So, What Are You Saying?

"I don't think I'll ever
figure this whole thing out..."

A lot of us know how to pray. We know how to reach heaven and get before the throne of God to make our requests known to Him.

Many of us also know how to fight the enemy. We know how to bind up his forces and cast him into the pit of hell. We know how to confess the Word of God against him and speak the Life of God into our situations.

However, many of us counteract our prayers and confessions in our casual conversations. When talking with our friends, loved ones, strangers... we say things that don't reflect the Word of God.

"Girl, this whole situation is making me crazy..."

"I am so stressed out!"

"No matter what I do, I can't ever seem to get ahead..."

"If it's not one thing, it's another..."

"I'm probably going to have to deal with this the rest of my life..."

Those casual comments are filled with doubt, fear, and unbelief. None of them reflect the God that we serve or His Word to us. They only reinforce what the enemy would like you to believe is true.

Many of us spend time in prayer and intercession and see no results or change because our own tongues negate the conversations we've just had with the Lord. We spend time reaffirming with God His will for our life only to walk away and speak death over it all over again.

The Bible notes that the most powerful member of our body is our tongue. It can bring both life and death to our existence. (Proverbs 18:21) We have to make a concerted effort to keep it reigned in and speaking life. It takes some work to get it under control, but it can be done.

Don't let your casual conversations keep you from the promises of God! Choose to speak words of life at all times, not just when you're in prayer. Correct yourself when you hear yourself slip up, and change your words to what God says about you.

Your tongue is like the rudder of a ship that steers your life. Which way do you want to go?

Verse of the Day: And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. Psalm 35:28