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The Power of a Praying Woman
words” (Ecclesiastes 5:3). I always told my prayer group that we shouldn’t spend more time talking about our requests than we do praying for them. And we can’t just spill words out of our mouth without giving thought to what we are saying. We will give account of every idle word in the day of judgment (Matthew 12:36). This is a very scary thought. We must ask God to make us wise in the amount of talking we do. When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. We can’t speak words that are mean, insensitive, harsh, coarse, rude, deceitful, offensive, or arrogant without reaping the consequences. With our words we will either build lives or we will tear them down. “Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they de?le a man” (Matthew 15:18). “The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool shall swallow him up” (Ecclesiastes 10:12). Ask God to create in you a clean heart so ?lled with His Spirit, His love, and His truth that it will over?ow love, truth, and healing in your speech. Ask Him to help you ?nd words that speak life to those around you.
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My Prayer to God
Lord, help me be a person who speaks words
that build up and not tear down. Help me to speak life into the situations and people around me, and not death. Fill my heart afresh each day with Your Holy Spirit so that Your love and goodness over?ow from my heart and my mouth. Help me to speak only about things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy. “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength
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