I love talking.
I'm like most women. There is nothing more satisfying than coming up with random topics that will stir a reaction. When I'm in charge of a conversation it starts off as shocking and uncomfortable and ends up as funny and relaxing. If you spend time with me you will find yourself on a roller-coaster of emotions. My husband normally can't keep up with all the topic changes. He sometimes feels out of control when I start talking. I will choose a random topic like "the sanctity of marriage" and how Hollywood screws it up.....and then I automatically assume that he would make the connection with Hollywood and understand when I switch over to plastic surgery and how good Cher looks for her age... No wonder our conversation then ends with "But Cher is not married?" :)
I like to mix my words
You will find strings of sentences coming out of my mouth - doubt, fear, faith, love, realism, optimism....sometimes negativity and my personal favourite, opinions. I also like to quote scriptures, talk about Oprah and the Metro (our newspaper), church, politics, friends and family. My conversations mostly swing between death and life. When I feel weak in the Spirit I will speak death, and when I feel strong, I speak life.
I don't like silence. I don't particularly like driving in the car with my husband and staring out of the window....without saying a word. And do not....I repeat....do not take me on a friendly coffee date and put me through torture by not contributing to the conversation....I will pull out so many rabbits from a hat it will feel like the circus Soleil!
Imagine my frustration then when I know I need to speak faith over a situation, and I can't manage to utter a word. A light sweat appears on my forehead when I know I have to take authority over a certain problem and speak God's blessing over it, but I can't even open my mouth.
And then you get situations where I've wished I could just keep quiet. Our car broke down this week and when my husband told me how much it would cost, I immediately made a stupid remark like "Oh my goodness...that much....where will we get the money?"
You may ask, "but what's the big deal." If you can't say something, you don't have to, right? Or if you reacted from your emotions and you said something full of doubt and contradictory to God's Word it won't make such a huge difference. God still loves you, right?
It's a good question. Why should I say something if I don't feel like it? Or what is the big deal if I say something negative? If I only say it to my husband it won't make such a huge difference, he normally understands how I think....so God will also understand how I think, right?
Wrong.
This is not the way God operates. God uses words to create. He SPOKE: Be light and there was light! There are many examples of how Jesus used words to utter a preferred outcome. He said: If you SAY (not keep quiet) to the mountain be moved, and you believe in your heart, it will be moved. He SPOKE to the fig tree and cursed it, He didn't just walk pass it and thought: God will understand when I do not actually say the words. God felt so strongly about this concept that He blessed Caleb and Joshua with the promised land just because they didn't SPEAK fear but faith when they saw the giants. Words are powerful. Your words connect you to your faith....and faith pleases God. Faith is the currency God uses to perform miracles!
The enemy wants to silence us. The devil wants to steal the words of faith from our mouth so that we can't operate in faith, so that we won't make a noice.
But like I said....I hate silence! And it doesn't matter how difficult it is....I will fight to keep my mouth from uttering disbelief....and I will force myself to speak truth and blessing even when I don't see it yet. I want to be like a Caleb who was blessed by seeing the promises of God come to pass, because I spoke...I believed....and I received.
Scripture
James 3: 9 and 10: With the mouth we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God's likeness! Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing (death and life). These things, my brethren ought not to be so.
Prov 18:21: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it (for death or life).
I want to indulge in words of life, I want to SPEAK forth God's blessing in barrenness, I want to make a noise that will last throughout eternity! I want to speak to mountains and see them move, through the grace of the Lord Jesus! I want to stand on God's Word and speak it when the devil tries to sow fear and confusion, and see the fruit of those words and enjoy it! I want to compliment and bless people with my words and sow seed of encouragement through godly wisdom. I want my words to create the impossible by believing that which I can't see. James says that the tongue steers the body like a ship is steered through storms....and I want to steer my life in the direction of where the Holy Spirit guides me....life and not death!
Unfortunately for the enemy.....
I love talking.....Faith!
I'm like most women. There is nothing more satisfying than coming up with random topics that will stir a reaction. When I'm in charge of a conversation it starts off as shocking and uncomfortable and ends up as funny and relaxing. If you spend time with me you will find yourself on a roller-coaster of emotions. My husband normally can't keep up with all the topic changes. He sometimes feels out of control when I start talking. I will choose a random topic like "the sanctity of marriage" and how Hollywood screws it up.....and then I automatically assume that he would make the connection with Hollywood and understand when I switch over to plastic surgery and how good Cher looks for her age... No wonder our conversation then ends with "But Cher is not married?" :)
You will find strings of sentences coming out of my mouth - doubt, fear, faith, love, realism, optimism....sometimes negativity and my personal favourite, opinions. I also like to quote scriptures, talk about Oprah and the Metro (our newspaper), church, politics, friends and family. My conversations mostly swing between death and life. When I feel weak in the Spirit I will speak death, and when I feel strong, I speak life.
I don't like silence. I don't particularly like driving in the car with my husband and staring out of the window....without saying a word. And do not....I repeat....do not take me on a friendly coffee date and put me through torture by not contributing to the conversation....I will pull out so many rabbits from a hat it will feel like the circus Soleil!
Imagine my frustration then when I know I need to speak faith over a situation, and I can't manage to utter a word. A light sweat appears on my forehead when I know I have to take authority over a certain problem and speak God's blessing over it, but I can't even open my mouth.
And then you get situations where I've wished I could just keep quiet. Our car broke down this week and when my husband told me how much it would cost, I immediately made a stupid remark like "Oh my goodness...that much....where will we get the money?"
You may ask, "but what's the big deal." If you can't say something, you don't have to, right? Or if you reacted from your emotions and you said something full of doubt and contradictory to God's Word it won't make such a huge difference. God still loves you, right?
It's a good question. Why should I say something if I don't feel like it? Or what is the big deal if I say something negative? If I only say it to my husband it won't make such a huge difference, he normally understands how I think....so God will also understand how I think, right?
Wrong.
This is not the way God operates. God uses words to create. He SPOKE: Be light and there was light! There are many examples of how Jesus used words to utter a preferred outcome. He said: If you SAY (not keep quiet) to the mountain be moved, and you believe in your heart, it will be moved. He SPOKE to the fig tree and cursed it, He didn't just walk pass it and thought: God will understand when I do not actually say the words. God felt so strongly about this concept that He blessed Caleb and Joshua with the promised land just because they didn't SPEAK fear but faith when they saw the giants. Words are powerful. Your words connect you to your faith....and faith pleases God. Faith is the currency God uses to perform miracles!
The enemy wants to silence us. The devil wants to steal the words of faith from our mouth so that we can't operate in faith, so that we won't make a noice.
But like I said....I hate silence! And it doesn't matter how difficult it is....I will fight to keep my mouth from uttering disbelief....and I will force myself to speak truth and blessing even when I don't see it yet. I want to be like a Caleb who was blessed by seeing the promises of God come to pass, because I spoke...I believed....and I received.
Scripture
James 3: 9 and 10: With the mouth we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God's likeness! Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing (death and life). These things, my brethren ought not to be so.
Prov 18:21: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it (for death or life).
I want to indulge in words of life, I want to SPEAK forth God's blessing in barrenness, I want to make a noise that will last throughout eternity! I want to speak to mountains and see them move, through the grace of the Lord Jesus! I want to stand on God's Word and speak it when the devil tries to sow fear and confusion, and see the fruit of those words and enjoy it! I want to compliment and bless people with my words and sow seed of encouragement through godly wisdom. I want my words to create the impossible by believing that which I can't see. James says that the tongue steers the body like a ship is steered through storms....and I want to steer my life in the direction of where the Holy Spirit guides me....life and not death!
Unfortunately for the enemy.....
I love talking.....Faith!
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