We use our words, we talk every day, but yet we don't realize the power and the magnitude of the words that we're saying and what they do to impact our life, to impact the lives of others, and it could be the very reason that could be making or breaking your destiny.
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Words are only words that are going to carry weight, words that are going to propel you into the things that you desire, words that are going to bring things to pass that are on your heart—those can only be rooted in goodness, and the only source of goodness is our Lord and Savior Yeshua. It is Yahweh. It is God.
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Throughout the day, what are we actually saying? And if we were to categorize positive words, negative words, how many of those would be filling up the categories on each side? This study clearly shows it: 80% of your thoughts are considered negative, and then on top of that, 95% of our total thoughts are considered repetitive.
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Whatever it is that you're thinking about, maybe there's events that you're dealing with, just the daily pressures of life—80% of the time you're thinking something negatively about it, which means you're more than likely going to reciprocate or affirm what it is that you're thinking.
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There's a scientific study that shows that when you say negative words or negative things, it actually increases levels of stress, anxiety, and worry in the body. So they've actually been able to identify, like doing a study—one person over here is saying a positive thing and monitoring pH levels, your hormone balance, all those things, your stress levels versus someone who is over here saying negative things.
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We're either the exterminator of shame or we're the producer of shame through our words. And our words literally are the framework. If you think about, like, building a house, there's a foundation, but then what goes up? The framing. So when you think something, that's your foundation. That's your perspective, right? But when you say something, now you're actually building a framework of the place that you're going to live in.
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Are you going to live in a house of negativity? Are you going to live in a house of hopelessness? Are you going to live in a house of guilt, shame, self-hate? Or are you going to change the way you think, change what you say and start living in a house of blessing, a house of generosity, a house of thankfulness, a house of being considerate of others, thinking of others?
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We were not prepared, one, for the power of expressing our thoughts. And we definitely weren't prepared for the power of reading other people's thoughts. Like we always talk about that like, oh, man, I want to be like to read that person's mind. Well, hello, Facebook. Hello, Instagram. And we weren't ready for that.
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This is why Matt and I stress so much about the spirit and why you need to be connected in your identity and in your purpose to God, because the Bible says that it is God who brings all things into goodness. There is no darkness in God. There is only goodness.
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When we root ourselves in the spirit, like Matt was saying, when we connect ourselves to God, then we take on a whole new perspective, which changes our thoughts. It changes our mind. It changes our emotions. And most importantly, it changes our words.
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We don't realize how powerful words are, which is why we wanted to talk on this. And we're going to talk about this some more, probably in subsequent episodes. But one thing I want to bring up that I don't know if people realize, but I've been checking this out because I've been kind of telling you about just cycles in general.
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That old phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is complete garbage. Like words are powerful. Words can break or make destinies, futures, marriages. Just ask a lot of people. Words caused a lot of divorces, man. That's how serious this is. Words have caused a lot of estrangement of kids from parents.
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The power of the trickle effect of generational words and actions plays a bigger role on the outcome of our lives more so than we realize because of what we're coming into agreement with by the way we're thinking, by what we're saying.
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Instead of celebrating our humanity, we need to start honoring the divinity of God. Instead of celebrating our humanity, celebrate the divinity. What I'm saying is in your weakness, there is a strength in God that breaks every single thing that you don't like. Every single thing that you seem to not be able to get away from or get out of. The power of God can break that today.
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We've got to stop assassinating people's characters. We have seen this so much in the last five years with all of the division, the divisive rhetoric, all of the talk of race baiting and just all of these different polarizing things. It's okay to disagree. It's actually not a sin to have disagreements. We all have—we're human, we have different opinions, we have different backgrounds, we have different perspectives.
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When you're making those accusations, when we're saying these negative things about people, do you actually know who you're putting into that mental prison? Because it's not the other person—you're actually putting yourself in that prison because you have chosen to accuse someone and you have chosen to wrongly shame them. Then that same indictment comes back on you.
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We talk about Jesus and we have these stupid things like "he gets us." No, no, no, no. We need to stop bringing Jesus down to our level. We need to put him back where he is in his throne and honor him. But more importantly, we need to operate the way he does, which is through compassion and mercy. It always rules over judgment.
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There comes a point where we have to operate in a place of forgiveness of that person, but also forgiveness of ourselves so that we can move forward and finally break some of these cycles of disappointment, break these cycles of doubt, break these cycles of hopelessness, breaking these cycles of not measuring up, not fitting in, breaking these cycles of just mental torment.
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We're living in the very things that we create, guys, and that's the whole point of this. We're living in the very environment that we create with our thoughts and our words. So if we think things are so bad right now, then maybe we should look at what we're thinking and what we're saying.
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When he named the animals, it didn't—it wasn't just a name, but their destiny and their purpose attached to the name. Yeah, man, when he named it lion, it's serious. Lion became king of the jungle and started operating as a lion. It's huge. It's crazy what your words can do.
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