Watch Your Mouth!

If you have nothing nice to say, then don’t say anything at all…

Ephesians 4:29 & 30 NIV. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Ephesians 4:29 & 30 NLT. Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.

Every time we bash ourselves or call ourselves down, we become lower, we begin to believe untrue things about ourselves and we create struggles we never really had in the first place. You see when we tell ourselves we aren’t good enough the enemy runs wild over these accusations the enemy becomes a constant nagging, wood pecking type annoyance until we allow it to overtake us and allow it to be a stumbling block. Saying negative things about ourselves gives leeway for the enemy because he has nothing on us until we speak it out-loud. He catches wind of it and that’s it, that’s how strongholds are formed and now the enemy has a lie to mess you around with. God is a good God and will only tell you good things.

Psalm 100:5 TPT. For the Lord is always good and ready to receive you. He’s so loving that it will amaze you – so kind that it will astound you! And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all. Everyone knows our God can be trusted, for he keeps his promises to every generation!

When you speak about others negatively, that’s on you to. The enemy will use people to rattle you off your game per-say to get you off course or track, so when your talking smack about someone else be ware the enemy uses people and he’s probably using the harsh words spoken behind that persons back to destroy them…

Now when someone tells you something that does not line up with the word of God, remember it is not the human being telling you these hurtful things the enemy is using someone to shut you down.

Matthew 7:15 NIV. “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” You get an encouraging word or an uplifting compliment to tell someone…TELL them chances are they have been waiting to hear it and by the way we are all to be encouraging bringing people up and not putting them down, so really if we have nothing nice to say don’t, don’t say anything at all. We are human after all but if you let something slip, fess up apologize for it, make it right and ask for prayer, ask for forgiveness…nobody is perfect…we all make mistakes.

1 John 1:9 NIV. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

*If you need daily reminders because you struggle with bad self-talk here are some ideas:

#1 Every time you brush your teeth ask the Lord to cleanse your sinful tongue or pray for forgiveness and ask for a clean tongue to speak with.

#2 Every time you shower ask God to make you new again.

#3 Every time you put lotion on your face or wash your face thank God for your life thank Him for making you or say a positive thing about yourself.

#4 Every time you get dressed do not worry about what you should wear…Ask God to help you appreciate how He made you.

Just because the world says things, doesn’t mean there right.

Don’t give the enemy any kind of ammunition to taunt you with, remember he’s been defeated the only way he gets his way with you is if you let him. When you allow your mind to go off course you can allow your tongue to get you into trouble, instead let the word of God become a double-edged sword, to defeat him. Hebrews 4:12 NIV. For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

GOD IS GOOD. THE ENEMY IS BAD.

My laptop was beginning to show its wear and tare, starting to slow down not boot up properly some easy to-do functions weren’t cooperating was beginning to worry (first mistake = worry) that I would loose some important documents (like my coming book) after selling my salon chair and gaining a gift card by upgrading our phones (something well needed as well for they were starting to fail us and not function as they once did) so we upgraded our laptop and I had mentioned (second mistake = spoke out-loud, my worry) some of these worries to my husband about loosing important documents, and big ears heard me. The enemy took that information and ran with it. The non-techie person I am was trying to discover and use of the new laptop, not only did I lose a complete document while trying to save it, I was completely lost with this new device, I didn’t even know how to find ‘Google’, yep that’s right… I requested this one as an upgrade to my old one just new, nothing had to change, I wanted it to look the same and do the same things my old one did, nope! I have absolutely no clue, and how’d I lose a document while saving, huh!!!! Beats me... it’s as easy as that I spoke out loud about being afraid that I’d loose important stuff on my old laptop and managed to loose a document on the new one, is beyond me, the enemy rattled me, the annoyance of his constant pecking got to me; I hadn’t been sleeping well, kids were home from school due to too cold buses canceled, schools closed, I lost track with my daily devotions, I’m used to spending first thing with the Lord and having my schedule shift took a toll on me, I got rattled this lost document was my last hold it altogether straw. So, from experience gather yourself quicker than I did this past week and watch your mouth. If you’re sharing with a praying partner take your thoughts captive.

2 Corinthians 10:4-6 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up with the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

But through it all God answered my prayers through this situation, on the phone with my husband I said to him, “Well its going to take a miracle to get this document back and only God can do miracles so….Well God did just that He answered my frustrated cry out for help prayer, thank you Lord for loving me this much that you care even about a document. Glory to you Lord, I praise you.