 Many Christians are using this Bible verse wrong. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Now, many think that this verse means that Christians have creative power in their words. For example, if someone says they feel like they're getting a cold, one might warn, don't speak that into existence. Christians do have cultivating power, but not creative power, and we should thank God that only He has creative power in His words. If we had creative power in our words, the world couldn't function. We could speak extra highway lanes into existence during traffic, or harm someone in a moment of anger, or cause the economy to crash due to the inflation that would result from just speaking money into existence. Yes, our words do indeed have power, and I want to make that clear. We can encourage or discourage, enlighten or deceive, speak faith or doubt, but only when we speak God's word do the words that we speak have creative power. We don't have that kind of power according to our own wills. Our words may not have creative power, but they do have cultivating power.