"I had just heard a sermon on words and was back at home thinking about what was said. Without even thinking I said to the Lord, “Teach me about words please” His reply was immediate. “Pick up your pen and write” I did and this is what I received.

“Don't waste your words. Treat them as a valuable and precious commodity and they will become such. Fill them with love and faith. Believe in them. Use them to convey your faith and love to others. Use them to lift people up, even as you would use your arms and hands to lift someone up physically. If you can lift a person spiritually, he will stand up by himself. His body will respond to the unction of his heart. Never put people down or pass judgement on them, you don't know what they have been through. Use your words to bring life. Speak life to people, use words to change situations. Even a dead person heard the words of the Prince of Life. You have that same ability, for you have the Word of God within you, given to hold forth to others. Don't speak rashly and put away foolish talking. It is profitless. Don't speak about negative situations, they will erode your faith. Find a positive thing to say about matters of life. A man who can control his mouth is a perfect man. (James3v2) This does not just mean stopping it from speaking bad things in times of pressure but it means using your words wisely as you go through life. When you are in a group of people who are discussing a certain issue, you can learn to open your inner ear and hear the council of the Holy Spirit on the subject in hand, for He is indeed present and His council is perfect. These words can then be spoken out and bring great blessing to the meeting.

You will never rise above that which you say..

Your words will either lift you up or put you down. Take heed whose words you hear! If you hear the world's words of idle conversation, television and newspapers, they will go down into your heart and will then start to come out of your mouth and will control your life. If you hear God's words, His words will go down into your heart and they will come out of your mouth and guide you wisely in all the affairs of life. I wish people would have to pay for every idle word that comes out of their mouths! It might stop them talking so much. A word tax you could call it! Five dollars for every non productive word spoken would soon help bring the tongue in line. (when I heard this I thought, wow, that's a little excessive. He immediately replied) A little excessive you say? I have said that men shall give account of every idle word spoken, perhaps then, five dollars would seem cheap! Words are very important and very precious. Blessed is the man of few words! I have given man the ability to speak.

An excessive use of words lowers their value, they become cheap like one cent pieces. Many misuse them, or yield themselves to the words of the enemy and turn what I designed to be a blessing into a curse against themselves. Man has the power to create a beautiful world around himself, just as I created the world with My Words. When I had finished speaking, I saw everything I had created and said it was very good. Can you say that about the things your words have created in your life? Use words wisely and to My glory and they will enrich you and bless not just your life but also those who come in to contact with you”

Didn't speak much for days after this!!

Listen how negative and death doomed the worlds speech is. “I’m dying for a cup of tea!” -‘You make me sick!’ ‘You’ll never amount to anything’ - ‘I can’t do that’ - ‘It won’t happen’ - Read Proverbs and see how many of them relate to the words of our mouth. ‘Death and life are in the power of the tongue!’ Pr18v21 - ‘He that keeps his mouth keeps his life’ Pr13v3 - ‘You are taken captive by the words of your mouth’ Pr4v2

James Chapter 3 says our tongue sets on fire the course of nature in our lives and the lives of others!

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