The Power of Words

Death and Life are in the power of the tongue. Proverbs 18:21

One of my favorite words is "beautiful." Telling peeople they are beautiful is a great thing to do, because it is the truth. And truth is full of life. When people believe they are not beautiful, they are believing a lie, and lies are full of death.

Living words eliminate the dead ones. The dead ones are lies; the living ones are Truth.

I know in our generation it is almost expected or natural to not believe you are beautiful - girls and guys alike. I enjoy countering those lies with truth, which ushers forth freedom, love, hope, joy, faith, healing, justice, and God's presence.

I beleive God's presence is what every human being has at some point deeply longed for Jesus. He says His Spirit is every where and I also know that the Lord calls Himself the Lover of mankind, and someone who is in pursuit of man.

When someone agrees with our deepest longings, for beauty, for justice, for light, for love, by speaking it out, like "you are beautiful," something happens, something shifts, way deep on the inside. Sometimes it's almost too deep to comprehend. But it's a shift inside the structure of the mind and of the heart. Thinking begins to change, feelings begin to change, hope arises, and people begin to believe again that they are beautiful. They begin to feel more alive. Words are like seeds planted in the ground, and they will grow as the Gardener cares from them. I have also been majorly learning how much this whole life, living it for Him, is about Him -- Jesus. That makes walking in the power of intimacy and love with God super easy, more easy than we think. I am learning how to not take myself too seriously anymore, and how to just let Jesus do what He does best, and do it with joy and love and adoration for everything He is -- living by 100% grace, that I can do nothing without Him. Jesus Himself said that in John 5:19, "Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does." 

To walk in the fullness of the Spirit and of grace; this is how more of the God's Children will actually come to know - I mean, really know -  their Daddy. People will recognize the ones who bear His Name not because they shout His Name on street corners, but because they have let Him mark their hearts with His Name -- something greater than themselves and greater than the world, yet the very thing the world has always longed for.

<3 Lauren