Conversations

Our words that we speak and the conversations we have are powerful. A loving word from Father God can heal your past, secure your present, and give hope for your future. There is life and death in the power of the tongue. Recently in my quiet time the Holy Spirit started dealing with my on what are we really saying in conversations with ourself and others. I began to take an inventory of my thoughts and words. I knew immediately that it was time for a shift even in what conversations I listened to.  I was being dealt with on three C’s: Criticism, control, and comparison. Realizing that if I was being critical or a part of critical conversation then I was not being moved by compassion. Letting myself see the treasure in others and not the trash. We are called to be treasure hunters and not trash inspectors. (that line is something my daughter says often) I knew if I was dealing with control then there was no room for comfort. It was a form of manipulation and something that normally can’t be satisfied. The Word of God tells us to have self-control and we know that the Father God nor the devil makes us do anything that we don’t want to do. Then there was that word comparison. One that most women deal with. It starts from the first mirror glance every morning. We compare ourselves to the memory of our youth, to our family, friends, magazines and the list goes on- yet we are made in the image of God and when we begin to compare anything we lose our contentment and thankfulness. I would ask you today to think about the words that you speak. When someone walks away from a conversation with you do they leave criticized, controlled, and compared; or when someone walks away from a conversation with you do they leave feeling compassion, comfort, and contentment? Normally the people we are closest to we need to watch our conversations with. Let us not take each other for granted and let us be a 1 Corinthians 13 kinda of Love to others. Let us choose to be love in action.

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