LABOR DAY - A LABOR OF LOVE
It’s Labor Day Weekend and a great
time for a message on Words—a labor
of love! Speaking words that build up rather than tear down, speaking words
deliberately, not randomly is worth the effort when you know how really
powerful words are.
Did
you ever see a slow motion film of a sneeze? The sneeze moved molecules and our
words do too. One day the scientists will figure out a way we can see it—the words
going out and how they work to bring those realities to pass—how they move
molecules that move other molecules and set up a chain reaction of events that
eventually get the thing done that was first spoken. One day we will see how it works, but for now, I just know
that it does work.
Author Kevin Trudeau writes the
following:
“Words have
power. Most people speak words that increase body stress and turn the body’s pH
from alkaline to acidic. Words can change the way we think and feel. Researchers have concluded that speaking the
correct form of words and thinking the correct thoughts actually changes a
person’s DNA. . . .
If you look
at people today around the world who have no disease and no illness, there are
virtually no common denominators. You can’t look to a person’s genetic
disposition. You can’t look to a person’s diet because they vary so greatly.
Some of these people smoke, some of them eat monkeys raw, some of them eat
dairy products, some of them are vegetarians, some of them do not exercise,
others simply walk.
They
generally all do sleep very well, but the most obvious common denominator is
how they think and how they talk.”
King Solomon said, “Death and
life are in the power of the tongue” (Prov. 18:21). James talks about the
tongue, comparing it to a bit in a horse’s mouth and a ship’s rudder: “If
we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole
bodies about. Likewise, look at the ships: though they are so great and are
driven by rough winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the impulse
of the helmsman determines” (James 3:3-4 AMP).
Your tongue can turn
your whole life around. Solomon said, “Thou art snared with the words of thy
mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth” (Prov. 6:2). He also says, “A
fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul” (Prov.
18:7).
A person’s soul
consists of his mind and his emotions, so what we say captures our mind and if
we say it enough, our minds will believe it, and our emotions will go right
along!
I’ve heard that thoughts
are what make the creases or folds in our brain matter. Words heard over and
over become more and more established as thoughts, and the creases get deeper.
If we want to have a
different response to stimuli, we have to consciously labor with words to make it different.
What we say snares or captures our souls, either
negatively or positively. We want to be capturing our minds and emotions with
true words, uplifting words, saying true things, good things, about ourselves
as well as others.
I’m not saying that
we should never say anything that sounds bad or negative. We have to be able to
say honestly and directly what is not good, before we can actually do something
about it. If we refuse to even see
it, or we ignore—for instance—a devil spirit, it doesn’t go away. We need to see the negative things so we can speak
to them and also use our tongues as weapons to move the negative influences
away.
There’s a great expression,
“Handcuff a thought before you speak it.” We give life to a thought by speaking it.
Isaiah, one of my
favorite prophets, spoke on God’s behalf, saying, “I create the fruit of the
lips” (Isa. 57:19). What comes out of our mouths is created into our physical
reality.
Usually what we say
doesn’t manifest immediately and that’s where it gets tricky, because if we
don’t see something right away we think nothing is happening. If we keep saying
something, negative or positive, the actual creation into our physical reality
may not come until later. By the time it manifests we may or may not remember
that we really did say it, but it will surely come.
Let’s look at the
record of Jesus speaking to a fig tree. He and his disciples were going into
Jerusalem in the morning and he went up to a fig tree, but the tree was
fruitless. He said, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever” (Mark 11:14). Even
when Jesus spoke to the tree it didn’t dry up right there on the spot. It took a
little time.
Jesus was with his
disciples when he spoke to the tree; then they went into Jerusalem and spent
the day there; then they went back by where the tree was, yet nothing had
happened. But, “in the
morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the
roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold,
the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away” (Mark 11:20-21).
“And God SAID,
‘Let there be light:’ and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). “God SAID,
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is
in itself, upon the earth: and it was so” (Gen. 1:11).
God created by SAYING.
In the Chumash, which
is a Hebrew-English translation of Genesis through Deuteronomy, the created man
of Genesis 2:7 is described as a “speaking spirit.”
You and I were made
to create by speaking, just like God. We can look into the mirror and say what
God says about us: “His love is perfected in me” (1 John 4:12). I choose to say
what God says about me. He is bigger
than I am, so if God says something about me and I agree with that, and I say that,
well then, that’s the way it will be.
I say it and keep
saying it and then my brain will start making a new crease; and pretty soon, I
will believe it and be it. Amazing, isn’t it?! Why not believe what God says
about us? We start saying it and we don’t stop until we see it!
Determining to speak in
a new way is a labor of love. Happy Labor Day to all of you.
Love, Carolyn
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