God has really been speaking to me this week about my tongue. It amazes me how it can be used for good or bad. I can choose to praise with it or I can choose to use it to curse. I can choose to build someone up or choose to tear someone down. I can choose to use it to speak life or I can choose to use it to speak death. This is something I struggle with. When I am speaking to my kids. When I've had enough & trying to handle them. I'm reminded this week that how & what I speak to them is how they will handle others as well as their children in the future. God has shown me this week that it goes beyond my tongue on why I may say or react the way I do. So my prayer is that God will continue to show me the things that I need to change & submit so that He can continue to change me.
There is life & death in the power of our tongue.Proverbs 12:18 (New International Version)
18 Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 15:4 (New International Version)
4 The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 18:21 (The Message)
21 Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit—you choose.
Proverbs 18:21 (Amplified Bible)
21Death 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].(
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