Life and Death

I'm a worrier. I spend a lot of time huddling in a corner freaking out over small things that I make into big things. It's an unhealthy amount of worrying that goes on in my life. On facebook I asked a few friends to give me ideas of ways to replace my bad habit with a good one. When I begin to worry, things to do change my attitude. The main response was to pray.

"You don't have enough faith," Jesus told them. "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.  Matthew 17:20 (NLT)

Verbal. Jesus didn't say "Think about the mountain moving" He said SAY. We underestimate our abilities. We speak things into existence by what we say. If we took that seriously, really seriously, imagine how life would change for us. Instead of saying, "Oh this isn't going to work" we should say, "I don't know how God is going to work in this BUT I'm excited to see how He does. 

The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences. Proverbs 18:21 (NLT)

Most people who are close to me know 2 truths. I worry/stress a lot more than I should/used to and "I love the sound of my own voice." Not in a cocky way, I just LOVE to talk. Those two combinations are DEADLY. I verbalize my stress and my negative feelings and bring life to them. It just feeds the fire. I, personally, have to stop allowing Satan to have a foothold and "airing" my negative feelings. 

Of course, it's going to take a lot of time to change my habits. My plans are to start by saying, "OOPPPP there it is" when I'm faced with an adverse moment in my life and begin to overly stress myself out. After acknowledging the moment I'm going to speak scripture over the situation. Reminding myself what God's word says instead of what my brain has been trained to think. In hopes that maybe I can change my negative thoughts to positives. 

Spend today watching what you "air" or what you bring life to. God Bless You and Yours!!!