Ok, so what do I mean by speaking life? Well, let me start
with the opposite, which is speaking death, which is what we are CONSTANTLY
surrounded with. Speaking death is when you say negative things to people and
put them down. Some examples: teachers calling students stupid, coaches calling
players slow, pretty much ANY TIME you say something that puts someone else
down. When I was a child, my neighbor’s mom always called me a negative word.
It hurt me, but I didn’t say anything because I was scared. Her words stuck
with me and brought me down :/ I believed her lie and started to think I was
the negative thing she was calling me. So that is an example of speaking death
and how those words can stick with you for the rest of your life.
Now, speaking life. Yes, it’s biblical: Judges 6:12-16, it’s
the story about Gideon. Gideon was the youngest in the family and his family
was the least in the tribe and his tribe was the least of all the tribes. So
pretty much, he was at the VERY BOTTOM of the list. Yet, and Angel of the Lord
came to him and called him a MIGHTY WARRIOR. Gideon was confused…he was the
least of the least, he couldn’t be a ‘mighty warrior.’ But since that life was spoken over him, he believed it! He turned
INTO that!
Can you see the difference? I can believe that I am ‘stupid’
(according to my teacher) and then I will never try anything, because I’ll
think I’m stupid. -OR- I can believe that I am ‘smart’ (according to my other
teacher) and then I will continually try things, because I know that I’m smart
and that I can do it. We need to start speaking life into people. Even if you don’t SEE that in them yet, speak it out so
that they can believe it and seek after that. (Remember: Gideon was NOT
a mighty warrior at the time that the Angel of God called him a mighty warrior. But since the Angel spoke that life,
Gideon believed it and went after it.)
people, so that they can seek it and go after it. Call children smart, fast,
giving, thankful, evangelists, missionaries, Man of God, Women of God, mighty
warrior, etc. SPEAK
IT OUT, EVEN if you don’t see it in them yet. You speaking
that out will encourage them and will give them something to shoot for and go
after.
Romans 4:17 – As it is written: “I have made you a father of many
nations.”He is our father in
the sight of God, in whom he believed-the God who gives life to the dead and
calls into being things that were not.
