My brain is a silly

FACT: Things don't typically sink into my mind.

I'll know things, and I might understand them at the moment, but when it comes down to it a lot doesn't sink in. It's like things don't affect me personally until I've lived through them. And even then some things are still hard for me to fully understand. I find it hard to sympathize or empathize even if I can relate.

A lot of the time... I'll know the right answer, the right thing to do, but because things don't exactly connect I do something wrong.

But having things not connect is like this: knowing the lyrics to a song and able to sing a long... and finally one day it will just click what the one very important verse is about. and the song takes a completely different meaning to you.

Lord give me understanding. Teach me what will help me understand. pa-lease

<3

ANYHOW-- I've been studying about words today... here's my notes.

Word(s)- 962 times in NIV

Prophets speak words to bring prophecy into existence- a lot of the time the prophecy they speak about has to do with things that seem outlandish. Like they would never happen

Gift of healing speaks words to call out disease and sickness

Tongues gift of an audible language direct connection to God

God SPOKE the earth into existence

God’s word in your mouth is just as powerful as God’s word in God’s mouth

WORDS CAN BE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE:

Words command things to happen or not to happen

Words console the hurt

Words encourage

Words bring good & bad news

Words profess what the heart feels

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Words hurt the hurt

Words discourage

Words linger

Reap what you sow

Think before speaking

Listen before talking

WORDS ARE ENCOURAGING

2 Chronicles 15:8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage…

Job4:4Your (Job’s) words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.

Eph.4:29Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

THE TONGUE IS EVIL

James 3: 5-6 5Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 18 From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled; 
with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied. 21 The tongue has the power of life and death, 
and those who love it will eat its fruit.

YOUR TONGUE BRINGS JUDGMENT

Job15 2-6 "Would a wise man answer with empty notions 
or fill his belly with the hot east wind? 3 Would he argue with useless words, 
with speeches that have no value?4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.5 Your sin prompts your mouth; 
you adopt the tongue of the crafty.6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.

Matt.12:34-37 34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. 35The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 36But I tell you that men will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every careless word they have spoken. 37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."