Life and death is in the power of the tongue!

A certain cleaning brand has a new series of commercials that are really powerful! Have you seen the ads where people are blindfolded and asked to describe what they smell? In each instance, they are brought to a place overflowing with garbage, dirty socks, or rotting food. But, in every case, the blindfolded test subjects have a pleasant response, saying it smells like the ocean, clean laundry, or tropical breezes.

In each of the commercials, we're promised that this wonderful product has the ability to transform the environment from disgusting to delightful; that no place is so auriferous that a few sprays of this amazing cleaner can't make it pleasant again.

Whether you believe the product claims or not, it does provide a great parallel for what you and I can experience in our lives. You see, you are likely to find yourself in places that aren't always pleasant. Maybe you're dealing with stress or conflict on the job. Maybe your home has become anything but a place of peace and rest. It doesn't have to stay that way!

You can neutralize the negative effects of what has taken place in your home and in your business by what you put into the atmosphere. You have been empowered by God to infuse His Presence, His Promises, His Provision, and His Protection into your environment. You have the power within you to change your surroundings - wherever you are - into a place of peace and prosperity... because GOD is within YOU!

In fact, you can initiate the change you want through the power of your words. Job 22:28 states that you can decree a thing and it shall be established. The power of blessing and cursing, even life and death, is in the words you speak.

 If you've struggled in your relationship with your spouse or your children, it could be directly tied to words and actions that were previously released in your home.

It's time for you to take authority with your words. Put them to work FOR you instead of against you by declaring your home and business blessed!

 

By Dr Cindy Trimm

HAVE YOU REACHED YOUR BOILING POINT?

I can remember taking a Chemistry class back in my high school days. As a teenager, my favorite courses were Gym, History, and yes, lunch time. My Chemistry class was very boring with the long lectures and note taking sessions. However, the class projects and group assignments made it interesting from time to time.

One thing I can remember learning about was temperature and itʼs effect on water. The teacher explained, when the temperature of water is raised to 211 degrees Fahrenheit, water then becomes hot and creates steam. However, at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, water begins to boil.

Itʼs interesting that just one degree Fahrenheit, makes the difference between steaming and boiling. Listening to this lecture as a 16-year-old kid, while looking at my watch, meant nothing at that time. Now, as I recall and reflect on the lesson as an adult, there are practical truths that we can learn.

Just one degree more is all it took to move from steam to boil. Have you reached your boiling point? Not the boiling point of being negative, angry, and upset to where youʼre going to jump off the edge. Iʼm talking about the place where youʼre working your God- given gifts, pressing towards your dreams, and making the little adjustments in your life that eventually make a BIG difference.
Is your dream only on steam? You say to yourself, “I wish I could do this…if only I had the money…I wonder if this may happen.” Itʼs time to stop wishing and wondering, itʼs time to start doing! No longer can you sit back, wait, and procrastinate. We must engage our minds and embrace the fierce urgency of now!

Itʼs time to turn up the temperature on your goals, dreams, visions, and ideas. How long will you continue to put off writing the book, opening the business, and going back to school? The only person stopping you is YOU! No longer can you continue to play the blame game and presently live in the past. Whatʼs past is past…itʼs over! Get up, shake it off, brush off your shoulders, and begin to engage your mind/will to press forward by any means necessary!

Youʼre so close to your boiling point! So close to breaking out and breaking through. Whatʼs holding you back? What are the adjustments that you can make in your life to turn it around? Maybe itʼs taking better care of your health/nutrition, forgiving people, thinking positive, breaking bad habits and addictions, letting go of negative relationships, and getting closer to God. Whatever changes need to be made, God has given you the power to do it. I challenge you to turn it up a notch, take it to another level, raise the temperature another degree, and you will see your life move from just enough to more than enough.

By: EddieConnorJr

 

 

YOU ARE THE SOLUTION IN YOUR FAMILY

The greatest and most powerful "institution" that God ever designed to be a perfection reflection of his love and order is the family. The home is where presidents, ministers, architects, world class designers, sport heroes, accountants are pruned then released.

If we are to see any change in our country, then we have got to begin by instilling the moral and spiritual fiber in our homes. For those of you that are born again and are the only ones in your families that are born again, you should model God with so much authenticity, excellence in all areas of your life, that when your family looks at your life, they will long to have the God you have.

I was listening to Mrs Fino Dlamini recently and she said something very profound that got me thinking. She said it’s not normal that a child come to church and leave her parents behind, nor is it normal the other way round. She emphasized that the one way we are going to win our families is through character and love.

Your family does not need you to point out their mistakes, nor do they need you to bible bash them. You will be surprised that the ones you think are the outcasts are looking at your life and still trying to find reason why they must serve the God you serve, not because you are not going to church, praying, but your character, which is what matters most is a turn off to them.

Its love, which will WIN our loved ones and this world to Christ. Treat them with respect, yes they may have temporary challenges/weaknesses right now, whether it is alcohol, a bad attitude, theft, multiple partners, but learn to see past that, and see God in them. Win them with love, pray for them daily, knowing that the same GRACE that saved YOU, is sufficient for them.

LESSONS TAUGHT BY LOVE …..

So the one thing that fascinates me more than anything else in the world, the one thing that I passionately want to know and understand is LOVE, because like Mike Murdock says, “Love is a Devine Seed that has relentless unending harvest. “I am aware that at the tender age of 27, there is still so much more to life and love that I am still going to experience, learn and understand, yet at the same time Love has taught me some valuable lessons that I do believe will be of value to you .

One thing I do know is that Love, supersedes the physical realm, it’s rarely found in the hug, in the kiss, but it is deeply entrenched in the spirit, it is Spirit, for it is God. Love is the God inspired, God infused, God led desire to make a decision to daily place great value on the needs of another. Love discerns the discomforts of others and the passionately and vigorously endeavors to be the answer or provide a solution to that discomfort.

As a woman the one thing that we love the most, is to be listened to, contrary to men who are more physical beings, for us it’s the small things, like listening to us, that minsters to us the most.

Therefore LOVE is the willingness to listen, not just to hear, but to listen with interest. I have found that you will invest time into the lives of people that you love the most, whether you are aware of it or not, but there are people in our lives, that even if they would wake us up 3am in the morning needing our help, we would race out of bed to assist them, why? because those are the people we love the most and LOVE does that, it invest time in people.

 One thing that I have learned is that those that really love me, correct me, and I am able to receive correction from them, because I know that the root of this correction is LOVE. It has also taught me never to allow someone I care about to live uncorrected, their success means more to me than their affection. And last but certainly not least, the proof of love is in the swiftness to forgive.

We do not forgive just because the Word instructs us to, but we do so because every day we also need to be forgiven and one day we will also need mercy. My closing question to you today is: Whose comfort has become your obsession?

You are greater than you think!

 

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Poem by Mirriane Willianson

My story is one......GRACE!

Many a times when I meet people on the street the first words I hear is how wonderful my status updates are and what a blessing they are in their lives, and my response to them is always it’s about God and to him be the praise. The reason why I say that is because I understand fully that were it not for the GRACE of God I wouldn’t be who I am today. You see, what my wonderful updates don’t tell you, is the story behind them all. I wasn’t always like this, I didn’t supernaturally wake up and be the woman I am today. In fact I was the total opposite, confused, lost, no identity, going nowhere slowly…till I met God, in whom I found my being and reason to live.

So when you meet me, you see the product of Grace and it alone, you will meet someone who is not perfect, far from, but just being kept by God for his divine purpose. Ndincedwa ngu bawo bazalalwane, every day I am kept in him by the word and through prayer without him I know I won’t make it, for he is all I have got. All I am today is through the things I have learned along the way. I found God in the tears I had to cry when he told me to let go of people I held so dearly to my life, but their season had come to an end and letting go and letting God became my only option. You see God had to teach and is still teaching, total dependence on him, where there are no crutches, no one to run to as a first option, but him.

Through it all I have found a loving father, comforter, who is more real than anything I see with my physical eyes. A man who can’t be fooled by my lip serves, for he knows me and evaluates my heart to see what really matters most to me. It is not by power or might but by his spirit that many of us are able to live this Christian life. It’s not that it’s hard, not that at all, but greatness costs you something and it’s those things that you hold dear that eventually you will have to let go of. I’m learning that salvation is not really about what we gain, the cars, houses, status, cause you can and will have those things, for the advancement of his Kingdom, and still be like “Now that I have them, so what, still  not fulfilled.”, for our fulfillment is in Christ and him alone .

It’s really about the things that we let go of, those relationships that we walk away from, even though everything within us just wants to hold on, it’s how we daily allow God to make us, to break us, then mold us, so that our souls be aligned to the word. That’s the essence of salvation, not the tongues, not the preaching, but for your spirit to take over your soul, to be one with yourself, spirit, body and soul, for your soul to be born of the word. A man of God once said: “The highest dimension of the word is becoming what you have said, being an embodiment of what you confess and apprehend that which he called you to be before the foundations of the earth.”

Malachi 3:3 says: 'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.'

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: 'He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.'

She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time.

The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, 'How do you know when the silver is fully refined?'

He smiled at her and answered, 'Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it.'

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has His eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.