Tuesday, July 24

Jesus Calling: August 3rd, 2024

Jesus Calling: August 3rd

Watch your words diligently. Words have such great power to bless or to wound. When you speak carelessly or negatively, you damage others as well as yourself. This ability to verbalize is an awesome privilege, granted only to those I created in My image. You need help in wielding this mighty power responsibly.
     Though the world applauds quick-witted retorts, my instructions about communication are quite different: Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. Ask My Spirit to help you whenever you speak. I have trained you to pray--"Help me, Holy Spirit"--before answering the phone, and you have seen the benefits of this discipline. Simply apply the same discipline to communicating with people around you. If they are silent, pray before speaking to them. If they are talking, pray before responding. These are split-second prayers, but they put you in touch with My Presence. In this way, your speaking comes under the control of My Spirit. As positive speech patterns replace your negative ones, the increase in your Joy will amaze you.

RELATED SCRIPTURE:

Proverbs 12:18 (NLT)
18 Some people make cutting remarks,
    but the words of the wise bring healing.

James 1:19 (NLT)
Listening and Doing
19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

Additional insight regarding James 1:19: When we talk too much and listen too little, we communicate to others that we think our ideas are much more important than theirs. James wisely advises us to reverse this process. Put a mental stopwatch on your conversations, and keep track of how much you talk and how much you listen. When people talk with you, do they feel that their viewpoints and ideas have value?

Ephesians 4:29 (NLT)
29 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.

Additional insight regarding Ephesians 4:28-32: We can bring sorrow to the Holy Spirit by the way we live. Paul warns us against unwholesome language, bitterness, improper use of anger, harsh words, slander, and bad attitudes towards others. Act in love toward your brothers and sisters in Christ, just as God acted in love by sending his Son to die for your sins.

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3 comments:

  1. Jesus help me with that 🙏. Slow to speak pray before use the right wording .

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  2. Thank you for the reminder… I will practice this daily, so I may become a more accomplished listener, a more compassionate responder, and a kinder and more understanding child of God. Please Jesus help me to always Pray before speaking. Amen!

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  3. Blessed Father! Please send a great transformation to the way I speak and present myself and help my brothers and sisters as well! Let us be pure kindness and glowing light to one another as we cheer and encourage each other in the midst of your kingdom being filled with ur pure joy and excitement to be braces in your presence!!! Thank u Papa

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