Mind your language

23 Jul, 2017 - 02:07 0 Views

The Sunday News

Itai Chipunza
Proverbs 18 verse 21

“THE tongue has power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”

This verse simply means that the tongue is a tool that can be used to speak things into the spirit. The reason why God gave us the ability to speak things into the spirit is because everything we are and everything we see is a mirror reflection of what exists in the spirit. So we can change situations that are in the spirit and by them eventually change the way things are in the physical. So God intended that you become fruitful, build things in your life and in the world by speaking positive things towards them.

When poverty is spoken into your spirit, your heart and mind pick it up and begin to manifest into the physical. Your mind begins to shun away rich friends and their ideas to create wealth, avoids opportunities to gain knowledge, laziness kicks in and before you know it, you are poor. All these events were triggered by what you spoke into your spirit.

One may say they don’t shun wealth creating opportunities yet they are poor. That word spoken to you may cause you not to notice opportunities and instead view them as a waste of time. This is more so because there is a really thin line between being busy and being productive.

People assume poor people are lazing around all the time. Not all of them. A lot of poor people are not idle. Some are actually busier than a lot of wealthy people. The question is, busy doing what? It’s very possible to be too busy to attend to your family and to attend church but still be far less productive and make far less money that a guy that has time for all this.

In some instances it is caused by things spoken into your life. This is very easy to turn around, just begin to speak more positive things into your life and get into the habit of confessing success, blessing, overcoming, and all other wonderful things you wish to see happening in your life.

In no time you will see a change in your life, mindset and in the opportunities around you.

Sometimes even parents may speak negative things to their children even without knowing they have planted a seed. These things stand true in a child’s life because God has placed parents as a figure of authority over children and whatever they speak on their children becomes manifested into the physical.

If you are a parent, speak more positive things towards your child. If possible, shower them with blessings every day. A good number of these blessings is bound to catch on. Tell your child they are on their way to greatness. Every child has things they are good at and those they are not. Praise and encourage them in things they are good at.

With those they are bad at, don’t tell them they are horrible and call them dull, instead tell them they will do better next time. This creates a positive mind in a child, failure is no longer a sharp demotivation tool that hurts them, instead it becomes to them a platform to try again and do better.

I have stayed in poor communities as well as the rich ones, in as much as the reason for increasing gulf between rich and poor is caused by different opportunities to children, another determining factor is the words of parents.

Most children from rich families are highly self-motivated because of what parents have wired into them. The opposite is true, most children from poor families remain poor also because of the words that parents spoke to them.

If a child is constantly told, you will fail, suit and ties don’t feed this family, football does not pay, who will buy those Jesus books you write, they develop an inferiority complex which is a result of the negativity spoken to them that hangs in the spirit over their lives.

Consequently they do not seek to develop their talents and gifting which would create wealth, instead they stay within the old tried and tested methods of doing things for fear of criticism. If this negativity is constantly pushed through them, it may end up so bad that children begin to view even their language as inferior and perceive speaking English to be a great life achievement.

However, as Christians we have been given the power to change situations, whatever negative was spoken to you, you can rebuke it in the name of King Jesus and replace it with a positive statement. So please, do not just open your mouth. It can determine the quality of your life in a few months to come.

Let me give you an illustration of this that I realised within my family. My father is a chain smoker. Always has been. But what then happened was he adopted a nickname, “Gwayi man”. Assuming you do not understand Ndebele it means “cigarette man”. And for all these years my father has been smoking without ceasing.

My mother has spent countless hours praying for him to no avail. At one time he was diagnosed of high blood pressure and he was forced by the doctor to take measures towards stopping. He tried but because of his continued confession “Gwayi man” no effort made ever worked.

Nevertheless, I love my father. He is one of the wisest men you can ever spend time with. This is just to show that the tongue indeed has the power to change spiritual things into things that exist in the physical.

Stay blessed and speak positive things. You will see a change.

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