YOUR TOUNGUE/YOURLIFE:1

We all have heard so much said about the power of your tongue, and the inherent ability of the words you speak, the power of such words to determine your future, and guarantee your victory in life. That will be our subject for another day, but for today, our emphasis will be on the benefits of keeping quiet, about things and people that we do not understand. I have personally had some experiences that I regretted because of the wrong use of words and the wrong use of my tongue in relation to people and situations that I did not understand fully and spoke ignorantly about them, and entered into trouble with them.
In June 2008, I was in Lagos Nigeria to work on my new music CD, my album titled Greatest Love. While we were working in the studio, there was power outage, something that is very common in Nigeria, so we stopped working for a while, and somebody went to put on the studio generator. We stepped outside the studio and I was together with three other guys, then I remembered something I had seen on television, a few days earlier. A pregnant woman who had what the doctors’ call-cervical dystocia -, i.e. a plastic cervix that refuses to thin out and open out and allow the baby to pass through it; and the doctors had decided to operate on the woman because that is the solution, humanly speaking. She and her husband hadn’t the kind of money required for the surgery. As a result of this, she came to a church to meet a certain man of God. The man of God, during the service, pointed at this woman’s abdomen (belly), and within a two minute interval she delivered a bouncing baby boy who was healthy, alive and well, and herself was equally in sound health, after the delivery of the child. I decided to share that story with my friends and tell them to try and visit that minister’s church on a Sunday, and see things for themselves. I was however shocked by the response that I got from them. One of them, though a passerby, said, you don’t know that man, he is a criminal. He does not know God; we have heard a lot of things concerning him. That thing he is doing is nothing but magic and God has nothing to do with it.
I was shocked by what my friend said, he said all those things about a man that I witnessed a mighty work that only God could do, through a man, performed by him, a man he did not know and has never been with before, all that he could say was that he heard from people, who said that they heard, from people. The whole thing did not make any sense to me. He had never made any efforts to find out what the truth was, but he had already drawn his conclusion and was busy spreading the bad news.
One very important thing my friend did not know is the fact that the that there is a spiritual law that says that you are not to curse or speak evil about one that God has blessed, because that is certain to bring a curse back to you. A lot of people are are suffering today because of what I have just told you, and please do not become one of them. This one who speaks negatively, about the Lord’s anointed, may one day need help of the kind that will require the ministry of that prophet of God, and except God shows him mercy, he has already repelled the spirit of God that is at work in that man, and may die from his problem.
A word is enough for the wise, let us learn to only say those things that we know, and that we have proven to be true. The manual of life tells us that- Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it, will eat its fruit.