Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, October 25th.

What we say and how we say it reveals a lot about us.

Today's podcast challenges you to take note of your words and be sure you are

honoring God by speaking with grace.

I want you to turn, if you will, the Cola Shilations chapter 4. Paul has been talking about prayer

as it begins this chapter and then he says in verse 5 conduct yourselves with

wisdom toward outsiders making the most of the opportunity.

Let your speech always be with grace,

seasons as it were with salt,

so that you may know how you should respond to each person.

So what I want to talk about this evening for a little while is this whole idea

of speaking with grace, and that is grace speaking.

How do we speak with grace? And when he talks about

grace speech, always with grace, what is he talking about? Well our speech should

certainly be kind, it should be courteous, it should be kind. It should be courteous. It should be in the spirit of

humility. It should certainly be polite. It should be edifying and

encouraging. That's the kind of conversation I believe God expects of his children.

That is speech that is graced and that is speech that is favorable.

Speech that is encouraging and polite and kind and assuring.

And he says here also, seasoned with salt.

That doesn't mean salty because there are people who say,

I just tell it like it is.

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