What
You Say
Flows
From
What Is In Your Heart.
Scripture
Luke
6
43 “A
good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce
good fruit.
44 A
tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from
thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.
45 A
good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart,
and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil
heart.
What
you say flows from what is in your heart.
Observation
Do
you want to know what a person is really like? Just listen carefully
to what they say! How do they talk about people? What do they usually
talk about?
Have
you heard someone try to defend someone else by saying, “Oh, he or
she didn't really mean that”, or “I know He or she said that but
they are not really like that”. Bologna! Oh yes they are! What
comes out of my mouth always flows from what is in my heart! Always!
Even
as a Christian I can let my old nature rise up and take control of my
life, and when it does I have been shocked and ashamed at how mean
and how vicious Eddy Williams' mouth can be! Kathy can vouch for what
I just said!
But
my friend -- you do the same thing; your mouth can be just as hurtful
and just as ugly when you are not walking in the Spirit, when you are
not walking in close fellowship with the Lord.
So lets take
inventory of what is coming out of our mouths: Is it helpful? Does it
build up or tear down the person that I am talking to or that I am
talking about?
Because
of my hurtful words or because of the mean tone of my voice, do I
need to say to someone or to several someones, “I am sorry”,
“Please forgive me”. “I love you”.
Confess
first to the Lord and then to the person or persons that we have
hurt!
Jeremiah
17:9
“The
human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
Proverbs
4:23
Psalm
19:14
May
the words of my mouth and the meditation
of my heart
be pleasing to you, O Lord,
my rock and my redeemer.
Application
I
will guard my heart and I will listen and pay attention to what words
are coming out of my mouth and how they are being said!
Philippians
4:8
And
now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on
what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and
admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of
praise.
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, help me to say things that help the people around me. I want
to say things that will build them up and edify them and not tear
them down or hurt them. Help me to guard my heart so that my thoughts
and my words are pleasing to You.
I
pray for those today who are facing sickness. I pray that You heal
them. Give them strength. I pray for those who need to turn back to
You and get things right with the people that love them. Help them to
do that today! I pray for Your direction in my life. Guide me today.
Show me what I need to be doing and then help make sure that I do it.
Daily
Bible Reading: Genesis 15,16,17; Luke 6
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