Words Matter

I pray  prostrate each morning and evening “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You oh LORD!” Psalm 19:14.

I add, Put Your Words in my mouth,” because the words out of my mouth cause much trouble.

This verse correlates well with Romans 12:2

“Do not be conformed by this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may PROVE what the will of God is, that which is Good and acceptable and perfect.

This verse transformed my life.

I used to wash dishes looking out the window and say, “I did it again! I never get it right!”

But God, my favorite two words.

He taught me this Idea about Being the Righteousness of God and as I spoke this over my life adding “I am LOVED BY GOD! I am the Beloved! HE ACTUALLY LIKES ME!” My life started to change for the better.

I Choose Daily to Believe the Best and Confess Life Words, changing my life completely!

Walking in the Righteousness of God is a gift I receive when I believe Jesus. HE died on the cross to take all my ugliness and give me His Goodness and Righteousness.

It has everything to do with covenant. I will write more about this some other time. The thing to understand is God The Father sent His Son to pay for sin which separates people from God. Since He did this all we have to do is Receive the gift of His Righteousness and walk in it.

I suggested this to a friend. She told me how she stood taller and responded differently to people she interacted with, even difficult people were nicer. Her whole day was better because of the way she thought of herself.

It is not easy. It takes years, but nothing changes until someone decides to take the first step! Try it out and see how God thoughts change lives for the Good!

God Is Very Good.

Entering the Rest of God

What do you think of when you hear, “The Rest of God?”

I think of it as Peace in the most tumultuous situation.  Reading Hebrews 4:1-2 it talks about the rest of God but it says those who don’t have it don’t mix faith with the words they hear preached.

The first time I found the Rest Of God was about 25 years ago when I learned how to bring all my worries to God and leave them there. Learning how to Trust God with everything, for a short while I became bored. My brain used to be filled with thoughts, worries, and fears: now I was able to choose what to think.

This was the beginning of listening to the words that cycled through my brain when depression or fear arose.  I learned how to catch the bad thoughts of “I talked to much” or “nobody likes me”  and  “I do everything wrong” to  kick them out of my brain.

I replace the bad words with God’s words in my mouth and speak out loud “I am LOVED BY GOD” and “I am the Righteousness of God in Jesus” and “I am treasured!”

This was a battle I had to fight daily and it took 20 years before I really got good at it.

The real breakthrough came when God showed me “my shame”so He could take it away!

When He did that it exposed what I believed all my life at least since I was 7 years old. The thought in my subconscious mind  was “I am garbage.” With this thought out in the open my life started to really change. Just ask my husband.

What my story really shows is that when a person believes God and His Word they put it into action. That is probably what James is talking about Faith without works is dead. I could attach scripture to each of these actions.

I believed God!

I acted on His Word!

My life changed!

Lifting others lifts yourself.

What is a simple way to find favor with God?

ISAIAH 58:9b says if you stop pointing fingers at others and give yourself to the afflicted and hungry then God will make your gloom as noonday!

What does that mean in your daily life? Stop focusing on me and my and consider others and their pain. How can you help?

Step out to engage others in Love as God by lifting others.

What is gloom?

What is noonday?

Which do you prefer?

Say something nice when you cross paths.

God is Good!

What God says about Words

God says This book of the law (Jesus) shall not depart from your mouth; but you shall meditate on it day and night, so you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it: for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses we are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

The one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all unto Him, who is the head, Christ.

Finally, brethren whatever is true whatever is honorable, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things… Practice these things, and the God of peace shall  be with you.

GOD HAS SET ME FREE from anxiety and fear; as I follow Him, HE Fills me with His LOVE: He will do the same thing in you!

Joshua 1:8; 1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 10:3,4; Isaiah 55:8; 1 Corinthians 6:17; Romans 12:2;

Ephesians 4:29,15; Philippians 4:8

 

What Do Words Matter?

Over 15 years ago I had my first revelation on words.

When my daughter was 6 years old I decided it was time to teach her how words can hurt. Sitting down on her bed I told her a painful lie, “you are mean, ugly, and worthless.”

As tears formed in her eyes, and my insides cringed, I quickly I told her the Beautiful Truth: “You Are Beautiful, Kind, Giving, Loving, and Smart!”

Can you feel the difference on your inside? How did it feel when I said bad things? How did it feel when I said good things? Remember this and never use the bad words but use the Good Words and Build People Up!

Today, I have a greater Revelation on the POWER OF WORDS!

God says in Deuteronomy 30:15-20 God says, I set before you life and death, I will even give you the answer: CHOOSE LIFE.

God says in Proverbs 4:20-27 Pay attention to His Words because it brings life to those who find it, healing and health to your flesh, and put away all dishonest, contrary and willful speech.

The Truth of God has impacted my life as Paul says in Romans and Ephesians: I have spent the last 20 years transforming my mind from the garbage that filled it and kept me depressed and filled with anxiety, into one FILLED WITH JOY AND BLESSINGS AND LOVE!

I am finding this year that people are not running from me but are believing what I say and hanging around to hear more.

GOD IS VERY GOOD!!!

 

Healing my Soul

The first step of my soul being healed took place when we moved to my grandparent’s farm. They attended a little country church, the first week I asked my mom if I could join the choir.

I was 8 years old and it was a choir of about 8 adults: they allowed me to join. I remember singing in the choir up front and looking up to where God was. I was asking God to be in my life. God started to heal to my soul, from the prior year of stuff people make movies out of. During fifth grade I started taking communion and it filled me with  Joy, until I was yelled at, but that is another story.

Eleven years later, I joined a Praise team for Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship; closing the first meeting we gathered to pray, I saw something in them that I didn’t have. I asked God, at that moment to give me what they had. He did! I was filled with LOVE and JOY that carried me through everything, even 35 years later. I wanted to tell everyone about this Great Joy and Love, but  my friends tried to get me to calm down just a bit. I was probably more like a bull in a china shop for many years.

Even with this Joy, I struggled with depression and anxiety; it doesn’t sound like it meshes does it? I can’t explain it but it is true. Reading my journals from all the years they are all filled with Joy even when I was going through struggles. Maybe just Knowing The God of the Universe was listening to me and He cared about me made the difference.

Some anxiety left when I became a mother, but most of the work began when I found Joyce Meyer on the radio and then on the TV. She taught me to give my worries to God and then change the way I was thinking to line up with the way God says in His Word. Think on Good and Positive things. It has taken 20 years, but the first year I practiced giving God my worries and leaving them with Him, greatly improved my everyday life.

My suggestion to heal your soul is to connect with God, The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! The Great I AM! Jesus His Son Who Saves! and Holy Spirit!