In the same way, your words are the seeds for the harvest in your life. What you say is what you sow – and what you sow is what you reap (Galatians 6:7). If you sow words of ill health, you’ll reap a harvest of sickness. If you sow words of lack, perhaps by complaining that you never have enough money, you’ll reap a harvest of not having enough. But if you sow words in agreement with God and His will – which is life, health and success – you will reap a harvest of abundant life.

What do you need changed in your life? A business? A relationship? A job? Your body? Decide what you want to see changed in your life and write it down or type it in your phone. As you plant God’s Word in your heart and speak words out of your mouth, you will experience 4 Ways Words Can Change Your Life!

1. Words Start Processes in Your Life

“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” –Hebrews 11:3 (ESV)

God framed the world with His words, and His words started the process of life we see today. Words are God’s own method of operation. He said, “Let there be light, and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). That was His will, and He spoke it into existence.

In the same way, you frame your world by the words you speak. What do you want changed in your life? Your words are like arrows you can point in a direction, and where you release them, they will go. They have the power to create the realities you want. They have creative ability. They release spiritual force. And they program the human spirit for success or for failure.

For example, if God has shown you He wants you to start a business, find scriptures that support such a desire and the success of it – and speak those words. As you do, your words are beginning the process of that new business in your life.

2. Words Turn Around Your Life

“We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.” –James 3:3-6

Just as a large horse is turned by a small bit in its mouth, and a huge ship is turned by a small rudder even when the winds are strong, your words can turn around your life.

You may have spent much of your life speaking negative, doubt-filled and fear-based words. Those words, which are not in agreement with God and His Word, have set some things in motion. As a result, your life may be going in a completely different direction than what you desire.

You can start changing your words today – and your outcome. You can create a crop failure and begin again. By speaking the Word of God – by getting your words in alignment with the Word of God – you can dig up all those seeds for the harvest that you don’t want and start replanting new seeds for the harvest you do want.

Start by setting a guard on your mouth. Psalm 141:3 says, “Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.” Ask God for help in guarding the words that come out of your mouth.

Next, you can dig up what you’ve already planted and establish a whole new garden! Repeat the following prayer: In Jesus’ Name, I dig up wrong seed. I pull it out by the roots. Everything I’ve said about myself that has to do with failure and fear, I pull out now by the roots and I cast it into the sea. Everything concerning unforgiveness, everything concerning hatred, every word connected to death, I pull out now by the roots and cast it from me. And I replace those seeds with new seeds of the Word of God.

Choose today to turn your life around by the words you speak!

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3. Words Accomplish God’s Will In Your Life

“When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.” –John 15:8

“A tree is identified by its fruit…. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart…. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.” –Matthew 12:33-37

No more than you would plant poison ivy or thornbushes in your vegetable garden, you don’t want to plant seeds of sickness, disease, depression or poverty in your heart, because those words don’t accomplish God’s will in your life. You want to plant God’s Word in your heart and speak words that line up with His Word to produce a harvest of good things in your life.

Jesus used the illustration of sowing and reaping, because the principle of seedtime and harvest is part of how the kingdom of God works (Mark 4). To illustrate this, Pastor George Pearsons once drew a cartoon he titled “What Does Your Garden Grow?” It depicted two farmers, and their gardens filled with rows of freshly planted seeds. At the end of the rows, one farmer had small signs that read death, sickness, fear and failure. The other farmer had signs that read health, healing, deliverance, success and prosperity.

Which farmer are you? What kind of seeds are you planting in the soil of your heart? You have the power to build strongholds with your life that are good or bad, positive or negative. Choose to speak words that line up with God’s wonderful plan for your life, and watch His will be accomplished in your life.

4. Words Steer the Course of Your Future

“You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways.” –Job 22:28 (NKJV)

When you declare something, it is established for you, because words steer the course of your future. They are carriers of good or bad. They are the cornerstones of your life. They set boundaries that either confine you or release you.

You might say, “Well, you know, my past always seems to catch up with me. It always affects my relationships at home, at work and with my friends. No matter how hard I try, I’ll never get healed of the things that happened to me years ago. It’s just too hard.” You’ve just set a boundary for your future. You’ve put yourself in a place of endless pain and expectant failure.

But if you go to the Word and say what the Word says about you – spiritually, mentally and emotionally – then you can steer the course of your future in a completely different direction.

Jesus said, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven” (Matthew 16:19, AMPC).

You can declare over your life what is already bound and loosed in heaven. According to 1 Corinthians 6:20, you were bought with a price. According to 1 Corinthians 2:16, you have the mind of Christ. According to Romans 12:2, you know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. According to 3 John 2, you prosper in every way, even as your soul prospers. Use your words to steer the course of your future.

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Look back at what you recorded about what you wanted to change in your life. Activate these 4 Ways Words Can Change Your Life, by uprooting any negative seeds you’ve planted and planting new seeds of the Word of God. When you do, the garden of that particular area of your life will be flourishing and thriving, giving glory to God.

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