Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11

The news is full of the disaster happening all around us-CNN is a constant source of information ,updating us minute by minute of the amount of Covid19 deaths and infected people across the globe. It’s not a bad idea to be informed but to be consumed is not helpful either .

Every news channel informs us of the economic catastrophe across the globe, hospitals that are under staffed and have no available beds. The restaurant and entertainment industry in South Africa has been all but demolished . Report after report after report is negative and depressing .

What will we do? Where can we run to? How will we survive?

We are literally gorging ourselves on Corona updates – indulging in a feeding frenzy of destruction and negativity. Where is the good news? There is none. At least not in the places where we are looking or with the people we are exchanging stories and comparing hopelessness with .

Please count the amount of WhatsApp messages of doom and gloom you have received over the past week. Then count the encouraging and uplifting messages that have been received on those WhatsApp groups.

Where is the good news?

I’v been looking for it in the only available source -The Word of God. I promise you that if you start reading, you will find hundreds of encouraging promises . Those are for you!

Start reading and then passing on these words of encouragement . Start to speak life!

You’ve heard that it takes only one match to start a raging forest fire .Be that match!

I know how negative conversation can be a wonderful source of entertainment – seriously – how hard is it to step away from a juicy tale of gossip being told? It’s the same with any form of chatter that feeds our need for disaster updates . It’s as if our heads can turn away -just enough to look spiritual 😇, yet not enough that our ears can’t hear- but our feet are stuck in the cement of regurgitated verbal vomit 🤮 from the mouths of our fellow sufferers.

Have you ever allowed yourself a bite of Red Velvet cake, chewed it and then made yourself spit it out so that you get the taste without the calories? That’s what it feels like to walk away from an unfinished story. And besides, if we are the tellers of the story , we have an audience of eager ears lapping up our every word ! How many would stay if I was reciting Psalm 91 to them ??🧐

So if you can’t get your social (distanced!) circle interested in what God says,why don’t you start with yourself? Start feeding your own mind and heart with what God says, what God IS saying today.

We have no idea just how powerful our words are to those who are listening and especially to ourselves . If we feed on negativity we will surely get fat on negativity. If we feed on Gods word, we will become well fed and satisfied with that.

The Bible is very clear on the power of our words. Take note of the scriptures below and consider adapting your words .

Start speaking LIFE! Start spreading LIFE and start believing in LIFE today !

Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.

Psalm 141:3

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:21

SHOUT for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

Psalm 100:1

The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 12:26

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 51:10

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalm 19:4