I have come up with a challenge.....are you ready ?

I am taking a short afternoon break from homeschooling. Thought maybe I could use this time to share with you all what has me so excited ! I have so many thoughts running through my head. Let's see if I can get them to slow down and write them down in an order that makes sense. Also without rambling ( for your sake ! ) Ahhhh ! I was starting to panic. Couldn't find my notes and gotta have the notes ! LOL All that I am sharing today is stuff that I already knew but needed to be reminded of. Eugene and I have been studying portions of this in the past week and then yesterday at church the pastor also referred to it. It is a great reminder at the perfect time in my life. While I am sure many of my readers already know what I am about to share, I am just as sure that a reminder won't hurt. Also I am not only going to encourage and remind but also challenge you to put this to the test with me over the next 30 days. Why 30 days ? Well, it is a good place to start and from there we can look back and see what a difference it made and continue to go on with it for the rest of the days in our lives ! In Proverbs 18:21 Solomon was led by the holy spirit to inform us that " Death and Life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat it's fruits" STOP and REREAD that verse. Think about what it means. Think about what it REALLY means to us. We are told here that there is the power of life and death in our words. Now ask yourself if you truly believe in the word of God ? Do you believe in it's truths ? The answer I hope is a loud and sound "YES" ! Let's continue to look at the word for some more truths. In Luke 10:5-6 it says "But whatever house you enter, first say, ' Peace to this house'. And if the son of peace is there , your peace will rest on it; if not , it will return to you." As I read this verse the first things that come to mind is 1st we are to speak peace to those we visit, 2nd if the son of peace is there then by us speaking it forth it will rest there. It doesn't say then maybe it will rest there it just says IT WILL rest there ! IT WILL...... period. But if the son of peace is not there then it will come back to us. Another words if we bless others but they are not in a place of receiving that blessing then the blessing will return back to us. So here we are taught that with our mouths we can speak forth peace. Mathew 12:37 informs us " For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by the words thou shalt be condemned." If you back up to the prev. verse you will see that we will give account for every idle word we speak ( Mathew 12 : 36 ) There are many verses in the Bible that teach us and reinforce the truth of this subject. I am gonna refer to one more but I encourage all of you to do some research of your own as you will be able to find many more. James 3: 9-10 says " With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing, My brothers this should not be." Now re read that verse again. Do you get it ? Out of the same mouth we praise our Father in heaven and we curse men. Wait, we what ? We CURSE men ?........ from this verse we see clearly that our words can curse men. There is power in our words. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not the bottom line is that as God's children we have the power to bless and to curse. Our words are very powerful. After all we ARE the son's and daughters of the one true king, the creator of the heavens and the earth. We have the authority of the king in us. We are his children and need to remember that ! If we speak negatively then we are allowing the enemy to have his way in those words. BUT if we learn to bridle our tongue we can speak life and blessing into others and our own life ! I know that there are many going through struggles right now. I believe more then we know considering many feel as if they can not reveal their struggles to others. I know for myself I have my days where life seems hard ! So what if every morning I take control of my thoughts and words right from the start ? What if instead of allowing the enemy to pull my thoughts down and then from there speaking out those thoughts I would start the day rejecting those devil placed thoughts ? We know the Bible tells us to resist the devil and HE WILL flee from us. (James 4:7) So what if every morning we start the day by speaking God's blessings over us ? What if we claim God's promises for us ? What if we choose to resist the doubt, torment, lies, unbelief, ext. in our heart and cast it out ? I know this seems so simple yet how often do we actually do this. Maybe your thinking I do this every morning, always have and always will, well then good for you ! Please pray for the rest of us to get it down pat ! I know I start off doing this but after so many days I just let it slip and before I know it it is a practise of my past. So here is my challenge. For the next 30 days lets start our days out speaking words of life and blessings over us and our loved ones. Let's resist the devil and his doings. I think satan knows how powerful this simple tool is and hopes that the children of God forget their authority and power of their words. LET'S NOT FORGET ! So what do you say will you join me ? I will give some examples as to what we can say and take authority over but I encourage you to write out your own and add some more specific things to your list. Then every morning whether you feel it or not speak these things out loud over you and your household. Say them and believe them ! Let's see how our words make a difference ! ~ I am a child of God. My God loves me and cares for me. He watches over me. He is there with me and will carry me through today. ~ I am blessed. I am blessed coming in and blessed going out. I will be at the head and not at the foot. I will lend to many and borrow from none. ~I am happy, healthy and whole. ~My body will accept no sickness. ~I am covered by the blood of Jesus. ~My children will love the Lord all the days of their lives. ~My God is greater then he that is in the world. Therefore I am a conqueror over any thing the enemy might place in my way. ~My husband will be blessed today. All that his hands touch will prosper. ~God has a plan for my life and I WILL FULFILL MY DESTINY ! While we can not use this as a tool to just get whatever we want we do need to realize that we have the power in our words to bless or curse. So let's start blessing ! We need to become aware of the mindset we are in. We can not give in to a mind set of " well , we are getting old, or I will just never be able to afford that, pass the test, clean this house, forgive that person, ( fill in your own of "I will never be able to..." ). Let's throw the mindset of the enemy out the window ! So what do you say, are you with me ? Are you ready to take the 30 day challenge ? It's only 30 days, you can do it !