Nancy DeMoss Walgamu says, when you avoid exaggeration and lying, you're reflecting God's character.

Because he is truth. And lying is utterly contrary to the nature of God. There's no shadow of

turning with God, no shading of the truth. He's perfect noonday.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamous, author of Adorn. For July 9th,

2025, I'm Danne Gresh.

We've been talking all this week about the power and the impact of our words.

I've been encouraging you to memorize at least Proverbs 18, verse 21, that says death and life are in the power of the tongue.

We've seen that our words can wound or they can heal.

They can minister grace and blessing or they can dishearten and discourage the people that we speak to.

And then we saw yesterday that our tongues are connected to our hearts and that the real issue

is not a tongue or a speech or a word issue. The real issue is a heart hearts. And that the real issue is not a tongue or speech or a word issue.

The real issue is a heart issue. And for those of us, which would be all of us who have a heart

issue, God has provided through the cross and the blood of Christ a solution. It's called

confession, repentance, God's grace, forgiveness. And I know I can get onto this subject

of the tongue. We're looking all this week at what Proverbs has to say about the tongue, and I can

start to feel very overwhelmed and discouraged about ever having victory in the matter of my speech.

But that would be an instrument of the enemy to leave you feeling that way. I want you

to be encouraged and to know that by the power of God's spirit, we can be overcomers in this area.

He can give us new hearts, clean hearts, pure hearts, loving hearts that speak pure and loving

and gracious words. Now, over the next several sessions, we want to look in more

detail in the book of Proverbs at some specific ways that we can use our tongue for good or for

evil. Ways that our mouths reflect either a foolish or a wise heart, a righteous or a wicked heart.

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