The Power of Positive Prophesies

It is said that the grandmother of Jackie Joyner Kersey named the child after First Lady Jackie Kennedy, “Because someday she is going to be the First Lady of something!”

Jackie Joyner Kersee grew up in poverty and had to overcome asthma and being allergic to many things - including grass - to become one of the greatest athletes of all time as a dominant track and field star. She has been called by many, “The first lady of track and field,” living up to the meaning behind her name. She had God-given talent, but growing up in a house and environment of positive prophesy and high expectations surely helped.

Author Laurie Beth Jones writes that a positive prophesy is a positive prediction that you share with someone, and research shows that this can lead to an increase of performance.

She also wrote, “One if the most important things we can do for others - and for ourselves - is to create and maintain an atmosphere charged with positive prophesies.”

Success stories are littered with people along the way who have offered words of encouragement and who have used compliments as keys to unlock a world of potential.the works we say can help lead others to their destiny.

The words we use can also lead people away from their destiny. Many success stories are also filled with negative prophesies - negative predicitions placed on some - and people who have used those negative prophesies to fuel them.

In an interview with Jon Gordon, author and speaker Heather Monahan said, “You can change a person's life just by the belief you have in them and by caring enough to take a moment to verbalize that. She is the author of a book about confidence, and she was sharing the story about how one person’s comment inspired and encouraged her to write it.

We have to chance to change the world through how we talk to others. Words have power, and if we can be positively truthful and see the good in others while providing feedback, we can help set other people up for success by building their confidence, helping them refine their skills, and unlocking new doors that they might not have known existed.

References

Jones, Laurie Beth. “The Path.” Laurie Beth Jones, 1996.