Defeated With Your Own Lips

You said that you could not, and the moment that you said it you were whipped.
You said you did not have faith, and doubt arose like a giant and bound you.
You are imprisoned with your own words.
You talked failure and failure held you in bondage.
Proverbs 6:2: "Thou are snared with the words of thy mouth."
Few of us realize that our words dominate us.
A young man said, "I was never whipped until I confessed I was whipped."
Another said, "The moment I began to make a bold, confident confession, a new courage that I had never known took possession of me."
Another young mother said, "My lips have been a constant curse. I have never been able to get the mastery of my lips."
A woman said the other day, "I always speak my mind." She has few friends. Only pity causes people to go see her. Her lips have been her curse.
It isn't so bad speaking your mind if you have the mind of Christ, but as long as you have a mind dominated by the devil, few people care to hear your mind.
Never fear failure.
Never talk defeat.
Never for a moment acknowledge that God's ability can't put you over.
Become "god-inside minded," remembering that greater is He that is in you than any force that can come against you; remembering that God created a universe with words; that words are more mighty than tanks or bombs, more mighty than the Army or Navy.
Learn to use words so they will work for you and be your servants.
Remember that you can fill your words with love so they will melt the coldest heart, and warm and heal the broken and discouraged.
In other words, your words can become what you wish them to be.
Our words should never bruise or hurt, but should bless and heal.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We are taking His place, showing the Way, confessing the Truth, enjoying Life.
You will never enjoy what you are in Christ until His love rules your lips.

Excerpts from the book "The Power of Your Words by Don Gosset and E.W.Kenyon