Intro:
What type of words come out of your mouth? Each word we speak brings life or death, according to Proverbs 18:21. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. This week we are going to concentrate on how the words we speak affect our life and our relationships. What you think about is what you say, and becomes who you are by what you do. Let’s speak words of life in our world. Here is your daily eword.
Monday Feb 29
I passed on an anonymous quote that one of my friends quoted on Facebook, and it has made it all the way back to me. When that happens you know it is reverberating in my sphere of influence. Here is what it says:
You can’t speak defeat and expect victory
You can’t speak lack and expect abundance
You can’t speak gossip and expect trust and true relationship
The prophet Joel said, “let the weak say I am strong.”
King David said, “let the redeemed of the Lord say so.”
The Apostle Paul said, “call those things which be not as though
they were” and THEY WERE.
What kind of sounds come from your life? Do your words edify and encourage? Do they cause healing, or do damage? Do people know you love and appreciate them, because you’ve told them you do? We are so blessed to be alive and able to say the words that need to be said and need to be heard. I hold dearly the last words my dad said to me before he died. Because he was an encourager, I had heard them many times before. He regularly told me that he loved me, that he was proud of me. I heard him say that he thought I was a good mom and that my kids would do great things in life because of my influence. He even told me that I was beautiful. What confidence builders those words were. Thinking about last words makes me want to make every word I say express the depth of love, admiration, and appreciation I have for my own family and those around me that I love dearly. So to all of you from my heart to yours, I love you, I admire you, and I appreciate you. You are God’s gift to me.