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Psalm chapter 141, verse 3.

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth.

Keep watch over the door of my lips.

What a great prayer and verse to pray and memorize and meditate on for the psalmist David here to say,

God, I need you to guard my mouth, to keep watch over the door of my lips.

And you just think about all the ways that God in his word warns us about what comes

out of our mouths. James chapter 3 with the tongue we praise our Lord and Father and with it

we curse people who have been made in God's likeness out of the same mouth can come praise and cursing.

My brothers, this should not be.

We can be so quick to Ephesians chapter 4 talk about others or to others in ways that don't build them up in Jesus.

The temptations, and you see it all over Psalm 140 and 141,

temptations to slander, temptations to speak evil against others, temptations that we see all over

God's word to gossip, temptations to just be careless with our speech.

And so David says, God, I need your help to guard my mouth.

And I just want to encourage us today to pray this and to be intentional in response to this prayer to keep watch over the door of our lips

with God's help instead of just speaking what comes to our mind to have watch over the door of our

lips that we pause and we're intentional with our words and we speak that

which is life giving to others we speak that which builds up others in jesus that we speak about

things that truly matter forever instead of just filling our conversations with temporal things that don't matter forever instead of just filling our conversations with temporal things that don't matter

forever. And so we pray, oh God, help us to speak today in ways that bring glory to you,

good to others, and good to us as we walk with you. God, please help us, set a guard

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