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Proverbs!

[11] The words of the godly are a life-giving fountain; 
the words of the wicked conceal violent intentions.
Proverbs 10:11 NLT

Easy to look at others and see both of these things...but when I turn this Proverb inwards, I find both of these things in me too - sometimes my words are life-giving, and sometimes they're not.
Some days my words conceal (or barely conceal) something unhealthy and life-draining going on in my heart.
This Proverb invites me to take a moment when my thoughts, my words are not life-giving, to reflect what's going on in my heart.
Yesterday we were in Romans 8:11
"The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you"
Perhaps this is the time to ask Him to minister to what is going on in me.
Invite Him in.
Listen for Him.
Listen for the redemptive story of where He might want me to step from, and towards.
Towards speaking life-giving words, words of life.
My hope is that my trajectory is towards more life-giving words, from a heart that wants life, that is little by little more in tune with The Spirit of God who lives within...
We are invited to speak life-giving words, from a heart where Life comes from the Spirit of God...
#proverbs
#wisdom
#somethingtochewon #itsaheartthing 
#speaklife

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