Proverbs 15:1-2, 4, 7, 14, 23, 26, 28 all refer to speaking words:
1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of the [self-confident] fool pours out folly.
4 A gentle tongue [with its healing power] is a tree of life, but willful contrariness in it breaks down the spirit.
7 The lips of wise disperse knowledge [sifting it as chaff from the grain]; not so the minds and hearts of the self-confident and foolish.
14 The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge and inquires after and craves it, but the mouth of the [self-confident] fool feeds on folly.
23 A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment -- how good it is!
26 The thoughts of the wicked are shamefully vile and exceedingly offensive to the Lord, but the words of the pure are pleasing words to Him.
28 The mind of the [uncompromisingly] righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
The words that we speak are containers of either the Truth of God's Word, which brings LIFE, or the untruth of the world and the devil, which brings death into every situation. Don't ever get slack in your thinking concerning the words that you speak. Read Proverbs 6:2 and Matthew 12:37 to find the importance of our words! Spend time meditating the Word of God every day, and then, when you DO speak, let it be as the oracles of God (1 Peter 4:11)! Our words are important, our words WILL produce, and we WILL have to give an account of the words that we have spoken (Matthew 12:36). Make them GOD words!
Galatians 4: 4-7:
4 But when the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to [the regulations of] the Law, 5 To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God's sons]. 6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! 7 Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.
If you have received Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and personal Saviour, then you ARE NOW God's son (male or female!). Everything that the Son has is ours by inheritance and by the Covenant! Learn what's in the "WILL" and walk in it! It is most definitely for the here and now, so that the world can see Heaven in our lives and want to know the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible!
In 2 Samuel 17 we see many words spoken! Some were words of truth and some were not! What you believe about the words that you hear WILL determine the outcome in your life! Absalom believed the wrong counsel and it cost him his life! Chapter 18 tells of the defeat of Absalom and his death at the hand of Joab. Chapter 18 ends with David wailing over the death of the son who had gone against him. This is such a different David than the man who had fasted and prayed for the young son that Nathan the prophet had said would die. When the boy died, David said this 2 Samuel 12:23:
23 But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
David knew that his infant son would be in Paradise. I don't think he was as sure about Absalom! Why did he not fast and pray for his other sons while they lived? Proverbs 22:6 tells us this:
6 Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Make sure that you pay the price to train your child according to the Word of God! When you do that, you can have all confidence that their future is in the hands of God, and, no matter WHAT it looks like in the natural realm, God WILL bring them around! HALLELUJAH! Here are two pictures that capture what we've said about words and THE Word:
Shalom in Him!
