What Is the Impact of Words in Our Lives?

Words are spiritual because we cannot touch them though they exist. Words can deeply affect a human being because both words and human beings are of the spiritual realm, as a human is a spirit. This deep impact of words regarding human beings all stems from the very powerful beginning of the universe, where the Creator used words to create all of creation.

Words (or communicative sound regarding all living creatures) are the fabric of living because it is through words (or sound) that we live out our lives. The physical realm is made for and by the spiritual realm. In other words, the life we live is dictated by the words that come out of our mouth because through spiritual words we create our physical reality, as the spiritual realm manifests the physical realm.

Impact of Words on the Brain

Words are like food for our body. If our words are bad (unfruitful) that’s like junk food, and if our words are good (fruitful), it’s like eating fruits and vegetables. This is to say, our words will reflect us and our lives in that our lives will be what the words are saying.

It is very inadvisable to think we can talk down on ourselves yet be up in our lives. Internal thoughts and our inner voice are not the same thing. Thoughts happen to us uncontrollably and nonstop if we don’t stop them through mindfulness.

Our inner voice is what we actively, consciously say to ourselves. Just like our outer voice is us intentionally talking and is impactful, our inner voice is us talking the same way, yet in a way that only we can hear. Words not only express our thoughts but they express our emotions as well. 

What Does the Impact of Words Mean?

We are constantly meditating on the words we are saying to ourselves internally, and these words come out externally (audibly). Our actions become conformed to these meditations because they shape our views and self-beliefs. These words become all we see because how could we see what’s not there?

How could we see what’s not in our mind and our body? We couldn’t possibly. It is important for our well-being and our goals to think, see, believe (from constant meditation on the Word of God—repetitive mulling over), and as a result, speak all that serves us and our lives.

For we will only see, believe, and speak what is in our being, what is in our mind. So, we should watch our mouths because they reveal what is going on inside us. Whatever it is that is going on in our minds and hearts reveal how and why our lives look and feel the way they do.

This isn’t a judgmental, condemning statement. It is a call for the awareness of our external environment as sourced from our internal environment, and as a result, demanding awareness of our internal environment too.

What is the Effect of Words?

When we are aware of our words, we get to recognise if they are for us or against us. Our words reveal our heart. Perhaps we are our only enemy and have become an expert at talking down on ourselves so much so that we cannot believe in ourselves.

Only constant internal negative meditation from our inner voice can put us in such a state of not feeling equipped to pursue our goals, thus not actively pursuing them. If we are pursuing something, it is because we think we can get it.

If we’re not pursuing our goals, we are convinced it’s out of our reach, so why would we go after something we can’t get? We wouldn’t. Our limits are made up by us through the words we tell ourselves about ourselves. Who could convince us better than our own voice? Oprah? No.

How Can Words be Impactful?

Whatever anyone else says, our inner voice would have to come into agreement with those words first for them to have an influence. If our inner voice agrees, then the words are adopted and they manifest their impact. But if it disagrees, there is no influence or change.

Whatever it is we want for ourselves, however we want our lives to look like, our inner voice must be speaking that reality within us because that is how we will bring it to life. God calls us to renew our minds because He knows that is what it takes for Him to reveal His glory through us.

Our (renewed and healed) inner voice will compel our thoughts and emotions, and these will compel our words, and all together they will compel our actions and continued action, resulting in the eventual desired reality. Be aware of your tongue. It is the key to being in control of your external life.

May your mind be renewed, your faith be strengthened, and your peace be anchored in Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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