CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE (2)

“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” - Proverbs 18:21, NIV.

The Bible reveals the mind of God and through it we perceive our lives, our present circumstances and our future as God intended. The word of God is life to those who find it and it is His will that you employ your tongue to release life-giving words and create a future that looks very much like the one your heavenly Father has in mind for you.

In the first chapter of Jeremiah, God gave the prophet an assignment to which he responded “Ah, Sovereign LORD, I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.” But the LORD said to him, “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.”[i] Jeremiah’s excuses would have only led to failure in spite of the grace God has made available to him.

Are your words limiting you or empowering you? Are your words a hindrance to your own progress in life, work, ministry, and relationships? Are they words that discourage, disconnect and dissuade, rather than encourage, enliven and elevate. Jesus said, “the words that I speak they are spirit and they are life”.

Every word you utter is spirit. But it is down to you whether they communicate life or death in you and your surroundings! Speak words that God can work with to manifest His will. Speak life..!

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[i] Jeremiah 1:6–7   Also  John 6:63

CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE (1)

“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:21, NIV)

This may or may not surprise you, but the plain truth is that a great deal of what’s happening in your life today may be simply down to the environment your own words have created. Your words are powerful! They are powerful enough to set the forces of life or the forces of death in motion.

God has endowed your words with so much power that something as small as the tongue can utter words capable of altering the entire course of your life just as a small rudder can turn a mighty ship around with relative ease. It is the will of God that we rule our world with words just as God created and upholds all things with power of His word.

Setting the forces of death in motion is akin to speaking limiting words into your own life or taking ownership of the limiting words others have spoken about you. They could be words that make you feel comfortable in that place of poor performance, weakness and failure, or words that gives justification for continuance in a self-destructive and relationship-damaging behaviour.

By choosing your words carefully you can start building up those things that need to be built up and pull down the things that must be pulled down in your life.

Start today to create a different future for yourself! Begin by changing the "how", the "what", the "why" and the "when" behind every word that leave your mouth whether spoken in private to your own hearing alone or in public. Profess the will of God for your life...!