Wednesday: Weapons of Mass Destruction

I am about to open my mouth!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is SALVATION WEDNESDAY on the line, and we need to be praying harder and harder for God to use us to bring in the lost. Remember Jesus is THE Savior, we are not, we are His workers. Before we start out working to bring in the lost, we need to be sure of our own salvation. I say that from the bottom of my heart. I am praying for God to give me a series of messages on Salvation. Pray for me for that please. So today we pray for Salvation for the lost and for God to use us. The Saylor family thanks all on the line who are praying for them. Don had his surgery yesterday. The surgery went well, but the side effects did not go so well. Don lost a lot of blood and is in intensive care at the Hospital. I was with the family last evening and in the room with Don. He was alert but because of all the machines he of course could not talk. Please keep praying for Don Saylor and his family. Tomorrow is family day. Does your family need special prayers or do you know a family that does? Please send in their names today. Families are very important to our Lord, and we want to keep praying for families ...

Weapons of Mass Destruction: Job 33: 2 - I am about to open my mouth; my words are on the tip of my tongue. 3 My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know. (NIV)

We all remember our former President George W. Bush talking about weapons of mass destruction. We remember General Colin Powell going to the United Nations and telling about these weapons. For a year or more we talked about weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq. Then President Bush ordered our troops into Iraq. Those weapons were never found and maybe, just maybe, it was due to what I think is the biggest weapon of mass destruction out there ... the tongue, or the voice. You have heard that "loose lips sink ships". Did the loose lips of some, maybe even some in our own country, warn those with the weapons that our military was searching for them in time for them to move them? Maybe, we will never know that answer, but I do know this! The tongue, our voice, our speech, our FREE speech, can hurt and it can hurt bad. And I want to make this point right now ... our fingers on the computer key board and on the cell phone sending messages is the same as our tongue when used. Good or bad, like it or not, this computer thing, what we type, is the same as saying it or worse. I have a really good friend who states "that if it is not in writing it did not happen". While that is a term used most often in business, in training, in contracts, and is very, very important and I am using this to show you the power of the written word.

Weapons of Mass Destruction: The printed news has been doing it for years and years, printing things about others. Years ago, other than those JUNK papers, most good papers checked out things before they printed them. Now things go to print before things are checked out. Folks, for the rest of this week, Lord Willing, I want to talk to you about things that come out of our mouth, and as I talk about it, I want you to remember that on today's market your fingers are indeed an extension of your mouth. And here comes my friend Tom's words, when in writing, there is even a hard copy of what you might have said. It is now in writing, so brothers and sisters, before you say it, think about it, and before you write it, rethink it before you push the send key. Once something is out of your mouth, it is out there, once you press the send button, it is out there. If you are blogging and you are putting out things that are not true, you could be in trouble, if you are slamming others be sure, if you must do it, get it right. How often over the years have all of us wanted to have something we said back? I don't know of one person who wouldn't love to have something they said back, even a message put on a recorder in the heat of the moment, some might like to have back. If you say something to a loved one that hurts and you then you realize you were the one that was wrong, how do you get the words back? You don't, and while you can say over and over again you are sorry, you cannot take back the words.

So today I ask that you start weighing your words, and weighing those things you write to be sure of the facts, and even if you are correct, do you really want to say it or write it? As a Christian some will try and hold us to a higher standard just because we say we love Jesus. The truth about that one is we are still a sinner, and if we live for Jesus we are a forgiven sinner.

Today as you pray for salvation for yourself and others, and you pray to have God use you to help bring in the lost, also let's pray for God to give us the right words to say all the time, let us practice this ... before your words come out of your mouth, or in the case of the computer, your finger tips, let's pray that these words go through our brain, and then take a trip through our heart and then rethink it and then run it past God, and then when we are sure it will not hurt others, say it. My dear mamma told me more then once, "Danny, if you don't have something good to say about someone, don't say anything." Gosh I wish I would have practiced that all my life.

Dear Father in Heaven ... I give you praise and honor for taking Don through his surgery yesterday and now ask that you keep your healing and loving hand on him and his family. Thanks Lord for the staff at the Holy Spirit Hospital, and all other hospitals. Lord, today is salvation Wednesday and I want to just lead this prayer, praying that others might pray this in faith. Lord, forgive me of my sins and clean me as new. Wash me white as the new fallen snow. I confess I am a sinner and need Your love and saving grace. Save me today, Lord, and put me to work for You ... In Jesus' name, Amen.

Go forth now, sharing those blessings and weighing out your words ... love ya ,dan.