This is the Chip Ingram Sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge. In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end. And now here's our guest teacher, Kyle Eidleman, with his message titled, Say It Out Loud.

I want to start off my message by telling you something that's going to seem

simple. And some of you are like, well, yeah, that's kind of your thing, Kyle. That's kind of what

you do. Well, I know it's going to sound simple. It's going to sound simple enough that you'll

probably think to yourself at some point in this sermon, does this really need to be a whole sermon?

They'll probably sound simple enough that you're tempted to dismiss it and think,

uh,

it's interesting,

but I'll wait to hear what's next week.

I just think that what we're going to talk about in these next few minutes,

even though it's simple,

has the potential to profoundly impact,

not just your relationship with God, but your whole life,

your relationship with other people, how you see yourself. Here's the idea. Again, it's going to

sound simple. A word you speak is more powerful than a thought you think. A thought that you speak

out loud with words is more powerful than thoughts that just stay in your head. And we're going to

see in a few minutes how science shows this. It's true that when you speak certain words,

your brain wants to believe what it hears you saying.

Your brain leans in differently when it hears a thought spoken out of your mouth.

When my kids were young, I would challenge them to pay attention to the words they spoke out loud about themselves and about their circumstances.

I remember taking my middle school daughter to school one morning,

and she was telling me on the way to school about some drama in the friend group the day before.

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