Guard your heart! Mind your words!

    

As we discovered at the beginning of this series while my heart is the source of my life it is not in control because it continues to find itself at the mercy of my thoughts. These same thoughts also determine my words!

Our words have power! They are a gift from God! He used the spoken word to create the world and breathe us into existence. 

Words are so powerful that it is said that the power of life and death are in the tongue!

It is important to be aware of this because only then can we fully appreciate how our words can be life-changing for others and for ourselves.

As we use our words to destroy or build-up others we expose our hearts to either life giving or life taking attitudes which go on to affect our moods, our actions and the whole of our day. Our hearts hear the words we speak, the negative things we say about our bodies, our abilities, our moods. Then when we complain about what needs to be done or how hard things are – our heart believes it to be so and shifts its behavior accordingly. Next thing you know you find yourself in a trap of negative self-talk and develop a negative outlook on everything. As with our thoughts, we can choose to surrender to the renewing of our mind which will affect the words we speak and subsequently our actions.

Life Application: “Our words are full of blessing when the heart is full of blessing. So if we fill our hearts with the love of Christ, only truth and purity can come out of our mouths.”  https://www.gotquestions.org/power-of-words.html