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Author: Karen Ehman
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Karen Ehman _ Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet
In the afternoon we can't forget what God told us in the morning.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
Our words are powerful, and they have consequences. Whether it is a string of words screamed out in anger during the height of a marital spat, or a politician who chooses to lie in order to win votes, or even just a middle schooler trying to impress a group of boys. Our words are powerful, and our words have consequences.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
Likewise, 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. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell" {James 3:5 – 6}.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
Lord, I give my mouth to you today. May what comes forth be sweet and not bitter. May the journey each word takes from my mind to my heart to my lips be guided by your hand. May what comes out be life-giving rather than causing death. May my words make you proud and bring you glory. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
The truth is, words are never accidental. To be sure, there are times we utter careless words, but even then those words are first formed in our minds, filtered to our hearts, and then given permission to come out of our lips. So in our quest to use our words in ways that are good and honor God, we must first consider the heart and mind from which they come.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off. Will
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
each word takes from my mind to my heart to my lips be guided by your hand. May what comes out be life-giving rather than causing death. May my words make you proud and bring you glory. In Jesus' name, Amen. * Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain {New York: Morgan Road Books, 2006}, 4.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of" {Luke 6:45}.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
If you play the fool and exalt yourself, or if you plan evil, clap your hand over your mouth!" {30:32}. Here it is, translated for social media: "If you are tempted to slam someone online or brag on Facebook or send off a nasty tweet, turn off the screen and walk away!
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Karen Ehman _ Listen, Love, Repeat:
God knows we are limited by time and space; Jesus himself was. He didn't preach to everyone, heal everyone, comfort everyone, or even convert everyone. He simply showed up where God told him to go and did what God told him to do.
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. {Psalm 19:14}
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Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How
There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us, to talk about the rest of us.
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