Words

Words can build you up
Words can break you down
Start a fire in your heart or
Put it out

Let my words be life
Let my words be truth
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You

~Words, Hawk Nelson

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Was talking to Maica a few hours back. She expressed her desire to lose weight and honor the Lord according to her devotion she had last night.

She also expressed that there were toxic people in her life that God told her to get rid of. "It hurts when God tells you to get rid of people that you love."

I prayed that God would bring people into her life that would encourage her and build her up. People that would be a "balm to her soul."

She said she needed to hear that.

Words, written and spoken, are powerful. Bible says life and death are in the power of the tongue. I know this is a issue for me.

I often think my writing will not affect anyone, yet just now someone commented on my last poem (coping mechanism) that it "hit the spot." Does my writing build up or break down? Does my speech do the same? Heck, does this blog build up or break down? Can I encourage with what I write?

God, can my blog be used as a means to show the life of a Christian? Can it be used to build up and cause others to think deeply of their walk? Can my blog, poems, ect and all that is written and I will ever write, point to You?

Amen.