Self Talk

Do you sometimes talk to yourself? I know we all speak to ourselves and more often than not it’s negative words, negative affirmations like “I am stupid, I am so dumb, I can’t do that ” What we tell ourselves about ourselves and our circumstances can be very influential. When we speak to ourselves in absolutes like the ones I have quoted we ratify it and affirm it as the truth and ultimately it becomes our reality.

 

In order to change our reality we need to replace our negative thoughts, and learn to hold our tongue instead of talking negatively about ourselves. Replacing negative words like “I can’t” with positive talk like “I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me”, could make the difference between success or failure. If you can’t, then you can’t, because you believe what you say, I can’t!”  In our ministry when things don’t go according to plan we don’t say we have failed, we say we just found out how not to do it. We have found that saying that helps us to not go over the same “lesson” and waste our time by doing the same thing over and over again.

 

Albert Einstein said, “Doing the same thing the same way expecting a different result is one of the first signs of insanity.”

The words we speak are powerful. Whatever we affirm, establish and chart a specific course, direction, outcome, or state of being for our future. The bible says, “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks” and again “as a man thinks in his heart so is he”. I want to encourage all of us to think about what we are saying, especially about what we are saying about ourselves.