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Speaker 5: and the wealthy man said, Wow, you're the bravest person

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Speaker 4: I can't believe it. Now, what would you like me

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Speaker 5: The man said, what I want more than anything else

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Speaker 5: is the name of the person that just pushed me in.

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Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 5: to you today about taming your tongue. One of the

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Speaker 5: main reasons people get stuck in life is because they

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Speaker 5: haven't learned how to control their mouth. They say hurtful things,

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Speaker 4: They don't realize their tongue is keeping them from rising higher.

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Speaker 5: God won't promote you if you don't have the character

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Speaker 4: You don't have to be perfect, but we shouldn't be.

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Speaker 4: Is it going to build them up or tear them down?

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Speaker 4: Some people, the only thing that's holding them.

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Speaker 4: You can't say everything you feel. Your emotions will get

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Speaker 5: You have to be disciplined and tame your tongue. The

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Speaker 5: scripture says, be quick to listen and slow to speak.

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Speaker 5: If you'll pause for a moment, let your emotions calm down,

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Speaker 5: You may know they're wrong and you're right. You have

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Speaker 5: to ask yourself is this worth starting World War three over?

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Speaker 5: Just bite your tongue and walk away. I've heard it

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Speaker 4: Twice as much as we speak. Do you know how many.

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Speaker 5: Headaches you could save yourself if you just zip it up,

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Speaker 5: pain is still being felt. It's like a burn. The

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Speaker 5: we can apologize, say we're sorry. That's good, that's the

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Speaker 5: tame your tongue, be slow to speak, not say things

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Speaker 4: That's not a true statement.

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Speaker 5: Words can leave scars, words can tear people apart, words

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Speaker 5: today not reaching their potential because of hurtful words spoken

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Speaker 5: You're unattractive, you're not talented. Now those words are limiting

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Speaker 5: their life. David prayed in Psalm sixty four, God protect

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Speaker 5: He referred to hurtful words as swords. Are you building

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Speaker 5: wounded and scarred. Many times we recover from a physical

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Speaker 5: wound much quicker than an emotional wound. Parents, we have

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Speaker 5: a responsibility to speak words of life, faith encouragement into

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Speaker 5: don't do it angry in a disresiful way. Don't say

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Speaker 5: derogatory things to your children that are going to damage

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Speaker 5: their self image, even small children. You should never say

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Speaker 4: They've been made in the image of God. He breathed

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Speaker 5: They may have bad behavior at times, but your children

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Speaker 5: They have enough to overcome already. As it is, they

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Speaker 5: have enough people circumstances coming against them. Let's be parents

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Speaker 5: that speak life into our children, that push them into

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Speaker 5: God is counting on us to guide them, to nurture them, to.

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Speaker 4: Help them become who they were created to be.

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Speaker 5: Taming the tongue starts at home. Husbands, make sure you're

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Speaker 5: treating your wife with respect and honor. If you're saying hurtful,

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Speaker 5: demeaning things, pushing her down, really you're pushing yourself down.

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Speaker 5: You're not just hurting her, you're hurting you. The scripture

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Speaker 5: reasons women fall into depression is because they don't have

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Speaker 5: Now, I know men that treat strangers better than they

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Speaker 4: Idle word that we've spoken.

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Speaker 5: Did you help them grow to become more confident?

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Speaker 4: Check up on what you're saying. Are you speaking the blessing?

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Speaker 4: Every time you.

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Speaker 5: Tell your wife you're beautiful, she shines a little bit brighter.

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Speaker 5: Every time you say I love you, I'm so glad

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Speaker 5: she's getting stronger. When you tell your children, I'm proud

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Speaker 5: Those are not just kind words. Those are seeds that

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Speaker 5: God gave them to you, He's expecting you to give

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Speaker 5: them back better. After being married to Victoria going on

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Speaker 5: having to put up with her for thirty years. But

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Speaker 4: You will see more of his favor.

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Speaker 5: But the point here is you can't be critical and

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Speaker 5: make it into your promised land. You can't be disrespectful

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Speaker 5: all you were created to be. That's why proverb says

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Speaker 4: Death are in the power of the tongue.

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Speaker 5: Are you speaking life over your future or are you

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Speaker 5: Moses was about to marry. This young lady didn't meet

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Speaker 5: Miriam's approval. She was an Ethiopian girl, came from a

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Speaker 5: different nationality. Miriam started talking bad about Moses, stirring up trouble,

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Speaker 5: of the sudden, Miriam was stricken with leprosy. Her skin

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Speaker 5: became as white as snow. Leprosy was contagious. She immediately

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Speaker 4: And it will help us to have.

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Speaker 5: The right perspective when we remember that God hears what

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Speaker 5: we say. He hears when we bless people, and when

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Speaker 5: we curse them. He hears when we encourage compliment, push

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Speaker 5: them forward. And when we're harsh and disrespectful. Isaiah said,

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Speaker 5: we will eat the fruit of our words. This means

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Speaker 5: if you so disrespect, you'll reap disrespect. If you sow discord, sarcasm, judgment,

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Speaker 5: you'll reap those things. But when you sew kindness, compliments, encouragement, mercy.

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Speaker 4: Then people are going to be good to you.

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Speaker 5: Our son, Jonathan had a birthday last week and he

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Speaker 5: was away at college, and I sent him a text

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Speaker 5: him how proud I am a him. I went to

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Speaker 5: my office to start preparing my message for this weekend,

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Speaker 5: and I went over notes for a couple of hours,

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Speaker 5: but couldn't seem to get any clear direction about what

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Speaker 5: but nothing seemed inspiring.

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Speaker 4: It felt kind of dull.

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Speaker 5: And then when I came across these notes of taming

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Speaker 5: the Tongue, I knew that's what I was supposed to share.

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Speaker 5: About ten minutes later, Jonathan sent me a text back

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Speaker 5: and said thanks Dad, You're the best dad in all

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Speaker 5: the world, and said a few more kind things about

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Speaker 5: me and ended by saying I want to be just

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Speaker 5: like you. And it's amazing how those few sentences breathe new.

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Speaker 4: Life into my spirit.

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Speaker 5: I felt a lifting, a new strength, a new joy.

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Speaker 5: I went from being stuck, this is hard, nothing is

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Speaker 5: coming to being excited. Passionate ideas started flowing, creativity all

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Speaker 5: sparked from a few kind words. James said, the tongue

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Speaker 5: is like a fire. One spark can set a whole

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Speaker 5: forest on fire. One word can start a major problem,

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Speaker 5: one word can start a major blessing. I'm asking you

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Speaker 5: to start some good fires. Ignite people's dreams, ignite their hopes,

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Speaker 5: ignite their passions. Your words have the ability to put

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Speaker 5: people on their feet, to breathe new life into their spirit.

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Speaker 5: Be a healer, be an encourager, be a lifter. And

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Speaker 5: when you're tempted to say things and we all are

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Speaker 5: to be condescending, sarcastic, argumentative, be disciplined enough to zip

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Speaker 5: it up, put that sword down. Don't go through life

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Speaker 5: cutting people up with hurtful words. Go through life building

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Speaker 5: people up with encouraging words. If you'll do this, I

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Speaker 5: believe and declare because you're taming your tongue, you will

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Speaker 5: enjoy your life more. You will have better relationships. You

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Speaker 5: will receive your inheritance and become everything God's.

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Speaker 4: Created you to be. In Jesus' name, if you receive it,

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Speaker 4: can just say.

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Speaker 5: A man today, we never like to close our broadcast

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Speaker 5: without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord

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Speaker 5: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say

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Speaker 5: Lord Jesus I'll repent of my sins.

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Speaker 4: Come into my heart.

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Speaker 5: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you

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Speaker 5: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again.

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Speaker 5: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 5: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed.

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for listening to today's message.

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