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Words-Full of Life and Death

 

The Words of the Lord bring forth life. The wrong words can bring forth death. How do I know? The first way is that God's word says so in Proverbs 18:21.

The second way I know is twenty-four years ago, I was visiting a family member of my husbands. We were there to attend the funeral of her thirty-nine year old son. I will never forget standing in her kitchen and the words she spoke. She said, "He's told me for years, he would never live to see forty. I used to ask him why?"

He said, "I just know I won't, that's all."

"I finally just quit asking him. However, I did of course ask him if he had seen a doctor, and he hadn't."

Here was a vibrant young man, who enjoyed life, yet pronounced many times out of his mouth he would not live to see forty. And he didn't.

Our words are so important. You know the Lord said our tongue is a double-edged sword. "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12.

Since there is life and death in the tongue, I am trying to train myself, to speak words that are life giving.  And when I pray, I have begun using the Lord's scriptures that pertain to the situation I am praying about. That means I am praying in His will. Those are His words. 

We can sew strife or peace with our words. We are told idle hands can get us in trouble, but we aren't normally told idle words can be death.

I have tried to make every effort to watch my words and to explain to my daughters how important their words are. To think before speaking, making sure they speak the right words. A lesson I myself am practicing every day.

God's blessings for His grace.



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