Word For Today Giving a Today Word

Word For Today

Giving a Today Word

 

Be a wise person with words not of flattery but encouragement

Build confidence by giving people a Word for the Day

A Word that will help them to do greater things

A Word that will help them know you believe in them

Even when they may not believe in themselves

Giving a Today Word

What makes great men and women?

Who are people you have

come to love and respect?

For me those people are the ones who

have spoken encouraging words to me.

They are people who take interest in others.

People who always seem to have a smile.

They are men and women

who make you feel like they care.

If you have ever spoken to a person

and they said, “You made my day”.

You know what a great feeling that is.

Making someone’s day is a great thing.

When I am on the phone talking to someone

at a bank or a utilities company, someone

who will say at the end of the conversation…

 “Is there anything else I can help you with?”

I have gotten in the practice of replying…

 “Promise me you will have a great day.”

They generally are caught off guard

because they have just spoken words

that they say to every caller,

the same thing over and over again.

They were talking to me because I called

for help and I turned the conversation around

by expressing I want them to have a great day.

Every time I get this opportunity,

the person on the other end of the line

responds in a way of great appreciation.

Their comments that follow come

with surprise and appreciation.

When we take the time to speak encouragement

or blessing, we are changing that person’s day.

 When you say to someone…

 “It is so good to see you”.

You change that person’s day.

Giving a person a word for the

day does not have to be lengthy.

It just has to be sincere.

I love to meet children with a Biblical name.

I tell them what a great name they

have and why and how I believe they

will be like that Biblical person.

I often stop people with a smile

and tell them how great a smile they

have and the powerful gift a smile is.

I was not always this way.

 I used to have a more critical spirit.

It seemed I naturally saw the negative

in people and could not get past it.

But look at Jesus, He was liked by the

tax collectors, prostitutes and sinners.

Why?  Because He saw a positive future

and pointed out the goodness of God.

Remember…

 “It is the goodness or kindness of

God that leads us to repentance.”

Romans 2:4      

Proverbs 16:23, 24 says…

A wise man's heart guides his mouth,

and his lips promote instruction.  

Pleasant words are a honeycomb,

sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb.

 Wise people have sweetness in

their heart that guides their mouth.

When the wise person speaks, their instruction

comes like an invitation to greatness.

The person that is weak and
lacks strength to do good things,

are healed by the words of the wise.

Most of us know what we can’t do and

too few of us know what we can do.

They say…

 “You won’t know how to do

something until you do it.”

Or…

You don’t know what you are capable of

until you put yourself in a position to do

something you have never done before.

All of us are capable of doing great things but

fear of not knowing how, keeps us from trying.

That is why the wise person gives

encouragement with instruction.

Confidence has to be built before we try.

The Bible says…

 “But encourage one another daily,

as long as it is called Today,

so that none of you may be

hardened by sin's deceitfulness.”

Hebrews 3:13

Be a wise person with words

not of flattery, but encouragement.

Build confidence by giving

people a Word for the Day.

A Word that will help

them to do greater things.

A Word that will help them know

you believe in them even when

they may not believe in themselves.

Scripture Reading

Proverbs 16:23-24 NIV

23 A wise man's heart guides his mouth,

and his lips promote instruction.  

24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb,

sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.