To begin, I'd like to share a quote from Proverbs 18:21: "The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit." This verse highlights how the things we say possess the ability to either build people up or tear people down. The things we say don't just affect others, but they could also affect ourselves. In this day and age, it has been so normalized to complain and speak negatively about ourselves. As Christians, we often forget that just as God created the world with His words, and we are made in His image, we too can shape our own realities through the words we speak. If you keep speaking words of discouragement over yourself, you are going to remain discouraged; if you speak words of encouragement over yourself, you are gonna prosper in the ways that God intended for you to prosper in.