{"id":18272,"date":"2014-03-04T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T05:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=18272"},"modified":"2014-03-03T23:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T04:39:42","slug":"18272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/04\/18272\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0<strong>~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some days, life feels perfect&#8230;other days it just ain&#8217;t workin\u2019<br \/>\nThe good, the bad, the right, the wrong\u2014and everything in between<\/p>\n<p>Though it&#8217;s crazy, amazing; we can turn a heart with the words we say<br \/>\nMountains crumble with every syllable&#8230;hope can live or die<\/p>\n<p>So speak Life, speak Life; to the deadest darkest night<br \/>\nSpeak life, speak Life. When the sun won&#8217;t shine and you don&#8217;t know why<br \/>\nLook into the eyes of the brokenhearted, watch them come alive<br \/>\nas soon as you speak hope, you speak love, you speak&#8230;<br \/>\nYou speak Life (oh oh oh oh oh oh) You speak Life (oh oh oh oh oh oh)<\/p>\n<p>Some days the tongue gets twisted; other days my thoughts just fall apart<br \/>\nI do. I don&#8217;t. I will. I won&#8217;t&#8230;it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m drowning in the deep<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s crazy to imagine\u2014words from our lips as the arms of compassion<br \/>\nMountains crumble with every syllable&#8230;hope can live or die<\/p>\n<p>Lift your head a little higher; spread love like fire<br \/>\nHope will fall like rain when you speak life with the words you say<br \/>\nRaise your thoughts a little higher, use your words to inspire,<br \/>\nJoy will fall like rain, when you speak life with the things you say.<\/p>\n<p>Some days life feels perfect&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7rK6O0YtBRY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~ \u00a0Performed by\u00a0\u00a0Toby Mac \u00a0~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What are the words you are choosing to speak? \u00a0Are they uplifting? \u00a0Are they helpful? Words that build someone up instead of tearing someone down?? \u00a0Our words are powerful and what comes out of our mouths matters\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>There are many Scriptures in the Word that show us just how powerful the words we speak are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.<br \/>\nProverbs 18 : 21<\/p>\n<p>This Truth will work for the good or it can work for the reverse; depending on the words we are speaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up,<br \/>\nas fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.<br \/>\nEphesians 4:29<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.<br \/>\nMatthew 15: 18<\/p>\n<p>You can tell the true heart of a person by the words that they speak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,<br \/>\nbut the tongue of the wise brings healing.<br \/>\nProverbs 12:18<\/p>\n<p>May my tongue be of the wise and not with rash words like a sword. In times of frustration, when we are tempted to speak rash words, this is when we need to dig deep and call upon the help of the Holy Spirit. The kinds of things that God asks us to do are not possible without Him! That is why He tells us that apart from Him we can\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I tell you, on the Day of Judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak&#8230;.<br \/>\nMatthew 12:36<\/p>\n<p>This Scripture is what I call having a \u2018healthy fear of the Lord.\u2019 \u00a0If I know that I will have to give an account of the words that I am speaking, than I am more careful with what is coming out of my mouth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This next Scripture is one of my favorites on words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.<br \/>\nProverbs 16: 24<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Heavenly Father, I ask for myself and anyone reading this that You would empower us by the help of the Holy Spirit to speak life, hope, and healing; and to be a people that lift others up with our words and not a people that tears people down. \u00a0I thank You for the help of the Holy Spirit in Jesus\u2019 name. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~ Some days, life feels perfect&#8230;other days it just ain&#8217;t workin\u2019 The good, the bad, the right, the wrong\u2014and everything in between Though it&#8217;s crazy, amazing; we can turn a heart with the words we say Mountains crumble with every syllable&#8230;hope can live or die So speak Life, speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[5720,5718,1287,425,4654,5716,5717,5719,2477,5715,816,4932],"class_list":["post-18272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-death-and-life-are-in-the-power-of-the-tongue","tag-ephesians-429","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-kim-golds","tag-matthew-1236","tag-matthew-1518","tag-power-of-your-words","tag-proverbs-1218","tag-proverbs-1624","tag-proverbs-1821","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-18272","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18278,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions\/18278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}