Choose Your Words Wisely!

Mark 11:23

23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
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Prov 18:20-21

20 A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; from the produce of his lips he shall be filled.
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
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Deut 28:8

8 "The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
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My Comments:

In Prov 18:21, the writer states that both 'Death and life are in the power of the tongue'. In Hebrew, the word 'power' is the exact same word as the word 'hand' that is found in Deut 28:8. A literal translation of Prov 18:21 would be "Death and life is in the hand of the tongue"

In Deut 28:8, Moses spoke to the children of Israel and told them that God would bless them in everything they set their hand to. This meant that whatever it was that they chose to do, He would bless it!

Our words contain either life, or death, based on Prov 18:21. Relating this to Deut 28:8, we could say that what we choose to say would result in either life or death being released! In a sense, we could rephrase Prov 18:21 as: "Death and life is in what we choose to say, and we will reap the fruits of what we chose!

Whatever the situation we may be facing, we have to examine the words that we speak, as by virtue of Jesus' lesson on faith in Mark 11:23, we will have what we say! Let us be watchful over what we speak as we enter 2013, that we may speak words of life and not death both to ourselves and to those around us!