The Tongue
While cleaning out the crawl space in my basement, I came across a box of material from a workshop I put together many years ago, called “Total –E You.” In this box, I found these typed notes without an author’s name. I do not know who wrote it so we’ll just call the author Anonymous.
The Tongue Can Be Your Worst Enemy
Your words, your dreams, and your thoughts have the power to create conditions in your life. What you speak about, you can bring about.
Proverbs 21:23 (KJV) 23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
(EXB) Those who ·are careful about what they say [L guard their mouth and tongue]
·keep themselves out of [guard themselves from] trouble.
If you keep saying you can’t stand your job, you might lose it.
If you keep saying you can’t stand your body, your body can become sick.
If you keep saying you can’t stand your car, your car might be stolen or stop working.
So Stop Saying That…
If you keep saying you’re broke, guess what? You’ll be broke.
If you keep saying you can’t trust a man or trust a woman, you’ll find experiences in your life to confirm your beliefs.
If you keep saying you can’t find a job, you’ll be unemployed.
If you keep saying you can’t find someone to love you or believe in you, you will attract people that hurt and betray you.
If you keep talking about a divorce or break up in a relationship, you will end up with it.
Psalm 141:3 (KJV) 3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
(AMP) Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips [to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly].
Turn Your Thoughts
Turn your thoughts and conversations around.
Make your words more POSITIVE and POWERFUL, packed with faith, hope, love, and action. Don’t be afraid to believe that you can have what you want as long as what you want allows you to glorify God.
Control your thoughts, and you will control your mind.
Control your mind, and you will control your words.
Control your words, and you will control yourself.
Philosophers agree with the Bible on the importance of thoughts and words
Many philosophers agree that it is important to guard your thoughts. Lao Tzu is to have said:
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch you character, for it becomes your destiny.1
Mahatma Gandi is quoted as saying:
Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.2
Don’t Settle for Less Than What God Has Promised
The minute you settle for less than what is yours, you get even less than what you settle for. So what is yours? Yours is everything that God has promised to give based on His goodness and grace.
It is not about what you deserve or have earned. We deserved death and earned hell due to sin. But God’s love, mercy, and grace have given us life abundantly and heaven as a resting place if we accept it and believe. On top of that, He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings; and has provided more than our needs.
Let the Search Begin…
In the search for me, I discovered truth.
In the search for truth, I discovered love.
In the search for love, I discovered God.
And in God, I have found everything. (unknown)
Be Blessed!
Be blessed! Watch how your circumstances and situations begin to change when you change the way you speak.
For more on this subject read “Self-Talk: Your Most Important Conversation of the Day”
Scripture References
Romans 12:1-3
Romans 12:1-3 (KJV) 1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
James 3:2
James 3: 2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a [a]perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3 [b]Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 4 Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of [c]iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of [d]nature; and it is set on fire by [e]hell.
1 Peter 3:10
1 Peter 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
James 1:26
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
1.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8203490-watch-your-thoughts-they-become-your-words-watch-your-words
a. James 3:2 mature
b. James 3:3 NU Now if
c. James 3:6 unrighteousness
d. James 3:6 existence
e. James 3:6 Gr. Gehenna
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