Speak Vision
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
The
tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its
fruit.
Proverbs
18:21, NIV.
TODAY’S WORD
Every
word you speak matters. Something you say may seem insignificant to you, but to
someone else those words can be life changing. When you use your words to lift
someone’s spirit and speak words of vision and life over them, you are
depositing seeds that will last throughout eternity.
It’s
especially important to speak vision into our children. As a parent,
grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher or friend, the children in your life need to
hear on a regular basis that they can do something great with their lives. As
parents, our words carry incredible weight. That’s why you should never put a
child down. Don’t ever say, “You’re slow, clumsy or dumb. Why can’t you make
good grades like your sister? Why can’t you hit the baseball like your cousin?”
Those words are seeds. They can take root and affect that child many years later.
Too many people have been crippled by low expectations. But today, all of that
can change. Today, you can start to speak vision over yourself and over the
people in your life. Today, you can call out the seeds of greatness in others
and stir up the gift of God inside. Today, speak life, speak hope and speak
vision!
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father,
today I choose to speak life. I choose to speak hope. I choose to speak vision.
Let me see the people in my life the way You see them. Let me see the potential
You have placed in them so that I can call forth their seeds of greatness in
Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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“Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” (Jeremiah 29:7 NIV)
Have you ever been somewhere you didn’t want to be? Maybe it was a job, a town, or a marriage. Maybe it was a stage in life, like singlehood, or a state in life, like a disability. It’s very possible that as you read this, you’re wishing you were somewhere else — anywhere else — living a different life, but you know it’s not likely that anything is going to change any time soon.
God has a word for you. It’s the same word he gave a group of people when they were stuck in another country, exiled from their homeland. They’d folded their arms and said, “We’re going to wait this thing out, and when we get home, we’ll start living our lives.”
Through the prophet Jeremiah, God told them, “You’re not going home any time soon, so start making your lives here. Plant gardens, buy homes, let your children get married, and pray for the peace and prosperity of the place where you’re currently living because, by doing that, you too will be blessed with peace and prosperity” (Jeremiah 29:5-7).
Don’t invest your energy in hopes of leaving; instead invest your energy in the people around you. Don’t be physically present but mentally somewhere else, thinking of the future or the past, thinking of someplace else. Our journey with Jesus requires we be fully present in the present.
You may feel like you’re in exile, too, but God is still working in your life, and his message to you is: Dig in and fully embrace the life around you.
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