Giving weight to the Right Words

Spirit lifting words from Inexhaustible Grace by Jeannie Tan.

Whatever contains the anointing never grows old.

It always remains fresh.

I realised that sometimes when people say words that hurt and tear down, we just simply have to become dead to it. Just don’t have to bother or react and let those un-edifying words fall to the ground. The voices of accusations and the voice of condemnation screaming in your ears, sometimes even by your loved ones.

Sometimes, I reckon that they don’t even know what they themselves are saying, because it’s all done in a fit of anger, frustration or emotions, they know not what they do because they don’t know God, and they don’t know that the power of death and life lies in the tongue.

And mentally you know it’s done in a fit of emotions, but somehow your flesh still wants to react (not just retaliating, reacting by feeling bad, reacting by receiving the condemnation and accusations, receiving the hurts). Which is just stupid. Happens to me almost all the time. It’s ok and natural to feel hurt at the moment, but take a moment to think again.

I’ve always wondered what it means to let their word fall to the ground. You are the high priest, and whatever you value that you set on a certain object, that certain object takes on it’s value.

Giving weight to the right words.

It just dawned upon me, maybe this is what the Lord’s been trying to teach me. Whose words do you give weight to? Whose words do you esteem? The reason why you reacted in such a way is because you are actually giving weight to these words. But if you control the way you give weight to these words, you’ll realise that you won’t react the way you used to.

The reason why we feel so troubled about something is because we are 1st giving weight to the wrong words, 2nd thinking and meditating on wrong words, 3rd fear worry and anxiety comes in, 4th start attracting what you fear.

E.g. Someone said this about you. You feel angry / bad about it. You continue to think about it for the whole day – and you go about talking to others about it, doing self-evaluation and introspection. It continues and develops into something you fear.

Fear, worry and anxiety comes from meditating on the wrong words.

If you say that the words that man say don’t matter, and you don’t esteem them, their words simply fall to the ground. It’s not the matter of words that they use or the negative things that they speak into your life. It’s the matter of how you give heed to those words. You cannot control what people say about you, but you can control how you want to give heed to those words. Let this be revelation to me.

What you give heed to will manifest.