God loves to rescue us from ourselves, from the influence and impact of our enemy and this world. He’s truly our Redeemer.
Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water? Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring. If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.
James 3:11-13
Please understand that the following is shared out of love and not out of condemnation. I just know what God has done for me and I want to share His loving deliverance with as many people as I can.
My wife and I have been around a number of folks lately whose lives are greatly impacted by always being upset, by anger, injustices, and unforgiveness that keeps piling up in their lives, and keeps them “jacked up.” Their “day talk” involves so much of this they never seem to be able to truly calm down – especially without having alcohol. Except for using alcohol, I can relate…I was the same way at one time like a boiler, without a relief valve, ready to blow.
Why is it SO important that we become doers of the Word? Well, one thing that comes to mind is unforgiveness and all its repercussions. Not forgiving others was causing me an overwhelming amount of torment. My mind was fenced in by angry thoughts and I could find no real peace and rest for my weary soul.
Like many others, my life had been so full of injustices and problems. It got so bad that my mind was full of confusion, unforgiveness, bitterness, and resentment.
Fortunately, God doesn’t leave us in this type of condition.
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out (for me, it was memorizing scripture and praising God in all things) so that you can endure.
1 Corinthians 10:13 NLT
Two important things happened in my life that began to turn things around for me in my thinking that started me on the path to a renewed mind, of learning of how to cast my cares on the Lord.
Although I didn’t always feel like doing it, I was motivated by how sick and tired I was of the condition I was in. I began to memorize scripture and I learned to praise God in all things – God gave me the grace and will power to put these into practice.
Now, it took a little while to really coat my spirit with these two important activities, but things began to turn around and the Lord led me out of the miry clay of sins (unforgiveness, anger, jealousy, fear, worry, etc.) I’d been stuck in for years.
Check your “day talk” and see if it’s causing you tension, stress, worry and unresolved anger.
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Song Speak
By Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn
Zimmer is one of the biblical words for song. Ephesians 5:19 says, “Speak to one another in Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.” Think about that. How do you speak in songs?
You have to learn to talk in “song speak,” to speak in such a beautiful way that it could be a song. When you speak, there’s no real melody, harmony, orchestra, accompaniment, or musical instrument. Yet, you’re to speak in a song.
To speak in song means your words make up for the fact that there’s no music and become themselves a song so beautiful it needs no accompaniment.
Ask yourself, if somebody took a transcript of your daily talk, could they write a godly song from it? Would it go to music? Talk of anger, fear, blame, pride, conceit, and emptiness doesn’t make godly music. What kind of talk does? Talk of love, faith, peace, hope, praise, thanksgiving, encouragement, mercy, God, and scripture.
Stop merely speaking and start learning how to speak a new language today, the language of song speak.
Today’s Mission: Today, practice thinking and talking in “song speak.”
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalm 35:28
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God bless,
Mark