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Set Up a Guard

My Manna — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000

“LORD, set up a guard for my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.” Psalm 141:3.
Proverbs 10:19 states-
“The one who controls his lips is wise.”

I’m glad God included in the Psalms and Proverbs the words that are before us today about controlling our speech.
It’s important to talk, but talking too much is as bad as not talking at all.

Proverbs extols rationing our words.

Once, when Thomas Edison the inventor was at a reception-
– the toastmaster stood up and complimented him on his many inventions, especially the talking machine.

After the toastmaster sat down, the aged inventor rose to his feet and said-
“Thank you for those remarks, but I must correct one thing. It was God who invented the talking machine. I only invented the first one that can be shut off.”

A doctor told me that once, while writing out a prescription, he asked a woman to put out her tongue.

When he had finished, she said to him, “But doctor, you never even looked at my tongue.

“The doctor replied, “It wasn’t necessary, I just wanted you to keep quiet while I wrote the prescription.”

Amidst the humour of today’s notes, don’t miss the point, words are important, but don’t overdo them.

If your lips would keep from slips
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where.

A wise person has a disciplined tongue.
Many need to learn this, for, like the tongue in old shoes, our tongue is often the last thing to be worn out.

If a disciplined tongue is your need, ask God to help you, for an undisciplined tongue is an unloving tongue.

“Father, I realize that oftentimes my tongue is the most difficult thing to bring under control. Yet I have the promise of Your help even in this. I give you my tongue to be bridled – take over the reins. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.”

(PR)

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Ask Him 3 Questions

MyManna — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 22:00:03 +0000

“…he who spreads slander is a fool” (Proverbs 10:18).
A pastor went to visit a woman in his church before she was to have serious surgery.
As he walked into her hospital room, he found her in the arms of a man who was not her husband.
Stunned and embarrassed, he silently walked out.
Later he discovered that this woman’s brother had come to comfort her before her surgery.
Later, the pastor said, “I could have told others I saw that woman in the arms of a man who was not her husband and it would have been a fact, but it would not have been the truth.”
The press often does this in reporting what people have done.
They confuse the facts with the truth.
This results in half-truths that are really the worst form of lies, because they are so believable.
Gossip and slander are big on facts and short on truth.
They unfairly destroy people’s character and reputation.
Do you know why people come to you to gossip?
They know you are a gossip hearer.
You are interested in gossip hearing.
You are a fourth rate person!
What the Bible says about a gossip hearer?
“An evildoer gives heed to false lips; a liar listens eagerly to a spiteful tongue” (Proverbs 17:4).
“When you encounter a cobra and a gossipper, kill the gossipper first!”
-A Jewish Proverb.
Because-
A cobra bites one!
But-
A gossipper kills many!
When someone comes you to gossip about somebody-
Ask him 3 questions:
Have you told God about this?
Did you ask that person personally about this?
Can we both go and ask him and minister to him?
If the gossipper is not ready to answer and accept your offer-
Leave him that you may save your soul!
(PA)

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Ask Him 3 Questions

MyManna — Sat, 30 May 2015 16:00:54 +0000

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