Your Words Have Power

Change Your Words, Change Your Life.

Begin with self-empowerment:

▪ acknowledging your self-worth

▪ defining your purpose

▪ creating an authentic personal style

▪ cultivating relationships that help you grow.

When was the last time you actually took the time to listen to yourself?

▪ Are you critical of the risks you let yourself take?

▪ Impatient with your progress?

▪ Judgmental about your decisions?

Even the words we hear only in our head have an affect on us.

We make decisions, actions, intentions based on the words we hear from ourselves.

Listen carefully to the words you use with yourself.

Language is central to how we think.

The power of our words is bigger than we think and the influence of our words reaches farther than we know.

If you would never say it to someone else, don’t say it to yourself.

If it drains you rather than adding to your energy,

Stop saying it.

If it makes you feel sad, mad, or bad, stop saying it.

If it’s a tone you wouldn’t tolerate from anyone else, don’t tolerate it from yourself.

What are you saying about your life? Your family? Your health? Your future?

Your words will shape your world.

Do you want to live in a world where you are satisfied, protected, and at peace?

Start putting God’s words in your mouth!

Try this:

1. Write down on a piece of paper a brief description of what you are facing.

2. Using the concordance in the back of your Bible, look up verses that talk about what you’re dealing with. (This will help you learn what God thinks about your situation.) Find two or more verses that say the same thing regarding the issue.

3. On a second sheet of paper write those verses down, personalizing them until they read as if you wrote them yourself.

4. Throw the first piece of paper away! Those are your words on the issue. You are now replacing them with God’s Word on the subject!

5. Carry the second sheet of paper with you throughout the day, reciting the personalized verses several times a day (like right before you eat a meal) and any time thoughts come to you regarding the issue you’re facing. This is a practical way of putting God’s Word in your mouth, and thereby reshaping your world until it is in line with God’s Word.

Be mindful to be a little bit kinder, gentler, smarter, and softer with yourself.

Listen to your internal voice and learn to treat yourself with kindness and respect.

Pay attention to the words you use and the words you speak.

Your words have the power to make you your own worst enemy, or to guide yourself toward your best self.

~Patti