If the devil can cause you to think of yourself as a failure in any way, your actions will begin to manifest these thoughts. Think about this as an example, have you ever noticed, that some people, who feel like they will be living in poverty for the rest of theyre lives, never really try, to do any better. They feel defeated before they begin to fight, so they do whatever they have to, to barely make it. In other words, why put so much energy into something that will fail anyway. Whatever you believe about yourself, or your situation, is what is going to be true in your life. On the other side of that, there are also people who may have been raised in a poverty stricken environment, but something in them, believed that they should be living better than that. The same is true for them, they believed they could live better, so theyre reaction to what they believed, was to do something, anything to make it better, and not give up until it is accomplished.
Whatever it is, you have been speaking out of your mouth, is exactly what you have been living. The Bible says, its not whats in a man that defiles him, but what comes out. The things that you have allowed to slip between your lips, are the guiding force to your way of life. If you are speaking life to your family, then you are eating the fruit thereof, but if youre speaking death to them, then youre eating the fruit thereof. Stop telling your children they will never amount to anything, because you are laying the foundation for their way of thinking and ultimately their way of living. Stop telling your husband how sorry he is, or how much better, brother bubba is at certain things. You are killing his pride, and you will suffer the consequences of your words. To the young ladies, who tend to use this excuse, I only say mean things when Im mad, you do know, that it doesnt matter dont you? Whether you say things when youre mad or exceedingly happy, your belly will be satisfied with the fruit of your mouth.
You are what you eat, or shall I say, You are what you speak!! In the book of Genesis, Eves punishment was still enforced, although she had been tricked by the enemy. These scriptures still stand no matter what caused you to say what youve said or believe what you believe. If Satan is beguiling you, and you are still eating, everything he is feeding you will eventually come out, setting on fire, the plan God has for your life. I am so glad that Jesus stepped in, and made a way for us to have control over what we speak, and what we do, but you have to enforce that control. I had to fight, in order to keep from murmuring and complaining to God. I used to say in the presence of God, I will never have anything, because everything you give me to do, I mess it up. I will never be prosperous, because I am a failure!! For nine years, that was the absolute truth in my life, I not only believed it, but I spoke it. I put faith with works and lived in poverty because of my mouth. See, faith and works, they work both ways. You can have faith to fail just like you can have faith to succeed, and they both work. I finally made up in my mind, I am going to start speaking peace and prosperity in my life, and what do you know, you are reading a book authored by the same person who thought she would never make it. I am the same person who thought God would never be able to straighten me out enough to help anybody, but here I am, ministering to Gods people through the Holy Ghost and loving every minute of it. If you can just wait on Jesus, hold on to the vision he has given you, he will, together with your faith, bring everything he promised you, to pass!!!
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