Words

[00:00:07] Welcome to the weekday podcast of Sugar Hill Church, where we desire to help you know God and discover your purpose, whether you're exercising, driving, meditating, or just hanging out while you tune in with us today. Thanks. We hope these next five minutes help you feel encouraged and inspired for your day. Hi, everybody, and thanks so much for joining me on today's weekday podcast, where we want to talk about our words. [00:00:28] Words that create and words that destroy. Let's go back to the Genesis story where God said in Genesis 1, 3, and 4, let there be light. And there was light, and God saw that the light was good. [00:00:43] I just. Sometimes I think of how incredibly powerful the Lord must be to literally say, let there be light. And then, boom, there's a sun. [00:00:54] Words, words, words. [00:00:57] Our society is filled with words. They're on billboards, they're on TV screens, they're across our computers and emails and newspapers and books. Words whispered, sometimes words shouted, sometimes words sung. [00:01:14] Words that move and dance and change in size and color and often in the way they see and feel and hear. [00:01:25] Words that say, taste me, smell me, drink me, sleep with me, but most of all, buy me. [00:01:31] With so many words around us, we quickly say, well, they're just words. [00:01:37] Therefore, words have lost a lot of their power, and still the Word has the power to create. When God speaks, God creates. And when God says, let there be light, light is God speaks light. [00:01:52] For God, speaking and creating are the same thing. It's that creative power of the Word that we need to reclaim. What we say is important. When we say I love you and say it from the heart, we can give another person a whole new life, a whole new hope, a whole new courage and system to believe. I can do this. [00:02:15] When we say I hate you, we can destroy somebody. [00:02:20] We've got to learn to watch our words and know that they are creating things. [00:02:24] When God speaks, he creates from light to our own life. [00:02:31] I really want to join him in using my words to create goodness, don't you? [00:02:37] I mean, being quick to breathe words of love and encouragement in the lives of those that we know and that we meet today. Lord, stop me when I'm about to use words that destroy and give me words that create, especially those words that create peace. God bless you, friend. Thanks so much for joining me on today's weekday podcast. Thanks so much for joining us today for the weekday podcast. Our prayer is that the encouragement you just heard would help you live more like Jesus today. We would love to see you at Sugar Hill Church for one of our gatherings each Sunday Sunday at 9, 15 and 11, and we're always streaming live at Live Sugarhill Church. Thanks again for joining us today. As always, if today's message encouraged you, share it with friends and family by tapping the share button. Have an awesome day.