Don’t Put Your Mouth On Me!
Isaiah 54:17 (Amplified Bible)
17But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord.
Matthew 22:15 (Amplified Bible)
15Then the Pharisees went and consulted and plotted together how they might entangle Jesus in His talk.
A few weeks ago my mom and I were having a conversation about a particular situation that was erupting in my life; I was struggling to deal with individuals in my life in particular areas of my life, because of their conversation, and attitudes. I was having hard time dealing and I just wanted to talk it through, with someone I knew was wise and someone that not just loved me, but loved the Lord even more. As we begin to discuss the contents of the problem at hand, my mother stopped and said, be careful, if they will bring a bone they will carry one as well. I stopped and thought long and hard about what she said, and knew in that moment that this was a big portion of the issue. At the beginning of the week, a dear sister friend who is a Pastor’s wife and her husband were going through something that caused all of us to hit our knees, because of people’s mouths, their talk, their conversation, was evil, and it was aimed and ready to attempt to destroy. As the week progressed it seemed as if the enemy was really getting busy with some individuals, and their use of words, people close to me were under major attack as the arrows flew, but they were only arrows and darts, that were being thrown as a result of someone’s words. I also found out how damaging words could be from a generational stand point after a recent conversation, where I was told that a seed was planted within one sibling by a mother to treat another sibling poorly, by saying they were less than, not so smart, etc. What in the world has been going on?
I woke up a few days ago, and I heard in my spirit, “Get your mouth off of me.” I said a silent prayer, “Lord what do you mean?” God began to unpack the fact the people were opening their mouths on people and plotting and planning their demise, or cutting them down, making them feel bad about who they were. That people were placing their words upon people to damage them instead of help, never realizing that they had their mouth on God’s handiwork, and even on Him. The Bible says in Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].” I remember our Bishop was speaking and He was talking about how many times we murder people, by the things we say. It is funny how we think that we can keep talking about people, especially God’s people with ill intentions with no consequence to our actions. We think that it is funny to discredit people, ruin their reputation, plan to exclude or isolate them, to plan their down fall, or make them feel bad about who they are and we take great joy in talking about people’s past and using it against them, to torture them or to keep them, (in our minds and sometimes theirs too), beneath us. We have taken to running between people talking about them, if I am cool with this person one day, I will talk to them about someone who I am not so cool with, and then when I cannot get my way with that individual on another day, I will run to the friend I was just talking about and talk to them, now about another individual. Many of us our letting our mouths, get us in big trouble. Too many of us are digging ditches for others with the words that we speak to and against people and we have no idea that the ditch we are digging for them, really is ours (Psalms 7:15).
I was sharing with someone the other day, a story a very close friend of mine had shared with me. Simply put all those who had put their mouth on her had started to see real trouble manifested in their lives, from sickness, to financial, to marital discord, etc. You see we never think that when we are in a closed circle or on the phone with just one individual talking junk, or being mean, hateful and spiteful that anyone is hearing us, and that our words will not have any effect on our lives. But there is always a consequence good or bad for our words, especially when you are slandering Him, through His people!
God hears every word that we speak, and there is a penalty to for those words sown in a manner that is destructive and one day we will have to give an account for all of those words. We need to be careful what we say and who we talk about. Our words are powerful and they can create an atmosphere and an arena for life or death not just for others but for us as well!
“Be careful little mouths what you speak, there’s a Father up above and He is looking down in love, so be careful little mouths what you speak!” That is a children’s song with such a profound message that all of us even as adults need to adhere to!
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