August 3 2018

Choose Your Words Carefully

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4:6 
How do we speak to one another? 
Grace =charis -that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness: grace of speech.  
We should always speak to one another from a place of grace.  
Our speech, itself, should always be like salt, used wisely, enhancing the flavour, not taking away from it. 
There is power in our words. 
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21 
We can speak life into the lives or others or we can speak death.  
We must choose our words carefully.

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August 3 2018

A Mind to Work

So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. Nehemiah 4:6

Nehemiah was leading the people in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
They met much opposition from those around them. 
And yet, the wall got built and in 52 days. 
Nehemiah explains it this way:  “for the people had a mind to work.” 
What does that mean?
Mind= leb =  inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding.
They had intent in the inner man, their will, their heart and their understanding.
They had intent to work together corporately and in unity. 
They had intent to get the work the Lord had called them to, completed. 
Not just completed but completed well and completed in a timely manner. 
What work has the Lord called you to? 
What work has the Lord called us to that requires corporate unity and “a mind to work”? 
That work will get completed well and in a timely manner if we find that “mind” within us to work well, to work in unity, and to work in a focused way.

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August 3 2018

A Mind to Work

So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. Nehemiah 4:6

Nehemiah was leading the people in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
They met much opposition from those around them. 
And yet, the wall got built and in 52 days. 
Nehemiah explains it this way:  “for the people had a mind to work.” 
What does that mean?
Mind= leb =  inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding.
They had intent in the inner man, their will, their heart and their understanding.
They had intent to work together corporately and in unity. 
They had intent to get the work the Lord had called them to, completed. 
Not just completed but completed well and completed in a timely manner. 
What work has the Lord called you to? 
What work has the Lord called us to that requires corporate unity and “a mind to work”? 
That work will get completed well and in a timely manner if we find that “mind” within us to work well, to work in unity, and to work in a focused way.

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