Breaking the Power of Negative Words by Mary C. Busha

Breaking the Power of Negative Words by Mary C. Busha ISBN-13: 9780800734749 Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Revell Released: Feb. 19, 2019

Source: Review copy from the publisher.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
The spoken word has immense potential for either building up or tearing down. Too often, it's the latter. Many of us are daily carrying around hurtful words, sometimes without even knowing it. These negative words have great influence over our lives and the lives of those around us.

Mary Busha speaks to the hurting and guides them toward victory over the harmful, demeaning, or insulting words of their past. She shows readers how to understand the emotions and circumstances behind the words, choose to want to forgive their offenders, embrace the truth about who they are created to be, recognize the effect of both negative and positive self-talk, pray effectively to break the power of negative words, and walk in the freedom God provides in his Word. She also encourages readers to find ways to use their own words to lift up the people God places in their path.


My Review:
Breaking the Power of Negative Words talked about the impact of using positive and negative words. The author used a lot of stories about individuals who struggled with the things she was talking about in that section. She started by talking about negative words we've heard, especially as a child. She talked about understanding the background of a person who said hurtful words to us and forgiving them for what they said. She talked about believing what Scripture says about us and using prayer to help break free of hurtful words.

She talked about not complaining or blaming others for your own words and actions. There was a chapter on finding out what your unique gifts and such are. Another chapter was about committing to using positive self talk. She then moved on to the words we say to others, especially children. She urged us to be aware of the words we're saying and to speak positive words into people's lives. She repeatedly talked about basing our view of ourselves on Scripture (so go search the Bible!), to have an attitude of gratitude rather than focusing on what's wrong, and forgiveness as a way to freedom from past hurt. It's a decent book, but I have previously read a lot of what she said, so I didn't get many new insights from it.


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