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Grace-full Hearts Bring Healing Words

 The mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Luke 6:45 (NIV)

If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthlessJames 1:26 (NLT)

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Prov. 12:18 (ESV)

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Col. 4:6 (NIV)

Heavenly Father, nothing is more daily and revealing than our words—the conversations we carry on in our minds, and the communications we share with our lips. We don’t want to contradict our love for you by a graceless use of our words. We don’t want to speak like we’re “thrusting a sword”; we want our words to bring healing and life, hope and encouragement, kindness and care.

Since our words are shaped by whatever fills our hearts, before our first interaction today, we choose to set our minds, hearts and affection on you. Before we speak, we want to listen to what you are constantly saying to us, your beloved children. We want our hearts to be SO full of your loving-kindness today, it’ll be difficult to waste our words on pettiness and harm, self-deprecation or self-exaltation. So, now, we’ll blast our hearts with the gospel as this day begins (and continues).

Father, thank you for drawing us to yourself with everlasting love and great tenderness. Thank you for leading us to repentance by your kindness. Thank you for sending Jesus into the world on our behalf, for hiding our lives in him, and for giving us citizenship in heaven. We are now forgiven and righteous, desired and enjoyed, known and secure. Praise your holy and generous name.

     Nothing we can do can separate us from your love, cause you to regret saving us, or put you in a bad mood towards us. Your love is the most dependable and unwavering thing in our lives. Nothing can alter your gospelicious plan for our lives, or for the entire cosmos. From the overflow of such amazing grace, we will purpose to speak to others today. So very Amen we pray, in Jesus’ great and gracious name.

 

 

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