SPEAK LIFE NOT DEATH!

2-8-2011. . . .SPEAK LIFE NOT DEATH!

"Don't tell lies to each other; it was your old life with all its wickedness that did that sort of thing; now it is dead and gone. You are living a brand new kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right, and trying constantly to be more and more like Christ who created this new life within you." (Col 3:9-11TLB)  Contrary to popular belief, lies do not come in colors or different sizes.  A lie is a lie!  We also have a choice whether to lie or tell the truth.  If we choose to lie, we opt to be ruled by our old nature which is dead and passed away.  Speak life not death!

Prayer: Lord, thank you for new life in you!  Help us to speak those things which pertain to life and not death.  Amen!

Col 3:5-10. . . . Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.  Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.    You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.  But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.(NIV)