Okay, so I don't mean murderer of the physical being but a murderer of blessings, dreams and destiny. We tend to look at our lives and wonder why we are not living a prosperous life and one reason for that is we are not adhering to the guidelines God has set up for us to follow in order to live in the land of plenty instead of (as Pastor Joyce Meyers says) living in the "land of even". The words we speak have the power to breathe life into a situation or it may bring forth its demise. I am a living testimony to how words can spring forth remarkable blessings but unfortunately, I am also a testimony to the fact that when you speak negative words into a situation, the situation absorbs the negativity and soon withers because there is not life force to help it grow. Disparaging words cannot bring forth a harvest. I have learned that in order to reap the rewards of a great and prosperous harvest you, first, have to plant the seed and then after the seed has been planted you have to create the nurturing and proper conditions for the seed to grow.
I like to be a positive person and most of the time I, sincerely, am. I have to confess, though, that with all the positivity I try to encourage others to have, I now see where I have been the source of death for blessings that God wanted for me and I forfeited them.
I joke and kid sometimes and my friends and family know me better but the truth is I am not exempt from falling into a place where negativity dwells within and I not only know this but I have embraced it on some level; telling myself "I'm human. I can wallow in this for a while. It won't hurt anyone because I don't intend to hurt anyone" but that frame of thinking is already self destructive. I look back on my desire for education, career, relationships and I can clearly see moments where I thought my hurt or anger was justified and that hurt, anger and bitterness has caused me to lose. I tell myself "oh things work out as they should because God must want it this way." That isn't true. God wants us to be prosperous and to be blessed until our blessings are "pressed down, shaken together and running over" but we use God as an excuse for our shortcomings when it is us who have not taken the time to listen to Him and follow His guidelines for living a blessed life.
Many people, including myself, have lost opportunities because we just HAD to speak something negative into the situation. For example, before I was unemployed in 2008, I actually spoke that I would get fired. I jokingly spoke the words and no sooner as the idea became a faint thought, I'd gotten the news that my contract was not going to be renewed. Another example was one of my previous relationships. Everything was great until words began. The feelings of confusion and feeling unappreciated and finally saying things like "when do you know when to let go of love" began a chain reaction that ended in heartbreak. I can't say that my words caused the initiation of these events but they helped in the breakdown of each one. Imagine if I'd gone to work with a positive attitude and spoke of elevation instead of unemployment. Maybe I still would have been laid off but I can almost guarantee that my transitional period would not have been as long.
Imagine if I'd said, in my relationship, "We will be stronger together and God will see us into a realm of happiness that people won't even begin to understand"? Maybe we still would have broken up but I can almost guarantee that the feelings that led to the moment to let go may not have happened. Truth is I don't know what would have happened in those circumstances but I do know this. I am a woman of God and I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I love God with all my heart and it took me all this time to finally get it. I had that moment of "DOY" in church the other day. My source of power, energy, love, blessings, comfort, sustainability...all of that was right here waiting for me to turn and say "Lord, I will not attempt to do this on my own." There is absolutely nothing I can do for myself that will out do what God can do for me and through me. Today I seek prosperity and joy. Today I will speak positive life into ever breath I take. I will no longer murder my possibilities. I will give them life through my words and my faith. I hope you will join me in doing the same. Peace and blessings unto you all!
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