Feedback J
This word makes my mouth
numb. Once it leaves my mouth a
sudden bitter taste arrives to replace it. I have to say that this month I have given and
received more feedback than in the whole year. I have been laughed at, yelled
at, cried at and anything else you can think of this year when it comes to
feedback. Let me first define what
feedback is (or is suppose to be). You know those moments that you are with a
friend and he or she does something or says something that seems to you to be a
little off? An example would be they talk about someone behind their back or
they are having bad attitude and it is affecting everyone around them. Another
example would be how someone treats someone else. When you see or experience
these things on the world race you can bet your sweet bottom your going to get
some feedback. The main goal of feedback is to leave a person encouraged and
help their relationship with the Lord to grow and mature. It also helps your
own relationship with them to grow. Although that is the goal sometimes in the
heat of the moment it can sound more like a shouting match or who can get the
last word in. Sometimes I would like to just have an answering machine that
says, “Hi there ladies and gents Vinny is no longer giving or receiving
feedback thanks for your time take care now, buhbye.”
Those conversations that you hate having you have to have on
the world race because you can not just retreat and hide from the person for a
few days and hope it blows over. In fact, if you get into a disagreement or if
someone hurts you guess what? You get to spend the whole rest of that day
working beside them and everyday after that. It is true community living in
every since of the word, but how real it is and how beneficial it can be. I know
personally I have grown so much in the area of confrontation, but it is a
different kind of confrontation.
After learning that feedback is not just telling someone how they annoy
you and drive you insane sometimes, you actually see how your words can effect
people and even benefit their entire life.
“You will always reproduce the environment around you that
you cultivate within you.” The Supernatural Ways of Royalty Kris Valotton and
Bill Johnson
As much as I hate the word “feedback” I have to say it
brings so much more life to your relationships when you can be honest with each
other and not brush things under the rug. Not only does it help your
relationships, but also it can help people see things that they do not even
realize about themselves. I am not talking just about bad things or annoying
things, but also encouraging things that people have never even thought about
themselves. When you speak life over someone they can take what you said and
walk in more confidence and authority that they never knew they even had. There
are so many people living in a prison of their past mistakes and failures
especially Christians. I am speaking out of my own experience in living in my
own mistakes, but when you can tell someone that that is not who they are and
you call out their true identity as a Prince or Princess of the living God it
can be so powerful.
“For as a man thinks within himself, so he is.” Proverbs
23:7
“People of royalty focus on who they are called to be. They
have forgiven those who have hurt them, they have rejected the lies of the
enemy, and they have embraced the truth. They don’t live in the bondage of
prison but in the wholeness of the palace.” -Valotton
A name of Jesus is the King of Kings. That does not mean He
is just the King of past Kings that have ruled this earth, but that He is the
King of Kings who will be ruling and reigning with Him for all eternity. Those who are believers and live their
lives for the Lord will inherit a right to rule as a King under the King of
Kings Jesus! It is such a beautiful realization that there is more to being a
believer than just getting into Heaven. That it really does matter how we live
this life as believers.
“The devil keeps records of our past. Yet those records are
powerless without our agreement. He is the accuser of the brethren, but Jesus
is our defender. We make an agreement with the accuser whenever we look at our
past apart from the blood. When we agree with the devil, we empower him. When
he is empowered, he devours. On the other hand, agreeing with God empowers us.
It frees us from the power of a lie and enables us to live according to the
will of God.” Bill Johnson
I just encourage you to have those hard conversations or to
encourage someone even when you think they would not care. I have seen so much
fruit in my own life and others around me from being real and encouraging or
confronting my brothers or sisters, and they doing the same to me. As my world
race ends I hope to carry this way of life for the rest of my life….. Feedback…even
when it hurts… even when its hard… can change someone’s day, week, year, and
even life.
“This is the true mentality of a prince and princess.
They spend more time raising up people around them rather than worrying about
their own significance. They already know who they are inside, which enables
them to become selfless and give out more than they receive.” -Val
