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CHAPTER 8. “USING WORD TO PROMOTE YOU RATHER THAN DISCOURAGE”

When you go through life, you often come encounter with two kinds of people,

1. The ones who wants to promote you
2. The other is the ones who want to smash you and ruin you.

When people speak to you with negativity, take those words and turn them for the good. NEVER allow them to kill your vision, stay focused and keep moving forward.

Allow what people mean for bad to set you into promotion.

As a young child growing up we never had much of anything, but we had Love and our Jesus. My father worked in the oil field and there was not much money in that. I had this uncle who would tell me that I would never amount at a hill of beans and will be broke all my life, his uncle was and to my knowledge is still today bitter for some reason. It seemed as though at every family function he made it a point to tell me several times how I wouldn’t make as anything, to think that’s bad enough his son caught on and began doing the same thing. Then on the other hand I had my drunken uncles who drank all time, this other uncle he would tell me that I will be something and make it in life.

He was the kind of man who knew God and yet he wanted it his own way. I can recall one night I was about twelve and he told my sister and me to go to the roof because he wanted to have bible study! So we get there and he had his Bottle of hard wine and bible and began telling us about how the lemon tree was in the Garden of Eden and how we shouldn’t pick from that tree, thinking back on it I just laugh because I have Never read anything about a lemon tree in the garden!

How Can I Use Negative Words people day about me?

When you are raised in the environment of a (can’t do) attitude you will began to believe that you are nothing and you’ll get comfortable in your ignorance. When someone especially family runs you down, that alone should fuel your will power to succeed. I thank God for my parents, they have always encouraged me to do what I felt and I was in the world and not saved I know they would pray me. When I heard from my uncle that I couldn’t do anything but just be broke and live in that small town of Saratoga Texas I absolutely refused to believe it and stayed focused on what I set out do which was prove him wrong.

It takes a real man or woman to chase your dream and let God lead you the whole way.

We serve a merciful God who is always there for us through it all. When little David went up against that giant (1 Samuel 17:22-51) there were probably skeptics there that were saying “hey man are you sure you want to face this huge giant” when reading this book of Samuel you’ll see where even Goliath mocked and said that it was an insult that they would sent a boy to fight (17:43) be even when he mocked David, that didn’t hinder David he was determined that he was going to slay him.

Satan’s Plan to destroy you

The devil does NOT want you succeed in life. His goal is to send people into your life to tear you down and cause you destruction and keep you in the place that you are, weak and vulnerable. Satan sends the ones into your life to stop you or slow you way down from your God assignment on your life. God wants you to prosper and be in health soul prospers. We have got allow what people say to move us onto the place of greatness.

You say why? I’m just average, NO you are called for a purpose and time just as today. Right now you may be facing trouble and issues but hang in there because the Bible says that weeping may endure for the night but joy come in the morning(Palms 30:5) for so long in my life I have lived my this verse, it has moved me and helped me battle through many downhill roads. When I think of where I came from I thank God that I stayed in the race, Did I fall? You bet I did! Did I regret that I fell yes! But again I thank God that he was there to catch me when I fell then and here now.
My uncle was being used by the adversary and he had no idea about it, he went on and on about how I would never make it and I was a failure in life but ultimately God turned that around and set me on my feet and now I am full time ministry and have traveled the USA and other counties God took a poverty born kid, with nothing but Speech impediment and a heart after God and the desire to live, he took that and produced a mighty man of God.

When you make your mind up that you will see that God has always been there with open arms. When God moves you from that place to another place that is better, we have to keep in the back of our mind where we come from. We can’t get so high that God can’t take us down to our level.

When you see the ones who told you, “You couldn’t make it” don’t be rude just say “Thank you for all the years you encouraged me and spoke word that were meant to take me down,

God bless “.. You will leave them in such amazement, and seat it with a smile that always gets them. We are children of the most high and the devil knows it so he will try and stop you.

Positive Influence

When we have positive friends to uplift and stand with you in what you do, it helps. Bring people into your inner circle that will help you to move forward not back into your old ways, we have to keep at least one friend with us at all times he is Jesus, he will stick closer than a brother. I can’t stress it enough that you need a positive influence in your life. The devil wants nothing more than to destroy what God has made, he sends his demons and imps out to tear down and destroy everything good about you.
We as people, when we don’t
understand something we get upset, we have to know how things work that’s how we are wired. When the devil sees you praying and getting into Gods presents he gets nervous about what is going on, he sends his imps to distract you and cause confusion, when he sees a fleshly person laying hands on a sick person and they recover he doesn’t understand, that power within you that God has place inside makes the devil so very
nervous. When you are working toward a goal or vision you have to keep a positive attitude and keep God number one in your life. When I was just getting into music and production I would press and press and kept God first, my goal was to put out one album within two years, but when my deadline was here I had two albums and half through third one. I stress to you … Keep focused, above all keep focused.