Speak And Grow Rich

A recorded talk by speaker Myron arguing that words are spiritually powerful and materially productive: language is a creative, God-given force (citing Genesis, John, Hebrews) and the transcript lays out a four-level framework—Implementation, Unification, Communication, Imagination—linking each level to how people create value and earn income. The talk mixes scriptural exegesis, personal stories (childhood shyness, books/albums sold), and practical advice on using words to build faith, reputation, and wealth.
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With us today. Say hi to the folks on YouTube. Say hi, folks on YouTube.
Okay. See, we got folks here. We got folks here live in the room with us today. And when I say words are the way to wealth, there's a lot to be said on this subject. I am going to say some things that are going to be confirming, but I'm also going to say some things that are going to be controversial in some circles. And I believe overall, though, it will be helpful for you to understand these principles in Proverbs chapter 12. The whole chapter of Proverbs chapter 12 has a lot to say about life and business. Proverbs chapter 12, verse 14. It says, A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. And the recompense of a man's hands shall he shall be rendered unto him. Proverbs chapter 13, verse 2 says, A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the transgressors shall suffer violence or shall eat violence. Proverbs chapter 18, verse 20 says, A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth, and with the increase of his lips he shall be filled. Words matter. In fact, a side note, you've probably heard me talk about before, that in the Hebrew language, words are like. The Hebrew language is not just phonetic, like English is phonetic. It's not just symbolic like ancient languages are symbolic. It's both. But it's also constructive, like the chemical language. If I write hu on the board, you know that I'm talking about water. Because when you put the components on the board, like, if you write down the components, you're telling people what the thing is made of. Well, Hebrew words are like that. You don't just spell words, you build words, right? And words are the building materials that God used to build the world. It says in Genesis chapter one in English, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, right? That's what it says. In the beginning, God created heaven and the earth. That is not a. That's not a complete transaction. A translation transaction. It's not a complete translation. It's not a complete translation because there is one word that's repeated twice in Genesis chapter one, one in the Hebrew that's not translatable in English. So understand that all translation is commentary. That's why it's so important to do word studies by using a Strong's Concordance and binds, Expository dictionary and all these other study tools where we can understand what the words mean so we can understand what the word right and so, interestingly enough, one of the Hebrew words for the word word or for the word to speak is also the same word for the word matter. So not only do words matter, but words are matter, and matter is made of words.
It says in John 1:1, it says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. And. And the Word was with God. And the same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made him who? Him. The Word. Well, In Hebrew, Genesis 1:1 matches John 1:1 three more than it does in English, because in Hebrew, here's what it says. Genesis 1:1, Brasheet Bara Elohim. Here's the word that's not in English, et.
So ET Is mentioned twice. ET Is spelled Aleph Tav. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew Aleph beit. Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew aliphate. So when it says ET it's like Jesus said, I am the alpha and Omega. If he were speaking Greek, that's what he would have said, but he was more than likely speaking Hebrew because he was a Hebrew. He would have said, I am the Aleph Tav. So when it says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God, the same as in the beginning with God. In Genesis 1:1, in Hebrew, that word word is there. The, the Aleph beit, the Alphabet, the Word, the building blocks of everything.
Hebrews, chapter 11, verse number three. It says, by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. People oftentimes mistakenly think that the physical world is the real world.
And the invisible world is some kind of invisible representation. I promise you, you got it backwards.
The invisible world is the real world. The physical world is a manifestation of that reality. Just like this table, just like this phone, just like this water is made. Even though I can hold it in my hand, it's made of. And I can see it with my eyes. It's made of invisible molecules that I cannot see. That is a picture that points to, witnesses, and shares to everyone. That's a scientific principle that points to and witnesses to everything, that the physical world was made by and from the invisible world. For me to think that physicality is reality.
And invisibility is not, is to think that I am more real than God.
I can't be more real than God. If he made me, he has to be more real than me. So invisibility is more powerful than physicality.
I've said this before. I'll say it again. Doubt is created in the eyes. Faith is created in the ears. What you see will make you doubt. What you hear will cause you to believe. Because faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Of God. When I say the same thing to me that God has said to me about me, then and only then do I know who I really am. When I say about a situation, to a situation, what God says about that situation, then and only then do I recognize that situation.
Because God's word is not just true. God's word is truth. There's a difference between what's true and what's truth. What's true is dynamic and can change. What's truth is static and cannot change. What's truth is incontrovertible. In the words of Winston Churchill, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Now, you may be wondering, Myron, what does that have to do with words being the way to wealth? The verses that we read said, a man shall eat good by the fruit of the. Of his mouth. And I was thinking, like, why? How. How does my mouth produce fruit? And it didn't just. By the way. It didn't just say, a man will eat by the fruit of his mouth. It said, a man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth. That is, as long as the seeds that are coming out of your mouth are good seeds.
I wish I had some Heaven.
Hey, it. I want to make sure that the words I say are words of power, not words of weakness. Words that empower and encourage, not words that tear down and discourage. The scripture says.
Let your speech be with grace, season with salt. Grace. What's grace? Grace. The word grace comes from the. In the. In the New Testament, comes from the word, the Greek word charis, from which we get charismatic, right? It means gift. Let your words be with grace, with a gift, season with salt. Let your words be like a gift that you give to the people who hear them. Let me ask you a question. Are the words that you speak like a gift to the people who hear them? That's a good question. Unless the words that I speak are not like a gift that I give to the people who hear them. So I want to make sure. I want to make sure that my tongue uses words to build up and not to tear down, to bless and not to curse, to strengthen and not to weaken.
To empower people and not to disempower people. I Want to make sure my words do that. So as I'm reading the different kinds of words in.
Proverbs chapter 12, for instance, where it says in Proverbs chapter 12. I think it was verse number 14 we just looked at. If I can get my iPad to act right here, verse 14. A man shall be satisfied with the good. A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth.
Most people don't realize how powerful words are, but your words literally create your wealth or the lack thereof. How, Myron, Are you talking about speaking things into existence? No, I'm not talking about that. Because in the Scripture, the only one who speaks anything into existence is God.
B'reisheet bara. The word bara means to create out of nothing, to speak into existence. The only one in the entire Bible who baras anything is God. Rasheet bara elohim et b'resheet bara elohim. Elohim is who? God. God speaks things into existence. You don't speak. I know, I know there are new age people who disagree with me. I know there are Christian people, pastors, religious people who disagree with me. That's fine. But the reality is you already know. You're listening to me. You know, if you could speak something into existence, you would have already spoken something different into existence than what you got in existence right now. Where my people? Where my people?
Now? Here's what you can do. You can speak a word that causes faith to be created in your heart, in a space where doubt previously existed.
And that faith gives you the ability to take an action in faith that you could not take in doubt.
So when I tell myself.
This is gonna be awesome, this has a better chance of being awesome than it does if I tell myself this is gonna be awful.
Why? Because I want to use my words to create faith. And I'm not creating faith because faith already existed before I got here. What I'm really doing is I'm installing faith. I'm installing faith into my mind. I'm installing faith into my heart. I'm installing faith into my focus so my focus can create a feeling in my heart that produces a function in my hand that I could not do when I doubted.
Are y' all tracking? It's very important. The words we say are very, very important. We need to be hyper intentional about every word that comes out of our mouths.
Every word. We need to take inventory of our communication ability so that the words that come out of our mouth are building words, not destroying words.
All of us can remember a Time in our lives when somebody that we looked up to or somebody that we cared, whose opinion we cared about, said something to us that was painful. Painful. Painful. How can a word be painful? Where does it hurt? Does it hurt your hand? Foot? Your eyeball? Your earlobe? Where does it hurt? It hurts in your soul.
It's interesting.
That when God created everything, he created three categories in creation, didn't he? What are those three categories? Well, he created creation. The sun, the moon, the stars, the grass, the trees, the water.
Creation.
He created creatures. Creatures, Bahema. And it is what it is. Horses and dogs and cats and giraffes and chimpanzees and alligators. But Hema, he created creatures.
But then God created something unique.
He created man. Adam. Adam. God called their name. Adam. God didn't call his name Adam. God called their name. Adam. Adam later called her name Eve. God created man. Not man. Males. Man, Humans, men and women. God created them in the image of God created him. Male and female created He. Them. Them who? Them, Adam.
How did he create them? Well, it's interesting. When God created creation.
He spoke it.
When God created creatures, he delegated it. He delegated the land, creatures to the land to produce. Let the earth bring forth the wild beast and the creeping things. When it came to the fish and the fowl, he said, let the water bring forth.
But when it came to creating man. This is so fascinating to me. I'm easily fascinated. Or maybe it's fascinating. I don't know. I'll let you be the judge of that. When God created man.
He didn't speak man into existence like he did.
Creation. You ever think of that? God didn't speak man into existence. He spoke to himself. He said, let us make man in our own image after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air and every creeping thing that moveth upon the earth. But he didn't speak man into existence. He said, let us create man. And then In Genesis, chapter 2, verse 7, it says, and God formed man from the dust of the ground. And I love this part.
He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living soul. So God.
Created man in his infinite imagination.
Then molded a body for the man that he created and breathed the man that he created into the body that he created for the man.
And the only thing that God created that he gave language to.
Is man.
He didn't give language to creation, not the ability to talk about complex and intangible subjects. He didn't give it to creatures except potentially ostensibly, the serpent she took away later. So not going to go into the long, arduous argument about that. It's not relevant to what we're talking about today. But he gave us words. Why did God give us words? He didn't make us by word, but he gave us words. He didn't give dogs words.
You ever think of that? He didn't give trees words. He didn't give birds words, except for the parent or the talking parakeet. And they can only repeat what they've heard, and only some of them can do that. But like human beings, like everybody in here, all y', all. I'm looking at the one, I'm looking the ones I'm looking at on YouTube, which you're typing stuff. We can talk. Not only can we speak words, we can type words. We can write words, we can read words, we can understand words, we think with words.
Words are our everythingness. It's. Words are what we have in common with God that creation and creatures don't have.
Language is spiritual.
And it's something that only spiritual beings have.
That's so powerful. So powerful.
With words.
I can take a feeling from inside of me. Install that feeling inside of you. With words. You can take a feeling inside of you and install it inside of me. With words.
I've got a word of encouragement for you, and I keep it from you.
Shame on me.
Shame on me. Withhold, not good to whom it is due when it's in the power of your hand to do it.
Anybody can say hello. My parents were so funny. They spoke to us in sayings, in Proverbs.
Bed, not see my mama or my daddy for the first time and not say good morning or hello. My mom would say, boy, time of day due to a dog. Hi, Mom.
In other words, you'd say hello to a dog. I'm your mother.
One of the biggest problems we have in the world today, too many humans.
Have encouraging words that they give to another person, and it cost them nothing but the intention and care to do it. And they withhold.
I mean, you don't have to go take any money out your checking account. You don't have to put anything on your credit card, walk past a human being and rather look at the ground than to acknowledge the godlikeness in another human being.
See, Myron, I thought you were talking about words creating your wealth. I am. Because guess what? All of the money that you want, that you don't have right now, it's in somebody else's. Pocket. And if you're mean and rude and disillusioned.
Negative, nobody wants to give it to you.
That's fact. It's fat.
When God created everything in Genesis chapter one, one of the things he created in Genesis chapter one is this concept that I call the four levels of value.
In fact, I'm going to do it on the board. I know some of you have seen it before, some of you haven't. So I'm going to do it for those who haven't, for those of you who have and bear with me. So the four levels of value, this is in Genesis chapter one, by the way. And in Genesis chapter one, there are so many success principles, it's almost like God gave us a wink and said, case in case you don't get to chapter two, I want you to be alright.
Right? And there are four levels of value. And what's interesting about the four levels of value is you can pretty much determine how much money somebody makes based on which level they are. And the lowest level of value.
Is implementation.
What does that mean? Okay, remember I said language is spiritual. Remember I said language is spiritual. Guess what else is spiritual? Wealth.
And abundance.
Are.
Yeah, wealth and abundance are spiritual.
This is going to make sense to you in a minute. Wealth and abundance are spiritual because God is infinite. So wealth is a symbol of godness, abundance. God, like Jesus said, I am come that you might the thief cometh not, but for her to steal, to kill and destroy. But I'm come that you might have life, that you might have more abundantly. God is a God of abundance. He said the scripture says he owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
He owns everything. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Abundance is godlike. It's a characteristic of God. And I know. Well, all you do is talk about money. No, I talk about a whole lot more than money. The reason I talk about money and wealth as much as I do is because I don't know what happens in church as you go to. But the ones I've gone to, every time they have a prayer meeting, the two things they pray for the most, pray for my finances, pray for my health, pray for my health, pray for my finances. Well, finances are not something that you should necessarily need to pray for. You're a follower of Christ, you have the blessing of Abraham by faith in Christ Jesus. Or maybe you're a natural. You're like, you got the blessing of Abraham, part of that blessing as well. Like some people aren't gonna like that. Do You. I can't help you. I can't help you. I'm just here to tell you, like God does not want his people to be broke as a joke and ready to choke.
Running around with your hand stuck out all the time. We have the answers. And if we have the answers to the life's questions in this book called the Bible, why in the world are we walking around acting like we don't know?
And I'm not just about money, but yes, about money. Also. The Bible talks. Why you talk about money? The Bible talks about money. How many are going to teach the Bible not talking about money.
How? Well, the lowest level of value is implementation. And if you are, if this is where you work, if this is where you create your income on implementation level, guess what? You make somewhere between minimum wage and $80,000 a year, or £80,000. How about it, Samuel? I can win, right? £80,000, right? Or 80,000. $80,000 you make minimum wage. If you make tacos at Taco Bell, flip burgers at McDonald's, you might make 80,000 a year. If you work on cars and you're a high end mechanic for Rolls Royce or Porsche or Mercedes or whatever, you make 80,000 a year. But there's a limit. Why is there a limit on your income if you're an implementer? Because the resource you're using to make money, you are using your muscles.
Over time. Muscles are a physical resource. You're trying to produce a spiritual outcome. Time is a limited resource and wealth is an unlimited resource. So you're trying to use a limited resource, I'm sorry, a physical resource times a limited resource to produce an unlimited outcome. No wonder you're broke.
I'm not making fun of you, I'm just telling you this is how. I didn't set it up this way. I just found it in the Bible.
I found it in the Bible. It's in there. I'm gonna show it to you in a minute. You say where's that in Genesis? I'll show you in a minute. You just calm down, I'm gonna show you.
So what's the second level of second level of value? Second level of value is unification.
And on the level of unification, use your management skills to make money. Management skills. On that level, you're gonna make somewhere between 40,000 a year and maybe 250,000 a year.
If you're managing the Taco bell, you're making 40,000 a year. If you're a middle manager at Lockheed Martin or Boeing or one of those countries, companies you're making 250,000 a year, which is about 20,000. A little more than 20,000amonth. Well, that's better than minimum wage. It's so interesting. We were just staying at this hotel, Downtown Tampa or. Yeah, down near downtown Tampa. And at this hotel, the Hyatt Place.
They had the housekeeping staff. The hardest working people in the hotel are the housekeeping staff.
The lowest paid people in the hotel are the housekeeping staff. Why? Because they are the implementers. If you are the person who does the thing, the amount of money you will make will always be limited.
Managing people.
Is a higher spiritual activity than doing the thing yourself. Why? Because you have to have some leadership. Leadership is spiritual. Right. You have to have people skills.
You have to know how to communicate to people. You have to know how to inspire people. Well.
That'S.
Going to make you more money than doing the thing yourself.
Okay, what's the next level? Wealth starts to be created on the next level of value.
This is the second highest level of value. And where wealth begins to be created, it's called communication.
The resource that you use on this level is called a mouth. Now, there is a caveat. You have to have a mouth and you have to learn how to use it to produce wealth. Because just because you have a mouth, that's not a guarantee. That's only half the equation.
You need to learn how to have conversations that create cash flow.
You need to know how to develop or deliver a message that moves the masses.
And when you can do that, you can create wealth. And I'm talking about on the low end, you might make $100,000 a year selling cars or selling life insurance. On the high end, you might make 100 million as an A list actor or a list singer.
Hmm. Or if you're an entrepreneur who sells whatever, you might make somewhere in the middle, communication. Now, here's the reality. I'm fairly theatrical and not terribly bad looking, right? However, nobody in Hollywood is banging on my door saying, hey, can you come star in our next blockbuster movie?
Now, if I wanted to star in a blockbuster movie, I would write the script, I would hire the crew and I would make the movie, and then I'd make it a blockbuster movie. But that's not my desire. I don't desire to do that. I could figure it out, though. But nobody's banging my door down.
I sing for my own personal enjoyment and for other people's personal endurement. You'll get that one on the way home.
And. And like, probably not going to make a Fortune singing. Now I can make a fortune writing songs. Oh, I wrote. I've written some really good songs and we. We produced a couple of albums and we sold thousands and thousands of them. And we're going to re release our album. As soon as our YouTube channel gets to a million subscribers, we're going to re release our album. Right. Okay. But in the meantime, in between time, it's probably not going to happen for me singing. So guess what? I need to be. I need to be an author and write a book that a bunch of people want to read. Oh, check done that. I wrote a book last year. I wrote a book last year that makes us on average between 25 and $30,000 a month. One book. I wrote it one time and it pays me every single solitary day. Oh, snap.
I wrote a book back in 2000. Thousand six.
That book makes us about $12,000 a month. Oh, by the way, is that on the implementation level? Nope. Yeah, I implemented by writing the book. But guess what? Boom, I got it printed. Now all we have to do is like have a funnel out there and then people come by it. Communication level.
I might be a consultant. Hey, let me ask you a question. You're a business owner. You're doing a half a million dollars a year in revenue. I say, tell you what, you pay me $350,000, I'm gonna show you how to get to 3 million. Who wants that deal? Everybody wants that deal. If they can. If they believe that I can help them get there. Everybody wants that deal.
In order for them to believe. Oh, oh, there's that word again. In order for them to believe that I can get them there, I have to use this thing called words.
And I have to be able to use those words skillfully enough to install some faith in their focus so they feel like I can help them. And they perform the function of taking some money out of their account and putting it in mine. And I did it with words.
Who's tracking with me? My peeps way back. Me. My peeps. I did it with words. Words are amazing. I remember when I was a little boy, I was terribly introverted. I know that's hard for you to believe.
I remember I was in the sixth grade. I was hanging out with my dad here in Tampa. One of his friends came up. My dad said, and by the way, not only was I introverted, I didn't like talking. I didn't like talking to people I didn't know. And I hated my name.
I've got six brothers in my mind. They all have what I call normal names.
I mean, my older brother's first name is Jeff Theron, but we call him Jeff because Jeffrey is his middle name. So we call him Jeff. Mike, my brother under me, Rob, Dwayne, Derek, Mark. And I used to say to my mom, I know I said it to her every week while I was growing up, seriously, the only thing you could think of when you came to me was Myron. Myron. Because that's how I heard it, right?
So, because there are seven of us. One of our favorite TV shows growing up was the Brady Bunch because they had six kids, like house full of kids. House full of kids.
Don't you know, on the Brady Bunch one time they got a pet mouse and that mouse's name was Myron.
The TV show to watch in the 70s for teenagers was Happy Days. Happy, Happy, Happy Days. Happy, you know, and the coolest guy on there was Fonz. Fonzie. The name, the name the coolest guy on television made fun of was Myron.
I mean, your name's Fonzie, you're making fun of Myron. I'd definitely rather have Myron. I'm just saying Fonzie, I ain't feeling. Anyway, my point, I hated my name. I didn't like my first name. I didn't like my middle name. My middle name is Freddie. I hated it.
Not gonna go into why, because none of it makes any sense. I was a child. So my dad sees his friend Mary. Mary. He says to Mary, son, I mean, says to me, son, this is my friend Mary. We grew up together.
Poked at his chest, son, tell Mary your name. I was horrified. I mean, I was horrified. And I can remember. I'm in the sixth grade. I'm 12 years old, 11 or 12 years old. I can remember thinking to myself.
It was a very traumatic. This was a very traumatic experience for me. I can remember thinking to myself, you just told me her name. Why couldn't you tell her my name? You want me to talk to this person? I don't know. And I'm an introvert. I didn't know I was an introvert. But you want me to talk to this person? I don't know. I don't want to talk to her. And he wanted me to talk to her about my least favorite subject in the world. My name, Myron. Hi, my name's Myron. That's what I felt like it was gonna be. My name's Myron. And so I did what any self respecting introverted boy who hates his name would do. I cried.
My dad, he went into dad mode. Why? What's the matter with.
Hated my name? I was an introvert, didn't like to talk. Until one day I woke up and I realized if I'm gonna do better in life, I gotta get good at this talking thing. And I can't just talk to me on the inside. I gotta talk to some other folks on the outside.
Communication is the second highest level of value. What's the highest level of value? The highest level of value.
Is.
Imagination.
Here's the resource you use on this level. You use your mind and you use your money to make money.
Low end.
Million bucks a year.
High end.
Billions.
See, people think Steve Jobs was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all times. When I say great, I mean most successful entrepreneurs of all times because he was an innovator. Steve Jobs was one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time because he was a great imaginator and he was a great communicator. Say, my imaginator ain't a word. You knew what I meant, didn't you? Uh huh. Uh huh. That's what I thought.
Here's the interesting thing about the two highest levels of value. Words are necessary on both levels.
Huh? You can use words without thinking.
You ever said something and said, oh man, I wish I had thought about what I was going to say before I said that. You can use words without thinking. Watch this now. But you can't think without using words.
Wait a minute, what just happened? You can use words without thinking, but you cannot think without using words. In fact, I was listening to a Jim Rohn audio cassette tape many moons ago. For those of you who are younger than 20 years old, Google audio cassette tape, you'll know what I'm talking about. Listen to a Jim Rohn audio cassette tape. He said, they did a study.
With a bunch of inmates in prison.
And they were just randomly doing a study. They found something they weren't looking for. Here's what they found.
That most of the inmates in prison have a very small vocabulary.
Then he said, because words are not just a communication tool. Words are the window through which you see the world.
Wow.
Wow. Do you understand? The more words you have in your vocabulary, the more clearly you can think.
Words create wealth. Do you know why the iPhone was so successful? Because Steve Jobs put together a sentence that was so powerful back in 2007.
That sold millions and millions of iPhones as a brand new invention. Here's what he said. He said.
And he kept repeating it over and over.
It's a phone It's a browser, it's a music player, it's a phone, it's a browser, it's a music player, it's a phone, it's a browser, it's a music player. I mean, that is not a complicated sentence. But you know what he did? He told everybody what the payoff of the iPhone was in It's a phone, it's a browser, it's a music player. Ten words change the world forever. If he would have said, well, it's got the iOS operating system that operates with certain. It has a 7 megapixel camera and has all these megabits of information that do the megabytes with. To the megabits. No, wouldn't have meant anything. He didn't use a lot of inside lingo. He knew how to insert beliefs in the people's mind with minds. With words.
I am here to tell you.
Some of the highest paid people on the planet are actors.
Film script writers, singers, songwriters, authors, speakers, coaches, consultants, talk show hosts.
What's the tool they use? Words, Words, words. We all have them. Some of us don't like to use them.
Sometimes an encouraging word could save a person's life.
An encouraging A word like talk. Hi. Hi. How you doing?
Now, to answer your question that you had. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth. Hmm. Maybe I should get. Maybe I should start using better words. And maybe I should get better at using words.
Y' all tracking. Okay, here's what people want to know. Myron, I never saw that in Genesis chapter one. You're making that up. Okay, I'm not making it up. I just read very, very slowly. So I'm making a recommendation for y'. All. You want to get more out of the Bible, Treat it more like a school zone and less like an interstate. What do you mean? Slow down so some learning can take place. Stop being in such a hurry to get through the Bible and be more focused on letting the Bible get through to you.
So where's this in Genesis chapter one, when God created man, that's when he established the four levels of value. Here it is. And God said, let us make man in our image. So if God said, let us make man in our image, what had to exist before God said that? The image.
The image existed first. The image is God. Let's make man in our image.
And then God did what he said. Oh, what's that? That's communication. God said, let us make man in our image. Hmm. But he didn't say, let me make man in my image. He said, let us make man in our image. Oh, there's unification, by the way. This is an aside, but I'm gonna say it anyway. One reason a lot of people struggle.
Is because.
The words that come out of their mouth don't match the beliefs that are in their heart. They're incongruent. They're out of alignment. Some people don't do well because the words that come out of their mouth don't match the actions that come out of their hands. They say, well, I'm going to do this. And they never do it. I'll be there. And they don't show up. I'll be there at such and such a time. They get there an hour later. Wonder why you're frustrated. You must become a person of your word.
Because if you don't, you're creating a reputation for yourself that you are not a person of your word. Here's what it says about Christ. Remember I told you, John, Chapter one. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. The Word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him. Without him was not anything made that was made. What does it say in verse 14? And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father. The Word became flesh. Let me ask you a question. Does your Word become your flesh?
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Huh. Isn't that interesting? When your Word becomes your flesh, you can dwell among the people you gave your Word to. When your Word doesn't become your flesh, you have to hide from those very same people.
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father. When your Word becomes your flesh, people behold your glory. And then, and only then, can they believe your story.
Imagination. Communication. Unification. Implementation. Genesis, chapter two, verse seven. And the Lord God formed. It literally means squeezed The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground.
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And the man became a living soul. That's the implementation. The last thing God did when he made man. The only thing God did this with that he created was man. He formed man from the dust of the ground. That's the implementation. Now, I believe that God gave us these four. See, I often wonder why is Genesis chapter One, not just Genesis, chapter one, verse one. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Why wasn't that the whole chapter? Why does he have to go into. And the earth became without form and void and darkness upon the face of the deep. And God said, let there be. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of water. And God said, let there be light. And there was light. And God separated light from the darkness. Why are you going through all these details? Because God first wanted us to know what his intention was, which was to create. The first thing God tells about Himself is that he's creative. The first thing he tells us about us is he created us in his image, which means he created us to create stuff, and he made us to make stuff. And since he created me in his image to create stuff, and he made me in his image to make stuff, he went into detail so I could see the pattern of how he created what he created, so I could know how I'm supposed to create what I create.
That's what the details are about in Genesis chapter one. Genesis chapter two, God is showing me his process for creation.
I promise you, if you change the words that come out of your mouth, it will change your life forever. I'm going to end on this.
There's a book called the Many Hidden Messages in Water. It's mind blowing. I don't know if any of you have ever read it. Mind blowing. And Dr. Emoto, just one of the studies. You can even google Dr. Emoto. Water studies. He took water from a water bottle, put it in a petri dish, sent water from the same bottle, put in another petri dish, flash froze both of them. But on one of the petri dishes, he wrote positive words. On the other one, he wrote negative words. The one he wrote the positive words on turned into these beautiful snowflake looking patterns. The ones he wrote negative words on turned into these gnarly looking, ugly, matted up patterns.
Here's the question I ask at my training the last two days. As far as we know, can water read? No, not as far as we know. As far as we know, can water think? Well, not as far as we know.
Hmm. But yet the words written on a container of water affect the molecular structure of the water.
My body is 70% water, my brain is 90% water. And I can read, I can hear, and I can think. How could I possibly go through life and be so deceived as to think that words don't matter? That's why I don't use profanity. That's why I don't use negative talk. I don't do negative joke. I don't. Negative, negative, negative. Most people all, Most of stuff they do is negative. The cultural hypnotic societal mechanism is programming you to be negative because it knows if they can make you negative, it can make you broke. And broke people are easier to control than people who are free.
So let's elevate. Let's use better words.
And let's use better words better. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth. Make sure the seeds that your mouth is planting are good seeds. So when you eat, you eat good fruit. Remember. Oh, I was gonna say remember to look at the camera. I did. So.
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