Determining Our Destinies With Our Tongue

But you will not go there: but remember, your tongue will determine your destiny.

Point 3: THE DISTINGUISHING FRUITS OF MINISTERING TONGUES

James 3:13,17-18; Psalms 37:30,31; Proverbs 31:26,31; Ephesians 4:29; Job 16:4,5; Psalms 119:171; Proverbs 25:15; Isaiah 6:5-8

The fruits that sets us apart, distinguish us and make us distinct. These are people who know that the tongue matters, in everything we say, or anything we do. That they will allow the fire of purging and cleansing to touch and transform their tongues, and the wisdom from heaven is given to them, that they speak with the wisdom of Christ, and their lives are turned around (like your life will be turned around in Jesus Name). “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom” (James 3:13). In conversation, interaction with others, speaking with each other, remember the heart; if you love somebody words of love will come out from you to that person, if you are wise inside, the tongue will reveal that wisdom, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Divine wisdom affects and influences our heart and the way we speak. That divine wisdom will speak to the sinner and lead him to repentance; to the backslider and lead him to restoration; and to the believer and lead him to consecration. You will speak with divine wisdom and lead souls to Christ, and great will be your rewards here on earth and in eternity in Jesus Name. “The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment” (Psalms 37:30). The mouth of the righteous speaks the wisdom of salvation, and sanctification, and is saturated with the word of God. You will not backslide, for this wisdom that is from above will be yours in Jesus Name (Psalms 37:31). “She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness” (Proverbs 31:26). That is a good and righteous woman in the church; teaching and helping other women to draw near to God, to love God, their husbands and children, and to be a blessing to the people in the community. She has the law of kindness on her tongue, and if any word will not show kindness to that other person, she will not utter it. With godly wisdom in the heart, you will speak the words that help and not to hurt; that heal not endanger; that encourage and lift up and not discourage or pull down; the words that make a person happy, holy, righteous and healthy, and not acidic words. “But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief” (Job 16:5). Unlike like his friends who seeing his condition heaped blame and words of judgment upon him, Job said he would use his tongue to bring them nearer to God, and encourage them. It is a soft tongue, not harsh, brutal, cruel, cutting nor acidic, that will break the bone (Proverbs 25:15). I pray the Lord will do it in your life. “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; “And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged” (Isaiah 6:5-7). The Lord wants us to act with humility and sincerity like Isaiah a prophet and minister of God, and checkup how we have been using our tongues; to know the fruits of our tongue, the defining factor, if we have got the mastery of our tongue, or if it has been the devouring fire, that we threaten people, are cruel, deceitful, make fire to burn down the work or company of other people with our tongue. I pray that the fire of the Holy Ghost will purge out and cleanse every unclean things from our tongue in Jesus Name. This was the sanctification experience for Isaiah, for he had known the Lord before this time, was even speaking and prophesying for the Lord to the children of Israel, but he came to the Lord for another and definite touch, and the coal from off the alter cleansed and purged his tongue and life. I pray that the Lord will do this for everyone this morning. After the purging, there was the witness of the Holy Spirit to the experience that Isaiah had. “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:8). Let your response to be, Here am I; send me.

Ponder on this! Here on earth, it is our tongues that determine how good our family will be, how prosperous the salesman will be, how good a teacher is, how good anyone in any field or profession is and what we get out of life. On the other side of the grave, it is the tongue that determines where we are going to be.

Ponder on this! Our tongue determines how happy we are in life; how useful to the Lord; how healthy we are in ourselves and how spiritual. It is the tongue that determines how rewardable we are going to be in eternity; how friendly we are in society; successful, profitable, good and how well-remembered our lives will be after we are gone. It is the tongue on the other hand that determines our sadness, rejection, defeat, loss, failure, suffering in life, unanswered prayers, self-destruction, eternal ruin and damnation. Pastor (Dr) W.F Kumuyi.