Good Morning Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Here is something for us to contemplate as Believers. What do you attract? The following will help you understand what you attract.
You attract what you are.
You are what you speak.
You speak what you believe.
You believe what you think.
You think what you hear.
You hear that which you choose to listen.
If you’re honest with yourself and with God, you will take an inventory of what you attract. Do you attract the promises of God or the curses? You might ask, “how do I tell what I attract?” Very simply, go to Deuteronomy 28, and read the whole chapter, all 68 verses. The first 14 verses are the blessings of The Blessing. The next 54 verses are the curses of the curse. As you go through them, take inventory of which verses best describe your current situation. You’ll quickly know what you attract.
The good news, or The Gospel (the almost too good to be true news), is you can change what you attract.
Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 6:2
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
As we can see in Proverbs 23:7, a man or woman of God is what they think in their heart. You believe in your heart, and you speak what you believe. What you speak is who you are, and who you are is what attracts – good or bad.
Proverbs 18:21 tells us it is OUR tongue, NOT GOD OR SATAN’s, in which we either speak death or life, cursing or blessing, over ourselves. Proverbs 6:2 makes it VERY clear it is our words that either snare us or bless us. If your life resembles the curses more than the blessings, it is your mouth causing the problem. You cannot argue with this. The Word of God is clear and is not open to opinion or interpretation. If our mouth is the problem, we need to examine our heart.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
“Keep thy heart with all diligence” means to guard your heart. Guard it from what? From listening to the world and its garbage. We’re not to walk in the counsel of the ungodly (Psalm 1). This means don’t listen to, don’t elicit, and don’t believe in the wisdom of men unless they are proven Godly men and women who have abundant fruit showing in their life. How do you measure their fruit? Against Deuteronomy 28:1-14.
I Corinthians 2:5
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Our hearts are amoral – neither good or bad. However, our hearts are the soil that will grow whatever “SEED” is planted there – good or bad. Jesus, THE SEED, tells us in the Scriptures that words, good or bad, are the seeds. Take inventory of what you say throughout the day. You will be very surprised when you really listen to yourself how often you speak words of unbelief, of the curse over yourself.
Remember, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, God in the flesh, made it very clear to us in John 6:63 that HIS WORDS, which came from His Father, are Spirit and life.
John 6:63
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.
Jesus is making it VERY CLEAR, speak His Words and you’ll have the promises of God. Speak the words of the flesh, of men, and you’ll have none of the promises of God.
There are hundreds more verses in God’s Word which prove all of what has been written here today. You can debate it, you can offer your opinion, your interpretation – and you would be wrong. But don’t take my word for it. Obey God’s commandment in I John 4:1 and try the spirits, the words. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you into all Truth. This is His job if you’ll invite and allow Him to do it. You’ll be amazed at what He’ll teach you.
Remember – if your faith says yes, God will not say no.
In Christ Jesus,
Larry