Saturday, 21 July 2012

Watch your tongue!

Notes on Joyce Myer's program, Enjoying Everyday Life,  July 10/12.
If you use your mouth as you are supposed to, you will see more answers to prayer and they will come quicker. Isaiah 58:9.
Ephesians 5: 18 says we are to be ever filled with the Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit fill and control you. He will fill your hearts with praise and thanksgiving to God.
The way you talk to yourself about yourself is the most important thing for you to pay attention to! <If life and death are in the tongue, which one are you ministering to yourself everyday?> You need to say about yourself what God is saying. You cannot rise above your own confession. We must be saying the same things that the Word of God is saying. Do not speak out of your feelings or understanding. Don't confess the problem over and over, confess the answer. Call those things which are not as though they were. Say to yourself, the joy of the Lord is my strength! Fight for your life by your confessions. Do warfare with darkness by the words of your mouth.
Proverbs 18: 20-21. Words are life or death. You feed yourself with your words. You can encourage yourself or depress yourself with your words. What you say to yourself about yourself can open or close a door to the devil. refuse to complain, criticize or judge wrongly.
Isaiah 5:8 says there is healing in your words! Whatever is in your heart will come out in your words, so be sure to feed yourself only on good positive things!
Six things to say on purpose:
1) You have the power to bless or curse, so bless and don't curse. Why keep saying things that subtract from your life? Stop saying things that opens doors for the devil to steal everything that Jesus died for you to have! Complaining does not agree with God. If you agree with God, you will have all that He wants to give you! 
Numbers 6:23-27, Deuteronomy 28: 2-13, James 3:10.
2)Psalm 100:4. Be thankful and say so. Tell people you appreciate them, and thank God always for all that He has done. 1 Thessalonians 5:18,19. Don't quench the Holy Spirit by complaining. While you are waiting for God to answer prayer, thank Him for it!
3) Encourage others. Don't be weary in well doing, keep it up till you see results. Proverbs 15:4.
4)Ephesians 4:15. Always tell the truth. It's the truth that makes you free. The Holy Spirit leads into all truth.
John 4:23-24. God is seeking those who will worship Him in Spirit and truth.
5) Speak the Word of God. Keep hitting your problems with the "hammer of God's Word" again and again 'till it splits open! Jeremiah 23: 29. Speak to those dry bones and they will rise up and live! Ezekiel 37:1-14. Take authority over the problems in your life. The Word is power and life. Come into agreement with it and God will answer your prayers. When you speak the Word over your problems, they will change.
6) Don't talk too much. Manage your speaking. Don't say things mindlessly. Be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to get angry! Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 17:27-28.

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