The Power of Words: Week 1

The Weight of Your Words

Pastor Chris Pratt

Part of The Power of Words

February 9, 2025

The Power of Words: Week 1 • The Weight of Your Words • February 9, 2025

Proverbs 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 13:3 Those who control their tongue will have a long life; opening your mouth can ruin everything.

Proverbs 21:23 Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Matthew 12:33-35
³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. ³⁴ You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

What you

of you is what will

of you.

There is a difference between not

with your words and advancing the

with your words.

³⁶ I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

(argos): empty, lazy, inactive or unemployed.

Jesus doesn’t just care about our

words; He also cares about our

words.

Speaking with

, starts with

.

We don’t

awkward and uncomfortable conversations, we

them.

³⁶ I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, ³⁷ for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

You will

for what you

.

Your words

what is really in your

. What comes out of your

is an indication of what is in your

.

If you can’t say something

, don’t say

at all.

Ephesians 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

When you

something good,

it.

Focus on

better and

more before you speak.

James 1:19 “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.”

Let the

of

speak to you louder than the

in your

.

1 Samuel 30:6 … but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

The only way you can change your

is for God to change your

.

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