The Ice Princess Melts...The power of positive words...

After I wrote my last post on negative words, I was reading my bible and doing my bible study and I knew I needed to add a blog about positive words.

Galations 5: 22-23 says this: 

But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 

As I read these words I realized that these are the words I want to define who I am. In my bible study I had to pick three that I wanted to focus on and I decided that three for me were: faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. The positive words in this scripture are words that I want others to see in me. I don't want the Ice Princess to be who I am. Its time for her to melt and we need to go our separate ways. 

If I had any doubts about these words, it was reiterated to me further on while looking up versus on gentleness I found this verse in Colassians: 

Colassions 3:12 (NIV)

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 

As a mother, it is important that the words spoken over my children are positive and not damaging. I want them to believe and know that they are loved, that they are special and that they are not negatively described. Our words have the power to hurt or the power to lift one up.

As parents we have more power than we know over our children and what is spoken over them. Our prayers of protection over them are more powerful than any weapon used against them, even words.

TobyMac has a song that talks about speaking life.. Someone recently told me (when I was saying I felt like I was dying) that we need to speak life over us, not death.  This song hits home for me and it should remind us that our words have the power to give life and to take life (not literally).

Until the next scribble....