We're beginning a series called Words Life or Death and you probably heard that phrase before where someone has said

Normally it's said on television or in the movies, maybe you hear it personally,

I need to talk to you, it's life or death.

It's life or death.

Well, words according to the Bible

that we speak have the power of life and death.

This series is based on a book I wrote several years ago

called The Power Your Words.

If you want to pick that up, we'll have it in all the bookstores, all right?

Proverbs chapter 18, verse 21.

Proverbs 18, pardon me, verse 20, that's started verse 20. A man's stomach shall be satisfied

from the fruit of his mouth, from the produce of his mouth,

lips, he shall be filled.

Let me just simply paraphrase that verse.

The quality of your life is dependent upon the words you speak to some degree. That's what that's trying to say.

Verse 21, death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. Death and life are in the

power of the tongue. Now let me make a statement. If that phrase were not in

the Bible, I wouldn't believe it. I would really not believe that the words that we

speak are that important, not only that phrase but this thought all through scripture that it is so important what comes out of our

mouth. When you think about it everything God created he's he created through his word, through speaking. You read

Genesis 1, then God said, then God said, then God said. You'll never find that it says then God waved his hand. He never created that way. He only created by speaking. And we were created in his image. So there's something in the area of us speaking that has a

creative force of either life or death in our lives. Now this truth from scripture has been

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