My heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: “Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. “Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure”-Psalm 39:1-5
It’s amazing how GOD’S plan for humanity began. GOD made everything into existence. HE made the Heavens and the earth and everything in it. HE made man, and then HE made woman. GOD created everything into existence to have purpose. Man and woman were created by GOD to give each other total companionship. We were never meant to be alone here, and we are not alone here. I never really understood until later in life just how powerful words are. Words can either hurt or heal. Words are powerful. They bring hope or hardship.
“Those who GUARD their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.”-Proverbs 13:3
“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge,
but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.”-Proverbs 15:1-2
“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”-Proverbs 18:21
“Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.”- Proverbs 20:15
Words can either bring encouragement or disappointment. Things that we say out of our mouth goes out into the atmosphere, and by what we say, or receive spoken over us, actually do have enough power to come right into existence. There is absolutely life or death in the tongue! Words are more powerful than what we truly realize.
“LORD, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting YOU ARE GOD.
You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.
We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation. You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due. Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.-Psalm 90:1-12
May we train ourselves to guard our thoughts, and our mouths. May we carefully examine our thoughts, and be very careful of what we say from our mouth. Many times things are not what they really seem. Acting on emotions over truth, depending the situation, can turn badly. I have been reading a book “The Bait of Satan”, which was recommended to read while I was sitting in church listening to my pastor preach. He recommended it for the whole church. The whole body of CHRIST though really needs to be reading this book! It has really brought so much insight. I can see how Satan lays so many traps. It’s up to us though to fall into them or not.
If only we could somehow figure out what the devil’s plans are for us, or figure out how he’s going to try to trip us up. You can for sure believe that the devil is always at the drawing board for new plans to do just that. This is no time to be lazy in our prayer closets, or lax on any reading and meditating on GOD’S WORD!
We cannot afford to be lazy anymore!! Satan is not playing around! He is proving this to be true, more and more, and like never a time before now! Satan knows his time is short, so he has really increased his presence in the world by unleashing more of his demons throughout. I think the bales of Hell now have to be loosing more and more demons. This has to be it! Just look at all the bad things happening and have happened! There’s a killing daily, and like I’ve said before, if we had the time to go research just killings over the last 5-7 years, I believe that this alone may help people believe this more. There’s nothing normal about a human being taking another human being’s life. Society though just ‘sweeps it under a rug’ like it’s just the everyday norm here, and then life goes on. It’s yesterday’s news just that quick! It’s anything but normal though.
Satan loves to cause strife, confusion, and division. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy, and he absolutely has been doing just that!! Just look at how much he has done with these three mentioned to the United States, and I am only speaking of this country, since I live here, but Satan has very craftily used these throughout the whole entire world!
I recommend the book ‘The Bait of Satan’, by John Bevere. I think it’s a book that the whole world could benefit from, but especially the whole body of CHRIST. It might just help you understand more too. We cannot change the world, and we are not called to do that. We can change who we are though, and how we react to certain situations and people. We can change ourselves, and this change will change others around us too.
❤️ Shellie Maheu
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