Saturday, September 22, 2012

Oral Test Question

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9/22/12 3 Xs----that’s the way God gets my attention. Luke 6:45 reminder in my Tuesday notes---"It is “out of the overflow of the mouth that the heart speaks” was first attention grabber.
#2 was Crickett’s Wednesday night lecture from James 1:26 of deception of heart of one who does not “bridle his tongue.”
Yesterday brought #3 as I listened to son’s Allen Bible Church message in “Words with Friends” series  emphasizing the “Might of the Mouth.”
NOTES, condensed Dotsy style 
WORDS: 
  • Powerful
  • Palpable
  • Personal
Death & life in words---choose vital words, not venomous; choose words that will delight the Lord; choose words that minister to others not words that just seek to manipulate. 
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
Wielding and Yielding words---choose words that will yield fruitfulness in a life. (Fruitfulness = fear of the Lord in both the giver and the receiver of words. Proverbs 1:7 & 9:10)
Buddy ended the message with today’s exam question from Psalm 19:14.

Consider your words. Are the words of you mouth and the meditation of your heart pleasing and acceptable in the sight of the Lord?

If not, you, as I did recently,  just failed the “oral” aspect of a spirit-filled life.
The good news is a make-up exam is given daily.