Our speech is very important in our spiritual life. The reason for this is we minister grace or condemnation through the things we speak.
If you are a listener, you are going to learn to hear the Holy Spirit’s voice more often just before you speak than any other time in your life.
Why would this be? We are His spokesman! If we listen, He will direct our words and conversation. Have you ever felt uncomfortable in a conversation? I expect you have. As a Christian, our speech should be edifying and uplifting. Our words should be filled with grace and love. The reason we are uncomfortable is because we should not be in that conversation.
The Lord knows what we are going to say before we open our mouth. That is when He says; “Don’t say that!” Then if we will listen, He will impress us with what we should say. I really come to appreciate the fact that God wants to be involved in my conversations with the people around me. When I allow that to happen, life flows right out through my month to bless the people around me.
A strange thing happens in our speech: We are very bold to minister death and condemnation in our speech and very timid to minister grace and healing. I remember Paul praying, asking for boldness to speak as he should.
If we think we have reached some great height in our spiritual walk, and have not learned to have some control on our tongue and speech we are wrong and are not seeing things very clearly.