Hey! What's up everybody!? How's the journey? I hope that you are enjoying it and learning to adapt when things don't go as you expect. I have a major truth to share with you today that I know will help you along the way! So let's dive in!...

Embrace this reality! Anything God gives, it is given by grace, we receive it by faith. Not only am I thankful for what God gives us, but I'm also thankful for what God doesn't give us. He will never give us anything that we don't need. Anything God gives us is an asset to our existence. Part of James 1:17 says "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights." Gifts from God can't be earned or else that would be compensation. God is so eager to give us gifts, and we should be just as eager to receive them.

When God created us with a tongue, a gift came with it. The gift is, power. Proverbs 18:21 says "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." The word power in this verse also means "ability". Your tongue has the ability to produce life or death. What the tongue produces is the result of what the heart has projected. Jesus says in Luke 6:45, "for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." Your words express the ideas you agree with in your heart. What's in your heart is usually the result of things or voices that influence your life. Therefore, who and what you listen to, matters!

Life: Jesus says "my words are spirit and they are life" he also says "let my words remain IN you." To speak life is to speak the words of God that we have hidden in our hearts. It is like in Genesis chapter 1 when God said "Let there be light," and there was light. How? The Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit moves on the word of God! The creative ability of the Holy Spirit brings to pass the will of God! When God's words are spoken out of our mouths, we agree with the Holy Spirit's assignment, and life is produced.

Death: Death in the Bible doesn't just mean the absence of life, but it also means separation. Many things come into your heart and mind that oppose the reality of what God said about you, your purpose, your destiny, your family, your finances, or whatever matters to you. To speak death is to speak anything apart from the reality of what God said.

What matters is what God said! You know what the doctor said, you know what your family and friends said, you know what the bank said, but what did God say? You should be saying what God said! In fact, confession is an expression of your faith. Romans 10:17 says "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Faith is God's persuasion! If you are persuaded by the negativity that comes to influence your life, you will speak death. If you are persuaded by what God says, you will speak life.

**note** If you change your words, you can change your world!

Hebrews 11:3 says "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." If God can frame the world around us through his word, imagine what it can do in your world that may be falling apart. God has a word to fix the frame of your life that may have been affected by unfortunate circumstances. God has the best in mind for you, and he's given you the ability to either choose life or death, a world without structure, or a world with a frame. I don't know about you, but I choose life, and I choose to let the word of God frame my world.

Are you ready? Let's take another step! Repeat after me: "My words have power. My words are a reflection of what I agree with in my heart. Today I choose life. The kind of life God has for me. I will set boundaries, so that only godly and positive voices are the loudest in my life. Today I am no longer an enemy to my destiny through speaking negativity. I SPEAK LIFE! Life to my dreams, my vision, my purpose, my family, ministry, finances, and my future!

Check out next week's blog as we take another step on "The Journey!"