Healing from a chapter of life consumed with lies she once believed about herself, she is inspired to point women to Christ to experience the freedom and power to overcome those lies with the truth written in God’s word. My goal for this year is to become wiser and it starts with keeping my mouth shut.Īlisha Headley is a writer and speaker who has a desire to meet the everyday woman in her everyday life with biblical truth. Let’s pray about it, and hear from the Holy Spirit how we should approach the situation. Choose our words wisely and when we feel we have every right to speak and voice our concerns, lets wrestle with God first. Learn to pray vs talking it out with a friend. Proverbs 20:19 says “a gossip betrays confidence, so avoid anyone who talks too much.”. It’s so easy to get caught up in entertaining talk, but nothing good comes from it. Consider who you talk to, and who you allow to talk to you. Gossip typically turns into judging which both isn’t honoring to God. But be careful, as talking often, typically turns into gossip. Some of us think if we are talking to other Christians or even our mother about a friend, that’s it’s ok because we are looking for Godly advice and prayer.
Keep it shut how to#
Walk away if you must, and wrestle with God handing the situation over and ask for wisdom from the Holy Spirit on how to respond.ģ. But again, words and how you respond can be detrimental. I could choose to argue with the person through my words because I want to be heard or perhaps, I am just defending myself. Whenever I am frustrated with just about anything in life, I take some time first to wrestle the situation with God. This is something that has transformed how I deal with people. Wrestle with God before you wrestle with man. Learn to pause, measure your words wisely, and think before you speak.Ģ. As the “tongue has the power of life or death” ( Proverbs 18:21). And as we all may have experienced, they can be damaging. And we can do this by watching our words and holding our tongue.ġ. I want to save myself from unnecessary grief. I want to eliminate sin from my life and show my obedience to the Lord. Over and over through the Bible, there are Scriptures that says “a truly wise man uses few words” ( Proverbs 17:27) Not only is sin lacking with few words, but Scripture says “watching your words and holding your tongue saves you a lot of grief”. So, as you can imagine, keeping my mouth shut is a difficult concept to me.Īs an effort to be more obedient in my Christian walk with the Lord, I decided I needed to ask the Lord for wisdom to learn how to hold my tongue. True story! One of the reasons I love to write, is it’s my way of talking on paper. My husband even jokes with me that he’s said more words in the last three years of knowing me (because I love talking), that he has said in the entire thirty years combined before he met me. So even the thought of refraining my lips seems like an impossible task. But if you’re a female, let alone a female like me who craves connection, that’s typically done through talking. Whether it was with coworkers from work, my friends and family, or with my husband - nothing good comes out of talking too much. How many times has your mouth got you in trouble? My mouth has got me in trouble countless times.
In the multitude of words, sin is not lacking, but he who refrains is lips is wise. - Proverbs 10:19
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