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October 19 2009 at 5:00 am

Proverbs, Part 15: Application

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Braden Greer preached yesterday from Proverbs 12:18: “There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” He considered the power of both “rash, destructive words” and “wise, constructive words.”

You can listen to the message online or download an mp3, and use the following questions prepared by pastor Don DeVries to help apply the sermon to your life:

1. Consider those in your relational network; e.g., spouse, children, friends, co-workers, etc. Who can you specifically and intentionally encourage today and each day this week?

2. If someone recorded a week’s worth of your words, what would they hear—words of praise, encouagement and faith? Or rash, selfish and angry words? Or both?

3. In Luke 6:45, Jesus said, “out of the abundance of the heart [the] mouth speaks.” What desires are waging war in your heart such that you speak rash words to people?

4. How should Proverbs 12:18 inform the way you bring correction to a spouse, a child or a friend? How can you grow in bringing correction with gentleness and mercy (see 2 Tim. 2:24-26)?

5. If you have a pattern of using rash words, how can you find the joy of forgiveness in the cross of Christ and the hope for change in the power of the Holy Spirit? What brothers or sisters can you enlist to help you in this process of change?

Lastly, feel the freedom to download this PDF containing a summary outline of the message combined with the application questions above.

 





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