DAY 24 - PRAY FOR HIS TALK
Have you observed a man who is all a talk and no action? There are some men who spend more time bragging about what they are going to do than actually doing it. They typically never get anywhere. "A dream comes thrush much activity and a fools voice is known by his many words" (Ecclesiastes 5:3). Dreams don't come true when more time is spent talking about then than praying and working towards achieving them.
Have you been around a man who is angry, crass or ungodly in his speech? His bad language gives his listeners a sick, uncomfortable feeling and they don't want to be around him. "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice" (Ephesians 4:31). The good things of life seem to overlook who's e who have nothing good coming out of their mouths.
Have you known a man who complains all the time? No matter what's happening, he finds something negative to fumble about. "Do all things without murmuring and disputing, that you many become blameless and harmless children of God without fault in the midst if a crooked and perverse generation, among whim you shine as lights in the world" (Philippians 2:14,15). Negative words bring negative results and things seldom turn out right for a person who continually uses them.
Are you acquaintances with a man who is quick to speak yet does not seriously consider what he is saying? He blurts out words without weighing the effect of them. "The heart of the righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil" (Proverbs 15:28). "Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than anyone who doesn't consider the consequences of his spoken words.
Have you seen an speak discouragement and paid into someone, a spouse, a child, a friend, a coworker? "Death abs life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat it's fruit" (Proverbs 18:21). That man will bring destruction into his own life because of it. Our words can justify us or condemn us (Matthew 12:37). They can bring us joy (Proverbs 15:23), or corrupt and dishonour us (Matthew 15:11). What we say can either either build up or break down the could of whomever we are speaking to (Proverbs 15:4). The consequences of what we speak are so great that our words can lead us to ruin or save our lives (Proverbs 13:3).
Everyone has a choice about what he or she says, and there are rewards for making the right one. "Whoever guess his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles" (Proverbs 21:23). Listen to the way your husband talks. What comes our if his mouth had to do with the condition of his heart. "For out if the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34). If he complains, sepals negatively, talks like a fool or speaks words that bring destruction and death I to his or anyone else's life, he is suffering from negative heart overflow. Pray for the Holy Spirit to convict his heart, fill it with His love, peace and joy and teach him a new way to talk.
PRAYER
Lord, O pray Your Holy Spirit would guard my husband's mouth so that he will speak only words that edify and bring life. Help him to not be a grumbler, complainer, a user of foul language, or one who destroys with his words, but be disciplined enough to keep his conversation godly. Your Word says a man who desires a long life must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit (Psalm 34:12-13). Show him how to do that. Fill him with Your love so that out of the overflow of his heart will come words that build up and not tea down. Work that in my heart as well.
May Your Spirit of live region in the words we speak so that we don't miscommunication or wound one another. Help us to show each other respect, speak words that encourage, share our feelings openly and come to mutual agreements without strife. Lord, You've said in Your Word that when two agree, You are in the midst. I pray that the reverse be true as well, that You will be in our midst so that we can agree. Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer (Psalm 19:14).
Amen.
SCRIPTURES FOR MEDITATION
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
Matthew 12:36
But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Psalm 34:12,13
Who is the man who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, But the lips of a fool shall swallow him up.
Matthew 15:18
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
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*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife(2006)
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