BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 01, 2023.

SUBJECT : BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS!

Memory verse: "You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth" (Proverbs 6 vs 2).

READ: Proverbs 13 vs 2 - 3; 18 vs 21; 21 vs 23:

13:2:  A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence.

13:3: He who guards his mouth preserves his life: but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

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

21:23: Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

INTIMATION:

Words can work wonders, but they can also work blunders! Do you realize that multitude of people fail in life because they speak failure? They fear failure and allow their fear to overcome their faith. What you say locates you. You will not—you cannot—rise above your own words. If you speak defeat, failure, anxiety, sickness, and unbelief, you will live on that level. Neither you nor anyone else, no matter how clever, will ever live above the standard of their conversation/confession. This spiritual principle is unalterable.

If your conversation/confession is foolish, trifling, unpractical, or disorganized, your life invariably will be the same way. With your words, you constantly paint a picture of your inner self. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the. Heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12 vs 34). If you think back on your life, you will probably agree that most of your troubles have been tongue troubles. Careful words make for a careful life, and careless talk may ruin everything. Numerous troubles are caused by an unruly tongue! Words spoken in the heat of the moment; words of anger, words of harshness, words of retaliation, words of bitterness, words of unkindness produce troubles for us. 

Words kill, and also gives life; they are either poison or fruit. It is your choice to make. It's really important that we let God help us overcome our unruly speech habits, for our words can work blunders and get us into trouble. A negative confession can produce negative results, while a positive confession can build your faith and confidence up. 

Confession is made with the mouth, not only for the good things God has promised us, but also for sickness, defeat, bondage, lack, and failure. Refuse to have a bad or negative confession. 

It’s also very important you repudiate a dual confession, it is very harmful to the spirit. Dual confession is a sign of unfaithfulness or doubt—a wavering spirit that is incapable of receiving anything from the Lord. For instance, you said at one moment; "With His stripes I am healed" (Isaiah 53 vs 5), and the next moment you said; "But the pain is still there." Don’t expect to get your divine healing because, according to Scripture, you are unfaithful—wavering between faith and unbelief. 

Go to higher level of living in the kingdom of God. Believe that you are who God says you are. Think that way. Talk that way. Act that way. Train yourself to live on the level of trusting what is written about you in God's Word. Do not permit your thoughts, your words, or your actions to contradict what God says about you. Therefore, be careful with your conversation/confession. Although you may  not master positive confession in a day or even a week, but you will learn it as you continue to walk in it faithfully. Because God has said it, we should boldly say the same thing! 

Avoid careless speech because it is a vicious habit. When one realizes that his words are the coin of his kingdom and that his words can be either a cursing influence or a blessing, he will learn to value the gift of speech. The word is a seed (Luke 8 vs 11), and germinates when sown. It can grow and become fruitful. If spoken from a poisoned mind is a poisonous seed, and is disastrous. An idle word spoken aloud may fall into the soil of someone's heart and poison his entire life. Learn to control your tongue. Therefore, ask God to help you set a guard over your mouth, and keep watch over the door of your lips. (See Psalm 141 vs 3).

Prayer: Abba Father, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight. Let my word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that I may know how I will answer every man, refrain my tongue from evil, and my lips from that they speak no guile, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!