What you speak is what you Get

For the past two weeks all of my lessons and learning’s have been around what I speak out of my mouth. I even learned that wrong words can put your blessings and Destiny on hold. OMG! When I sat to ponder over why things have not advanced in certain areas of my life I could trace them directly back to my words.

One of my sisters was whining the other day about her air conditioning being out. The technician finally showed up to look at it but needed to order a part before he could fix it. She told him, “You know I'm going to be dead over here before the part gets here." He said, "Yeah, you'll probably be dead, as hot as it is in here." Can you see the death she spoke out of her own mouth over the situation?

Tonight, my spiritual mentor asked me if I believed I could have what God's word says I can have. My reply was Yes, even though I don't always operate as though I do. My new posture is to be slow to speak and quick to listen, and for a talker (I like to think communicator) it is a work in progress. Everyday I have to take back erroneous words that have slipped off of my lips. When I think about my magazine and how it will speak into the hearts of women the need to Love words becomes more important than ever.

Even when we are disciplining our children we have to be careful that in our anger we are not releasing death over their lives but life. One of my favorite verses in the bible is when the Lord tells Jeremiah, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. (Jer.11:9) I'm encouraged that each day I can ask Him to do the same for me.

As a child I was expected to answer any question quick, fast and in a hurry. Out of fear, I was never able to think about the words that were coming out of my mouth. This resulted in me telling you whatever was on my mind as an adult. No thought of being politically correct, compassionate, or justified. If you didn't want the truth, you would most definitely not want to ask me. But as believers we are expected to speak in love even when giving correction.

So, if you're reading this and you know you've put some really wrong words into the atmosphere then go back and pull them down. It's really scary to think that we will be judged by Every word that comes out of our mouth.

That alone gives me new perspective to being slow to speak. I promise I'm working on allowing you to finish your sentence, not ask you what part of this don't you understand, ask you if you're on crack, or say….that's interesting…. when I think what you've said is crazy, or give you my long, Okayyy.

You can have what you say!