{"id":21440,"date":"2014-08-24T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T04:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21440"},"modified":"2014-08-23T23:45:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T03:45:01","slug":"sanctified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/24\/sanctified\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctified"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sing for joy to God our strength; shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.
\nPsalm 81:1<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This summer I am working through a Beth Moore study<\/a> called \u201cBelieving God<\/strong>\u201d. The current chapter is entitled \u201cBelieving God Can Sanctify Your Mouth<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Say WHAT?!?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong> Psalm 81:1 shows us what our mouths should be doing\u2014\u201csing(ing) for joy to God our strength; shout(ing) in triumph to the God of Jacob.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each one of us is called to glorify His name. \u00a0But\u2026Psalm 10:7 (NLT) also tells us: \u201cTheir mouths are full of cursing, lies, and threats. \u00a0 Trouble and evil are on the tips of their tongues.\u201d \u00a0God and satan both desire to have authority over our mouths.<\/p>\n

Beth Moore puts it this way:<\/p>\n

\u201cA wayward tongue signals a wayward heart. \u00a0A clean mouth unplugs a primary pipe of divine power.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now take a look at this familiar passage:<\/p>\n

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Even so the tongue is a little member, and it can boast of great things.
\nSee how much wood or how great a forest a tiny spark can set ablaze!
\nAnd the tongue is a fire. [The tongue is a] world of wickedness set among our members,
\ncontaminating and depraving the whole body
\nand setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man\u2019s nature), being itself ignited by hell (Gehenna).
\nFor every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea animal can be tamed
\nand has been tamed by human genius (nature).
\nBut the human tongue can be tamed by no man.
\nIt is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison.
\nJames 3:5-8(AMP)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, according to this Scripture, we cannot tame our tongues. So, is it even possibl<\/em><\/strong>e to sanctify our mouths? \u00a0 Are we ever going to be able to \u201c…guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue; <and> will guard my mouth as with a muzzle while the wicked are in my presence\u201d (as David says in Psalm 39:1 NASB).<\/p>\n

As Psalm 81:1 reminds us, God is our strength. It is only by daily dependency on Him that we can control that unruly muscle in our mouths. When we develop that intimacy with Him, His Word becomes ingrained in us. Then, \u201cWe too believe, and therefore we speak,\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:13b AMP). \u00a0As Luke 6:45b (AMP) points out: \u201c…for out of the abundance (overflow) of the heart his mouth speaks….\u201d<\/p>\n

Inconsistency in our talk may be common but it is very costly. It deprives us of God\u2019s divine power flowing through us. That is not<\/strong> a price I am willing to pay. (Are you?!) \u00a0If not, then let us boldly approach the throne of grace and seek Christ\u2019s assistance in consecrating our hearts and sanctifying our mouths.<\/p>\n

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All we need to do is lift our faces to Him and ask.<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Father God, we come before You today very much aware of our unclean lips. Forgive us for our wayward hearts and inconsistent speech. \u00a0We ask that You set our tongues ablaze with Your Holy fire so that we continually glorify Your name. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus. \u00a0Amen \u2013 it is so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sing for joy to God our strength; shout in triumph to the God of Jacob. Psalm 81:1 This summer I am working through a Beth Moore study called \u201cBelieving God\u201d. The current chapter is entitled \u201cBelieving God Can Sanctify Your Mouth.\u201d\u00a0 Say WHAT?!?\u00a0 Psalm 81:1 shows us what our mouths should be doing\u2014\u201csing(ing) for joy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":13840,"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":[3020],"tags":[5889,3367,7142,1287,425,7141,7139,7140,3174,1073],"class_list":["post-21440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-daily-devtions","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-guards-our-mouths","tag-psalm-811","tag-sanctify-your-mouth","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-tongue","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5zO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21445,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions\/21445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}