Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Thoughts On Changing Our Words

During this Reformation, God is calling me to change my words. This takes a choice on my part. Wearing the bracelet is just an outward manifestation and reminder to me of Him transforming me on the inside.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 2 Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you - Romans 12:1-2 The Message


If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Maya Angelou

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering


Our words are a direct result of our thoughts. So many people’s problems are rooted in their way of thinking, which actually produces the problems they experience. A negative mind produces a negative mouth and, consequently, a negative life. We’re all tempted to think negatively, but we don’t have to give in to the temptation. We need to be able to identify what types of thinking and speaking are life-giving and what types aren’t.

We have to choose to think and speak positively. It doesn’t come naturally—it takes a lot of practice. There will be days when you have setbacks, but just get back up, dust yourself off, and start again. When a baby is learning to walk, he falls many, many times before he gains the confidence to walk. Failing from time to time—which you will do—doesn’t mean you’re a failure. It simply means that you don’t do everything right all the time—and neither does anyone else.

If you’ve been consumed with negative thinking and speaking, the pathway to your freedom begins when you face the problem without making excuses for it. Be patient with yourself. As you change your thinking, your words will change and so will your life! - Joyce Meyers


God help me to be transformed into Your image. I choose to submit my mind, will and emotions to Your leading and Your thinking.

4 comments:

Amy said...

Cheryl
This is a hard one... But definately one worth grasping...
Thanks.

Shaun and Holly said...

soooo hard for me not to grump about the weather this month!!!

Anonymous said...

Hey girls, I'm with you. Jesus just keeps calling us all higher. Thank goodness he is patient with us!!!!!

Anonymous said...

What do you think about "The Secret". It was featured on Oprah.