Winning with words

Words create reality ,a curse or a blessing is a word stated to someone. Words can be used as a weapon to lure and wreck a life.Sales and Marketing people invest maximum of their time in analyzing phrases which could lure people.Politicians have mastered deceiving words to apply in their campaigns.What you think you are today is honestly due to words you selected to agree with or your society selected to trust.

Each and everyday we interact with unique people , it is these conversations that form our technique in life. Lately most international thinkers are suggesting that its wiser to be friends with individuals who are better than us,simply put conversations vary depending on who you are with and your attitude changes depending on who you are interacting with.People who are beneath you economically  will make you feel like you have executed all there is to life, while the ones higher than you constantly remind you of improvements necessary in your life.

Wisdom is calling however few are listening ,folly is properly marketed and our people are sinking in sin ,they chose to get understanding from wrong sources.Wisdom can best be attained from God.We pray to the Almighty , he created the heavens and earth every time we kneel down in prayer we are acknowledging that we need his wisdom to pursue our purpose.Adam was to man God's creation and only God knew exceptionally well his design parameters and to what capacity the creation could be advanced. Adam needed to consult with the manual who was God.

The source of information as far as the garden of Eden was concerned was God.Satan attacked Eve with enticing words , he carefully selected words to instill doubt her mind concerning the source of information (God).Satan created a mind of inadequacy in Eve ,she took instruction from Adam ,and Adam from God so you can understand Eve's position in this conversation with Satan.A hunger for power and authority was deposited in Eve's mind eventually her view of the fruit changed ,now it looked edible and beautiful in her eyes.

Genesis 3:4-5 (KJV) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Surely before Eve ate the fruit she knew good and evil ,so whatever information Satan was bringing on the table it wasn't new.God had told them eating that fruit was wrong, and it was evil to disobey God .Words are a weapon an enemy is always using to derail God's people.Notice the style Satan used here ,"Is it true that God said? ". How many times have you heard  this phrase?At times they ask ,"is it true that christians are not allowed to do this?"

We are living in a difficult season ,the enemy is fighting the truth .Being truthful has gone out of style ,you can't trust words you hear in the street.Organizations are investing lots of money to conceal certain truths from the world .What really is the truth and how do you maintain sanity in a world buried with deceit?.Do you join them or stay different that's a choice we have to make daily when we wake up.So how do we win this battle.

The solutions are found in the Bible ,we learn lots from Job's responses to condemnation from friends and from his wife.In the famous conflict between David and Goliath there was a peculiar verbal exchange among them ,in the long run Goliath lost the struggle.When Jesus fasted forty days and forty nights Satan tried to confuse him, however he failed in his attempt.So words play a pivotal function in the achievement or failure of your mission.

So what really determines who wins in a negotiation or a conversation ,since now we understand that a conversation is made up of words with power to %%uplift or destroy you.People negotiate everyday for different reasons parent to child ,buyer to seller , employer to employee ,wife to husband so really you can't avoid this because we are designed by nature to negotiate everything in life.So they are principles to be followed in life.These principles are not to be taken lightly for our life depend on these skills.And a carefully approach should be taken when engaging in any conversation.

We observed that Eve and Samson faced a similar fate Eve lost her prestige after a verbal exchange with the snake , similarly Samson lost his power after a verbal exchange with Delilah. To Eve the snake was innocent and it wasn't worth considering an enemy. To Samson , Delilah was his spouse so he expected her to preserve his secret. People do make the error of loosing their shield when interacting with people they consider harmless so they get destroyed. So when undertaking any verbal exchange ,stay true to yourself .Know who you are and what you represent.We are children of God ,and in anything we do we represent Jesus Christ ,it is his kingdom we want to bring on earth.

In another famous story of Esther in the Bible , Mordecai was about to be assassinated with Haman. Haman has used his influence to issue a decree that could bring about the demise of many Jews. Mordecai and the rest of the Jews fasted for three days and they planned cautiously the phrases Esther was to apply in approaching King Xerxes.In her words ,she confirmed the king's authority and acknowledged that she and her people were his responsibility only the King could set them free.

Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O King, and if it please the king, give me my life, and give my people their lives. “We’ve been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed—sold to be massacred, eliminated. If we had just been sold off into slavery, I wouldn’t even have brought it up; our troubles wouldn’t have been worth bothering the king over.” King Xerxes exploded, “Who? Where is he? This is monstrous!”
Esther 7:3‭-‬5 MSG

You are in charge of your destiny , whether or not you get demoted or promoted in life is completely dependent on you.

Humility constantly wins and pride always results in destruction. We learn a lot about humility from the life of Jesus Christ when Satan was tempting him (,if he had a hunger to prove himself he could have turned stones to bread) .Satan works by provoking a reaction and humility is proven with the actions we choose to take.Eve was provoked to sin the moment she was told God was hiding critical information regarding the fruit ,so we can argue that she ate the fruit out of anger.(getting data from wrong sources ruins your thinking).

We have another case when Jesus met Legion , the demons started praising Jesus and calling him Son of God but rather he rebuked them to keep silent.Any situation the Devil was using to install pride in Jesus ,he resisted it. Any person with a proud heart is defeated before undertaking any conversation , for this reason silence is even wiser if your heart is not right.

You are designed to win in every situation ,the bible is made up of so many examples of the characters who won or failed in their missions and we have to study and understand so we can be victorious too in our daily endeavours.

At work you represent a different function and at home you are playing a unique role. Sundays when we go to church we are playing a special role however in all these scenarios we are to be victorious.None of your daily activities have the strength to derail you if you are persistent in your identity in Christ. We get questioned day by day ,we must stay on course soldier, we are the light of the world. True transformation starts with us , everyday we have to follow the example of the prophets who gained daily with their words.

Satan was defeated long time ago , he has no right to harass Christians. Seek wisdom and understanding to live your life righteously ,redeeming the time for we are to profit in this life. Why should you loose your life to the devil .Resist him and he will flee.

Stay protected and win in your next conversation.

Shalom

You were born great

But somewhere along the line you stopped believing that you were destined for greatness because you couldn't look past yourself, your own environment and circumstances . You started worshipping your conditions , they manifested and became bigger than you.

It's easy to start believing that you're not going to ever be great or be able to do what you love or make an impact...I get that. Our minds magnifies what we worship ,the worshipped object becomes a limiting factor in all your endeavours ,no wonder God warned Israelites not to worship any other gods ,graven images or any ideology .He wanted us free from mental slavery , and earthly standards for success.We are to break forth and set new standards ,the crooked path must be made straight.

I know it's easy to turn the TV on and see people who don't look like you, who don't have your problems or don't come from your background(environment )who seem to be successful and seem to have it so much easier than you. The TV on its own can make you feel smaller than you really are , be careful what you feed your mind on!!Most worldly marketed ideas of success are at par with the abundance and wealthy God promised us.

It's easy to just doubt yourself and to constantly find ways of putting yourself down and reminding yourself that you haven't got what it takes and that you don't have the money, time, education and resources that other people have .Maybe you have accepted the belief that you are not talented enough ,Moses felt the same.

But the truth is greatness exists within each and every one of us but you're too busy looking at what you aren't that you completely overlook all that you can be. You are letting your past to determine your future ,your present does not determine your future either you possess inside of you the transforming power of Jesus Christ these dry bones will live .You possess the resurrection power inside you , use it.

I'm asking you to stop comparing yourself to everyone else you see on TV, magazines and on social media and start looking at yourself as someone who has something unique and beautiful to share with the world. Start measuring your life with a different lanyard ,which is God's promises. Do you remember what was the difference between Caleb and the spies Moses send to Jericho.

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.There we saw the giants ( the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Numbers 13:31-33 NKJV

You were born to be great but that doesn't mean you're going to be a singer, actor, celebrity, doctor, lawyer,Soccer player or world famous. A new path is being created for you ,which only you can manage better .We are to profit from folly and not be partakers of folly .God is changing your destiny right this moment. You are not designed to be a cry baby but to be a conqueror , and a problem solver. Whether you are going to be a Caleb or the other spies in your story totally depends on you.

Greatness comes in so many different ways we are living in an era where there are so many opportunities but many are blinded by the dead gods they bow down to. Worship a dead god ,or earthly idols you are bound to be ruined. Be ye separate create own path and claim your Canaan.Israelites were given Canaan not because there were righteous or worth it they were given Canaan because of the iniquities of Canaanites and surrounding tribes.

“Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them away from you, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to take possession of this land.’ Rather, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you. It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to confirm the oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:4‭-‬5 NASB2020

Canaan had been promised to Abraham already ,they were staying in the land so that means Israelites were going to take over a land which has been cleared .You will overtake all the giants in your life it's in you you were promised to be the head and not the tail get ready to overthrow Canaanites.

You have to be great at what you were born to do and that might not make you famous or financially wealthy but it still makes you great because you did something very few people ever get the change to do.....fulfil their life purpose and reach their potential.

Greatness lives within you! Within you is power immeasurable just tap into that power .You are a success and you have all the resources necessary to take over Canaan, Jehovah Jireh has already given Canaan to rise up take charge and conquer (destroy any limitations set for you and take over).

Now the only question is:
What were you born to do?, and Are you living your life following the path God chose for you or are you blindly worshipping idols?

Be who you are meant to be and your potential will start to unfold right in front of your own eyes!

I believe in you.
Now it's time for you to believe in YOU!

Shalom