Lately I have been very burdened for the men of the church. While I was overseas, my brothers told me they learned what an influence they have on women. Of the 13 guys I ministered with, I would dare to say none of them knew the power of their words until being constantly surrounded by women. Not just any women, but women that called them to greatness.
Men, your words have so much value and impact on the women in your lives. You are looked up to by women, whether you know it or not. Your words carry weight and are valued by women. The bible says that we bring life or death with our words.
Are the words you speak life or death? Do they give hope or
discouragement? Since
we are held responsible for every word we speak, I think we better
listen
very carefully to what we are saying, not just to our brothers and sisters, but also
to
ourselves. Notice what Jesus said: “But I say unto you, That every
idle word
that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned” (Mt.12:36-37). Let us look at the words, justified
and
condemned a little more closely. By being Justified —
we are
being freed from all blame, we are without guilt and we are shown or
proven to
be right. Condemned means — to be pronounced unfit for use,
guilty. By
our own words we can be free from blame and without guilt, or we can
pronounce
ourselves guilty and unfit for the use of God. If it is the Word of God
— it is
Life, it is freedom. If it is ourselves speaking — it is death, and
words of
death will destroy, kill everyone that hears us; and not only they who
hear us,
but ourselves as well. Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life
are in
the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit
thereof.”
death? What
are we eating, and what are we ‘living’ on? Is it Life or Death? It is
one or
the other.
When someone speaks negative things to you, you feel as if you have dies on the inside, you wilt but when a gentle or loving word is spoken, you bloom like a flower and come alive.
Men, please never say negative things to your daughters or wives about their appearance, it only crushes them and then they have no hope to try to look any better, they feel unloved. however, when correction is brought with love, people want to change and a healthy conviction is brought about.
The power that rose Christ from the dead lives in you!
Romans 8: 9-11
9You, however, are
controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of
God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he
does not belong to Christ. 10But
if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit
is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from
the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
