There is Power In The Tongue So Speak Life

This episode emphasizes the profound impact of our words, urging listeners to change their internal dialogue and conversations to reflect positivity and life. By choosing to speak life over ourselves and others, we enhance our relationships and foster an environment for growth and encouragement.

• Understanding the power of our words 
• Recognizing the struggle of negative self-talk 
• Realigning thoughts to align with purpose 
• The impact of conversations on our environment 
• The importance of community support in uplifting others 
• Concrete steps to speak life in daily interactions 
• Embracing biblical principles in our speech 
• Committing to a mindset shift for a positive life 
• Encouraging listeners to reflect on their everyday communication

Choose to speak life; your purpose demands it, and you and your ministry and marketplace depend on it. 

Chapters

• 0:00 Speaking Life
• 13:07 Renewal and Speaking Life

Transcript

Colette: 0:00

Hi, everyone, welcome. Thank you for joining us today on our Positioned for Purpose Conversations with Colette Marie podcast. I'm your host, colette Marie. Yes, our podcast is for women of faith who struggle to see God in the places of pain and hardship and who need a reminder, a gentle reminder, that, right where you are, god will use you In the mess, in the hardships, in your most challenging times, in your heartaches and in your pain. God has a greater plan for your story. Romans 8. 28 states. For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to his purpose. Hey, my friends, welcome back to another episode.

Colette: 0:56

Today we will be speaking about speaking life, the importance of speaking life, life, the importance of speaking life. All words matter. The things that we say out of our mouths can hinder, can curse, can delay the purposes that God has for us. It can also cause further hurt and harm to others if we are not careful about what we say. Friend of mine and I were having a conversation yesterday and she was saying call it, that's such a good topic for a podcast the importance of speaking life. Let's pray. Lord, I thank you for today. I thank you for the person, our Lord God, who is listening to this podcast episode today. I thank you for her, almighty God. I thank you, lord God, that her mouth, oh Lord God, is powerful. Lord God, the words that she speaks has life and can cause death as well. So I pray that you'll help us, oh Lord God, to guard our hearts and guard our lips, oh Lord God, based on the things that we say. I pray, lord, that this podcast will make a difference in someone's life. In your name, I pray with thanksgiving, Amen and amen.

Colette: 2:08

As I considered what she said about talking about speaking life, I realized how important it is for discussion , the things that we say and how important the weight of our words are. It's important that when we are angry or when things are not going right, we guard the things that come from out of our mouth because in those spaces, our heart is not in the right alignment, our thoughts are not in the right alignment, so we say some things that we wouldn't want to say in the first place, and then you know words spoken, you cannot withdraw them, they are already out there in the world, and there is nothing that you can do. So you can apologize for saying what you just said, but the damage has already been done. What does it look like to speak life? It is to change the negative words to positive words. So if we say to ourselves, I will never amount to anything, I will not succeed at this, I can't do this, I don't have what it takes to do that, if we say things like that, they manifest themselves within us. You will find that when opportunities come to do the same things that you are saying that you can't do, what do you do? You don't take the opportunities because you've already professed and proclaimed that you don't have the ability to do it, that all the things that you have said.

Colette: 3:45

But if we change our thoughts, if we change our mindset, to say this is an opportunity that is presenting itself. Yes, I might not have all that is required to do it, but let me try anyhow. As we think of, positioned for Purpose, the journey, there are some things that are going to come before us that God is going to ask us to do. We will not feel as if we have everything that is necessary for the job, but we have to believe that if he has called us, he has already equipped us for what is needed, as we think of Moses. When the Lord called him, he talked about how much he stuttered and he couldn't do what God wanted him to do. And God says okay, I will use Aaron as your mouthpiece as well. How many of us have allowed someone else to be our mouthpiece Because we think that we're not able to do it and it's better this person do it. It's better this person speak up on my behalf, because these are the limitations that I have. But when we start to change our mind, that's when our speech starts to change. Change our mind, that's when our speech starts to change, because our speech can't change if our hearts and our minds are not changed as well. What would that look like for us? It would look like replacing those negative words with positive words.

Colette: 5:16

And can I tell you it is not easy. Don't believe I'm sitting here having it all done and I'm talking down to you no, no, no, no, no. It's still a struggle that I have, but as I struggle, I get better. As I struggle. I don't keep in the space where I'm struggling and not trying. I'm struggling and I'm trying.

Colette: 5:37

There are times when I say that I can't do this thing, just as though I said, I couldn't start this podcast or the YouTube channel because I was afraid of what people will say and you know the whole nine yards but I decided to try. Are the episodes perfect? Far from it. Am I worried about it? Of course sometimes I am, but I'm not going to get myself so caught up in that that I don't do it anyway, because, at the end of the day, if I'm saying that we need to speak life, then I have to speak life to my own self. I have to say Colette, you can do this. Colette, your voice matters. Yes, colette, I understand that you're concerned about the sound of your voice, but someone else needs to be reminded that, though they may believe that they can't do it, you can encourage them with your voice that, yes, you can just start. Just start.

Colette: 6:38

One thing I know for sure is that when we fed ourselves with the negatives for so long, it does take a moment to flip that switch from negative to positive. But here what we are not going to do, we are not going to look at the time and say, hmm, I've always been doing this and I can't change now. No, no, no, no, no. We're going to replace it with saying, yes, it has been a long time, but I am going to start. I'm going to start by changing even one thing that I would normally say, that I know that when I say it, I can see persons cringing, or someone is talking to me about it and say don't say that, don't say. And say don't say that, don't say that thing, don't say that thing, because when you say it, this is what you are proclaiming over yourself, right, but how does it show up in the conversations?

Colette: 7:37

You're talking with your friend and they suggest something that you can do, like some of my friends will say to me as well and immediately the thought is to say no, I can't do that. Why can't you do that? Because we start to believe that we are limited in our own ability to do what God has already put inside for us to do. But not only that. We say that to our friends. Our friend might say to us you know, I want to do this, this and that, and we say to the friend I don't think you can. You know, maybe you should try something else. Why? Because sometimes we're projecting ourselves on the other person and sometimes it's because we think that the person is not gifted in that area. So we don't want them to feel bad. If they should feel so, we would rather them not try.

Colette: 8:31

How can we change the conversation? We can change that conversation to say all right, I know that you are interested in doing this, maybe you could do this course, know that you are interested in doing this, maybe you could do this course, or maybe you could try this thing and see how it works. I am there to support you, because not only are all words damaging us, it's damaging someone else as well, and that's why it is important that we guard what we say, because the words spoken cannot be retracted. As much as we will be sorry for it, we can't retract it. We cannot, cannot retract it. What will you do? What will you do? How can you speak life? How can you speak life in your relationships, your relationship with your spouse, your relationship with your children, your relationship with your friends and with your colleagues?

Colette: 9:50

Because sometimes we are negative, Nancy, all we can see are the negatives, and sometimes that's coming from the past as well, and so we have to be careful to examine what's happening in the past and how we can change it to undo what was done. So we might not be able to, but this is how we can change what's happening now, what was done then. But this is how we can change what's happening now. This is how I can start by uplifting my own self with my words. Say,Colette,I I Ihave Colette I olette oyourself Say, I I . Ihave have accomplished have everything to to all has called me is powerful. Say to yourself I matter. Say to yourself I'm fearfully and I'm wonderfully made. Say to yourself I can apply for this job, this opportunity, because I can do it. That's where we need to start. We need to start by recognizing who we are and what God has called . That daily these daily steps, there is a change that's taking place in our hearts. to do, to be I'm sorry. And as we do that, what will we notice So you continue doing that, continue each day to decide that this I'm going too,to be my conversation. That daily, as see an immediate change, but it is there, something is there; something. So continue doing that day too this thisow his I how conversation. else will say to you but Colette, I've noticed a difference in your conversation. And you And you can tell them, well, I've chosen now not to continue in the path that I was on because I realized how much it was affecting me and it was affecting the persons that are around me. say to them well, I've chosen now not to continue in the path that I was on, because I realized how much it was affecting me and it was affecting the persons that are around me.

Colette: 11:26

In this year, 2025, at the second week in the year, as you're thinking about your plans and your goals for this year, make your goal to speak life over your situations. Make your goal to be someone who is positive, who we will have days when we are negative, when the negative thoughts we will determine that it might have happened yesterday, I might have allowed it, but today I'm getting right back up again and I'm changing my conversations. I want to read something from Proverbs 18, verse 20 to 21. It says and I'm paraphrasing, let me say that again, and I'm paraphrasing there is life and death in the power of the tongue. And this is from Proverbs 18, verse 21.

Colette: 12:23

So, if the Word of God tells us that there is life and death in the power of the tongue, let's choose life, let's choose to speak life. Let's choose today to speak life. Speak life over your health, speak life over your marriage. Speak life over your health. Speak life over your marriage. Speak life over your relationship. Speak life over your children, speak life over your community and, moreover, speak life into your destiny. Speak life, spirit of the living God.

Colette: 12:54

I speak life over my sister, who is listening to this podcast today.

Colette: 13:00

I pray, spirit of the living God, that she will be reminded that greater is you that is in her than he that is in the world.

Colette: 13:07

That she will be reminded that she's above and not beneath. That she will be reminded, oh God, that she was created in your image and in your likeness. That she will be reminded today, lord Jesus, that she is more than enough, that she is valuable and that she's chosen and that she's loved by you, almighty God. I pray, spirit of the living God, that you will have your way in her life. Bless her, dear God. I pray in the name of Jesus and have your way in her life. I pray.

Colette: 13:40

Have an amazing time, my friends, as you are reminded each day to speak life, and when you hear something negative, when you speak something negative, determine that the next day, the next conversation you have, you will be speaking life. Until we change, the thoughts in our head and our hearts align with our thoughts and our lips come into alignment with all of these, and then we make a change. That's where we'll start. Every day, we have an opportunity to make a fresh start, be blessed. If you enjoyed this week episode and found a value in it, would you consider liking, subscribing on either Apple, spotify or iHeart podcast? Share with a friend or leave a review on the show you doing that helps to allow other persons to find this podcast and also make it be a blessing to them. Looking forward to see you next week.