Don't miss, “Your Words Are Powerful Be Careful What You Speak: Encouragement for 365 Days” by Suzi Yelvington!

 

“Your Words Are Powerful Be Careful What You Speak: Encouragement for 365 Days”

by Suzi Yelvington uses the scripture, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, speak life,” (Proverbs 18:21) in a powerful way.

 

I’ve told many people, read your Bible and read Suzi Yelvington. I think I have nearly all her books now, and I treasure each one. I’ve given always countless books so that I can feel like I am on the “same page” with those I love, as each day, we are reading the same book.

 

Woven between life experiences, Suzi speaks common sense ways of living and loving to us each day. You would think these were written by a much older woman, but she has beautifully learned wisdom young, because I believe, God knew she wouldn’t waste one gift that He gave her. There were so very many one sentence quotes that got me, or became words that I passed on, or just powerful words that I could hold on to.

This is a long overdue review. I want Suzi to know how much I appreciate her faithfulness to the Lord, our God. Although I am much older than she is, I recognize the gifts and knowledge within her and I am blessed every time I open a page of “Your Words Are Powerful Be Careful What You Speak! “

 

Here are just a few powerful quotes:

 

 Do not let what you see happening allow you forget the promises of God.”

 

“Declare: Today I am going to make everything around me beautiful, this will be my life.”

“The Lord hears his people when they call. I depend on God alone.”

“When it’s not in God’s plan, you cannot force it. But when it is in the plan of God nothing can stop it.”

And this might be my favorite quote: “Let God put you back together right in front of the ones that broke you. You are somebody’s blessing.”

 

In the years that I’ve been following Suzi Yelvington on Facebook, I’ve become more aware of my words. It seems, at times, that I’ve become quieter, as the message has sunk deep within my soul. But hopefully, also when I speak it will be with words of life. I truly recommend this book and all other books that Suzi has written. It makes me happy to say Suzi is local to the Daytona Beach area and is also a speaker.

Proverbs 18:2: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, speak life.

Donna Collins Tinsley

With God, Nothing Shall be Impossible!

 

On Mondays our main prayer focus is our family or extended family. The Lord knows our hearts towards those we love. He knows the unspoken heart cry. He knows the feelings of loss and helplessness as we yield what we can’t change or control into His great Father hands.

He knows the financial needs, the needs for the necessities of life; many struggle in this day and age just to be able to buy gas to get to work, or medicine for their children. Babies are born prematurely and have extra health needs and we pray for miracles.

Families are estranged because of addictions or emotional issues and need healing as only You can do. The Bible says, With God, NOTHING shall be impossible!

 

His hand is not so short than He cannot save. Jesus is the answer and our strong help and that will always be the case. His ear is open to our prayers for help and hope. He is such a creative God that He brings forth beauty and grace and gifts within us that we never thought were there. He can bring the dormant seed to life. We praise His name and ask that He cover our families today. We thank You, Lord Jesus ahead of time for Your great blessing and favor towards our loved ones.

 

From Suzi Yelvington’s book YOUR WORDS ARE POWERFUL. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SPEAK: “Get into the daily habit of asking yourself, Does this support the positive life I am trying to create?”

 

Some may want to join in giving up a meal to fast for our families. A song and a prayer about the Family Tree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlqH5-T9WtI

(139) Family Tree by Matthew West (w/ lyrics) - YouTube

Praying for those who grieve

 

Lord, we thank you for Your many blessings to us and the healing that comes as we pray for each other. We thank You that You are all we need, that You are our all, our everything. If I had no voice to sing my spirit would call out to You because You are the hope we are needing.

   “You can be too broken to be.” Ann Voscamp also talks about grief here:

 “There is no fear in letting tears come. Sadness is a gift to avoid the nothingness of numbness, and all hard places need water. Grief is a gift, and after a rain of tears, there is always more of you than before. Rain always brings growth.”

For me when there has been a recent death that affects someone I know personally, it seems a bit harder to post, because I know their pain and grieving will take time, much time. But it’s Saturday and the day we focus on those families who’ve lost loved ones, maybe recently, maybe it’s been a while but grief has its own timetable. We pray for strength for the journey, comfort from the Lord and His people and for love to surround you through the numbness of coping with what must be dealt with. Jesus, lover of my soul, bind our wounds and make us whole. Praying for those whose loss is so new and tender especially.

Show us how to live, one day at a time, giving You glory. Your love never fails, though sometime our faith does. Help us to remember that the same power that raised Jesus from the grave lives in us.

"In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you."

  Jesus is not telling us that heaven has compartments or that we will have little places in which to live.  In the ancient culture, a father's house was where the extended family lived.  Rooms were often added on as the family grew through birth and marriage.  What Jesus was doing was using the present day illustration of a loving, tight, family community.  So, Christ is saying that He is preparing a place for us in heaven where we will dwell with God in close communion with Him and that there is room in heaven for all whom God calls to salvation. (by Matt Slick)

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=You+Are+Dancing+in+Heaven&&view=detail&mid=A40B4D29A872FFCACDE3A40B4D29A872FFCACDE3&&FORM=VRDGAR

Quote of the day from YOUR WORDS ARE POWERFUL, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SPEAK by Suzi Yelvington: “ The enemy will want you to pay attention to your feelings; Jesus wants you to pay attention to His truth.”

Augustine said it stunningly: "In my deepest wound, I see Your glory and it dazzles me."