Light Steps: What are you intentions when you use the gift of speech?

Thursday, February 20, 2020

What are you intentions when you use the gift of speech?

Will you cut to kill or cut to heal?

There is something called "intentionality." It means having been formed intentionally. We need intentionality with our words. Our words are like knives. The questions is not whether our words cut, but are they cutting for healing or killing effect? Are we looking to operate to bring healing in our relationships and in people's spirits and in trying situations? Or, are we looking to kill friendships, break others' spirits and make war in various situations?

"There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing." (Proverbs 12:18, ESV) Get wisdom. Get wisdom and employ it with surgical precision. Seek healing in your own heart, and want that for others.

Your words are powerful! The Bible says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits." (Proverbs 18:21, ESV)

Killing?
Healing?
Form your thoughts. Form your speech.
Exercise intentionality, or it's no telling who may be hurt from lack of it.

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This Says it for Me!

Every Christian is a contradiction to this old world. He crosses it at every point. He goes against the grain from beginning to end. From the day that he is born again until the day that he goes on to be with the Lord, he must stand against the current of a world always going the other way. God expects him to be "beside himself," "a fool for Christ's sake," "drunk on new wine." If he allows it, men will tone him down, steal the joy of his salvation, and reduce him to the dreary level of the general average. If the devil cannot keep us from being saved, he next endeavors to make average Christians of us, and in this he usually succeeds. He tames the holy recklessness of God's dare-saints until they sink into the drab pattern of most of us, "faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly dull." The devil does not mind our joining church if we behave like most of those who are already inside. But when a real, wide-awake Christian breezes along, taking the Gospel seriously, the devil grows alarmed and begins plotting his downfall. He gets plenty of assistance right in the church, for many church folk do not like to have their Laodicean complacency upset by these who turn the world upside down. So they conspire with Satan to turn the young Christian's fever into a chill. There are always plenty of human wet blankets to smother the zealot's flame, and they have put out more spiritual fires than have all the skeptics and infidels. -- Vance Havner

A Little About Me...

I was born in South Boston, VA, but was raised on the state line in the Person Co., NC - Caswell Co., NC - Halifax Co., VA region. I always tell people you know you are a country boy when your idea of being a "multi-national" means you've been to three counties in your lifetime.

Enough of my geographical meanderings...I became a Christian (ask me about THAT!) at the age of 25 and have done my utmost to serve God since that day. I worked as an associate pastor for 4 1/2 years and now serve in the role of Executive Director of My Life Matters, where I've been since March 2005, and I also serve as the pastor of East Rock Community Church, a church plant, along with fellow elders, Brett Carver & Casey Adams, where we've been since June 2007.

I love to write. I share a devotion in our local paper each week. This blog site is really just an extension of my writing. I really hope to share the Word of God with people...any kind of people, every kind of person. I also do a weekly podcast called "Light Steps Live," which can be found on several platforms.

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