Colossians 4:6 (NKJV) Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. The Apostle Paul is encouraging us to respond with gracious words when we answer someone. It means we should be gracious rather than blasting or lashing out at the person when we hear a negative…
Proverbs 15:4 (AMP) A soothing tongue [speaking words that build up and encourage] is a tree of life, But a perversive tongue [speaking words that overwhelm and depress] crushes the spirit. Someone once said, “Constructive criticism is when I give you feedback and criticism is when you give me feedback.” Well, unless we are executive…
James 3:8 (NKJV) But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Example: A husband said to his wife, “Are you sure you were even pregnant?” The wife was experiencing abdominal pains at the time and the husband’s cold response was so that he didn’t have to deal with the miscarriage…
Genesis 1:3 (NKJV) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God has the highest position and there is no being that is above Him. He is God. There is creative power in the word of God. God spoke creation into being. He said, “Let there be light” and there was light. The spoken word of God is…
James 3: 2,8-10 (NKJV) For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body….. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of…
James 3:5-6 (NKJV) Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it…
James, the brother of Jesus who wrote this epistle stressed a lot about having a real walk with God and not just having a mere religion. He encouraged us to walk the talk. He covered quite extensively regarding how to live out our faith in the midst of trials and how not to show favoritism…
Luke 15:29-32 (NKJV) So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured…
Luke 15:29-32 (NKJV) So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your…
Romans 5:8 (NKJV) But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NKJV) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. These scriptures revealed to us the unmerited favour of God that…