What Are Your Words Influencing The Environment and The People Around You To Do?

Are you talking just to be saying something or are you speaking words on purpose with purpose?   You have got understand the power of your words.   God said in His Word that every idle word that we speak, we shall give an account for.   When something is idle, it is without purpose or effect.   It is pointless and sometimes when we speak, we say things that are pointless and without value.  When something is pointless, it doesn’t make sense, it has no use, and it is without purpose.   

Understand the power of words.  It was with words that God created the heaven and the earth.   He spoke things into existence.    It was because of words, Adam and Eve was led astray.   Words carry within them an influential power.   The power to influence things to change.   To influence means to have an affect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something.    How many times have you allowed someone else’s words to influence your behavior?   Better yet, how many times have you used your words to influence someone else’s behavior.   

Words carry within them the power to cause people, places, and things to change.  The power of your words may be laying dormant when you speak them but at some point, someone may bring into their remembrance what you said to them or about them.   Make sure you are speaking life at all times.   MAKE SURE THERE IS A POSITIVE PURPOSE BEHIND EVERYTHING YOU SAY.   Don’t be the one who continuously confesses negativity over your own life or anyone else’s life. 

God has given you the power in your mouth to encourage yourself and others.   He has given you the power to speak forth change.   He has give you the power to build someone up, so make sure you are not tearing them down.   He has given you the power to speak and to call those things that be not as though they were.   Use the power that He has given you wisely.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Proverbs 18:21 - Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers

God Has Called You Out Of Darkness ... Are You Allowing The Light Of His Word To Light Your Path?

Is the Word of God a lamp and a light unto you?   Are you allowing it to light your path?   The thing about going down a path is that it can be dark.   When you walk in the dark, you really can’t see where your feet are or what you are treading in or upon.   You can’t see what is before you and you can’t see what can jump out at you or even what may come up behind you.   Are you allowing the Word to light your path or have you grown accustomed to walking in the dark.   

God’s Word is light.   It dispels darkness.   In other words it overcomes darkness.   It has the power within it to show you the way that you should go but it is up to you to turn on the light of God’s Word so that you can see clearly.     

It is not God will for you to continuously walk in darkness.   It is His desire for us to see and know what’s is before us.   He was direct in saying that He has given us the power to tread upon serpents but if you walk in darkness, you can’t see those things that you should be treading upon.   Instead of treading upon the enemy, when we walk in darkness, we give the enemy the advantage and the power he needs to overtake us.    

So read and know God’s Word.   Let it enlighten and empower you.   Let it be the light in your life that God created it to be.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 119:105 

King James Version

105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Are You Resting Your Mind In The Promises Of God and Your Body In Doing The Will Of God?

What do you do when you feel you have done all you can?   Do you keep trying to make things work out on your own or do you surrender everything to God for Him to work it out?   We have to learn how to surrender “all”.   So often in life we keep trying to figure things out.   We keep trying to make things work out on our own and we never surrender everything in totality to God.   We have to learn how to truly give everything in our lives over to the “One” who can work everything in our lives together for our good. 

God is a good Father.   He sees all and He knows all things.   He knows what we have been through, what we are going through, and what we will encounter in the future.   We have to understand, God’s purpose and God’s plan involves our entire life and not just what we are going through momentarily.   Again, God sees all and He knows all things, and He is working it all together for our good.

So when you feel like you have done all that you can do, begin to rest in God.   Let your mind rest in His promises and let your body rest in His will.   Don’t allow your actions to cause you to strive against God by not doing His will.    God is God all by Himself and He will honor His Word in our lives if we just trust Him.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 37:7 

King James Version (KJV)

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

To Who and What Are You Giving Your Yes To?

What are you saying yes to? Do you understand that yes is a word of agreement?   Are you saying yes to God?   Are you telling Him yes, I will serve you?   Are you telling Him yes, I will obey you?   Are you giving God your yes or are you saying yes to the ways of the world?   

God is not looking for us to waiver.   As a matter of fact, He has said in His Word that we are to be hot or cold.   He said if we are lukewarm, He will spew us out of His mouth.   Understand, your yes to God needs to be definite.   When something is definite, it is clearly stated and not vague or doubtful.   God does not want you to walk in doubt or fear when it comes to serving Him.    

The world and the worlds ways are a master at presenting you with questions.    One of the main things that questions are meant to do is bring about doubt and debate.  To have doubt means to be uncertain and to lack conviction.   Doubt will also cause you to walk in fear because you are unsure about what you said you have faith in.  The one thing in your life that should never be up for debate is God.   Don’t allow the world and the ways of the world to cause you to be in doubt and debate the validity of who God is and what He can and will do for you.   

We have to understand that the devil is at work in the world and from the beginning in the garden with Adam and Eve, his tactic has always been to ask questions that will cause you to doubt what God has said.   That is the same tactic that he is using today.   He is raising questions about who God is and what God has said.   He is raising questions about identity.  Not only about who we are in God but about gender and about race.   He is raising questions that will cause those who are not strong and allowing God to lead them to make the wrong choices in life.    

Every thought we have leads to a choice we must eventually make.   Always let your choices be based on the Word of God and not the emotions that are being produced by what you see and hear in the world.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Deuteronomy 30:19 

King James Version (KJV)

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Are You Allowing What You Know God Did For You In The Past To Strengthen Your Faith For What You Need Him To Do Now?

What will you do when you feel there is nothing left to do?   Will you surrender and trust God or will you give up and quit?   You have to know that God has a plan.   There are times when things work out exactly like you want them to but there are other times when it feels like nothing is working out.   It’s at those times you have to trust what God said when He said that “He” is working everything together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

Do you believe that God has called you?   If you do, you have to trust Him to take care of you.    One thing you must remember is the enemy’s number one goal is to cause you to lose your faith and to give up on God.   Will you let him?   Will you give the enemy the satisfaction of knowing that he was successful in causing your faith to fail.    I hope your answer is no.   I hope that you are determined to trust God no matter what.    

Have you every had a situation occur that looked really bad initially but after some time everything worked out.   A situation where the end result was better than you ever could have imagined.   That situation should be the situation you hold onto when times are hard.   Think about the pain that a mother endures while having a baby and the joy that comes after the baby is born.   We have to start focusing on what the end result is while we are in the midst of whatever it is we are going through.   We have to let our past testimony strengthen our faith for the future.  

Remember, God has a plan and that plan is designed to give us hope, a future, and an expected end.   Trust Him.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Malachi 3:6

“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” 

Are You Walking In Worry and Fear or Are You Determined To Stay In Faith and Fear Not?

Are you waiting and resting in God or are you trying to figure things out and work things out on your own?   We have to understand, God is God all by Himself.   He wants us to believe Him, trust Him, and to wait on Him.    The question is, what are you doing in the waiting?  In other words, what are you doing while you wait?   

Are you walking in obedience while you wait?    God said in His Word that if we be willing and obedient, we shall eat the good of the land.   So walking in obedience opens up the door for God’s goodness to flow freely in your life.   You will see and receive God’s goodness.   

Are you trusting and acknowledging God while you wait?   God said to trust Him with all of you heart and to lean not to your own understanding.   He said to acknowledge Him in all of your ways and He will direct your path.    So if you need direction in your life, make sure you are trusting and acknowledging God (His will and His way of doing things) while you wait on Him to move in your life.  

There are many things we could be doing while we wait on God to move in our lives but we need to make sure we are doing the right things.   We can walk in worry and fear while we wait or we can be determined to stay in faith and fear not.    Let your faith stand on and stay in the promises of God and watch Him bring to pass whatever it is you have been waiting on that is in line with His Word and His will for your life.   Remember, God knows what is best for us and everything we want is not necessarily God’s best for our lives.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

 Psalms 27:14

King James Version 

“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.” 

What Are You Teaching The People Around You To Do? What Is It That You Are Saying Is Okay and Is It Okay Based On God’s Way Of Doing Things and Not Your Own Thought Process?

What is it that you are coaching your child and others around you to do?   To coach mean to train and guide someone to meet specific goals.   The question is, what are your training and guiding the people around you to do?   

Are you teaching the people around you that lying is okay?   Are you telling others to back up your lie?   Have you ever seen someone (whether it be a parent, a friend, or a co-worker) that will tell someone to lie on their behalf?   Where they say, if someone asks, tell them this or that which is a lie.  That’s coaching and that is training someone to do wrong.    You have to live your life where truth is the final factor.   God is truth and He wants your life to be in line with who and what He is.   

There are some people who teach and train their children and the people around them to lie because that is the lifestyle they live.  They live their lives by telling lies and then when others around them lie to them, they want to bring correction to them but can’t truly correct them because their own lives are based on untruths.   

Living your life based on the truth is not an easy thing to do.   There are times when you have to make mid-course corrections.   There are times when you have to ask for forgiveness.   There are times when you have to accept correction from others but it’s worth it in the end to know that you are living your life in a way that is pleasing to God and helpful to others.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Proverbs 6:16-20 

King James Version (KJV)

16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.