Spoken To

You've heard it before, “Listen when someone is talking to you.” I know I have. Well, this morning as I was pumping out my fasted cardio session I truly feel like I was spoken to. I subscribe to Joel & Victoria Osteen's daily word and am always touched by it, but some days I truly feel as though God is speaking through them and directly to me or my present situations. Today was definitely one of those days! As I've been talking about not sugar coating the truth while not being mean or nasty these past couple of days, what Bible verse do they quote but “The tongue has the power of life and death...” from Proverbs 18:21, NIV. And as I am facing up to my addiction to sugar and as I vow to move out of the past and move forward, they make mention of these things too! And just a couple of weeks ago as I was reaching out to someone close to me and confiding that a goal of mine this year is to learn to like myself and maybe even love myself, the response I got was “I've never liked myself, let alone loved myself, so you may as well give that one up. It's just too hard...” Isn't this awesome?! No, not the response I got, but today's word with Joel & Victoria! I think so! It's so awesome for me that I've copied today's word here in my post and I hope you enjoy it as I much as I am...

Speak Life

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE...“The tongue has the power of life and death...” (Proverbs 18:21, NIV)

TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria

God has given us amazing power through the use of our words. God created the world with the words He spoke, and we also have creative power with the words that we speak.

Maybe you aren’t where you want to be in life today. Could it be because of the words you’ve spoken in your past? Have you spoken words of death by saying things like, “I’ll never rise any higher; I’ve gone as far as I can go?” Or maybe you’ve said, “I’ll never break this addiction. I’ve had it too long; it’s too hard.” Now, you are eating the fruit of those words — you’re still in the same place.

If you are ready to change your situation, then it’s time to change what you say about your situation. If you want a different harvest, you have to change the seeds you are sowing. Today, choose to speak life over your future. Let your attitude be, “This may be the way it’s been in the past, but this is not the way it’s staying. I’m coming up higher. I may feel weak, but my declaration is that I am strong.” Speak life, choose life, and move forward in His victory and blessing.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY...Father in heaven, I repent for speaking words of death and sowing defeat in my own life. I ask that You uproot any negative crop from the past and help me speak words of faith so that I can walk in victory in every area of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen. — Joel & Victoria Osteen
Can I get an amen somebody?!  AMEN!