Hey, welcome to The Young Faithful Mama Blog. My name is Justice Rodriguez and I helping young mamas like you stop feeling unqualified, overwhelmed, and chaotic so you can start raising your babies with more peace and joy, by sharing some of my experiences and things that I learned through my journey so you can become a Young Faithful Mama too as you navigate through your life as a wife and mother.
This series is to dispel victim mentality, something that I dealt with for many years and keep me from living my life to its full potential, I want to give a disclaimer that this mentality is not something you can be diagnosed with and I will not be using any of these blogs as medical advice. if you have any questions about certain things that pertain to a mental illness I always encourage and advise you to speak with your doctor. this blog is just informational and me sharing my own experiences.
In the second blog in this series, I touched on the word curses and their effects on my life. in this week’s blog I wanted to dive a little deeper into that and share some examples, different things that help me break them .my reason behind this is sometimes we don’t realize how the things that we say about others or ourselves affect us. I don’t know where you live or grew up but for me living in New Jersey all my life the one thing that I can say is pretty fluent is sarcasm and harsh joking.
Now that I have been renewing my mind with God’s word I’ve learned that most of the ways I was taught were incorrect and just how gracious God is. we are warned in Matthew 5:22 that if we are even angry with someone we can be subjected to judgment and that if we curse someone we are in danger of the fires of hell.
I learned just how powerful what comes out of my mouth is, we have the power of life and death in our tongues. so think about how many times we have said or thought to ourselves that we can’t do this or we will never be that and even worst to think or say those things to others.
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”
- Proverbs 18:21 ESV
Some examples of word curses are :
- I am forgotten.
- I will never be able to have children.
- Nothing good happens to me.
- I will always be alone.
- I will never get better.
- I will always feel like a victim.
And the list can go on and on.
To prevent me from falling into speaking death over my life. I first had to repent for all the negative things that I had said to myself and others. breaking agreement with the word curses and asking the holy spirit to show me the truth behind the lies I told myself or that were spoken over me which lead me to start to set boundaries in the 3 main areas of my life.
- Myself
- My family and friends
- My serving, business ( for others work or leading in ministry )
How to speak life in unlearning
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
- Romans 12:2 ESV
While you’re renewing your mind, you also need to be renewing the way you speak. I wish I could tell you that when it came to thinking negatively, speaking harshly, and just overall not being a joy to be around just happened overnight but it has taken me years to learn the very things I tell you in these blogs. speaking death over my life was something I did that felt so natural to me. happiness, peace, and true joy felt like imaginary things. it wasn’t until I learned to walk in my true identity which is a daughter to the Most High God, joint heirs with the king of kings that I understood that I needed to change my language towards others and myself.
Some examples of speaking life are :
- I am chosen by God.
- I am accepted.
- Good things can happen in my life.
- I’m not defined by my failures.
- With Christ all things are possible.
- I accept the plan and future the Lord has for me.
My encouragement to you is that you don’t get wrapped up in the fact that you have spoken or have had them spoken over you. I want you to find joy in that we have a God that loves us so much that he has sent a way out of our mess. Be thankful that Jesus came and thinks that you are to die for.
If you don’t know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, I want to encourage you today to come to Him and accept Him. If you need further information about being saved or being baptized please reach out to me, I will be more than happy to help you.
The Young Faithful Mama 