The Power of Words: Speaking Life and Truth

David David says look put a guard over my mouth God what I say in my mouth and pray in Psalm 141 verse 3 and then he says what in Psalm 19 verse 14 he says let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable unto you in other words are you happy with what I'm getting ready to say he wants us to ask make God happy in your speech make God happy in your talk may God happy in your communication let your tongue be used by heaven and not by hell because both of them are after the tongue in our mouths after the control of our speech both Heaven and Hell want to control the tongue that is one to influence the life because if hell can get a hold of the tongue it can direct the life to be hellish If Heaven can get a hold of the tongue it can direct the life to be Heavenly so the reason why we got a lot of hellish lives is we got a lot of hellish speech the reason why some have Heavenly lives is because they have heaven speech so what you want the Holy Spirit to do is to govern and guide your heart so that it will show up in your lips so that there will be life of the Lord on our lips to ask the Lord to invite the Lord to control the speech by adjusting the heart so that you are an edify the Bible says season your words with Saul that means put a little flavor on them put a little flavor on them in other words okay you need to say something negative you need to say something that that that that that's the truth and the person needs to know it but he said put a little salt on it so it has some taste okay okay everything gonna have to have hot sauce at Tabasco on it you can put a little salt on it some seasoning on it because you're not trying to burn you're trying to help you're trying to correct but you also want to speak the truth in love you don't want to skip the truth and act like nothing is wrong if there's something to be corrected but you can still do it to build up and not to destroy too many men too many women too many boys too many girls and we live in a culture of Destruction both in what we say and what we text designed to bring harm and heart some of us need to get off of social media if we don't know how to talk because if we don't know how to talk because that's a form of speech that you shouldn't be on there because all you're doing is making Jesus look bad if somebody or at least if you're going to be on there don't tell nobody you love Jesus because he says duplicitous speech ought not to be you shouldn't be praising God one minute and and cursing and cussing the next minute he says that's a contradiction of your faith he says out of a fountain doesn't come fresh water and bitter water don't do that now I know none of us is perfect on this issue he says we all stumble in many ways at the beginning of the chapter so he recognizes man you know you may you may hit your hit your thumb with a with a hammer and maybe say the wrong thing you know he said we all stumble in many ways but he's talking about what has become normalized in our lives how we normally hurt people uh tear people down tear people up are unkind complain when we ought to be grateful that many things to complain about but if you look and see how good God has been to us there's a whole bunch to be grateful for how much Thanksgiving is there how much gratitude is there one of the things God condemns as Israel was leaving Egypt and going to the promised land is they always kept grumbling he's going to talk about that later in the Book of James they always kept complaining they were never grateful they were never thankful I wish this I wish that I wish God didn't do this God didn't do that and because they missed sight of what all that God had done from where they started to where they were and where they were going if we thank God for that's why he says in everything give thanks because you can give thanks not for everything you can give thanks in the midst of everything because the thing you can thank God for is where you believe he's taken you that you haven't gotten to yet so there's always a reason to use your tongue as a place of blessing and not a place of cussing and cursing okay so when we begin to change our speech because we want God to change our heart we redirect Our Lives we cancel damage that was done how much healing could occur if you simply went to a person where you used your tongue to damage and say I'm sorry for what I said I apologize for how I said it and I want to speak life into this situation in order that we may heal wounds that may have been broken you can save families with that kind of speech you can save histories with that kind of speech and you can rebuild forces now it takes 11 years for a forest to start rebuilding it's 30 years before it's totally rebuilt but you got to start somewhere you got to put an acorn in the ground and that can start with speech that is designed to build and not destroy so the James's challenge is don't look at the tongue it's just a little wiggling thing in your mouth look at as a spiritual tool that can take you to the next spiritual level and can bring God more involved in your life let me put it this way when God God sees that he can control your tongue he doesn't mind dealing with other things in your life because you to hit the master switch but when God seems he can't even get your tongue straight all that other stuff that's wrong and you asking them to fix it help it change it reverse it you're not going to touch that because he knows that once you get in touch all you're going to do is find another element to let out of your mouth something that is not in concert with his will we live in a mean world right now we live in a world where people will hurt you with their mouth and other things we live in a world where they don't care about the the pain they don't care about the animals they don't care about the destruction that their words of can bring and are bringing but those of us who know Jesus Christ those of us who care about our love for the Lord those of us who recognize the Dignity of the image of God in every human being or you know we don't need a racial seminar all we need to do is recognize the Dignity of God that he's placed and every human being regardless of the color of their skin we don't need all of this spending all this time on stuff all we need to do is go back to the word of God and apply the word of God coming out of our mouths in our relationship to one another and the World At Large so the world can see that god holds Us in high esteem by what we say as well as by what we do in the Taurus Mountain in Turkey there are cranes these cranes are make a crackling sound as they as they fly so when they're flying they make this gawking crackling sound oh oh I'll make this crackling sound as they fly the problem is Eagles will hear them crackly because it's by that nature the crackle so they're flying they're flying and the Eagles pick up the sound and attack because the Eagles know when that sound comes that they're fresh bait for them and that they're going to get them and they're gonna dine well because they can't compete with the power of an eagle so they're flying because oh the eagle picks it up and starts soaring in in order to catch them kill them so what the what what the cranes do in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey is when they are about to fly after having experienced what the Eagles can do will pick up a rock and put it in its mouth they will pick up a rock put it in his mouth put it in its baby's mouths so that when they're flying you can't hear the Crackle because they got the rock in their mouth because they know that there's something out there that wants to destroy them so because they know there's something out there that wants to destroy them they control their mouth so that they're not a bait for the enemy there's an enemy out there that wants to destroy you and it's listening for what comes out of your mouth and we hear his anti-god sentiment when he is Christians going cause he's heard what came out of your mouth but if you get the Holy Spirit to put a rock inside your mouth so that you control your speech so that the enemy can't control you then God's angels can redirect you can guide you because your speech is consistent with God so I want you to get rid of y'all and start speaking truth speaking kindness speaking love speaking generosity speaking healing speaking help speaking encouragement so that God is free to work on your life so I want you to stand to your feet I want you stand to your feet now I want to hear you go see none of y'all should have done that I should have done that I preached the whole sermon telling y'all not to do that and that's what the devil gonna do when you leave here he gonna say cuss and fuss and you're going to obey him God is saying don't open your mouth unless I'm speaking through you let's honor God with our life and with our lives [00:00:30]