OCTOBER 31 - KIND WORDS
READ Colossians 4
Conduct yourself with wisdom, and let your speech be filled with grace.
INSIGHT
“For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Luke 6:45). No one can claim their heart is kind if their words are unkind. We cannot claim our hearts embrace heaven’s values if our mouths speak the values of the world. The heart is a reservoir and the mouth a faucet. When the faucet is turned on, whatever is in the reservoir comes out. Paul writes: “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt” (Colossians 4:6). Elsewhere he writes: “Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29). Listen to your speech! Analyze your heart!
PRAYER
Out of the abundance of your heart, offer to the Lord the praise of your lips:
They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:
Great and awe-inspiring are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, King of the nations. Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship before you because your righteous acts
have been revealed (Revelation 15:3-4).
Pause for praise and thanksgiving. Pray this confession to the Lord as you seek to keep your life free from sin:
Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God —
God of my salvation —
And my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth will declare your praise
(Psalm 51:14-15).
Confess any sins that the Holy Spirit brings to your mind. Now pray this affirmation to the Lord:
If you love me, you will keep my commands (John 14:15).
As you make your requests known to the Lord, include:
Close with this prayer to the Lord:
But we do see Jesus — made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace he might taste death for everyone — crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death (Hebrews 2:9).
Conduct yourself with wisdom, and let your speech be filled with grace.
INSIGHT
“For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Luke 6:45). No one can claim their heart is kind if their words are unkind. We cannot claim our hearts embrace heaven’s values if our mouths speak the values of the world. The heart is a reservoir and the mouth a faucet. When the faucet is turned on, whatever is in the reservoir comes out. Paul writes: “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt” (Colossians 4:6). Elsewhere he writes: “Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29). Listen to your speech! Analyze your heart!
PRAYER
Out of the abundance of your heart, offer to the Lord the praise of your lips:
They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:
Great and awe-inspiring are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, King of the nations. Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship before you because your righteous acts
have been revealed (Revelation 15:3-4).
Pause for praise and thanksgiving. Pray this confession to the Lord as you seek to keep your life free from sin:
Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God —
God of my salvation —
And my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth will declare your praise
(Psalm 51:14-15).
Confess any sins that the Holy Spirit brings to your mind. Now pray this affirmation to the Lord:
If you love me, you will keep my commands (John 14:15).
As you make your requests known to the Lord, include:
- Your growth as you pursue your full potential as a child of God
- Fulfillment of the Great Commission
- Whatever else is on your heart
Close with this prayer to the Lord:
But we do see Jesus — made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace he might taste death for everyone — crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death (Hebrews 2:9).
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