“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Colossians 3: 9, 10 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 

and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. 

Hallelujah

The Changes in the Tongue – Good Tongues – Bad Tongues

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days we saw regarding how every one of our mouths should be. If we will be a good mouth God will judge us as righteous. If we will be a bad mouth God will judge us as guilty. 

Also, today we are going to meditate about the tongue. We see that the tongue cannot be tamed, is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. That is why, God is touching the tongues of those who wait on him, on each and everyone.  God gives a new tongue to everyone. Let us submit our tongue in God’s presence right now.

How we must submit is that, in Psalms 39: 1 I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.” If the wicked is there in our soul our tongue will speak bad things. That is why, in Psalms 139: 19, 20 Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.

For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

What this portion of the Psalms is showing is that in the souls of the people there are the crowd of wicked which are our enemy which include many scornful, deeds of the immoral woman who speaks flattering words, crowd of people who decorate, crowds with many bad traditions and habits filled with bad deeds which are the crowds of the big Satan. Only if God dwells within us and destroys all these things our life can be in fellowship with God. These are all blood thirsty men. That is the Psalmist is singing Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.

Only if such deeds depart from us the words that begin from our tongue will be sweet words which are according to God. That is why, in Psalms 139: 4, 5 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.

You have hedged me behind and before And laid Your hand upon me.

God is placing his hand upon us and is creating us as new. In such a creation, God is giving us a tongue to praise God.

Psalms 139: 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvellous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

My dear people, marvellous works signifies our inner man’s tongue; New tongue, it is the tongue of Christ, Holy tongue; the tongue that talks to God; the tongue that interacts with him. When the day of Pentecost came in the room where everyone around one hundred and twenty people were gathered the Holy Spirit descended.

Acts 2: 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance

All those who heard this were amazed and marvelled. This is what God is making us as a marvellous miracle. Now, we who are reading this in order to receive such a good tongue let us submit ourselves in God’s presence.

Good Tongue (New Tongue)

1. Psalms 37: 30 Tongue of justice

2. Proverbs 31: 26 Tongue of the law of kindness

3. Psalms 126: 2 Tongue with singing (joyful sound)

4. Psalms 51: 14 Tongue that sings aloud of your righteousness

5. Psalms 34: 13 Tongue which is kept away from evil

6. Psalms 35: 28 Tongue which speaks of your righteousness and your praise all day long

7. Proverbs 21: 23 Tongue which guards and keeps the soul away from calamity

8. Psalms 66: 17 Tongue which extolls God

9. Isaiah 30: 27 Tongue like a devouring fire

10. Isaiah 32: 4 Tongue which speaks plainly (Stammering mouth)

11. Isaiah 35: 6 Tongue that sings (Dumb)

12. Acts 2: 26 Glad tongue

13. Acts 2: 3 Divided tongues as of fire

14. Psalms 45: 1 Tongue like the pen of a ready writer

15. Proverbs 10: 20 Tongue of the righteous is choice silver

16. Proverbs 15: 2 Tongue of the wise use knowledge rightly

17. Proverbs 15: 4 Wholesome tongue is the tree of life

18. Proverbs 12: 18 Tongue of the wise promotes health

19. Proverbs 18: 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue

20. Song of Solomon 4: 11 Honey and milk are under your tongue

21. Proverbs 16: 1 Tongue that answers

Old Tongue (Previous tongue) Bad Tongues

1. Psalms 12: 3 God cuts off the tongue that speaks proud things

2. Psalms 15: 3 Tongue that backbites

3. Proverbs 10: 31 Perverse tongue

4. Proverbs 12: 19 Lying tongue

5. Psalms 140: 3 Tongue like a serpent

6. Proverbs 17: 4 Spiteful tongue

7. Psalms 52: 2 Tongue that works deceit

8. Psalms 57: 4 Tongue as sharp as a sword – wounds others

9. Psalms 50: 19 Tongue that frames deceit

10. Proverbs 26: 28 Lying tongue

11. Psalms 140: 11 Slandering tongue

12. Psalms 73: 9 Set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth

13. Isaiah 32: 4 Tongue of the stammerers

14. Isaiah 35: 6 Tongue of the dumb

15. Isaiah 41: 17 Tongue that fail for thirst

16. Isaiah 59: 3 Tongue that has muttered perversity

17. Jeremiah 9: 8 Tongue which is shot out (sharpened)

18. Lamentations 4: 4 Tongue which clings to the roof of its mouth

19. Zephaniah 3: 13 Deceitful tongue

20. James 3: 8 Tongue which cannot be tamed, unruly evil, full of deadly poison

21. Proverbs 17: 20 Tongue that twists

My dear people, in the above portion we are reading about two beginnings of the tongue. Firstly, what we must know is that when we say good tongues God creates us as a new creation and gives us a new image in our soul and creates our tongue as a new one. These tongues will cleanse us completely and make us holy. These people will be blessed by God.

Next what we see are the Bad tongues. Before we change into a new creation, the tongue that we have is the old tongue (Tongue of sin). All the characters of that tongue must change and only if we become a new tongue, new good tongue we can become holy. In these days all those God’s children who are reading and meditating on this should analyse themselves to see if any of these bad tongues are in us and should put off all the kinds of old tongues from us and should receive the new tongue from God by supplication and prayer. God will remove all the deeds of the old tongue and give us the new tongue and will surely bless us. All of you will be blessed.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless us all.

- To be continued