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Watch Your Mouth
Psa 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Why watch what you say?
When we watch we see what is coming and what is going. We use words to describe what we are thinking. What we're thinking, when spoken, is likened to a seed sown. Seeds look for ways to grow. A word of joy, seeks to grow joy. Its potential can only be joy. Words spoken in hate or spite will seek or manifest hate or spite. Spoken words carry out what our soul manifest. Our soul is our mind, will and emotion. Our mind is our thoughts, our will is our desire to deliver and our emotion is our level of intensity.
Scripture says in
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Don't be misled. Remember you can't ignore God and get away with it. You
will always reap what you sow. In word or deed, what we say we do. There
is a reaping (a return or a reward).
Words, thoughts spoken and
action or deed, will provide all the means for things to come to
fruition as they are willed. Thoughts, words spoken, deeds done in hate,
jealousy, pride, anger or in the negative will produce that harvest.
Thoughts, words spoken, deeds done in love and in the fruits of the
Spirit (Gal 5:22), will produce those harvests.
We can reap now in our life and be rewarded as we sow to the Spirit in our lives. Doing good toward others to make better their lives is sowing a good seed. Examples of sowing good seed:
1. Praying for others
2. Lending a listening ear
3. Offering advice to others through the word of God
(by the
Spirit, we say what they need to hear)
4. Providing monetary help
5. Giving of our time
6. Providing shelter
7. Providing clothing
8. Searching for God in others
9. Forgiving all who offend
10. Loving all men:
a. their right to change
b. their right to change
c. help them change through the word of God
d. provide means or avenue of change through Programs:
a. marriage
b. drug and alcohol
c. financial counseling
d. healing schools
e. health and wholeness
All these come under loving your neighbor as yourself.
Mat 19:19
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Mar 12:31
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.Luk 10:27
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.Rom 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.Rom 13:9
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Rom 13:10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.Gal 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Jam 2:8
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:If we
practice I Cor 13, we fulfill all that the law and the word of God
requires
New Living Translation
1 If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear. 9 Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! 10 But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear. 11 It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now. 13 There are three things that will endure – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love.
Words are extremely powerful. Words of faith formed the world and hold it together even now.
The key to controlling the tongue is speaking God's word.
Mat 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Mat 12:35 A good man out of the good
treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of
the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Words spoken have consequence according to their purpose for saying
them.
Mat 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Mat 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned
Confess your faith so that your heart remains pure
Words thought and not spoken cannot change things
The mouth speaks what is in the heart.
Pro 18:20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
You hear then you say. When you say you hear. When you hear faith comes. When faith comes you speak from the abundance of your heart
With God filled words we build faith into the lives of men.
Jam 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Jam 3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Jam 3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Jam 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Jam 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Jam 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
Jam 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Jam 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Jam 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Jam 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Jam 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Jam 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
When you speak in accordance to God's will, the words spoken are coming from the heart
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
John 8:38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Col 4:2
Continue in prayer, and watch
in the same with thanksgiving;
Col 4:3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of
utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
Col 4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Col 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Col 4:6 Let your speech
be
alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer
every man.
Titus 2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
James 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
1Peter 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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