Hello my friends it's time to the morning mindset. Do you remember this from your

childhood? Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.

Do you remember saying that as a kid or hearing kids say that?

That is one of those things that we say when someone has said something to us that seems hurtful. But here's the problem with that statement. It's absolutely a lie.

Names, accusations, words, they can not only hurt you, they can destroy a person from the inside out.

Because they are corrosive, they bring about a damage to our souls.

Friends, as we look at the scriptures today, we're going to be aligning our minds with God's truth about our

words, about the way we speak, because if our identity has changed, which the apostle Paul has just said in

Ephesians 423 and 24 then our behaviors have to come in line with that and

Ephesians 429 which is what we're looking at today, addresses the way our words

relate to that reality.

So we're going to get there in just a moment.

Before we do, though, I want to encourage you to share the morning mindset with someone you know,

maybe it's a family member, someone in your church or your neighborhood who could actually

benefit from this daily encouragement and mindset reset that we all get to do. So thank you for doing that

friends. Let's pray before we dive in to Ephesians 429. Our God we are grateful

that you are so good to us, that you provide such reality and truth to us about who we are in Jesus Christ.

And here you're giving us instructions about how we should talk, how we should interact in a verbal

basis with each other and with those outside the church.

We ask you to teach us very clearly both the what and the why of our speech.

We ask it in Jesus' name, amen.

Okay, friends, get out your Bible, your journal, Epfusions 429 is what we're looking at today.

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