WATCH ATTITUDE TO PROPHECIES
MEMORY VERSE
For by thy words thou shalt
be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew 12:37
READ
Proverbs 18:6-8
Pro 18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his
mouth calleth for strokes.
Pro 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his
lips are the snare of his soul.
Pro 18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and
they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
MESSAGE
Your confessions
have a way of affecting your today, and particularly your tomorrow. If there is
one thing you should do more often, it is to speak positively into your future,
prophesy into your today and tomorrow and God will back it up. Don't let the
negative pronouncements of others stop you; rather, change the situation in
your favour by your own confessions because Matthew 12:37 says,
“For
by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
It is interesting
but surprising to know that what have pegged the progress of some people is not
the curses placed on them but the words they have spoken against themselves.
Stop speaking against yourself! Eradicate words and phrases like these from
your dictionary: 'I cannot do it' (except for something negative). 'This task
is not for people like me;' 'Those who are saying I can make it in life are
only deceiving me because nobody ever made it in my family'; 'It is an
impossible task', etc. Rather fill your diction with 'I can', 'It is possible',
'I will succeed', 'Even if there is no way for others there will always be a
way for me'.
My father-in-the
Lord once told me this story. Two men went before the oracle and the priest
told one of them, “You will
be king”, and the other, “You are a servant”. Then they left. The one told he would be king began
to rejoice and celebrate his forth coming fortune, but the other man challenged
the verdict of the oracle. “Why must I
be a servant?” After thinking over it, he resolved there
and then not to be one. He got two cutlasses and sharpened them very well, took
some food items and travelled to a far location to work. Each stroke from his
cutlass was backed by the confession: “I refuse to be a servant”. From his labour, his farm became so big. One day, a
hunter in the midst of famine stumbled on his farm and returned to tell the
villagers he had found food. So the villagers came to beg the man to give them
food in exchange for becoming their king. So this farmer became king while the
one prophesied to be king became his servant.
KEY POINT
A prophecy about
you may be good but what you do with it is more important
Very good passage.... LORD help us AMEN
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