Lately I have been getting devotions to read concerning words that are spoken. It seems where-ever I turn…I am reading or hearing something about this subject.
I just received something else about this.
This one I read and re-read.
So I am now sitting here really thinking about it.
“God, what is it I need to get from this?” “What is it I need to receive in my spirit concerning my words?”
It dawns on me. You know what that means?
That means the sun came up and darkness went away.
This means to me, The Son shined His light into my heart revealed the darkness of some of my words that I have been speaking lately.
For awhile I have been complaining too much about past hurtful memories of things said and done to me. The ball on this got rolling in me, when someone in my life, said some very disturbing hurtful things recently. This was like cutting open an old battle scar.
Giving my fear, pain and hurt a voice. Sounding like a wounded animal, about to die.
My husband and son said to me,
“Can’t you talk about something good?”
“Will you please talk about good things.”
“Will you please just enjoy this day.”
It took three times for me to get it.
I was going on and on and on like the desert.
I was drying out their spirit and they needed some fresh water fast.
I realized how easy it is to focus on pain and hurt. How easy it is to be negative.
Words give life or take it away. Words can dry out a spirit or refresh it.
I know how words spoken to me, have almost killed my heart.
But I also know how it feels when words have given my heart, kindness, acceptance, love, happiness and even Life.
Words have helped me to grow too, giving me knowledge and understanding as well.
I announced to my family, “I am going to make an effort to focus on the good in my life.” “On all that God has done for me and is doing for me.”
Smiles cross their faces. I just gave them a drink of water. We are at an oasis.
Thank you God.
I am going to be strong in His might and in His power.
I am going to embrace the good that God has graced my life with.
I am going to ask God to help me, remind me, whenever I get an unexpected hurt, pain, sorrow, a mean spirited word spoken to me or an old fear knocks at the door of my heart….
”God, You are my healer, I need Your Spirit to guide my reaction to this, in my words and my deeds God I pray I honor you with my life. I need you to fill me with Your life so I can be a life giver to others.”
My Pastor talked about the power of the Holy Spirit. In his sermon he said, “When you walk in the Spirit, you are full of the Fruit of the Spirit.”
Galatians 5: 22.
“The Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”
I find other scriptures that go hand in hand with this. 1 Corinthians 13. The Love Chapter. Then Ephesians 4: 29-32. It states in there not to grieve the Holy Spirit of God in our actions and words.
As I read and am filled with an awe. It is as if I am reading it for the first time as a dry and thirsty flower. I just keep needing to be watered by God’s Spirit.
I am glad His Spirit is the One that waters my soul.
My soul longs for Him, as a deer that longs for water.
In Ephesians 5: 1 and 2, God’s word says that I am to be a beloved Child of God, reflecting His Spirit in my life to others, to Him, walking in the Love Jesus gave for me, by giving Himself as a offering and sacrifice to God as a Fragrant Aroma.
Our words, even our actions…Can be as a sweet fragrance unto our Lord.
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As Romans 3:13 and Psalms 5:9 states our words, (even or actions) can make our throats stink like an open grave.
I am going to be blunt here.
Have you ever smelled what a dead, rotten animal smells like?
I have…sometime ago, in an back field my husband and I were following this trail to a pond to go fishing. We walked past an old dead animal. The smell gagged us. Our walk turned into a run to get away from the smell. We were pinching our noses and trying to keep from throwing up. We took a completely different way back. To avoid that smell.
At times, going down the road in the car, we smell something dead on the side of the road, that some car or truck hit and killed. Those smells are repulsive.
After we pass smells like that, I am relived and I say, “Is there some other way we could get back home, beside that way,”
I am sure you can imagine what I just wrote and your stomach may be turning sour a little and a grimace is on your face.
Imagine now, what our ungodly, words or actions may be like to God.
I admit, there are times, in my raw emotions of hurt or anger, I have said some mean things about someone in my family in response to some damage done to my heart.
I ask God to forgive me. He doesn’t leave my heart untouched by His Spirit. I will feel convicted and remorseful. I have to get that right with Him. I got to get that stink out, so I can smell good again. I need to let the Holy Spirit give my life on the inside a bath.
What does our life say to others?
What about riding down the road with your
church name on the bumper sticker of your car or the sticker that says,
“Real men love Jesus,” and suddenly a car comes to close, almost runs you off the road or cuts you off. Suddenly the bird on your hand called the nasty finger flies sky ward, facing your offender.
How about that scowl on your face and maybe even a bad word or name came from the pit of your throat and crawled out of your mouth before you could stop it?
They look at you, they see the look on your face, they see the mouthed word, the finger and then as you pass by The Bumper Sticker.
What is that smell?
Every time, we say or do something that we know that makes Our God want to gag or grieves His Precious Holy Spirit, we need to have a funeral, cause something has died in us and it stinks.
Dig a hole, put it in there, pray over it.
Ask God to forgive you. Plant flowers on top. So something good can grow out of it and walk away. That thing is dead and gone. Not apart of you anymore.
Invite the Holy Spirit to give you life in your deeds and words.
Here is a true story. It is familiar to some of you. New to most of you.
One Night my husband and I were asleep in bed. We woke up at the same time in the middle of the night and while laying there, we just started talking about God. About all kinds of things about Him. How good He is, all the things He does for us, how grateful we were and how much we love Him.
It seemed we talked like this for hours.
Suddenly, there was a great sweeping aroma that was all around us and in the room. The smell was so sweet, like a room full of the best flowers and best fruits, mixed together. The smell was not a sickening heavy smell.
But A Perfect Smell.
We both just stopped talking and was still.
After a moment, David said, “Did you just spray perfume in here?”
I said, “No, honey, it is the middle of the night. I am laying here right next to you.”
He said, “Do you smell that?”
I said, “Yes.” “It smells incredible, like nothing I have ever smelt before.”
He said, “I know, I have never smelled anything like that either.”
Then we heard Him…He said, “Your words are a sweet smell unto my nostrils.”
Both my husband and I cried and thanked the Lord for His great love for us.
We were grateful to please our Father.
We then held hands and prayed together and went into a peaceful, restful sleep.
The next day…I was thinking on our experience of the night before and I wondered this…If our good words are a sweet aroma, then what are our ugly words like to God????
The Holy Spirit said, “As the smell of an open grave.”
I told my husband this…after that we have never forgotten to be careful with our words.
When we do speak ugly words or act ugly, we are reminded by the Holy Spirit of how it effects Him and we are quick to say I am sorry to each other and to say I am sorry to God.
Kim Wenrich
2 Corinthians 5:17
Psalms 139
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