Transform your Tongue: Why it’s Important and 9 Ways to do It.

Read on to discover why it’s important to transform your tongue and also how to Transform your Tongue

Reasons Taming our Tongue is Important

Our Words are Life

The words we speak will have an impact on whether or not we see good days (1 Peter 3:10). 

Our Words Impact our Emotions

The last thing anyone would want is a crushed spirit but the Bible promises that if we use wicked words, we can expect one. (Proverbs 15:4).

God Hates Corrupt Speech (e.g. Lying)

The Lord has a list of things he hates and you do not want to end up on it. What's a quick way to end up on this list? work to stir up conflict and share a lie with someone. Share on X

These are two things God hates (Proverbs 6:19)

Every Word You Say Will Be Found Out

Luke 12:3
What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, 
what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be
 proclaimed from the rooftops.

Everything you say even if it is said in silence, will be made known to others. If this thought scares you, it is time to allow your speech to be transformed. Don't worry, dear one God will help you. You can do this! Share on X

People Are Watching You

2 Corinthians 3:3
Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry 
among you. 
This "letter" is written not with pen and ink, 
but with the Spirit of the living God. 
It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.

You are a letter to God that is being read by the people around you. Your friends, your family, your coworker that you think is not even aware you exist.

They’re all busy watching you to get an idea of who God is. God’s spirit is working in you so that people can get an idea of God is.

When we honor God with our actions and our speech, we remind the world who God is and what great things he can do for them.

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9 Ways to Transform Your Tongue

1. Submit to God. 

2. Allow God to tame your tongue. 

We cannot transform our speech, but the power of God can.  It is through Christ all things are possible (Philippians 4:13).

3. Know the Law of God. 

4. Fill your heart with good things. 

Luke 6:45 
Matthew 12:34
Proverbs 4:23

It is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

Meditate on those things which are good (see Philippians 4:8)  so that you can glorify the Lord in your word and in deed (see Colossians 3:17).

5. Ask the Lord to place a guard over your mouth. 

Proverbs 1:41-43
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Ask God to do this, and he gladly will (Matthew 7:8)!

6. When someone insults you, commit to bless them instead. 

What’s the best part about blessing someone when they insult you? If you do this, God promises to bless you for it (1 Peter 3:9).

7. Use your words to stand up for the vulnerable and those who cannot speak for themselves. 

The Bible commands us to speak up for the vulnerable and poor. Strive to use your words to improve the situations of others.

8. Make your words count. 

Make your words count as a word spoken at just the right time can make individuals happy.

The bible says that a good word is like an apple of gold on a plate of silver (see Proverbs 25:11).

Ladies, who doesn’t love gold and silver? When your husband gives you a new piece of jewelry, it makes you happy, doesn’t it?

Well, a word spoken at just the right time can give individuals that same kind of feeling.

9. Ask God to Help You Transform Your Tongue.

Always pray for speech that pleases God.

Will you pray with me, friend?

Prayer

God, I ask that you place a guard over our mouths. I ask that the words of our mouth be acceptable to you. Help our words be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Give us the strength to say in secret uplifting words since they will be shouted from the rooftop. I ask that as we go about our lives and are read by those who do not know you, they will see you in us and through us and will begin to seek to know who it is you are. Please open the door for us in our daily conversations to be able to speak of you. I ask that each word that is said, will be spoken at just the right time so that it can be good for the person who hears. Thank you, father for transforming our tongues. In Jesus’ name, we ask this, Amen

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