12 that woman would have respected him if he told her she had been involved with 6 men and none were her husband. She’d have thought him a stalking boy…and either beaten him or have any of those men hunt him down and teach him a lesson about minding his business.

Now speaking of opening our mouths, there’s one thing the Psalmist said he enjoyed eating much…

Psalms 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!

When he opened his mouth, and God began to fill it, He noticed that God’s word was sweeter than this viscous liquid that comes from bees! David while fellowshipping with God, while playing in the fields, while hiding from Saul, positioned himself to bear & meditate on God’s word like the finest wheat… And the filling was clear to all of us.

He wrote books and songs that we have learned from as well. His experiences have led to our being filled by God as well. His writings have led to our encouraging & learning as well putting us in seats among the learned. The learned bear a maturity and mastery in language. And God’s language through His word is demonstrated as wheat, as bread, as coal, as grapes, as sweeter than honey.

Having been filled by His word, He can use you anywhere, for anyone. That you might speak to anyone and whoever you must, you lift, you encourage, you advise according to what they actually need. The image I have just received is how a mother sparrow gets its mouth so full of food after it actually feeding and then conveying the rest to feed its babies

Still from the photo above, it’d be God filling us, and asking us to open wide. If we don’t, the food won’t enter, the word won’t enter, we will stay hungry and the words to speak to the weary won’t come out.

When God instructs us to open our mouths wide, there’s probably going to be something for someone else. Just like Jesus always had for the hundreds that camped around him.

Open your mouth and let God’s word fill it. Open it and let him stuff you revelation. Open it wide and receive words to speak to him that is weary. Open it and learn HOW to speak to him that is weary. Open it and chew on mysteries that’ll change the rest of your generation forever!