Today’s Devotion
Topic: The Power Of Words
Text: Proverbs 18: 21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat of the fruit thereof. Amen
Words are spiritual in nature and we must be very mindful of the words we use all the time. We need to know that our words still live on even after we are long gone.
We often forget that the judgement that awaits us after this life will not only be based on our actions or inactions, but on our words too.
Furthermore, posterity will always have the privilege of examining the words we used while we lived, to determine the kind of persons we happen to be.
As children of God, we must not call curses or derogatory words upon our lives, because those words will live to pay us even after we realise we didn’t really mean them.
Beloved, your words reveal your inner treasure and truest nature. You can tell the make-up of a person by the words they speak. No one is very different from the words he/she speaks.
Jesus warns in Matthew 12: 36– 37, that “every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
It is not enough, therefore, to avoid using negative words upon ourselves, but we must also avoid people who speak curses and make negative comments. Such people can discourage us or equally get us into bondage by their words.
Rather than dwelling on negative words until our very lives model negativity, we actually can create everything we desire to see in life by the words we use. Especially by having the Word of God dwell richly in us.
You know, God’s Word remains the basis for every positive confession we can ever make. The power of the Holy Spirit watches over those Words spoken by faith and brings them to pass.
Meditate on these things and begin to pray. Ask the Lord to create in you a clean heart; one that models after His. “The good person, out of the good treasure of his heart, produces good; and the evil person, out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6: 45)
Always remember that your words reflect your heart. Open up therefore and let Jesus in; you will not trap yourself with foul words any more but only what “is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” (Eph. 4: 29b)
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