Blessing for the Words of our Mouth

HI All! Today I am wanting to pray for our words.  Proverbs says,"The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit." Our words can bring life or death depending what comes out of our mouths.  I have seen relationships destroyed because of what comes out of a person's mouth. I have seen how a person's words have affected the whole family going down from generation to generation.  Deuteronomy 30 says, "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!  You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life."

The key to our life is choosing life, choosing life with our words.  There is always something to complain about.  It doesn't take much self control to blurt out of our mouths something that is not right, something that is annoying us, something that is annoying someone we know, something annoying period.  It takes far more maturity to restrain our mouths, think before we speak and choose our words carefully.

Carefully chosen words can bring life to a situation of death. I think of those who condemn others so harshly for sin and then find they are doing the samething themselves or someone in their family is doing the same things.  The sins of the fathers do follow down the generations and the scripture in Deuteronomy says that when life is chosen it benefits the decendants to follow so one can assume that if death is chosen then that follows the decendants as well. Let's pray for us to chose life today and to watch our words...

Dear Father,
Help us today with our words.  May we chose to speak words of life and to not speak death over ourselves and our families by the words that come carelessly out of our mouths.  Help us to know the words You would have us to speak. Keep us from blurting out whatever we feel like and may we be aware of the power of our tongue.  Help us to know the power of our tongue follows down the generations and even though we may not see fruit of that right away we know because Your word says that it is going to happen.

Lord, Help us to speak encouraging words to those who need to be encouraged. Help us to speak forgiving words to those who need forgiveness.  Help us to speak life giving words to those who feel death on the inside of them.  May we be followers of yours who are mindful of our words...Amen...

I Bless you today in your words!