The power of our tongue is one that many Christians neglect more than just day to day...for some, it's an entire life time. There is a secular saying, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," that is in its own way, Biblical.
It is very easy to be sucked into conversations that are of the "bashing" mentality; where speaking negatively of someone/where/thing is better than the silence that may result. What a simple trap Satan has laid out for individuals to fall prey to. We believe that if there is silence, something must be wrong and be remedied. How false that is and how quickly it leads us into cursing things and people for no reason. When we speak ill and harshly of such things, we open the door to such remarks and comments about us and our lives. It begins a full circle of curses on all involved. You are actually inviting disease, illness, poverty, and a whole allotment of sins into your life, eventually leading to death.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Proverb 18:21
With that said, it is just as easy to pour blessings into other individuals and inevitably, yourself. By opening the doors to Heaven and literally saying "God bless you" (which seems to be the most direct and easiest thing to say) we will open the same door for others to do this for us. Speaking life, exhortation, enlightenment, joy, love, the Spirit into the lives of others allows us to become the recipients of similar blessings. You can bring life back into a home, a person, a business, a church if you choose to do so. Really, the choice is yours.
The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones. Proverbs 16:23-24
This simple revelation and study that God blessed me with is almost too simple; but in the long run, isn't that how God works? No tricks, jumps, or holes to go through. Just the Truth and the simplicity of His love.
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