Welcome to Encouraging Word. This is Dorette Schaal with your daily eword. I hope you are a person who is speaking encouraging words in to the people around you. Don’t we know there are enough damaging words spoken all around us, so let’s not speak words from our own lips that damage others, or even our own spirit. A powerful truth is in Prov 23:7 which says, as he or she thinks within themselves, so they are. (NASB) So let’s think right, and speak right – encouraging words to others and ourselves. Here is your encouraging word for today.
Word for the Week: Prov 23:7 As you think in your heart, so are you.
This week we will focus on the words we speak to an about ourselves. It’s time to get a little bit introspective and begin to really examine and assess what it is that we say to ourselves. When we let our mind wander, does it walk down a path that leads to life, or one that leads to death and destruction. We know our words have the power of life and death in them, but before we speak anything those words have been revolving around our brain and have been in our thoughts for a while. Our thoughts really do have influence over our words and our actions. So what are you thinking about yourself? Do you regularly let negative words float around your mind? Do you give everyone else a break, and give yourself none? I know that many women are so hard on themselves, but I also realize that negative self talk is not gender specific. Men can do the same thing. Their thoughts can lead their words to failure and defeat. When we begin to take notice of what we are thinking about, we will see that our thoughts can lead us to worry and then to fear, which takes us the opposite direction of faith. If we turn it around and begin to meditate or think about what God has to say about us, we begin to get courage and hope is built in our heart which becomes a great target for us to “shoot” our faith at. I think about that archery illustration when my mind begins to tell me I’m an idiot, or I can’t believe I did something sooooo stupid, or any other negative thought that wants to plant itself in my soul. The choice becomes this: what do I want to go for….worry and fear, or courage and hope. Easy answer isn’t it. Let’s remember to examine our thoughts and use our words to speak truth to our soul.
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