What are you Saying?
This week's message is a question “What are you saying?”. Let us take for our reading from the Bible Psalms 91:2(KJV) It says, “l will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom l trust. l will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom l trust.”
Let us take the same scripture from a different version. Psalms 91:2 (MSG) reads, “say this, God you are my refuge. I trust in you and l am safe. The writer of this particular Psalm shows that he was very intentional and very calculative in the words that he chose to speak about his God and about his situation. He is very intentional; he is very calculative in his choice of words. He says “l will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, He is my fortress. My God in him l will trust.
Did you know that what you say most of the time contributes to a greater extent to the reality that you experience? The life you live is determined to a greater extent by your conversations. The words you speak, and your vocabulary, play a key role in shaping the kind and the quality of life that you live. I know many people do not believe this. Many people attribute the quality of life they live to some other force, to some other people, to some other situations and circumstances. Now l want you to know and to understand this reality here, that yes, all those other factors may be contributing to some degree but your words, your vocabulary, and your conversations ultimately decide the quality of life that you get to experience. Now we are asking a question here, what are you saying? Are you saying the right things? Are you saying good things? Are you saying positive things? You see, our environment is always pressuring us to speak what we feel, to speak what we think, to speak what we are seeing, what we are hearing, and what is going on around us. That is the environment. Guess what? The devil capitalizes on that. Pressuring us to speak what the world is speaking. To speak what everybody else is speaking. To speak negatively. To speak death. To speak lack, to speak insufficiency. But l want you to know that if do not tune your voice, tune your vocabulary, tune your conversations to the right direction that you want to go. You will see yourself going in the wrong direction because your words direct your life. Your words direct the course of your life.
The big question today is “what are you saying?”. Check your vocabulary, check your conversations. What are you saying? Are your words building or they are tearing down? Are your words bringing healing or they are hurting? Are your words full of fruitfulness and abundance or they are just words of lack and insufficiency and poverty? Are your words of sickness and death or they are of life in abundance? Check your vocabulary, check your conversations. What are you saying? The encouragement today is to be intentional in your choice of words. Be intentional in your vocabulary, and in your conversations. Say positive things all the time. Say good things all the time. Your words, your conversations, and your sayings play a key role in the reality that you experience.
Lastly, another scripture, Psalms 107:2 (KJV) says, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Whom he has redeemed from the adversary”. You see that? Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! The scripture is explicit here that our conversations, our talk must be a conversation of redemption. They must be conversations of acknowledging and testifying about what God has done and what God is doing in our lives. Don't speak as if God is dead as if God is not doing anything in your life. Speak right and you will experience a reality that you will be happy with. What are you saying?
