{"id":2744,"date":"2013-04-08T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2013-03-31T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:43:44","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-04-08-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/08\/pearls-of-wisdom-04-08-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 04-08-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Tongue, Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s look at some scriptures about the positive aspect of our tongues.\u00a0 The tongue of the wise brings health and healing (Proverbs 12:18).\u00a0 Look at that!\u00a0 Our tongues can bring health and healing for ourselves and others.\u00a0 Healing is a wonderful gift from God.\u00a0 We see here that it can be brought about by the words of our mouth.\u00a0 The tongue of the wise utters knowledge in the right way (Proverbs 15:2).\u00a0 Every one of us wants to speak forth the knowledge that we have in the right way.\u00a0 I love Proverbs 15:4 (KJV and Amplified Bible):\u00a0 \u201cA wholesome or gentle tongue (with its healing powers) is a tree of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a scripture we all know, but do we really KNOW it?\u00a0 Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21).\u00a0 Do you see this?\u00a0 Death (the cessation of life) and life (the fullness of God Himself) are in the power of that little member in your body called your tongue.\u00a0 This is so big!\u00a0 Whether you live or die is as close as your tongue, what you are speaking.\u00a0 Death and life to anything is in the power of your tongue&#8212;-relationships, marriages, finances, ministries, and, yes, our physical bodies.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen people turn around their whole life by purposing to speak only life over their situation.\u00a0 The sick are healed.\u00a0 Financial troubles are turned to financial prosperity.\u00a0\u00a0 Marriages are revived.\u00a0 Children come home.\u00a0 Relationships are restored.\u00a0 All because of that little member called the tongue.\u00a0 The power of the tongue is amazing to me, such a small part, yet such a powerful part of our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in Proverbs 21:23 we are told that we who guard our mouths as well as our tongues keep ourselves from trouble and actually keep our lives.\u00a0 What a statement!\u00a0 How many times have each one of us wished we had not said something?\u00a0 Words spoken are so laden with power.\u00a0 Our words carry tremendous power not only for ourselves but also for others.\u00a0 We MUST GUARD or KEEP our tongues and mouths full of only the Word of God.\u00a0 That way we keep out of trouble.\u00a0 What an instruction for all of us to \u201ctake to heart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tongue, Part 2 Now, let\u2019s look at some scriptures about the positive aspect of our tongues.\u00a0 The tongue of the wise brings health and healing (Proverbs 12:18).\u00a0 Look at that!\u00a0 Our tongues can bring health and healing for ourselves and others.\u00a0 Healing is a wonderful gift from God.\u00a0 We see here that it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}