“Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof”
(Proverbs 18:21).
(Proverbs 18:21).
Speech has tremendous power. A king rules with his words. An ordinary person also has great power in his mouth. With words of praise he can raise a person to great heights, and with a bit of gossip he can destroy a person’s reputation. Our words create worlds. You might sum up the next ten years with the phrase “Word Wars” and that is precisely why authority, which comes from Wisdom, will become the key to winning it.
How you use your words at home will be how you use them to shape the world around you. Are you speaking words of truth and life or are you speaking words of death and destruction?
How you use your words at home will be how you use them to shape the world around you. Are you speaking words of truth and life or are you speaking words of death and destruction?
There is a difference between conviction and condemnation.
As disciples of Christ we are called to mirror his ways and Jesus certainly knew how to throw down a criticism but he was also quick not to condemn.
How well do your words express the same to those who are listening? Knowing the balance between loving the sinner and hating the sin is called wisdom. Those with their “tooth” in tact should be able to do this with more strength and clarity this season. And the world will need you to!
Knowing God’s nature will not be enough, the church must become it.
If you’re having difficulty clearly understanding God’s position on hot-button subjects like abortion, homosexuality, adultery, human trafficking, pornography, sexual purity, and other mainstream issues which threaten to divide the church and not just our world, then now would be a great time to check your sources. God is not a God of confusion “the spiritual man judges all things” (1 Cor. 2:15). There’s a good chance your answers are not under right alignment with right authorities. Once they are, everything will become clear and you will be able to speak about them in wisdom with love and mercy.
We are entering a season where the Gifts of the Holy Spirit will flourish and manifest greatly across the globe. Those who are mature in faith will receive the wisdom of the Holy Spirit while those lacking in maturity will not.
“The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are foolish to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. …But we have the mind of Christ!
“Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification…. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God“ – 1 Corinthians 2:6-12 (emphasis mine).
It will be very important to discern from whom you are being taught as many false prophets AND false teachers have arose among the people since the Great Apostle Peter’s day (2 Peter 2:1-3).
Many men (and women) who have risen to levels of influence within the Church and nations will be silenced by God as he removes his "Wisdom ‘tooth’" from them like Pharaoh. Their years of deceitfulness will be exposed suddenly. Though Wisdom was granted to them they failed to follow her precepts and walk in them. We must have mercy upon those who would repent, but against those who would rise up and chase you to your death, as Pharaoh did the Israelites at the sea, be sure to leave them behind in their Egypt. A new world is at hand.
As disciples of Christ we are called to mirror his ways and Jesus certainly knew how to throw down a criticism but he was also quick not to condemn.
How well do your words express the same to those who are listening? Knowing the balance between loving the sinner and hating the sin is called wisdom. Those with their “tooth” in tact should be able to do this with more strength and clarity this season. And the world will need you to!
Knowing God’s nature will not be enough, the church must become it.
If you’re having difficulty clearly understanding God’s position on hot-button subjects like abortion, homosexuality, adultery, human trafficking, pornography, sexual purity, and other mainstream issues which threaten to divide the church and not just our world, then now would be a great time to check your sources. God is not a God of confusion “the spiritual man judges all things” (1 Cor. 2:15). There’s a good chance your answers are not under right alignment with right authorities. Once they are, everything will become clear and you will be able to speak about them in wisdom with love and mercy.
We are entering a season where the Gifts of the Holy Spirit will flourish and manifest greatly across the globe. Those who are mature in faith will receive the wisdom of the Holy Spirit while those lacking in maturity will not.
“The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are foolish to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. …But we have the mind of Christ!
“Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification…. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God“ – 1 Corinthians 2:6-12 (emphasis mine).
It will be very important to discern from whom you are being taught as many false prophets AND false teachers have arose among the people since the Great Apostle Peter’s day (2 Peter 2:1-3).
Many men (and women) who have risen to levels of influence within the Church and nations will be silenced by God as he removes his "Wisdom ‘tooth’" from them like Pharaoh. Their years of deceitfulness will be exposed suddenly. Though Wisdom was granted to them they failed to follow her precepts and walk in them. We must have mercy upon those who would repent, but against those who would rise up and chase you to your death, as Pharaoh did the Israelites at the sea, be sure to leave them behind in their Egypt. A new world is at hand.
ACTION STEP: We must exercise wisdom in this year and the nine years ahead. Move ahead with the things of God even if that means leaving others behind. We cannot control people. We do well to be able to control our self and our own tongue. Begin today by immediately obeying the word of the Lord regardless of how seemingly insignificant it may appear. Small decisions can have huge consequences. The difference between Pey and Fey is only one letter, but Pharaoh drown with all his men. Moses and the people of God walked across on dry land. The choice is in our heart for out the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Find out what's i your heart.
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