words...

you know what is *really* important? The way we choose to use our words. I believe that the spiritual side of our lives is often neglected and not looked after, cared for or even noticed or recognized. Yet... it is such an important part of us. We are mind, body and spirit, right? We feed our bodies and many of us feed our bodies too much or the wrong things. We feed our minds whether it be filled with knowledge in general or what we read or what we watch on TV or in the movies or even computer games... or minds are "fed". But do we feed our spirits? And if we do, what do we feed it with? I do my best to feed my spirit with the Word of God and with prayer and fellowship among others who believe similarly to myself. I often find myself, however, betwixt and between feeling as if even other believers do not believe the way I do when it comes to words. John 1 tells us that Jesus is the Word made flesh. Wow. Awesome concept. We are to look to Jesus as we would look to the Word of God. Not only that, we are to be ever so mindful [young Jedi] of the words that proceed from our mouths. We should not be opening any spiritual doors for the enemy and his minions to sneak in.... We need to speak positively about others and about ourselves as well. We need to be encouraging, lifting one another up, not discouraging. We need to pray what is requested of us by others and not pray what *we* think should be prayed for an individual or situation. We need to seek God in all things as we pray for others as well. And we need to pray His kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

One woman wrote recently that her teen dd was diagnosed with diabetes and that it was "expected" as family member so-and-so has it and this one has it, etc... now while it's true that predisposition to things physically - in the body - is well-known, but people, GOD ALMIGHTY can do ANYTHING. The statement about it being "expected" opens that spiritual door for negative things to occur. But we need to CLOSE that spiritual door and break all generational curses spiritually, physically and mentally and not give the enemy a foothold anywhere in our lives.

Please please be careful what you say and pray.