Speak Life ... and shut the hell up!

by Bev Murrill

What exactly is 'Speaking Life'? Let’s begin with what it’s not. It’s not positive speaking ... it’s not a ‘name it and claim it’ approach to faith. Rather, speaking life is a natural result of having received by revelation, God’s perspective on a situation. Jesus spoke the language of life all the time. Like Jesus, once we see something from God’s perspective and hear what He is saying, our own perspective and therefore our words, are radically altered. When we speak life (or speak God’s words) it can cause a paradigm shift in the spiritual atmosphere over
circumstances and usher in a kingdom breakthrough.

158 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 12, 2012

About the author

Speaker
Writer
Leadership consultant
Social justice warrior
Gender equality advocate
Christian

Reviews

[Jenny Sanders · Rating 3 out of 5]

The premise of Bev's book is a good one. Speaking life has to better than speaking death, right? She's not talking about mind over matter, toxic positivity or pretending things are good when they clearly aren't. She encourages readers to dig into God's truth which trumps everything that looks/feels true and which shuts the mental door on untruths and whispers that doubt God's goodness; it refuses to bed down with lies and fears which are alien to God's kingdom.

I found the illustration about King Hezekiah upgrading the temple and overlaying the doors with gold in Chapter 6 very helpful. This King compromised with the King of Assyria by paying him off with that same gold. The parallel is that some of the valuable things in our character and faith can be stripped away by the enemy when we engage with compromise. It's a powerful picture.

I would like to change the word 'atmosphere' that was used rather a lot but that's a personal preference. It conjures the manipulation of sound, light and special effects to elicit a particular reaction and is more at home in the worlds of theatre, film and entertainment than in the community of God. Most often she is referring to spiritual temperature or context so if you can set that aside there are some helpful points scattered through the twelve chapters.