Acceptable in Your Sight

Words can cut or comfort, hinder or help, harass or heal, injure or inspire.
William Arthur Ward

I speak words of energy and strength over you and into you. I speak to you words of peace and comfort and joy and truth and love and power. I speak JESUS into you and into your circumstances, for where He is, there is every good thing. A man may be locked away in a prison cell, a man may be maligned and tortured for his faith, but when he has JESUS in his heart and in his mind, when the WORD of GOD is hidden in his heart, he finds the comfort of eternal truth can shield him from the shameless lies of time.

Words and ideas are powerful. That is why it is important for each man to speak words of faith and hope and truth and joy and love into HIMSELF! Some of the people in our lives may have made a concerted effort to speak negativity into us. They have denigrated us. They have betrayed us. They have minimized and marginalized us. Their words would have dragged us down and left us in despair—except that “HE who is in us is greater than he who is in the world!” I John 4:4. That's why we have to appropriate the power of the tongue that the Bible says is ours to speak words of hope, words of affirmation, words of joy, words of power, words of health, words of love--and yes, words of forgiveness—first into ourselves and then into those who have wronged us.

We can transform human words of negativity by the power of Jesus' affirmation that we are precious in the beloved. We can deal with any depression, any pain, any torture, any false accusation, if we believe that “The joy of the Lord is our strength,” Nehemiah 8:10—and that joy can overpower all the wiles of the enemy! We can overcome any weakness if we believe the power Christ has invested in us will swallow it up in victory. We can overcome the hate and bitterness that swirl around us if we will allow the love of Jesus to overflow from our heart where HE has placed it to wash away the negativity of those who only know how to taint the world with bitterness and condemnation and lies. We can employ the forgiveness that Jesus used when He was unjustly condemned and we can be washed clean—we can be free to bless even those who condemn us by the wonderful opportunity HE gives us to express words of forgiveness and love into those who feel anger and hate.

Our Jesus loves us. May we let that one, glorious truth make a difference for good in the depth of who we are as well as before our loved ones and before our enemies. Because of that truth, may we, “Let the words of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in Your sight, O God our Strength and our Redeemer,” Psalm 19:14.