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| CHANGE YOUR WORDS, CHANGE YOUR LIFE |
JOYCE MEYER is a renowned Bible teacher, Author and speaker. She has written more than ninety inspirational books, including: Do Your Self A Favour, Forgive, Living Beyond Your Feelings…and many others. She has also released thousands of audio teachings and a complete video library. Joyce’s Enjoying Everyday life radio and TV programs are broadcast around the world and she travels extensively conducting conferences. Joyce is happily married to Dave her husband and they are parents of four grown children and make their home in St. Louis, Missouri.
INTRODUCTION
Thesis of this book is Understanding the Power of Spoken Word. How words that come out our mouth can make or mar us. The words we speak can poison, heal, start war, fight wars, and can make peace. Words can lead men to pinnacles of good and it can plunge men to the depth if evil. The depth and power of spoken word can be compared to the beginning in the book of Genesis, when God created Heaven and earth with Spoken word. This book further reemphasizes focus on the right words, positive word and deemphasizes negative words. In other words we should make conscious effort to speak only positive and good words and avoid speaking evil and negative words by being in agreement with God.
DEVELOPMENT
Impact of Word
She told the story of her friend Therese a worker, everyone in her office loved her. She always had a kind word for everyone. She has an amazing ability to make people feel good about themselves. She is very smart. In her 5years on the Job, she had received three promotions, and her employer had recently told her that she was on a fast track towards a management position. If things continued the way they were going, she could even expect a vice-presidency within just a few years. One evening while working late on a project, she discovered that her boss has made a bad judgment call in a speech that he had written and asked her to edit. He had included a foolish joke that some could find offensive. Therese picked up the phone to leave him a voice mail and tell him her thoughts. “What were you thinking boss” she said. “Don’t you know the CEO will hate that joke? And he has no sense of humor. Unfortunately, instead of sending the voice mail to her boss, Theresa inadvertently pressed a button that sent the voice mail to everyone in the company. The next morning chaos ensued. She was not dismissed but didn’t get the next promotion or the one after. The push of a button had stuck down her future at the company. Never underestimate the power of your words, kind words can save life.
Taming your Tongue
In other avoid speaking negatively, due to unpleasant outcome. Taming your tongue has become necessary, taming is not an easy task, but God can help. As believers we have to pray God should help us speak the right things, to be a mouth piece for God, if we are not careful we can unwilling be a voice for Satan. Tongue is a fire, start speaking good things. James 3:7-10
Characteristics of a matured Christian
Maturity is a key point in taming our tongue to avoid negative words coming out of our mouth. Talking too much and speaking rashly are signs of immaturity, and they cause a great deal of trouble. Many people say things without thinking and they wound others. God’s goal for us is that we mature spiritually and are no longer controlled by our own thoughts emotions and desires. He wants us to learn his word and direct our lives accordingly. 1 Corinthians 14:20
What do you want in the Future?
As Christians, God has set aside gift for each one of us. He wants us to receive them, use and enjoy them, but sometimes we fail to understand how to cooperate with God to get things from his realm (the spiritual) into ours (the natural). We frequently fail to speak of things that are not manifested yet as if they already exist. For example God’s word encourages us to say we are strong even if we are weak. Joel 3:10
The writer also talked about her first lesson about the power of words, how she grew up in a negative atmosphere, and developed a negative mind, attitude and mouth. When she begin to study God’s word with seriousness, she made a diligent effort not to say negative things, but she realized nothing has changed and she complaint to God, God told her, yes, you have stopped saying negative things but you have not started saying anything positive. She made a long list of positive confessions of things that she would like to see happening in her life in future.
You can Bless or curse your future, most of us don’t use our mouth at all for what God gave it to us for. There is great power and authority in words. The kind of power we have depends of the kind of words we speak. We can curse our future by speaking evil of it, or we can bless it by speaking well of it.
Staying strong through the storms of life
We should be careful of what we say when we are going through challenges, dark moments, trials and tribulations. These situations tempt us to say and do all kinds of things that we would not in good times. It is extremely important at these times to stand firm and be very careful about what we say.
Jesus was tempted many times, yet never sinned. His words were filled with faith. He chose during this time not to talk much. Let’s avoid foolish talks when we are upset.
Let us avoid words like these:
· I don’t understand why this is happening-where is God?
· I can’t take any more of this
· I hate this
· I am giving up
· God you don’t love me
· I am confused. I tried to do what is right and look at the mess I am in.
· Nothing ever works out right for me
· I’m sick and tired of trouble.
Please say these words instead
· God is my strength, and I can do whenever I need to do in life through Christ Jesus.
· All things work out for good for those that love God and are called according to his purpose.
· God is faithful, he never leaves nor forsake me
· I am more than a conqueror through Christ who strengthens me.
· I will not fear, God is with me
· Gods timing is perfect, and this storm will end right on time.
CONCLUSION
As earlier said words can heal, they can also injure, they can build up or tear down. They can encourage or discourage. They can open a door of blessing or open a door of destruction. Please watch your mouth, don’t make joke of something that God doesn’t think it’s funny, don’t use the Lords name in vain.
Finally our words belongs to us we must be responsible for how we use them. Perhaps now that we view them differently we will use them in a better way. They are valuable, they are containers for power, and they produce life or death for us and all who hear them. They are gifts from God and when used properly, they are one of our greatest assets. The more you improve the way you talk, the more your life will improve. Words contains power of life and death Proverbs 18:21
I encourage you to read the book of proverbs and highlight every passage that talks about the mouth, our words or tongue. Joyce is really excited that this book will change your life. Enjoy your journey and remember to thank God for every little bit of progress that you make. No man can tame tongue, so pray daily, and ask for Gods help in making sure the words of your mouth are acceptable in his sight.
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