![]() ![]() ![]() Why? Because words have incredible power. They weren’t allowed to listen to lashon hara either. The Jewish people weren’t allowed to speak lashon hara. But if our words create worlds, then our external realities are affected by our internal attitudes. 12:1, NIV) God heard them, and Miriam ended up with leprosy. “Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses.” (Num. When the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness, Aaron and Miriam got frustrated with Moses. Their negativity cost them an entire generation!Ĭan I make a confession? I’m better at complaining than confronting! It’s so much easier, isn’t it? It’s okay to verbalize what you’re feeling, but there is a fine line between processing and gossiping. They spoke words against God, and the entire nation lost heart. The spies who brought back a negative report of the Promised Land were guilty of lashon hara. The first instance of lashon hara happened when the serpent slandered the goodness of God in the Garden of Eden. It’s expressly forbidden to speak or listen to such language. In Hebrew, lashon hara denotes derogatory speech that damages another person. Remember the pastor who spoke prophetically over my life? That was the first and last time I ever met him, but he changed the trajectory of my life with ten words: “God is going to use you in a great way.” Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children. Could I be so bold as to add a hyphen to your occupation? I don’t care what you do you are a doctor-prophet, a teacher-prophet, a barista-prophet, an Uber-driver-prophet. Have the power to speak life or speak death. ![]() I don’t know what you do for a living, but you, my friend, are a prophet. Are you giving people something to live up to or something to live down to? Are your words life-giving? Or do your words suck the life out of others? Are your words encouraging or discouraging? For Brett Favre, it was a father who didn’t give up on him.įor better or for worse, our words are self-fulfilling prophecies. “I spent the rest of my career trying to redeem myself.” All of us need someone who believes in us more than we believe in ourselves. “I never forgot that statement,” he said. I think it’s fair to say that Brett Favre played better, all the way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After a game when he didn’t play particularly well, he sat outside his dad’s office and overheard him talking to the other coaches: “I can assure you one thing about my son: He will play better. In high school, Favre’s father was also his football coach. In his Hall of Fame speech, Brett Favre told a story he had never shared publicly. One prophetic word can rewrite an entire narrative! Either way, our words have a ripple effect. A blessing can flip the script the other way. They were more than careless words they were a curse.Īll of us have shame scripts- I am unwanted, unworthy, unlovable. During counseling, the woman shared an incident from her childhood when she overheard her mother say to her father, “We could have done without that one!” Those words were an open wound decades later. Paul Tournier, the Swiss physician and counselor, told of a patient he treated who felt a chronic sense of unworthiness, an acute sense of emptiness. ![]()
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