How Are You?

How are you? How you doing? How you feeling? How's it going? How many times a day are you asked questions like these in some form?  How many times a day do you ask one of these or a similar question to others? What's your typical response?  What is theirs?  Currently, my usual responses are great and wonderful, very good, really good, just great.  I hear blessed, grateful, blessed and highly favored, excited, alright, okay, not so good, have been better, tired, sick and tired, little frustrated, kinda down, little disappointed, seen better days, supernaturally, doing good, real well,  kind of scared, a little bit worried, not feeling so good, et.al. 

I can imagine that you respond, as I do, to one of these questions several times a day, whether in person or over the phone.  Consider the declaration that you're making.  Since the tongue has power of life and death (see Proverbs 18:21), to which do your daily, repetitive responses speak?   You're only saying two or three words, do they really have that much impact?  Can/will they really make a difference in your life?  How important is this small talk in the greater scheme of life and living?  

Are your responses positive or negative confessions?  I would encourage you to make the choice to change all negative confessions to positive ones. Even when the facts don't line up, speak positively, speak the truth.  Your words are self-fulfilling prophecies.  Change your words, change your life.  Start with those daily, repetitive responses.