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April 14 - June 8, 2019
If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.
Your words are powerful. Your words spoken over yourself are even more powerful!
“Words are
powerful; take them seriously.
Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation.” You are truly speaking death or life over your circumstances every time you open your mouth. Many don’t realize how detri...
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Are you speaking words of failure over your future? Are you agreeing with hopelessness? Are you declaring that poverty and defeat are your lot in life? Are you speaking words that are contrary to God’s best for your life? I don’t want to startle you with this book, but I do want to wake you up to the reality that your words are dictating the life you live today.
There are always two voices competing for your attention: the voice of faith and the voice of doubt.
It’s one thing to stop speaking negative, debilitating words over yourself, but you’ve got to take it a step further by replacing those words with positive declarations over yourself and your future.
And the truth is, as long as you continue to declare negative statements over your life, then that’s exactly what you will continue to experience.
“I am proactive.” “I am in the best shape of my life.” “I am bold and courageous.” “I am a voice impacting France for Jesus.” “I am confident to minister on television.” “I am confident to minister to thousands of people.” “I speak at the largest conferences in the world.”
Kassidi,
Because what you repeatedly hear, you eventually believe!
When you consistently give yourself a pep talk by declaring what you believe about yourself instead of what you feel, eventually, your actions will line up with
your ...
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So, what do you want to see happen in your life? Whatever it is, start speaking it out. Declare the end from the beginning. If you’ll change what you’re saying, you’ll change what you’re seeing!
Think about the most popular word on the planet, OK? That’s it. OK. Apparently, it is the most frequently spoken (or typed) word across the globe in languages all over the world, according to Allan Metcalf, author of OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word. OK is used to imply all right or acceptable, no matter what language you speak.
Some say it was derived from a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly who would put the first letters of his names—O and K—on each object
people gave him to send on the train.5 It was a stamp of approval! Others say a political organization invented the word when Martin Van Buren was running for President in 1840. They called their group, the O.K. Club, taken from the town where he was born, Old Kinderhook, New York. Experts do not agree with its origin, but they do ...
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What about common clichés? Let’s not beat around the bush, we’ve
been saying these phrases without a hill a’ beans as to what in the world they mean. But we’ll say them until the cows come home! How many clichés can I put in one paragraph?! For example, to bite the bullet, meaning to knuckle down and do something you really don’t want to do, was a phrase derived in surgical procedures before the use of anesthetic. Surgeons would operate on wounded soldiers giving them a bullet to bite on in order to distract from the pain. Cat got your tongue? This is used when someone is silent on a matter. But do you know where its disgusting origin came from? It stems
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were ripped out of their mouths and fed to the King’s cats! Spilling the beans means to tell a secret. This originated from Ancient Greek voting practices when black and white beans were used to represent yes or no decisions on the issues addressed. Voters would put one colored bean into the pot, and the results were revealed by spilling the beans. Butter someone up means to impress someone with flattery. This stems from a customary religious act in Ancient India when the devout wo...
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bathwater means don’t get rid of the valuable things along with the unnecessary ones. This origin is as surprising as it is repulsive. In the early 1500’s, people only bathed once a year! If that’s not filthy enough, families also bathed in the same water without changing it! The adult men would bathe first, then the women, finishing off with the children and then the babies to go last. By the time the babies were bathed, the water was clouded with dirt, scum and filth. The mothers had to take extra care that their babies were not thrown out with the bathwater! Give ...
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“You’re killing me!” “I would die for that!” “I died laughing.”
“That makes me sick!” “I’d have a heart attack if I ever did that!” “That totally blows my mind!”
I do want you to pay attention to words and phrases that don’t benefit you. In fact, if your words aren’t taking you closer to your dreams, then they could be taking you away from them.
“I could never afford something like that.” “That’s too expensive for me.”
“I never get any good breaks.” “I’m just unlucky.” “I can’t lose weight no matter what I try.” “I could never make that much money.” “I’d never get that job!” “I could never live in a house like that!”
Stop all those “I could never” statements from coming ...
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You are limiting yourself by your vocabulary. Your words are keeping you locked in the very ci...
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If you don’t want your words to materialize, then don’t speak them.
She says, “I wrote the same thing; I just used different words.” The camera then zooms in on the blind man’s sign that reads, “It’s a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.” The video ends with this powerful declaration: change your words, change your world.6
Just as a simple change of words changed the blind man’s outcome, the same will happen for you. “A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.” – Proverbs 18:7
What if I told you that what you say to others isn’t nearly as important as what
you say to yourself? It’s true.
How you talk to yourself will determine how successful yo...
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Gonzalez believes that in order to start your day like a champion, you must fine-tune your mindset. He recommends reading positive, motivational statements like “The Champion’s Creed” aloud first thing in the morning and before bed with power, passion, and eyeball-to-eyeball in the mirror.
I am a champion. I believe in myself. I have the will to win. I set high goals for myself. I surround myself with winners. I’m cool, positive, and confident. I’m willing to pay the price of success. I stay relaxed and in control at all times. I focus all my energy on the job at hand. I take responsibility for all of my results.
I have the courage to endure and persist. I vividly imagine what victory will feel like. I am a champion and I will win.
I read where brain research has discovered that we send ourselves messages at a rate of nearly 500 words per minute.9
But it’s not mindless chatter. It has a way of creating its own reality. If you dwell on negative thoughts, they will stop you from reaching your dreams. In fact, your mind can literally talk you out of your destiny!
What we tell ourselves determines our failures an...
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Unfortunately, most of our internal conversat...
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Your self-talk determines how you see yourself, how you feel about yourself and even how others view you. What you say to yourself determines your outcome in life.
If your running internal dialog is mostly negative, then you will have a negative life. If your inner conversation is hopeful, optimistic and uplifting, you will live a positive life. I want you to use your self-talk to your advantage.
God will not do for you what you can do for yourself.
The first step to improvement is becoming conscious of what you’re saying in your mind about yourself and to
yourself. What have you told yourself today?
The silent conversation you carry on with yourself affects everything in your life. It impacts your self-esteem, your
confidence (or lack of it), your relationships, your career choice, your health, your well-being, your mood, your attitude, your children, your relationship with God and your ability to fulfill your purpose in life.
When you allow negative thoughts to remain in your mind, you’re settling for a C!
