Tongue Twisters
Being in recovery there are certain biblical truths are just so vital to live by. The bible describes our tongue like the utter of a ship. the ships utter sets the course the ship is going to go but because it is so small it is often over looked and taken for granted. but quite as its kept it is the most influential part of the ship. Our tongue is the exact same as the utter of the ship. It too is very small. And just like the utter of the ship most Christians take it for granted. I am not going to take this opportunity to discuss the gossip the slander and backbiting that goes on in a church. we all know this way to well…I think it goes without saying that in my life I have probably verbally bashed every single person I love and loves me. If your honest you would have to say you too have done this.
What I am going to do today is discuss our lives direction and how vital our confessions are…Our tongue 9 out of 10 times sets the course of direction for our thoughts and our actions. It is with our tongue that we take captive those thoughts and imaginations that pop up in our mind and it is with our tongue we bind them and cast them out ….IN THE NAME OF JESUS. Being in recovery this is vital because I have thoughts cravings and desires that are completely not of the Lord and for me one time of not executing proper confession about who I am in Christ could not just cost me my job my family and other relationships …for me and people like me it could cost me my life. So positive healthy confession is vital…
The Bible places such an emphasis on confession that it states that if we believe with our heart and confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord then we shall be saved….We have to confess Who Jesus is to be IN JESUS!!!
I have seen confession played out so much in my life when I begin to feed my negative thoughts with negative confession it is like a snowball rolling down hill that just gets bigger and bigger the power of negative confession just explodes all over people and me like you would never believe…..for a period of time I did not believe I could find a good job…man I confessed this daily and even by the minute ….and even though I was finding jobs I was not finding the good in the jobs…it was not until I decided that no matter what this is where God placed me and God loves me and would not place me somewhere bad so even though I don’t think in my mind this is a good job I am going to confess good things about this job….and bam I started making money I started finding success and the job became good…
Our tongue is the seed planter of the good and the bad things in our life. Some times I think it is just important to stop in the middle of all heated discussion or idle chatter and realize that we even though the fruit does not show just yet but that we are planting seeds that will later come back to reap a harvest… It is with our tongue that we give the best blessing in the world to people when we say I love you!!!! Let this be how we Christians are best known…known for our love for one another. In fact that is what the bible says…
How are you known today? What is it that you are confessing about your life today and about other people in your life. Are you believing the best and confessing the best for you and others ? Challenge your self today and begin speaking life today ?
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