January 27, 2024 … Words Of Life

January 27, 2024 … Words Of Life   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Hawk Nelson singing … Words …  powerfully singing of how how our words can bring life or death.  

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Highlight Passage: …Proverbs 25:25 [NLT] … 

25  Good news from far away is like cold water to the thirsty.           

… Solomon gives Godly advice on how we use our words., … like giving water to the thirsty.   

Highlight Passage (in context) … Proverbs 25:18-25 … USE THIS LINK … 

…Solomon shows that giving good words of truth to others is like a fountain of life to the thirsty.  

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 5:9, 37:30  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of how our words can either bring sweetness and life or the stench of death.  

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 10:20, 15:1  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Solomon provides Godly advice on how we use our words.   

Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 5:2 [NLT] …   

2 Don’t make rash promises, and don’t be hasty in bringing matters before God. After all, God is in heaven, and you are here on earth. So let your words be few.   

… The author of Ecclesiastes, likely Solomon, writes of limiting our words to those which give life to others.       

Reference Passage: … 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.    

… The Apostle Paul tells fellow Christians how to use our words.  

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:16a  [NLT] …   

16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom He gives. …   

… Again, Paul, exhorts fellow Christians to use Godly words of wisdom in sharing Christ with others.     

        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author , Lisa M Samra -  AT THIS LINK -   tells of how her daughter discovered a fly in their jar of honey, prompting the ODB author reflexively share the old proverb that one can catch more flies with honey than one can with vinegar.       

And that old adage of catching flies with honey rings of the truth of Solomon or of the Apostle Paul in the Scriptures above, doesn’t it?   And in this digital age of rapid and voluminous use of words, we see the effects that our words can have in lifting up or tearing down others.  And so, I, for one, was duly convicted to try harder to use my words for God’s glory, especially as I use my words online or in counseling others today … and onward into tomorrow.  How about you?           

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for helping me use my words for Your glory today, Lord.          

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to let our words be guided by Your word, Lord, as I share life with others today.    Amen  

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