39. Monday Meditations: The Fire Behind Your Lips
MIDWEEK RISE UP
Erika Kirk
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🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re focusing on something small—but deeply sacred. It weighs just a few ounces and lives behind your teeth, yet it can split friendships, sow discord, or breathe life into dry bones.
We’re talking about the tongue.
Not just what it says—but what it reveals.
Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” That means your words are not random—they’re reflections. Of your thoughts. Of your beliefs. Of your heart.
In this episode, we unpack the spiritual weight of our speech. Why do words have such power? How do they shape the atmosphere around us—and inside us? And what does it mean to live with a tongue surrendered to God?
From the fires of James 3 to the seeds of Ephesians 4, we’ll explore how holy speech can transform homes, heal hearts, and testify to the goodness of God.
You’re invited into a sacred pause—a fast from careless words and a feast on grace-filled speech. Let’s learn to speak like people who bear the name of Jesus.
Let your words become windows—revealing a heart that’s been made new.
We hope that you enjoy this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations. |
| 0:04.7 | To start the week off right, the phrase we're going to be meditating on is the fire behind your lips. |
| 0:10.7 | Today we're talking about something that's small, but not insignificant. |
| 0:16.2 | It weighs only a few ounces. |
| 0:17.9 | It rests behind your teeth and you use it every single day, hundreds, |
| 0:23.7 | maybe thousands of times. And yet it has the power to ruin relationships, to stir division, |
| 0:31.8 | to shatter confidence, or it can rebuild what's been broken. It can calm a restless soul and it can speak destiny into dry bones. |
| 0:43.0 | So today we're talking about your tongue. |
| 0:46.5 | Not just what it says, but who it reveals. |
| 0:51.1 | So let's start with a really sobering thought. |
| 0:56.0 | Your words are ameer to your heart. Jesus put it plainly in Luke, chapter 6, verse 45, |
| 1:00.0 | out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. |
| 1:03.0 | That means the tongue is not the problem. |
| 1:06.0 | It's actually the evidence. |
| 1:08.0 | Your words are telling a story, whether you know it or not, |
| 1:11.7 | and someone's listening. |
| 1:13.2 | Your spouse, your children, your coworkers, your church family, |
| 1:18.6 | and most of all, God, he's always listening. |
| 1:22.6 | So let me ask you this. |
| 1:23.5 | If someone could only know your heart |
| 1:26.1 | by the words that you speak every day, this week, |
| 1:31.3 | what would they believe about you? |
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