June 4, 2026 -- Proverbs 12:6 -- Powerful Words: destructive or healing?

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The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,
but the mouth of the upright delivers them.
Proverbs 12:6 ESV
 
There is nothing which seems more insubstantial than speech, a mere vibration in the atmosphere which touches the nerves of hearing and then dies away. There is no organ which seems smaller and less considerable than the tongue; a little member which is not even seen, and, physically speaking, soft and weak. But the word which issues out of the lips is the greatest power in human life.[1]
 
How are you using your words, face to face, or in your texts, or your posts?
 
I urge you to ponder, meditate on the amazing word of God, which has the power to heal you.
 
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued in faithfulness to you.” Jeremiah 31:3
 
“Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” Matthew 11:28
 
Let the love of God, His sweeping compassion, and His tender mercies fill your thoughts. Then, as one who is filled to overflowing with His goodness, let your tongue be the soothing, healing agent of God’s blessing directed out to others.
 
Prayer:
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.”
Psalm 19:14 ESV
 
https://youtu.be/qr8QoQKmXfk?si=lBQg9U2t-m0Bya9G “Let the Words of My Mouth”
 
[1] Robert F. Horton, “The Book of Proverbs,” in The Expositor’s Bible: Psalms to Isaiah, ed. W. Robertson Nicoll, vol. 3, Expositor’s Bible (Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton Co., 1903), 388.
 

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