Powerful words. You may be the way you are because of other people’s actions and words that were spoken over and to you in your formative years. The bad news is you stay there by choice. The good news is God has designed you to be an overcomer by choosing life.
God has provided everything we need through Jesus. This means no matter what has happened in your life, you can heal and be free, but it is a choice. In James 3 he says the tongue is so powerful that it is like a bridle that can control a horse. It is also like a rudder for a large ship that is driven by fierce winds yet turned by something so small. Powerful words affect our heart and soul whether we believe it or not!
Powerful Words Received or Denied?
People tell and say to me all the time truthful statements about themselves and what they are believing for their life goals and desires. They speak scripture out loud and confess the word. Confess means to say the same things (as what God says about you) to agree, to declare. I remember when I was in Bible school we used a prayer organizer played worship music and walked around reading and speaking the scriptures.
One of my teachers explained that he loved to read through the names of God. As he read through them he paid attention to how he reacted to each of the names of God. If he got stuck he said that he would sit and ponder, meditate on that particular name. I found this to be very helpful when it comes to desiring truth in my innermost being. I want to receive Gods word as my identity, not my opinion of myself based on life’s circumstances.
Powerful words can bounce off and not be received because of denial a lack of inner connection with the heart. Your heart is the real you! Denial means:
- A refusal to believe in something
- A refusal admit that something exists
We are opposing the Word in our lives
This means we can say I am the Righteousness of Christ, I have the DNA of Jesus. ( Romans 10:10, 2Corinthians 5:17). Yet we disqualify ourselves to be loved and accepted for all the promises when we sin, make mistakes, here critical words spoken about us or perform poorly. Think about a time when you had a breakthrough with God and you were feeling one with God’s word, qualified, blessed, equipped and so on. Then typically we have a victory or come close to it and all the past negative words that have been spoken by others, as well as ourselves, will rise up and discourage you. You can notice that your old self-has law and performance connected to it and it will tear you down.
You see, it is how we feel and see ourselves at a heart and soul level that determines how well the seed, the word of God takes root in our heart. Receiving God’s word can be very subtle when it comes to our spoken words whether they are positive or the negative words.
Powerful Words Are You Conscious or Unconscious?
There’s much said about being conscious. Jesus was really conscious, He only did what He saw the Father doing. I think the example of eating is a good one. It’s easy to grab something out of the pantry or refrigerator eat it and five minutes later think to yourself “why did I eat that?” I wasn’t even hungry. Eating to shove down emotions is very common. If you eat without being conscious you are not noticing what you are feeling, happy, sad or neutral.
This applies to receiving and believing God’s word. You think you are taking it in and that you agree with it. But you have not checked in with your heart. You didn’t notice that a part of your heart and soul have a wound. Therefore you don’t believe what God says about you and you perceive to be disqualified from His blessings. But generally, you don’t know this is going on.
You say with your mouth just like going to the refrigerator that “I am blessed coming in and I am blessed going out.” Deuteronomy 28. But you didn’t notice that you have judged yourself and disqualified yourself from God’s blessing based on your performance rather than Jesus’s performance. You received salvation based on Jesus’s performance, not yours. You confessed with your mouth and believed in your heart……Romans 10:9-10.
Powerful Words Connecting to The Heart
This blog is not focused on the tongue and what you speak the tongue is for another subject. Rather it is about connecting with your heart and soul when you are renewing your mind with the word of God. One of my counseling verses is Proverbs 4:23 it says to guard your heart for out of it comes the issues of life. If you want to change your life get conscious with your heart. Your soul which is your mind, will and emotions houses messages or sentences helpful or unhelpful. Messages can also not be true and we may not be aware words that are hidden within our soul that produce pain in our lives. Those messages communicate to your heart beliefs that create your life. Remember the Holy Spirit lives inside of you and is the Word and power of God. God reminds us to choose life or death, blessing or curse. This is a call for personal responsibility in our lives.
Thoughts to Ponder
- The more you talk about something the more you think about it and it comes out of your heart and creates your life.
- Powerful words have the power to build up or break your heart.
- Your outward performance can look great as if you are doing everything right yet not manifest what you are believing for. Our performance has no influence with God. We have Jesus’s performance and it is settled. Frustration happens because the truth you are wanting to work in your life isn’t coming from the heart (relationship). You have a deeper and more significant belief that is not in agreement with God’s view and opinion of you. (This is my specialty)!
- Anything that has an obligation connected to it you will eventually end up despising. Get real with God.
- Whether you are awake or asleep you are always producing what is in your heart and soul.
- We have to wrestle with the fact that God’s love is unconditional. Unlike how we treat ourselves at an unconscious level.
- Our job is to maintain peace in our heart for us to enjoy our lives.
- Above all love is the greatest achievement of our life. It never fails!
- Attaching emotion to a thought is writing beliefs on my heart.
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Healing Your Wounds HIS Way,
Cindy.