Words. Your words. Scripture says there is life and death in the tongue. Your words are powerful and they play an integral part in the quality of your life. How and what you say to others as well as how and what you say to yourself has a far greater impact on where you are right now and where you will be in the future than almost anything else you do.
I'm listening to an audiobook by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen. The chapter I just concluded covered the area of "empowering questions." These are questions you ask yourself. It comes down to the words you're using and what those words are doing to program your brain for your experience on this planet. If you find yourself asking things like, "Why am I so far in debt?" or "Why do bad things always happen to me?" or "Why can't I ever get a break?" - guess what, your brain will go to work finding answers to those questions. Sad, huh? Wouldn't it be better to ask empowering questions and get your mind working on answers to questions that are going to move you in the direction you want?
In the Bible, nothing happened "in the beginning" until "God SAID...." There really is power in words. All day today, listen to how and what your're saying to yourself and others. After a conversation with a co-worker, friend, or spouse, replay the conversation in your mind. Focus on what you said. Were they positive, uplifting words or was there a negative tone or underlying agenda you didn't even know was there? See if there are areas in the way you speak that can be improved upon and then watch what happens in your life as these word improvements are implemented, consistently over time. Get your words working for you, not against you!
"A man's [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil]" - Proverbs 18:20 AMP
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