CORNERSTONE YOUTH CHURCH: Verbal Strategies

Introduction

• High achievers are not 10 to 20 times more intelligent than other people; their power comes from the METHODS, RESOURCES and FOCUS they use.

• Life is about winning and winning right.

• To win in life, you must

1. Plan to win

2. Prepare to win

3. Expect to win

Strategies for the good life – Ps. 34: 12 – 18

Verbal Strategy – vs 13: Ur life follows the direction of your tongue (Num. 13: 26 – 33)

• Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. - Pearl Strachan

• Your tongue is the rudder of your life James 3: 2- 8

• Death and Life are in its hand Prov.18: 21

• Jesus said For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith(Mark11vs23).

• What this means is that your words will precede the events of your life

• You cannot separate what is going on in the life of a person from the words coming out of the lips of the person.

What’s the possibility of Living a Good Life?

• It is possible to live the good life daily Ps. 34:12, ! Pet. 3:10

• It is possible to enjoy life 1 Tim. 6:17

• It is possible to have the good things of life Ps. 34:10, 84:11

• It is possible to enjoy the works of your hands Ecc.3:13

• It is possible to be safe from evil and its fears Prov. 1:33

The Cycle of Words

Watch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

- Frank Outlaw

Verbal Facts

• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe.

• God never does anything without saying it first.

• Spoken words program your spirit (heart) either to success or defeat.

• Words are containers. They carry faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

• Mat. 15:28: Words defiles and it comes from the heart

• Mat.12:36: You will account for the words you speak

• Prov.16:24: Words affect your soul and bones

• Pleasant words are health and sweet

• Mat. 12: 37: Words justifies and condemns you

• Prov.13:3; 21:23: Words determine if you will be preserved or ruined

• Prov.29:20: Being too quick with words is more dangerous than foolishness

• Lk.6:45: Your Words reveals the state of your heart

• James 3:8: The Tongue is hard to tame

• Heb. 11:1 -3: Words framed the universe. Words frame your world.

• Prov. 6:2: Words can snare you

• Prov. 12:25: Words influence emotions

Types of Words

• Corrupt Words – Eph.4:29

• Pleasant words – Prov. 16:24

• Filthy Communications – Col. 3:8

Verbal Strategy: Practicing Confession

• Confession is a declaration of the truth that you have embraced within your life.

• It is making a continuous affirmation of what you believe.

• "It is a scientific application of the wisdom of God to the psychological makeup of man." Charles Chapp

• Confessions don't work because you say it publicly in the ears of others. The words you speak is for yourself and not for others.

• Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas, and behaviors consistent with those words. - Brian Tracy

6 Facts About Confession

• It is the way in which you sow the seed of God's word into your heart.

• The spoken word is a means by which you plant your seed.

• The way you get words into your mind is by saying it.

• Confessions of God's word causes faith to come to you.

• As you confess God's word it causes the substance of God's word to enter inside of you.

• It works because you renew your mind.

• Confession helps you check your fears.

• It works because it keeps the answer before your eyes.

• Words Paint pictures.

• What you continuously say you will see. You start seeing what you confess.

• It works because it sets the laws of faith into motion