Dale Carnegie's first principle
Don't
CRITICIZE
COMPLAIN
or
CONDEMN.
Oh how a conversation can go sour in a moment when two or more gathered.
CRITICIZING others to make ourselves feel better.
COMPLAINING about others to blame others for our discontent.
CONDEMNING others to take condemnation from ourselves.
Hmm.
The breaking down of others to build us up~
UNWHOLESOME TALK!
But
GOD said,
"Do not let any
UNWHOLESOME TALK
come out of your mouths,
but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs,
that it may benefit those who listen" (Ephesians 4:29).
UNWHOLESOME TALK~
Destructive, Damaging Talk
about others to others
&
about "your" self to yourself.
Yup
Yourself!
The weight of UNWHOLESOME TALK about yourself.
I am not _________.
I can't __________.
I will never ___________.
Talk that does not build yourself up, but breaks you down~
UNWHOLESOME TALK.
How do you talk about yourself?
How do you talk to yourself?
What WORDS are swirling in your head?
But if GOD does not speak UNWHOLESOME WORDS
to break us down,
why do we?
What if you replaced your talk with HIS TALK~
I have been chosen by GOD and adopted as HIS child.
I am forgiven by the grace of CHRIST.
I am free from condemnation.
Therefore,
let's
lose another pound that weighs us down by
FASTING
from any
UNWHOLESOME TALK
about yourself & others
by exchanging every UNWHOLESOME TALK with the WORDS of
the WHOLESOME ONE
Who changes all your
"I am nots"
"I can'ts"
"I will nevers"
to
I am
I can
I will
because
HIS "WORDS" say so!
(listen to the song below)