Watch Your Mouth!

     Ever wonder why things don't seem to go right in your life? Do you ever wonder why the good things just never happen to you? Well I guarantee that would change if you would just shut your mouth, or better yet change the majority of the things that you say out of your mouth. Proverbs 18:21 says "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." This scripture alone tells us that we are able to either speak death or life into our lives just by what comes out of our mouth. Matthew 12:34 says "for out of the heart the mouth speaketh.". So whatever is manifesting on the outside got it starting place on the inside.
     What is in your heart? Napoleon Hill starts out his book Think and Grow Rich by saying "Thoughts are things", and according to scripture he was absolutely right. I would go so far as to say that what's in our hearts becomes our thoughts. So if we speak what is in our hearts and the thoughts of our minds become things, then words are indeed the birthing mechanism for our inner most desires. In the beginning of Matthew 12:34 it eludes to the fact that you can not being evil speak good things. A good man brings forth good things out of his heart and a evil man brings forth evil things out of his heart. So I submit to you that we can not fault anyone but ourselves for what takes place in our lives. We first must start by looking deep within ourselves and evaluate what lives deep within us that drives us to birth the lives we create for ourselves simply by speaking. How often do we say I can't do this, I can't do that, this never happens to me/for me, man I'm so broke I don't know what I'm gonna do. We must stop planting these seeds of lack, ineptitude, and impoverishment into our lives! For they are indeed seeds. We must change the way we talk in order to change the way we live. The word of God says they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof, and the only way to get fruit is to plant a seed. So no matter whether its a seed of life or a seed of death, the fact of the matter is that it has been promised that we will reap its harvest.
      Now the question you might ask is this; how do I go about such a change?...it all sounds easier said than done. Well I would say the first step is to acknowledge that there is a change that needs to be made and to take responsibility for the things that you say. Secondly, change comes from the inside out, so I would recommend that you pray as David prayed that God create within you a clean heart and renew a right spirit within you. However, prayer is only one side of change. The other side of change has to come from you taking action. My suggestion would be to fill yourself with positive affirmations from the word of God. I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me, I am the head and not the tail, God has given me the ability to gain wealth, by His stripes I am healed, and the list goes on and on and on. God said all things are possible to them who believes. My point is this: get into the word of God and replace evil with good, replace what is negative with what is positive. Remember darkness can not exist where light dwells.
     Finally, we as believers in Christ must guard our mouths at all times. Ephesians 4:29 says "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying,". This not only applies to the way we speak when talking to others: this also applies to how we speak to ourselves as well, because our inner man hears what we speak just as good as the next. So I charge you to start speaking life to yourself even now at this very moment and watch how things start to change in your life. This is what has been ordained in this life of a believer. Be Blessed!!!

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