The power of the tongue

This is a topic on which this will be focused on the men in the group, the men of christians in the world who need to speak better, doesn't mean that woman are prohibited from reading this, no...you are free to read this as well, and take from it what you will. Something God has really been hitting me with is the power on which our tongue has, it has the power to do good and evil....speak words of life and death, if we are to follow, we must discipline our tongue to speak nothing but words of life each other, even when it is just men around, we need to be speaking life, encouraging words, it is difficult to the untrained tongue but it is not impossible, because we have God here to help us in it he was saying to his disciples in John 6:63 "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit[a] and they are life" This is out of context, but it's true everything God spoke to them was encouraging, everything he taught was uplifting and we are to follow this same example, think of what the Word Christian means..."Little Christ." So obviously we are living a life of following his example...anyway...Here are some things that I think God was speaking to me that the tongue can do when we aren't in control of it: It can defile you, your spirit, and can hinder Gods use in you Matthew 15:18 "But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean." God obviously doesn't look upon anything unclean, so obviously we need to discipline our tongue... Dont you think it gives other people the idea that we can do it as well, when in fact, we shouldn't Psalm 64:3 "They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like deadly arrows." James 3:8" but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison" 1 John 3:18 "Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth." Obviously we are imperfect, we can never have everything all together, I know this, everyone knows this, but the tongue is the hardest to control and if we can control that, we can control anything, but one final thing, It shows how truly disciplined we are as Christians Proverbs 1:3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;" 1 Cor 11:32 "When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world." 2 timothy 1:7 "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline." Just think about what the tongue is, and what it can do, this is what brought this blog on, God came to me and said, your tongue needs to be controlled, as well as the rest of the mens, It kind of put some thing of desiring to say better things to everyone, and remember we have the power and the authority of Christ to call upon we get overwhelmed, and I just want to say that this totally brought something of humility to me, something of wanting to be a better man, and I think to be a better man, for every one, not just speaking of myself, but to be a better man, is to love all, speak Love, and stand for the truth, if that means we have to get up and leave because we hear something we dont need to hear, than Bravo, because I think even hearing something like that can cause something of hinderance, but we live in an imperfect world so obviously we cant just expect to be able to run away from it, sometimes we must speak correction, sometimes we have to get in each others faces, because it's not clean and for our christian brothers which is who I am specifically speaking to, we have to make a better place for our woman who really are probably uncomfortable with it...I know this is something I need to work on some I'm not coming down on anyone, so yeah, thanks for reading this, I hope you get something out of this as I sure did

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