When Untrue Words Have Been Spoken

Now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth. 2 Samuel 7:28 (New American Standard Bible)

No one, and I mean absolutely no one has the right to define us except God. Our words live and the words spoken over us and to us from early childhood and well into our adulthood are powerful and can stick with us. How necessary it is that we make sure every word that comes out of our mouth or enters our ears is in agreement with what God‘s Word says about us! If they are not, we must counter them with the truth and renounce them as the lies that they are. If however they are affirming truthful words, we must take them in and allow them to quench the thirst within us. Along with that we can take a negative word that has been directed toward us and ask God to help us construct a Scriptural acrostics that will transform the word intended for harm into a word of beauty!

For instance, a friend in Sunday School shared how she was called a “prude” at work because of her desire to read Christian books. At the close of class, as this woman was closing in prayer, God brought an acrostics to my mind using her word. I came home and decided to find a verse to go with each word in the acrostics and am delighted to see God fashion an arrow of affirmation! Here is what He gave me…..

Precious ~ As you come to Him, the living Stone ~ rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him. I Peter 2:4

Redeemed ~ But now, this is what the LORD says ~ He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are Mine.” Isaiah 43:1

Undeniably loved ~ The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. Jeremiah 31:3

Daughter ~ So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when He adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” Romans 8:15

(of the) Eternal God ~ The eternal God is your refuge, and His everlasting arms are under you. Deuteronomy 33:27

Father, I no longer have to believe what I have heard or said. Freedom is found when I use Your Word as my grid of truth. Amen.