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Up in Smoke

The tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

– James 3:5-6

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Words. Use them right and they'll move mountains. Use them wrong and they can cause your entire life to go up in smoke.

"Now, Brother Copeland," you may say, "I find it hard to believe that major catastrophes can be caused by a few simple words. I just can't see the connection."

Look again at the phrase James used. "How great a matter a little fire kindleth!" Have you ever lit a few little pieces of kindling wood and set them in the fireplace beneath a stack of logs?

What happened?

Most likely, the fire began to spread first to one log then to another until finally you had a great big blaze going. After it was over, you couldn't go digging around in the ashes to find the kindling that started it all, could you? No! It would be burned. There would be no trace of it at all.

The tongue is like that. It first defiles the body, then sets on fire the whole course of nature with a blaze so great that it leaves no natural trace of its origin. The words that started it end up so deeply buried in the ashes that you'd never even know they were there.

So, don't ever underestimate the power of your words. I can assure you, Satan doesn't. He works constantly to get you to turn them in a negative direction. He'll fire darts of pain and sickness and discouragement at you just to get you to speak faithless words—words that will eventually send your life up in smoke.

Don't let him succeed. Instead, put out that fire by following the instructions in Ephesians 6:16. Do as the Apostle Paul says and "above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked."

Speak words of faith and stop the fire before it starts today!


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Scripture Reading: James 3:1-10

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My add in..... if one looks at the cross reference (kjv) for the Word course... it actually says wheel. So when we speak words they can set the wheel of nature rolling in a direction that we don't want them to go in.

Makes me think of the children's song... o becareful little mouth what we say, for the Father up above is looking down with love. The Holy Spirit brought that song to my mind one day.. and I thought, how powerful some of those songs were... had we all allowed them to stay with us, they are some good nuggets of truth right from the Word.

God Bless
 
I cannot praise God enough for the timing of this thread! It's been a trying week, one day getting back on track with God and the next getting verbally attacked.

Psalm 27:1, The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

The Lord has been the shield of my heart and tongue this week.


On a side note, Kenneth Copeland was a graduate of Oral Roberts. I studied Reverend Copeland's teachings in the 1990s as well as Reverend Kenneth Hagin.

I remember getting confused between Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Hagin, who graduated at Rhema Bible College.

Both are anointed men of God and respect them as preachers and teachers of the Word of God.

Thank you, Cturtle, for sharing this thread.







 
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