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Proverbs 18:21 - "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit." 

Power in Our Words!

Sometimes when we speak, we are not aware of the power of the words that come out of our mouths. Nor how they could cause dramatic situations or feelings in our lives and others. Most people speak before thinking what they want to say or filtering how they choose to say it. How many times have we spoken something into existence from our lips and tongue never really knowing it even manifested due to our lips and tongues? Our words DO manifest and become real, they go out into the atmosphere to complete what we've spoken. They can and will effect the listener's attitude, outlook, internal emotions and can trigger the best of us. That's why it's so important to carefully and wisely watch what rolls off of our tongues, especially out of anger, hurt or pain. Angry, painful and hurtful words can cause death to the spirit, but kind, loving and uplifting words puts life into the spirit. As with every single action we take or about to take, the Holy Spirit gives us a split second "talking to" to direct us in the RIGHT decision. A warning to NOT do something is just as powerful as His prompting TO do something. Obedience in both ways are imperative. Well, the same holds true with our words we speak to others, and in this world of social media, for others. If we're angry, hurt, jealous or in pain about something, then the "natural, fleshly" thing we WANT to do is to lash out verbally against our "perpetrators" that caused those emotions to surface in the first place. However, that ISN'T what Jesus would want from us. That's why the Holy Spirit sends out that little, small voice, and in some instances, a SCREAMING THUNDEROUS LOUD voice, to warn us to hold our tongue! To not speak "death" into an already traumatic situation. To not speak negatively but to hold back our wrath from our tongues, pray for those words to leave and to think clearly before speaking. The more we are in tune with this practice and of hearing His prompting, the less inclined we will be to desire to speak the way many people are speaking in these videos. If we find ourselves unable to clearly think before we speak, then it's just wise to step away and not say anything until maybe a later time. This is very hard to do, but it CAN be done! 

How do I know? Because I've had a lot of practice in this area! I've lashed out before thinking and didn't wait for the Lord to give me KIND words. I saw what damage it eventually ended up doing down the road, not to mention it wasn't the best testimony of how turning over my life to Jesus Christ changed me or my heart. Remember, we're always a work in progress because we're always having to go to battle. On the other hand, as I continually kept getting practice on holding my tongue and learning the hard way how not to lash out through the flesh when I've been angry, hurt, and in pain and my perception of the entire situation changed right before my eyes. I didn't take it personally. I didn't feel the "need" to lash out and verbally assault them the way that they just verbally assaulted me. I remember clearly, that first time that I obeyed the Holy Spirit and thought clearly before I spoke, how DIFFERENT the words actually were that came to me and out of me! It was amazing. It was freeing. But more than that, it was healing! Both to my spirit and to the one that I spoke kindly back to. It was then, at that moment, that I began to live what I read and heard in my spirit all of those years! I understood it in a much different way. It took a long time to get a real grip on this new me, but I've learned that lesson! Do I sometimes slip up and lash out in the flesh? Of course! I'm also almost immediately convicted, repent and try harder the next time around. We're still human living in a fallen world so we will slip up, we'll crash and fall. But there's a difference between slipping up every now and then and outright disobeying the Lord and continuing on a destructive path with your words with intent! All that means is one isn't willing to submit and surrender and chooses to remain in their old ways. But God can change every single thing about you if you allow Him to do so! Some things take longer than others, no doubt about that! Only God knows why that is too and those things we struggle with over and over are the very things He uses to draw us nearer to Him and to witness to others and to keep us relying on Him! So, as I look around this fallen world right now, the words being used so freely and without thought, are vulgar and full of contempt. It's a sad state we are living in as a human race. But it's a sinful world and the devil is gathering up his pawns for his upcoming game, albeit, short-lived, defeated and unsuccessful!

What brings me to this revelation, although it's not new to me, was watching videos on one of the popular platforms on the internet. I remember just a few short years ago, watching funny cat/animal videos weren't peppered with profanity of the worst kind. I remember just a few short years ago, I could pull up videos that would otherwise be family friendly and entertaining, but now they are full of vulgarity, profanity, and some very inappropriate narrations. This troubled my spirit greatly because I think about how many young, even very small, children go searching these same videos to laugh and chuckle and be entertained only to be faced and bombarded with some horrible language, inappropriate words to songs that some people use in their compilations, and suggestive dance. All of it is unnecessary! There is no reason for that type of language on supposedly family friendly videos. If it upsets my spirit to hear this kind of language, I shudder to think what those poor impressionable children are learning and feeling. Afterall, they learn from the adults and if the adults are making this type of vulgarity “normal,” then those children and young adults will think it's “normal” and “ok” to talk that way, too. It's such a shame! And I've noticed more and more girls, young ladies and women are using the same vulgar language and it just sounds so nasty. I suppose they think they sound “cool” and find nothing wrong with it. After the massive snow storms that hit across the US, there were so many videos posting to the platform with headlines that would appear to make them funny and entertaining. Those were the ones I would click on only to be immediately met with someone narrating it with some very disturbing language! It was felt in my spirit and although the videos were funny, the narrations made them unbearable to watch. They would have been just as funny without the colorful language, if not even funnier. Don't those people realize the ages that will be viewing them? Or don't they care? I would venture to say they don't care. I believe they speak like that on the regular basis so it's obviously not offensive to them and they don't feel it necessary to filter what they do choose to say. It makes it difficult to even find some humor and light entertainment to take our minds off of the world falling apart around us!

When God created the heavens and the earth he spoke it into existence. With His voice! That's it! That's power in the tongue! When He said let there be light, there was light. The light obeyed and became into existence. His word says we will do greater works which is another spoken word over us that will manifest in our lives because we are His children. We have to receive it and believe it! Since the Lord said we WILL do greater works, and the Word says the POWER is in our tongue, we should be able to speak to that bad situation in our lives and let it be moved. We don't need to speak OF the problem, but rather speak about the solution through the Word. The enemy is behind all of the negativity that we speak, every foul word that flows from the mouth, every bad thought we allow to be spoken from our tongues. The enemy gets us to continue speaking negative words to get us entangled in what I call mind battles! Why is that? First and foremost, he wants us to feel defeated and ignore the Word of our Father! To him, ignorance really IS bliss. The enemy doesn't want us to renew our minds like the Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 12:3, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." The enemy definitely doesn't want us to know the power WE have through the Lord Jesus Christ to speak to situations! The Bible says that God's people perish from lack of knowledge! As you can see, knowledge is POWER!

Romans 12:2 tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." You see, changing the way you think ultimately changes your perspective, A change in your perspective changes what flows out of your hearts and how you act in the world. Paul’s words aren’t anything new. "Change your mind" is the central and powerful theme of Jesus’ first sermon in Matthew 4:17, "From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Jesus challenged the people to change their ways and patterns of thinking because it doesn't matter how many times you read through the Bible, or parts of it, if your mind doesn’t change in the way that it thinks, then you will just impose your personal biases and labels on the words you read instead of reading and digesting what was actually meant by Jesus' words. The purpose of changing our thoughts and ways of thinking, is two-fold. First of all as we are warned in Mark 7:20-22, "And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21) For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22) coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness." Our thoughts become who we are and will fall approximately 18 inches down from our brains right into our hearts! It can definitely produce many harmful issues in our lives if we don't change those thoughts. So, good thoughts, positive thoughts, godly thoughts, wholesome thoughts will produce the same that flow from our hearts. But as stated in Mark 7:20-22 above, evil thoughts produce evil and dark actions that flow from our hearts. Secondly, our thoughts can sabotage our faith! We are told to take our thoughts captive in 2 Corinthians 10:5, "casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ," That is pretty powerful because think about a time in your life when a thought suddenly "popped" into your head that was not wholesome or godly, but fleshly in nature, and you didn't take it captive. It inevitably turned into sin that flowed from your heart. And remember, too, when we change our thoughts and minds, we also will not desire to speak vile and vulgarly as the devil wants us to! Our words will change as well and that is powerful! You see, with our words, we also place thoughts into others, whether they are good, bad, happy, sad or any other emotion. We have a great responsibility with our words.

Our minds have the capacity for evil....to think evil thoughts, to think bad thoughts, to think diabolical thoughts, to think less than holy thoughts. Those thoughts sometimes become who we become if it's all we think. The Apostle Paul was intensely aware of the mind's capacity for evil thoughts. Someone can dwell upon lustful thoughts, wrong thoughts about some member of the opposite sex. Another person may seethe with jealousy and envy in his mind toward other people that they may be comparing themselves to. While others still are so desperately consumed with pride and with overly high thoughts about themselves. The "works of the flesh" in Galatians 5 is a long list of sins, many of which are sins of the mind. Let's see what Galatians 5:19-21 has to say, "Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20) idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21) envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." So if you really look long and hard at those "works" you will easily find the sins begin in the mind, with thoughts that begin to take up residence and they can, and will, become spoken words. 

Let's go back to God's gift of the spoken word being given to only mankind. It was not given to any other living being in His Creation, only to man. You see, when someone becomes a Christian, there is a clear and present expectancy that a change in the way we speak will follow that decision because living for Christ and through Christ makes an impact and a big difference in the words that are chosen! As we know, a sinner's mouth is as told to us in Romans 3:14, "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." but when we submit our lives over to Jesus Christ, we gladly confess with our mouths that "Jesus is Lord." You see, before we were saved, we lived in a spiritual death as told to us in Ephesians 2:1-3, "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2) in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3) among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others." In Romans 3:13, Paul describes those who are dead in sin: "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips";" I can't stress how important those words actually are! Paul was exact in his words and used some very powerful words to convey his message! On the flip side, our words can be filled with blessings when our hearts are filled with blessings. So if we fill our hearts with the love of Christ, only truth and purity can, and will, come out of our mouths. It is a struggle every single day to hold our tongues but it's a struggle that must be fought and battled so others can see, and "feel" the Love of Jesus through our transformation! 

Words can comfort a grieving heart, or it can be the cause of that grief. Words can make you laugh, or they can make you cry. They can cause much happiness or cause much sorrow. They can break someone down or they can build them up. They can make someone sick or they can heal someone. They can stir the spirit or they can calm the spirit. Let's just take a few minutes and see what some of the Scriptures say about the tongue:

1) Proverbs 12:18, "There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health."

2) Matthew 15:18, "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man."

3) Proverbs 16:24, "Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones."

4) Matthew 12:37, "For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

5) Proverbs 21:23, "Whoever guards his mouth and tongue Keeps his soul from troubles."

6) Colossians 3:8, "But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth."

7) Psalm 19:14, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer."

8) James 1:26, "If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless."

9) Proverbs 15:4, "A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit."

10) Luke 6:45, "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks." 

This is definitely not all-inclusive but you can see just how important the emphasis is on the power of the tongue and our responsibility to control it! There are many passages that speak about the tongue and the power of words. The tongue can speak the truth or it can tell lies as in Proverbs 12:19 states, "The truthful lip shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment." We should all aspire to speak the truth so the words endure forever! There is a lasting effect of truthful words and as it stated above, "a lying tongue is but for a moment." If we really stop and think about the power of our tongue, it's quite overwhelming and disheartening to think what kind of drama, trauma or negativity we caused in our own lives, and the lives of others! Many people don't think about the words they speak about themselves causing trouble to manifest, but it does! It's not just a warning for us to guard our tongues towards others, but to ourselves as well. We cause some of our own collateral damage by convincing ourselves we aren't worthy, we aren't smart enough, we are good enough, we aren't pretty/handsome enough, we aren't skinny/strong enough, we aren't rich enough, we aren't successful enough and so on. That's a tool of the enemy and he loves to use it whenever and wherever he can find a willing, yet weakened, participant! This is where I will point out our own "willingness" to speak in vulgar ways with vulgar vile words as is being done all throughout the videos mentioned above! Every single one of those people chose, willingly, to use the profanity. They chose to talk that way. They chose to disregard everyone else, including our children with little innocent ears. I can't excuse that behavior, all I know is that they need Jesus in their lives! They need the Holy spirit to convict them to turn from those bad choices, to turn from their sinful ways. As Christians, we are not to judge the unsaved as that is the job of the Lord Jesus Christ, however, we are to righteously judge our brothers and sisters in Christ and I can be certain, there were Christians speaking those vile words. I pray for them! The enemy will use our own words AGAINST us! So YES! Words do have power! In the natural, physical world they can hurt or heal one's feelings, heart, hurts and attitudes. However, in the spiritual world, they are simply containers of power that, when opened and loosed, can literally change your life, direct your future, and allow you to get your life aligned with God's Will! Not only that, but words carry God's Power to literally heal your body, bring Light into the darkness, bring financial blessing to your circumstances, provide for your needs, heal your mind, mend brokenness, bring joy into your heart and bring the promises of God's Word directly into this natural realm to bless you and your family! I mean, in reality, WORDS created the Universe through God speaking TO it! THAT'S POWER! It's funny how so many "voices" are being "cancelled" and "censored" yet all of the unwholesome, ungodly, evil and nasty voices are being praised and pushed to the front of the line. The end times are  nearing and culminating swiftly....be prepared!

Words Heal!

What's our part that we play in giving power to the words we speak or that are spoken TO us? What are words, really? They're air passing through vocal chords. They're also just a collection of vibrating sounds that we have oddly, yet collectively, decided have meaning and we bestow certain words with tremendous power. They only have the power that we have unknowingly decided they should possess. Strange, isn't it? What has power to me may not have power in someone else's life and vise-versa. Then there are specific words that have power over EVERY SINGLE LIVING PERSON! How is that actually decided? Is it something we are all inherently born with inside of us, from generations of sin? Who decided we all would feel pain if they were spoken to us or if we spoke them to someone else? Words do have power, but only as much power as we choose to give them. For all of us broken souls out there, sometimes the words that sting us the most are the words that show us where we are wounded and what we haven't turned over to the Lord! Have you ever been skipping along through life, or work, or day-to-day chores, happily going through the motions, thinking everything is just fine and dandy, when all of the sudden, out of nowhere, someone says something to you and you are hurt, angry or just plain devastated? It can ruin your whole mood, your whole day and depending on the intensity, your whole week! You are taken aback and taken by surprise and have no idea why you felt that way or reacted that way? Yes! We all have been there! But the reason that happens is an unhealed wound! Somewhere along the lines of life, we have buried something rather than allowing the Lord to heal it for us so at the right moment, unexpectedly, we are thrown head first into a tailspin of emotions and it forces us to look deep inside of ourselves to find that open wound, acknowledge it and surrender it! The power of words in these circumstances are used for the good! 

Mark 11:23-24, "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24) Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."

This is one of the most fascinating verses in all of Scripture. First, Jesus is telling us that we could "talk" to the mountains in our lives and they would move. In the Bible, human obstacles and hurdles are sometimes referred to as "mountains." One example of this is found in Zechariah 4:7, "'Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"" Jesus was referring to the human hurdles and obstacles that we face daily, when He referred to "this mountain." Jesus is also clearly telling us, and it can also be interpreted as instructing us, that we can speak to the human obstacles of sickness, family problems, finances, etc., and they will yield to us. There is tremendous power released when we speak God’s solution TO our problems but the key phrase is "GOD'S SOLUTION." So then when we look at Mark 11:23 a little more closely and we can see something else. Jesus made reference to "saying" something to our problems three different times there. Yes, I had to read it a few times to receive that which I saw! Read it again and you too will find the words "SAY to this mountain," "… believe that those things which he SAYS" and "shall have whatsoever he SAYS." Do you see it too? Pretty awesome!!! Three times in this one verse Jesus made clear references to Believers having what they SAY, what they SPEAK. But, it comes with a condition. Notice something else Jesus said in this very same verse. He said, "…shall not doubt in his heart, but shall BELIEVE." Three times Jesus stressed the importance of SAYING something but only ONCE did He actually mention the importance of believing something. To me, this means Jesus is obviously telling us that we have to do three times more saying than believing if we want to see our obstacles removed. This is a Spiritual Law that Jesus always applied in His own life. Law of Faith. Believing. Here He tells us that we must APPLY it to our lives as well as SAYING it. Now, please also understand that God's solution may not be what we think the solution should be for our human obstacles to yield to us. I remember growing up getting the following pounded into my spirit and mind; God always answers our prayers with yes, no, or wait. His solutions are for our good and what we think in our flesh should happen, many times would only cause more strife! 

Jesus said that words are seeds and can produce much fruit, 30-100 fold, depending on the kind of soil where they are planted and from the care that they're given. Seeds always produce after their own kind so if it’s an apple seed you’ll definitely get a tree that produces apples, not some other kind of fruit. In comparison then, words also bring increase. If you speak words of unforgiveness, anger, jealousy, hate, fear, doubt, or pride, they, too, will all produce a harvest. But the harvest those words will produce will be of the worst kind that will have absolutely no benefit whatsoever. Vulgar, vile and profane words included here! However, if you speak words of faith, hope, truth and love you will produce an abundance of fruit that is extremely beneficial! So we really shouldn’t be surprised when we see a tree (person) bearing bad fruit when they’ve been speaking (planting) bad seeds (words). Luke 6:43-45, "For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks." There is sadly an abundance of the bad-seed planters out there planting all kinds of bad seeds and those bad seeds are producing bad fruits. They are planting them in themselves and in others, producing trees bearing bad fruits all over the place! This is why I have warned to be careful what we allow our eyes to see, our ears to hear, our minds to think and our mouths to speak. For the eyes: Psalm 101:3, "I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me." For our thoughts: Romans 12:2, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." For our speech: Proverbs 15:1, "A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger." and Proverbs 18:21, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit." For our ears: Mark 4:24, "Then He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given."

This is clearly a generation of people who wants quick and instant results and immediate satisfaction. There is no patience, no thought, no true consideration. Unfortunately, seeds take time to grow. To take root. They also need to be cared for like watering, sunshine, and weeding. Weeds strangle out the roots and kill the harvest. Once we plant seeds of our words, we must take care to tend to the weeds before they overgrow and damage what is meant for good. If we don't "pluck" our tiniest of weeds (words) in its infancy, it will take over, strangle and kill the most beautiful of fruits. If those "weeds" (bad seeds) take root and are left to grow on their own, they become harder and harder to pull until one day, you find yourself having to shovel up the roots along with the seed and start all over. If you’ve been speaking words of doubt, planting seeds of doubt, the Bible says your heart, (which is the ground for the seed to grow in), has become hardened. We all know that seeds can't grow on hard ground. So in Mark 4:18 it says that worry chokes out the seed. Many of us worry unnecessarily, don't we? In Matthew 6:31, God asks why we worry and talk about our worry. Worry chokes out the seed.....the seed can't take root.....without the root, there is no growth (blessing in the harvest!) You see, how we speak, what we say, and choose to say, is extremely critical to the condition of our heart and to the fruit we bear in our life. God tells us above all else that we are to guard our heart, for everything we do flows from it! If we are careless with our hearts and leave it exposed to all kinds of "seeds" then we will harvest those seeds and become them. He then tells us how we are to guard our hearts; by keeping our mouth free of perversity (a deceitful mouth), and keeping all corrupted talk far from flowing from our lips. I know this is difficult to do sometimes but it's something we really need to strive to do daily! Those careless with their words and their choice of words are so conditioned to those words that they are planted deep within their hearts! Each time they speak profanely, without regard to content and the audience, it's a selfish act of being unkind. I pray everyone who is reading this or who was led to this post, and is struggling with profane words flowing from their mouths, turn from those ways, repents and allows the Lord to begin a new work within you! For those who aren't saved, who use the vulgar words, you aren't being judged. You are being prayed for so that you hear the voice of the Lord and accept His free gift of Salvation! 

Once you let out a word, it's impossible to take it back so it's so important to speak words of kindness, love, gentleness, truth, encouragement and fullness. It takes just seconds to say, and oftentimes even less time to think about, but many of the words that have been released will be tested by the fullness of time. Words have a tremendous impact on all of us. Whatever words we choose to utter should be carefully chosen with the utmost care because people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or evil. Words can comfort a grieving heart, or it can cause that grief. Words can make you laugh, or they can make you cry. They can cause much happiness or cause much sorrow. In Proverbs 10:20 says, "The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; The heart of the wicked is worth little." The tongue can speak the truth or it can tell lies as in Proverbs 12:19 states, "The truthful lip shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment." If we really stop and think about the power of our tongue, it's quite overwhelming to think what kind of drama, trauma or negativity we've caused in our own lives, and more devastatingly, in the lives of others! So let's start trying to consciously speak positive words, wholesome words, instead of speaking ill and negatively, over ourselves and the lives of others. This would please the Lord to see His children being more like His Son! Remember, to be human is to be vulnerable, feeling individuals, and it comes with all its feelings and emotions and times of weariness due to our struggles in this life, on this side of heaven. Our mountains may sometimes appear larger than life but only because we focus on them, thereby making them appear larger than they really are. The more you stare at something you perceive to be gigantic, the larger it will begin to appear to your mind's eye! It's that stubborn fear and worry all over again. Satan tends to constantly play the negative tapes of our lives, and he plays on these areas of our weakness, trying to accuse us day in and night out to get us to believe the lies. He is relentless in his evil plots to destroy lives. God goes to extreme measures to make Himself known to us, to all of us. God doesn't want any of us to perish and sent His Son Jesus Christ as our Truth! Satan, on the other hand, goes to great lengths to deceive all mankind. Satan comes at a young age to cripple you with fears, worries, anxieties, so you never step into your full destiny with God. His whole agenda is to keep you away from our Creator God and His Son Jesus Christ! Satan wants your thinking all messed up so you will possess wrong perceptions and rejection issues. He wants you to have a root of bitterness in your heart so that every little thing sends you off the charts, firing off at the mouth, and spewing things you later regret. All the while knowing seeds will be planted and he will fiercely run after those weeds before they're plucked so he can strangle all the Hope in Jesus Christ! Let's choose not to take part in his play. Let's choose not to watch his movie! I just want to say once again, our Words have GREAT power! They play a part in our everyday life and we must be mindful of the words we choose to speak over ourselves and others because what you plant NOW, will be the fruits of tomorrow! Plant the best seeds you have inside of you and hold your tongue even when you feel like it's an impossibility! God will guard it for you and will either keep you quiet or give you words to speak in place of the bad seeds you nearly planted! Today, choose to step into a much greater destiny by allowing God to heal your heart and to rule and reign where you have not allowed Him to be LORD. It may be your mouth, your emotions, or maybe even your character. God wants you to be the same person from home, in the car, at the office, in church, on the internet, on social media or at the store. It doesn't matter. So when you hear the words of others, you can either choose to receive them as truth or to reject them as lies. You can choose to listen to the profanity and vulgarity or choose to listen to something else more pleasing to the soul and moreso, to the Lord! And in the same manner you hear the words of others, every time you open your own mouth to utter a word to someone else, you have the opportunity to speak life or the temptation to take it. Let us seriously think before we speak and let us guard our hearts before we receive!

Heavenly Father, I come to you in thanksgiving for all that you've blessed us with in this life. I pray for the healing of the open wounds that are still raw and for those without Hope to seek your Face. Father God, I ask that you teach us Father, to hold our tongues and to be mindful of the words we speak to one another so we can build each other up and not tear one another down. Lord, we all come to you in our rawest forms, because we know Your ways are best. Please heal us of our wounds and teach us to speak with Love, with Your Love! Let us spread Your Word in this fallen world and come together in your name! Touch each heart that you have brought to this article because we know nothing is accidental or coincidental with You, Father God. Touch their lives, comfort their pain and show them Love. In all this we ask in Jesus' name, AMEN and AMEN!

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