Have you ever said something and wish you could take it back?

That moment might reveal something about your heart.

Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth.

If you want your words to change, it's not enough to focus on changing your speech.

What we really need is a heart change.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned.

For July 8th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy's continuing in a series called The Power of Words.

We're looking at the book of Proverbs and finding that it has a lot to tell us about the impact of the words that we speak.

First we've been meditating on and I've encouraged you to put in different places around your home is Proverbs 1821. Death and life

are in the power of the tongue. And we've seen that our words have power to wound and destroy

or to heal and to build up. Now, if we were just all the time speaking one of those sorts of words, it would be easy

to figure it out.

The problem is that out of the same mouth often come the kinds of words that heal and

the kind of words that destroy and wound, which is why we need the Spirit of God to fill

our hearts with His word and His way so that the words we speak

will not be the foolish or the wounding or the deadly words. One of the themes that comes through

many times in the book of Proverbs is the connection of our words to our heart. In fact, I counted 11

verses, there may be more than that, where the word heart is in the

same verse with the word lips or tongue or mouth. The connection is made over and over again. The contrast,

for example, in chapter 10, verse 20, the tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is worth

little. You're seeing a connection to the tongue and to the heart. The tongue is connected to the heart.

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