SPEAK IT!

"DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE, AND THEY WHO INDULGE IN IT SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF IT (FOR DEATH OR LIFE)!"

Proverbs 18: 21 AMP Version

God's Word in James talks a lot about the tongue and how we can get into trouble or can light up a person's life.  I could write forever about how to use this very important step in exploring the powerful relationship we have with Jesus Christ.  

A).  There is that whole thinking before you open your mouth to Speak It!  Do you? 

Proverbs is full of Godly wisdom about how we talk to others.  We can be a fool and utter critical, damaging things that tear them down.  Or, we can judge them and call them out on it.  We learn in Bible Studies, Church, and in Psychological books, that what we are really doing here is making ourselves look better.  I call it ONEUPSMANSHIP!  As we see in our scripture it is very simple.
We can cause death or life by NOT thinking or praying before we speak it!  I talked with a client yesterday and how desperately he wants to learn to manage that part of his personality.  It isn't easy, and that is why we go to our Lord, we must seek Him and yell Help!  In my clients case he needed a certain medication to calm down that side of the brain and focus.  It is working.  And, now He wants help to learn after 3 decades how to stop that immediate access to his thoughts.

STOPPING OR SLOWING DOWN THAT IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO YOUR THOUGHTS!

You must first want to and our Lord points out many times in his Word, that we must.  And, that He will help!!!

James 3: 2/12

B).  Calling things not as though they were!

Romans 4: 17  " . . . -the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were."

Not much is said about this verse in the general church congregations.  People who discuss this realm of SPEAK IT! are afraid to say. . ."Thank God for the healing of cancer that is in my body, I praise your Name for bringing your healing and life to me!"   Many of us were brought up to believe that to ask such a thing of God was blasphemous and boastful.  Arrogant and Egotistical.  Erik Weimer of Upward Christian Living Book Store SPEAKS IT!  I wrote about this earlier.  He had a very bad bladder situation and no insurance and no money to fix it.  He could die.  He boldly spoke to God this way. . ."You know I don't have insurance or money for the operation, so either you are going to heal me, and in that case I thank and praise you Father God for your touch, or you are going to take me home with you."  God touched him and he hasn't had a kidney or bladder malfunction since.  There are evangelists who would claim they pray, by speaking it, believing it and receiving it.  Therefore they have no colds, sickness or disease.  I have problems with that since God indicates we will have trouble in our lives, the rain comes on the just and unjust.  But I also agree with Erik and how he went about his prayer of knowing that God would do one or the other.  He also commented that God could have provided the money for the operation.  He chose to honor how he spoke it!.

Sometime ago when I saw how negative I could think about things, and even speak negativity, I began the task of changing my thinking and my speaking.  Lassoing your thoughts can be quite the job.  II Cor. 10: 5 shows us that God wants us to take captive our thoughts that trouble and bring on ill actions.  God blesses obedience to all His commands.  I probably should look for a lasso on line and run a picture of it for you.  Visualizing that helps me so much when I start to get a thought that isn't welcomed or good for me.  Thoughts turn into ideas, ideas turn into attitudes, attitudes turn into actions.

THOUGHTS TURN INTO IDEAS!    IDEAS TURN INTO ATTITUDES!  ATTITUDES TURN INTO ACTIONS!

        L   A   S   S   O, TAKE CAPTIVE YOUR THOUGHTS TO BRING OBEDIENCE UNTO GOD.
        
        Watch this week and take into consideration how you might think positive, speak positive, and act with positivity.  (And with this weather, that will take DISCIPLINE!   Discipline is a DISCIPLINE!   I am not done with SPEAK IT!  Yet!