Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak

"Words are a big deal. They are containers for power, and we have to decide what kind of power we want our words to carry. ... I believe that our words can increase or decrease our level of joy. They can affect the answers to our prayers and have a positive or negative effect on our future. ... One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have."

Building on the premises of her bestselling books, Power Thoughtsand Living Beyond Your Feelings, Joyce examines how we use words-the vehicles that convey our thoughts and emotions-and provides a series of guidelines for cultivating talk that is constructive, healthy, healing, and used for good results.

Topics include:

The Impact of Words

How to Tame Your Tongue

How to be Happy

When to talk and when not to talk

Speaking Faith and Not Fear

The Corrosion of Complaints

Do you really have to give your opinion?

The importance of keeping your word

The power of speaking God's word

How to have a smart mouth

In "A Dictionary of God's Word" at the end of the book, Joyce provides dozens of scripture verses, arranged by topic, and recommends that we read them aloud to strengthen our vocabulary of healing words.