Season Of Exultation - Day 2

Power on your tongue - Part 1

I want to share with you about  the power behind words that we speak everyday using our tongue .Our words are super powerful. They can build us up , tear us apart, breathe life into us.Our words seriously do matter .God tells us in His Word that the tongue has incredible power. We can use our tongue to bring blessings and life or curses and death. In the bible James chapter 3 has a lot to talk about taming our tongue. James says that a small spark can burn down the whole forest likewise our tongue is also the fire which can corrupt our entire life system. 

Wow!  Isn't it sometimes scary?

I have a hard time controlling my tongue and I still have a hard time with words . I know we all do .Sometimes we utter inappropriate  words in anger. We curse and say things of negativity and hurt at others. We talk bad stuff about people . We even curse our situations,gossip about our neighbour, boast about our lives and say stuff that put others down .Words can make us feel worthless,wretched, unloved, despicable and incompetent. Our tongues can be the most difficult thing to control and leave us with great regret if we use our words to hurt. I am here to tell you that surely there is hope! 

The Bible tells us that with the help of the Holy Spirit we can have power and control over our tongue. We read in Colossians 4:6 - "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.Proverbs 15:4 says that  "The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit." We also read in Proverbs 21:23 "Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity."

So many more verses talk about guarding our tongue. We can't and it's impossible in our flesh to keep a watch on each word we utter out of our mouth.With the help of the Holy Spirit who is a teacher and a  counselor ,we can speak words of hope and love and have control over our tongue.

Let our mouth be a fountain of fresh living waters to many thirsty, exhausted souls out there. I pray that each of our words will be blessed and bring about revival among people.

Shalom Blessings .