Keith Craft: Never allow negative words of the past to negate your positive future.
Never allow negative words of the past to negate your positive future.
The thought behind the quote
The power of words cannot be underestimated. Proverbs makes it clear that the tongue holds the power of life and death. Our words have the ability to uplift, encourage, and speak life into others, or they can tear down, wound, and destroy. The words we speak create the environment in which we, and others live—whether it’s one of hope and positivity or negativity and destruction.
The Hebrew word for "power" in this context is yad, which also means hand. It implies that our words have tangible, creative power, like hands shaping clay. Just as God spoke the world into existence, our words have creative force in our lives and the lives of those around us. Words can heal wounds or cause them; they can strengthen relationships or destroy them.
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- God has too many good things in your future for you to focus on the bad things of the past.
- Saying the right things for the wrong reasons is an act of spiritual treason.
- Big Thought: Your VOW’s bring your Wow’s in life.
- If you live with the END in view, it will give purpose to what you are going through in the present and give you power to learn from the experiences of your past.
- Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise.
- That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters.