Just recently Michael and I watched a program on GODTV where a minister shared how the power of the written word was proven through a spiritual experiment made in 2000 using two identical jars of cooked rice. A small equal amount of cooked organic rice was placed in each lid covered jar. The only difference in the two jars were the words written on a piece of paper and taped to the outside of each jar. The note on one jar included words such as I love you, you are good rice, you will live a long time, etc. The note on the second jar contained words such as I hate you, you are bad rice, you will die. After 81 days the experiment concluded with visual proof of the power of the written word. The jar with the positive words of life contained white rice that had barely changed in appearance at all. The jar with the negative words of death contained rice that had completely turned into ugly black growths that had multiplied in size!
"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates."
"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates."
Deuteronomy 11:18-20
I took photos of our TV screen when we watched this minister share on this truth so that I could share it on this BLOG. The photos have escaped me ... are we surprised? So, I went online looking for this particular story and found several other YOUTUBE videos of others around the world who also did the same experiment with the same results! I have used one of their photos instead.
It is well worth our time to hear this and to apply it to our lives. The words, thoughts, and things we have actually written have the power to change circumstances and even lives!!!!! Consider this message and allow the Lord to do a "heart check" on the issues of your heart. Ask yourself, "What am I speaking, thinking, and even writing, that could be affecting the outcome of the circumstances of my life?" Know that you could change a life, many lives, leadership of a nation, or even nation as a whole, by what we could positively declare this day!!
"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks."
Luke 6:45
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
Proverbs 18:21
I took photos of our TV screen when we watched this minister share on this truth so that I could share it on this BLOG. The photos have escaped me ... are we surprised? So, I went online looking for this particular story and found several other YOUTUBE videos of others around the world who also did the same experiment with the same results! I have used one of their photos instead.
It is well worth our time to hear this and to apply it to our lives. The words, thoughts, and things we have actually written have the power to change circumstances and even lives!!!!! Consider this message and allow the Lord to do a "heart check" on the issues of your heart. Ask yourself, "What am I speaking, thinking, and even writing, that could be affecting the outcome of the circumstances of my life?" Know that you could change a life, many lives, leadership of a nation, or even nation as a whole, by what we could positively declare this day!!
"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks."
Luke 6:45
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
Proverbs 18:21
