Do you really believe that you need to watch over your mouth?
Some say things like:
“I’m just sure I’m going to get the sick during this season, I get it every year"
Do people like that have what they say?
Oh yes! Check with them a few weeks later and they’ll be quick to tell you that they got just as sick as they said they’d be. But, odds are, if you try to tell them there’s any connection between the words they spoke and the illness they suffered, they’ll look at you as if you were out of your mind.
Of course, if they’d dig in to the Word of God and find out what it has to say about the subject, they’d realize that the words they speak have a tremendous impact on their lives. They’d see that words quite literally determine their future.
If you’re a born-again believer, you’ve already experienced the most powerful example of that. You believed with your heart and confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you changed the eternal course of your life.
You know firsthand just how powerful your words can be.
You see, the world around you is in negative flow. Like a rushing river, it’s always pulling at you, trying to get you to flow with it. Living by faith and speaking words of faith is like trying to paddle upstream. You can do it—but it’s a great deal of work. And there’s never a time you can afford to take a vacation from it. All you have to do is relax a little bit and you’ll just start drifting right back down the river.
Make the decision to set a watch over your lips. Determine to consistently fill your mouth with the Word of God.
Proverbs 4:20
“Attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings”
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