Are you aware of how much power your words have? What are you speaking over yourself, your household, your marriage, your children, your situations and circumstances etc.? What you speak out will grow? Whenever you have spoken out, you have planted a seed. So, what seeds have you planted in the garden of your life, your households life, your marriage, your children, your situations and circumstances, and others?
What are the fruits that are evident of the seeds you planted into the soil of those areas? Pay attention. Ask God about it. You need to be more careful and aware of the words you are choosing to speak. It comes in the heart/thoughts first. So, it is possible to stop it (with Gods help) before it comes out of your mouth. Your words have the literal power to create no differently than when God said “let there be light”. He thought it through and spoke it in faith and boldly. He spoke it knowing that those words will create.
What you have spoken out has created into the lives you spoke over, including yourself, and others as well as over the things you have been going through. Those words have had impact. Stay away from negativity and allow yourselves to mold more to the character of Christ. Christs heart says to be positioned in love and humility before him, and others; including the one’s you live with. Your home and family is and has been your training ground. It’s the hardest one. The one you get to face on a daily basis. It is also hard because it’s also your place and space of comfort. Whether you realized it or not, your body tends to be more comfortable to let things out in that safe space.
Take the opportunity to allow God to show you what you should and shouldn’t speak as well as to who and how to speak. The best practice is to go to God first with all matters. Take things to Him, lay it down at His feet and wait on Him to give you the strategy. Remember God disciplines those He loves, those he accepts as His children. No discipline is pleasant during the time of it happening but it produces fruits of righteousness for those who endure through it. Embrace the process with joy for the joy set before you. This is the example Jesus left of the attitude we are to walk through the narrow path. Read Hebrews 12.
What are those things that have become a habit (repetitive cycle) that causes you to act out of character consistently in certain areas or with certain people? What are the verbal strategy patterns you have continued to use that only caused you to focus more on the negative? Ask Holy Spirit the questions and write down what the Holy Spirit highlights to you. It is time to let God shed light on the areas of the negative habits you have formed from the way you got use to living; especially with those at home and other’s you interact with daily. It’s time to let it go.
It’s time to allow God to bring change into your speech and to let Him make you more aware of what you’re about to say before you say it. Using your words you can either plant seeds to create the best soil balance for your, your marriage/spouse, family to grow or your words can plant seeds to create a space that will do the opposite. It’s something to think about. Have you been creating a safe place for your family to grow in Christ and thrive in that garden?
The things of the old cannot go with you to where God wants to take you in this next season. It just cannot go into this next level. How you use to do certain things or handle certain things must change to align with God’s way and His heart. God is doing a NEW thing, but also certain areas need pruning before growth will happen. It’s the pruning that bring’s fruitfulness.
Your words have power….what have you created in your garden?
You can lift a person up to build them or tear them down with just your words. You can speak into agreement with what God has for you or bring hinderance by speaking out the opposite and fighting it. What have you created? What have you given growth and power to in your life?
You can speak to the king or queen in someone to lift them up and build them or you can prevent them from seeing themselves as God sees them. What are your words creating in daily life, family, marriage, purpose etc etc. ? What’s growing in your garden? It’s time to let God do some weeding.
Either you do this His way or keep doing things in your flesh that justifies by how you think it should be handled. You have a free will and God won’t get in the way of those choices; he will just gently remind what’s needed. Doing things of the way of our flesh creates unnecessary warfare many times.
And there’s consequences to our fleshy choices.
You’ve said yes to the narrow path. The narrow path is not easy and the Bible says only few will find it. It’s other path that is wide and easy. The narrow path is so worth it.
Pay attention to what He wants to work in you in this now season. Let Him speak to you. Remember, your obedience is not only for you. It’s to bring glory to God and breakthrough in not only your life, but also in the lives of others you may or may not ever know. Your obedience has been created a path for others to follow behind you.
Are you ready to get out of the way so God can go forth and do what He promised you?
You’ve got this! Blessings!
”3 We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. 4 And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. 5 In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches.
But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. 6 And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.[b]
7 People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, 8 but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. 10 And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right! 11 Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water? 12 Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.[c]” -James 3:3-12 (NLT)
