THE SEEDS WE PLANT

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so 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. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
(James 3)

When you go to the doctors, what is the first place he usually checks? Your tongue. Why is that? Because he knows you’ve either been eating wrong or talking wrong and if you spend a few minutes with most Christians, you know it’s the latter. You know the type, when it’s sunny outside they always come out with “yeah but it’ll probably rain”. When you ask them how they’re doing they give you a long list of sicknesses that have been afflicting them or how they just lost their job or how their marriage is suffering and on and on and on. More than several times the Bible says that our lives go according to what we say. So, then why do we as Christians continue to speak curses onto ourselves and then wonder why it is we suffer?

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
(Genisis 1:3)
-Everything God ever created he spoke it into existence.

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
(Romans 4:17)
-When we talk, we are to speak what we want to happen as if it has already happened.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(Galatians 6:7)
-The words we speak are what we sow to God and he returns to us according to what he hears us speak.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
(James 1:26)
-If we claim to be in Christ but our words are not according to the word of God then we are liars.

He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
(Proverbs 12:17-19)
-The words that we speak can either be truth, life and health or lies and death.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
(Proverbs 13:3)
-If we watch what we speak we will have a good life.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
(Proverbs 15:4)
-When we speak worldly things we break our bond with the Spirit of God.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
(Proverbs 18:21)
-When we love to speak good things we will be blessed with a good life.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
(Luke 6:45)
-The words of our mouth release the faith in our heart.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
(Romans 3:13-14)
-The words of our mouth will either curse us or bless us.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
(I Peter 3:10)
-If we truly love our life we must keep our tongue from speaking evil things.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
(Galatians 5:22-25)
-As children of God, our tongues should always be planting seeds that grow the fruits of the Spirit so that we are always walking in them.