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The Sword of Our Words: Speak Life, Win Life · R.E.A.L. Talk for REAL L.Y.F.E.

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  Welcome to Real Talk for Real Life, where we're realizing everyone is always
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  learning and living your full experience.
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  I'm your host, Coach C, and this is your winning Wednesday episode, The Sword of Our Words.
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  Welcome back to Real Talk for Real Life with me, Coach C, where we keep it real
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  about life, growth, faith, and what it truly takes to become on purpose.
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  It's Wedding Wednesday, and today we're talking about the sword of our words.
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  Listen, we have heard it said so many times, Our words have worth.
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  Our words are powerful. What we speak matters.
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  Or let me say it the way Proverbs 18 and 21 says it.
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  Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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  But if we know this, if we say we believe this, then let's dig a little deeper.
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  Why aren't more of us using that wisdom to win?
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  Why do we understand the power of our words, but continue speaking defeat over ourselves?
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  Why do we pray for one thing and then spend the rest of the day speaking against
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  the very thing we prayed for?
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  Why do we say we trust God, but repeatedly tell ourselves that nothing will
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  ever change, nothing ever works for us, and we will never become who we were created to be.
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  Listen, it's Wedding Wednesday, so let's win with our words.
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  What do you mean, Coach C?
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  I'm glad you asked. We already weaponize our words, but far too often,
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  we use them against ourselves.
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  We say, I can't do it. I'm not good enough.
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  I always mess things up. Nothing ever works out for me. I'll never get ahead.
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  This is just the way my life is.
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  Every time we repeat those words, we are swinging the sword in the wrong direction.
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  We are cutting down our own confidence. We are attacking our own possibilities.
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  We are speaking defeat over a life that God is still developing.
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  But if our words can wound, they can also heal.
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  If our words can discourage, they can also empower.
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  If our words can destroy, they can also build.
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  The sword of our words can be
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  used to cut down lies, fear, insecurity, hopelessness, and everyday thoughts
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  that attempt to convince us that we cannot win.
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  So let's use our words differently. Speak affirmations to yourself.
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  Speak life over your household. Speak faith over your future.
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  Speak peace over your mind.
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  Speak purpose over your life.
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  I walk through my home saying things like, there will be peace and prosperity within these walls.
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  Everything connected to me wins. My children are happy, healthy, and whole.
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  Nothing is missing and nothing is broken.
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  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
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  I am strong, capable, and resilient.
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  No good thing will God withhold from me.
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  The God-given power I need lives within me and I am in control of how I respond.
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  I am bold and brave. I am fearless and full of faith.
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  I am the architect of my life. I build its foundation through faith,
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  wisdom, discipline, and confident choices.
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  Listen, you feel me?
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  I walk around filled, focused, and fortified by my own words.
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  I speak to myself until my faith becomes louder than my fear.
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  I remind myself who I am, whose I am, and what I have survived,
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  also what I am still capable of becoming.
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  By the time life shows up trying to challenge me, I have already spoken enough
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  life into myself to meet it standing up.
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  And listen, you should too.
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  You cannot control every circumstance that enters your life.
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  But you can decide what comes out of your mouth when the circumstance arrives.
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  You can decide whether your words will agree with your fear or agree with your faith.
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  You can decide whether your tongue will tear you down or train you to triumph.
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  Now, let me be clear. Wedding with your words is not about pretending that problems don't exist.
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  Faith-filled language is not fake language.
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  You can acknowledge that something is difficult without declaring that it will destroy you.
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  You can say, this is hard, but I am capable of handling harder things.
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  You can say, I don't know how this will work out, but I believe there is still a way forward.
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  You can say, I am disappointed, but I am not defeated.
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  You can say, I am tired, but I am not finished.
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  Winning with your words does not mean speaking empty phrases and waiting for
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  your life to magically change.
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  Your words must be accompanied by your work.
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  If you declare that you are disciplined, make the disciplined decision.
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  If you declare that peace lives within your walls, stop inviting confusion into your home.
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  If you declare that you are worthy, stop accepting treatment that requires you to question your worth.
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  If you declare that everything connected to you wins, create an environment
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  where the people connected to you can grow, heal, and thrive.
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  Speak it and then support what you spoke with your choices.
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  That is how we win with our words. Your words establish the direction and your
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  actions begin moving you toward the destination.
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  So pay attention to how you speak about yourself this week.
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  When you make a mistake, do you correct yourself or condemn yourself?
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  When you face a challenge, do you speak about what is possible or immediately predict the worst?
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  When you look in the mirror, do you speak to yourself like someone you love
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  or someone you have already given up on?
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  You cannot continuously curse the person you are while expecting to confidently
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  become the person you were created to be.
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  Stop using your tongue to assassinate your own assignment.
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  Stop speaking permanent defeat over temporary circumstances.
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  Stop rehearsing the worst case scenario as though fear has already written the
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  ending take the sword of your words and fight back cut down the lie that says you are enough
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  cut down the fear or cut through the fear that says you cannot begin again cut
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  yourself free from the language of limitation and start declaring, I am still here.
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  I am still growing. I am still becoming.
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  I have survived every season that tried to stop me.
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  God is still working. My story is still being written, and I still have time to win.
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  Hang around Coach C long enough, and I'll have you believing you can do and
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  become anything because you can.
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  But first, you have to believe it. Then you have to speak it.
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  And finally, you have to live in agreement with it.
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  This is Coach C reminding you that your voice is powerful. Use it intentionally.
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  Speak life. Speak faith.
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  Speak possibility. Speak victory.
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  Pick up the sword of your words and use it to win.
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  Listen. Live fearless. Keep learning. Keep living.
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