Good Morning,
Colossians 4:6 "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." (Ephesians 4:29) "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer." (Psalms 19:14)
This month there is a holy challenge being issued. Can you speak only when it is to edify? When you speak can you season your words? Last, but the most important one. Can all your words be acceptable to God? We are all watching our words to get some material promise, like houses, cars, jobs, etc. Yet, how many times are our words destroying or cutting down someone made in the image of God? I wonder how many slayed saints have been left in the aftermath of the great hurricane of our mouths. Look at the two headed monster that still lives in our mouth. Let's clean it up all around, not just for our confessions that we apply for personal gain, or temporary pleasures. "With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God's likeness! Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so." (James 3:9-10) Let us build the kingdom by building up one another, with our words. We are the living stones, that make up God's temple. We edify by using grace filled words. Grace are words that have a divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in your life. Grace filled words will affect the manner and the actions of those that you speak them to. Season with salt means to make our words palatable, more agreeable to God's words; to be less severe, to prepare to be pleasant and give relish and zest to our words that others hear. To keep safe from injury, harm or destruction; to keep alive and intact and free from decay.
Do your words have that kind of affect on those who listen to you? Are they influenced with divine manners and reflections of godly actions after hearing you? Can you honestly say that most of your words are easy to digest, agreeable, not harsh or severe? Do people think that you are arguing even when you're not? Your last conversation, was it filled with words that made the listener feel full of zest for living a godly life? Did your last words bring injury, harm or destruction? Today, can be a turn around in your conversation. You can bring life to every one in your sphere. All you need is a willing and obedient heart. Learn to prepare your speaking and the words that you say. Learn grace-talking and season-speaking. Start off slow, choosing one word at a time. Just because you talk a lot or talk fast, does not mean you know kingdom speaking, or that wisdom is dripping off of your tongue. Start off with this simple confession.
"Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." (Psalms 141:3) If you would spend as much time watching your words that are spoken to people, as you do over temporal things, you will get astronomical results. You will find Holy Spirit will come along side to assist you. The kingdom is built of people that are made in God's image. That is eternal building!! I hope I'm able to recognize you next month.
Daughters of Z 
Wow what a tough Word. I have been guilty of BOTH speaking words or encouragement and words that have hurt. Words of encouragement because I like to give people the encouragement that “hey I understand where you are and I’ve been there” and then there are those words of hurt – when you have had just about ENOUGH!!
I have also been on both ends of the stick to RECEIVE words of encouragement which is a blessing and also RECEIVE words that hurt very deeply..I believe that ole saying sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may never hurt me. THAT IS A LIE!!! Words hurt deeply, words that someone may have said in the past may trigger something in the present and hard to erase.
But, one thing I try to do is if I do mess up and say something WRONG I do go back and apologize if I was right or wrong and that is a personal generational curse that I chose to break because not too many apologies were given to me. It’s a daily fight everyday, but I am willing to fight for something I believe in and I love to see My Heavenly Father smile to see His daughter TRYING to do the right thing.
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