“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.” (James 3:6)
We have to understand that Satan gets his energy and his power from the world as well as from the brethren, from the people of God. The people of God have more power and more energy than the people of the world. Therefore, Satan prefers to catch one Christian rather than to catch ten sinners (those who are not Christians). Sinners do not have the life, the energy, the surge of life that comes through the blood, the veins, the heart, and the soul of the Christian.
Satan gets a lot of life when he can cause brethren to slander one another. While you are slandering, he is feasting (pulling life out of you). Devils are getting a lot of life, energy, and authority out of you. There are things that devils cannot do on their own. They cannot just walk up to someone and smash him. If they could do that none of us would be alive for we would be knocked from pillar to post. Devils cannot do it, because they need authority to do it. But, sometimes Christians give authority to the devil to do some of the evil things he does.
There was a sister who said, “I wish that boy were dead.” The boy was tormenting her. He was fooling around and blocked her car in the road with his bicycle so she could not get to her business. She said, “I wish you would die. I wish somebody would knock you down with a car.” When she was returning home, she was just in time to see them putting him into the ambulance. Somebody carried out her wish. Then she was sorry. She realized that her authority had been given to devils to do what they wanted to do to the boy anyhow. The devils wanted him to die and that was the reason why they were using him to disturb people on the street.
Remember, your words have much greater power than you would think!
Sonlight Devotional 