“What do you have to say about yourself?” In John 1:19–23 (NLT), John the Baptist answered that question clearly: “I am a voice shouting. . . Clear the way for the Lord’s coming!”
I’m asking you the same question.
What Do You Say About Yourself?
If we don’t recognize we’re designed by God and have value to Him, we’ll have difficulty saying what He says about us. We’ve been bought with a price. So, the things we say about ourselves matter.
Mark 11:23 (NKJV) says, “Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” The words we speak will change things.
Words Can Build or Break
I remember in high school, we were discussing Macbeth. I raised my hand and gave my response. I don’t remember what I said. But my teacher said, “Robbie, how profound.”
You know what? I felt profound—because she spoke a blessing into my life. Proverbs 16:24 says, “Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.” Her words lifted me up.
We must choose our words carefully because they have the power to build people up or tear them down. If our words can move mountains, they can also build stumbling blocks and brick walls in our lives.
When Words Stay with You
When I was little, I got the idea that a lie would get me out of trouble. My dad said one time in anger, “Son, if you don’t stop lying, nobody will ever believe a word you say.”
Years later, I was born again. I applied for a job as a police officer, which required me to take a lie detector test. I passed. But the examiner mentioned one topic that raised the needle. I said, “When you asked me to rate myself on honesty, I could hear my dad saying, ‘If you don’t stop lying, nobody will ever believe you.’” And he said, “That’s the question.”
Words spoken in our lives can develop something in our souls that we have to work through. We must meditate on God’s Word and speak the right things to change our thinking.
Renew Your Mind with the Word
I believe one of the biggest difficulties for people is not that they don’t have faith. It’s that they don’t have renewed minds. Faith comes by hearing. But if your mind isn’t renewed, the baggage you carry will try to answer when you believe God.
So we must choose to speak life-filled words. Let’s choose to speak life to other people. It’s not enough to believe the best in people. We have to tell them we believe the best in them.
Instead of agreeing with someone who says, “I doubt I’ll get through this,” tell them, “I’m believing God that you will. With God’s help, you’ll do amazing things.”
Likewise, when it comes to ourselves, we have a choice. We can say what our situation looks like. We can say what it feels like. Or we can say what God says about it.
Declare What God Says
You might be ready to give up, but God says, “Let the weak say, I am strong” (Joel 3:10 NKJV). You might have gotten the worst report of your life, but the Bible says, “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:17 NKJV).
Somebody might say, “I call it like I see it.” That’s the problem. What if you called it like God sees it?
God sees you as a winner. He says you’re going to make it through. But you have to see what God sees and say what He says about you.
Say this:
I choose to say what God says about it. I will stay with the Word. I boldly confess that I walk in God’s favor. Jesus said with my words, I can move every mountain. And that’s why I’m rejoicing and shouting.
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Rob Betts
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