Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Your garden will continue to look lifeless if you refuse to admit there are weeds growing in it.

The only way your garden will ever look healthy is if you face the fact that it's filled with weeds.

In the same way, your world of talk will only change if you admit your need for help.

In today's episode, Paul opens up to Ephesians 1 and gives us four dynamic words that can change the way we approach our communication.

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with the transforming power of Jesus Christ. Now here's Paul from Ephetians 1.

The most logical thing to do when you're not satisfied with something is work to change it.

If you're truly dissatisfied with something, you aren't willing to live with it as it is.

So if you've been listening and you have become dissatisfied with your world of talk, what are you going to do about it?

You know that you don't always use words as God intended.

You know that you don't always speak up to his standard and according to his design.

You know that you use words in ways that are more about what you want than what God

wants. You know that you use words as tools of control or weapons of war. You know that you take

words as your own and you use them for your own purpose. You know that you've been ashamed

and embarrassed by things that you have said. You know that you've been ashamed and embarrassed by things that you have said. You know that

you've had moments when you have wished that you could take back words you have said, but you realize

it's simply too late. You have had to live with the bad legacy of your words that has been left behind.

You know, if you're honest, you just can't be satisfied.

You know you can't be willing to live with the old status quo.

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