WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? IT DOES MATTER!

Scripture: Psalms 35:27-28

“….Let the Lord be magnified who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.  And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness and of Your praise all the day long.”

Did you know you have a miracle in your mouth?  Our Scripture tells us how we can talk ourselves into blessings, health, and great relationships, etc.  When we talk about how great our God is and His righteousness which is His faithfulness, He causes our way to become prosperous and He is thus magnified.  People will want to know how all these wonderful things are transpiring in your life, and it will give you the opportunity to give glory to God.

Isn’t it interesting that the Scripture says, LET the Lord be magnified?

It is important to realize when you give your voice in thanksgiving and honor of what God has promised in His Word, you are participating with the Lord.  So many have been led to believe God just does whatever He wants but this Scripture teaches He wants our cooperation in our faith, beliefs and conversation.  He wants us to give Him something to work with.

The following story in Judges 6 will showcase this as well:

This is about a man named Gideon and his family.  They were part of God’s covenant to bless His people but they decided to do things their own way and ignore God’s directions.  By doing so, they put themselves into bad situations which caused their family lots of pain and sorrow.  Also, every time they would start getting ahead, people would come and steal from them and disrupt their lives.  It got so bad, they started hiding from their enemies to keep what they had produced from being stolen.  This kept going on until one day they asked God for help and a messenger from God showed up and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!”  Gideon was totally shocked because he had been defeated so many times that he saw himself and his family helpless, frustrated and his life inconsequential.  The Lord told him things were getting ready to change but Gideon had to be willing to change his conversation and how he saw himself for it to work. 

When he began to agree with God’s message and messenger things turned around for him, his family and even the people living around them.

God had something great on His mind for him.  If you are going through similar situations, family problems, business failures, and financial losses, you can reverse the troubles as well by making a decision you will put your trust and confidence in God’s faithfulness and see yourself as a mighty man or woman of valor.  As you can see from this story, it only took one man, Gideon, getting on board with the truth of who he was destined to be to make big changes in the lives of those around him.

Gideon became so fully persuaded that he built an altar to worship the Lord and called it, “The Lord is Peace.”  This is an exciting principle for all of us today to realize because of the significance of how things changed for Gideon when he acknowledged who God wanted to be in his life.  When he called Him, “the Lord is Peace, he was saying the Lord wants me to be safe in my mind, my body and my estate or business and family life.  He was saying God wants me to experience restitution and restoration and to be prosperous and whole! 

Could you use some of those changes in your life? 

Your conversation and how you see your circumstances has so much to do with how things can change in your life.  I know that has been my experience.  I can’t count the number of times I had to make the choice to talk about what God had promised me as His child instead of what I was experiencing.  And you know what?  What God promised started coming to pass!

Would you take the time today to analyze your conversation and whether it is opening the door for the Lord to bring prosperity and peace into your life?

Do realize your tongue and what you say can be used to bring miracles or messes!

When you begin agreeing with God and believe that He sees you happy, victorious and blessed and, refuse to see yourself limited by your current circumstances, things will begin to turn as they did for Gideon.

Did you know that one of the big mindsets today that can hinder you fulfilling your dreams and living the life God planned for you is unbelief in the goodness of God.  Everyone believes in something or someone.  Check out who or what you are putting your confidence in.

In this time we are living in, there are so many voices and opinions vying for our attention.  More than ever, we need to be hearing what God would have to say.

Do you find yourself saying words like “My family never has had anything or had anything good happen to us; it is too late for me, nothing will ever change; I probably won’t get a promotion this year; or no-one believes in God like that,” etc., etc.? These are all self-inflicting words and beliefs that will block your success and close doors in your life that should be open.

Gideon had the choice to keep making excuses or to change his image and thoughts about himself and agree with God.

The same choice is ours!  Begin applying these truths to your life and circumstances and watch what happens.

Realize that “What you are consistently talking about does matter!”

Why? James 3:5 says “the tongue is a small part of the body but boasts of great things.” 

Now is the time to begin speaking of His righteousness and faithfulness to you and begin receiving the good things He has planned for you through faith in His Word!  Decide you will indeed let the Lord be magnified through your life and circumstances and thank Him daily for all He has done and all He wants to do in your life.

Then, get ready for His great plans for You to begin to unfold in extraordinary ways!