 Many Christians are using this Bible verse wrong. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, Proverbs 18, 21. 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 interject, don't speak that into existence. Now, Christians have cultivating power, but not creative power, and we should thank God that only he has the power to create with 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. Now, please don't hear what I'm not saying. Yes, our words indeed do have power. We can encourage or discourage, enlighten or deceive, speak faith or doubt, but only when we speak God's words do we have creative power in our words. We don't have that kind of power on our own. Our words may not have the power to create, but they do have the power to cultivate.