What Your Mouth Is Filled With, Matters! Series

SPIRITUAL GROWTH ENHANCERS

My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendour all day long. Psalm 71:8

WHAT YOUR MOUTH IS FILLED WITH, MATTERS

Some people's mouths are full of gossips, profane, food, negativity and curses. David said his mouth was full of Praise. What your mouth is full of, matters.

"You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34 ESV

How can we praise God when our hearts are filled with ingratitude? How can we praise God enough when our mouths are choked with the food we get to eat than the knowledge of the one who supernaturally provided the food that we get to eat?

And how can we glorify His holy name when we glory in ourselves thinking the food we put on our table and the shelter is my own making?

The New Living Translation renders it this way:

"You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say."

Gratitude is good, but when your attitude is not good you cannot show gratitude. Praising God and confessing His awesomeness is our means of expressing our gratitude to Him.

If your heart is full of bitterness your mouth will spill out the bitterness and not praise God. You cannot give what you don't have. You determine what you have.

What you don't have you don't determine. Your heart determines what your mouth speaks. What your heart do not determine your mouth cannot say because what your heart is full of will automatically spell out through your mouth.

Why don't we choose to praise God with our mouths and tell him of his greatness and let others know of His great grace and goodness as we go about our daily activities?

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD

Difficult moments, PRAISE GOD

Quiet moments, PRAISE GOD

Painful moments, PRAISE GOD

Every moment, PRAISE, WORSHIP AND THANK GOD!

David was praising God every day for His goodness and wonderful works done in his life. His mouth was full of praises and admiration for God's 24/7 security, provision, favour, mercy and grace that is bestowed upon him on daily basis.

David's enemies could not cut off his destiny because of the protection of God upon his life. Nothing could hinder his heart from offering praises to God. He was unstoppable. He praised and thanked God every day. His mouth was always telling God how glorious, beautiful and majestic He is.

Just like David, our heavenly father has always been providing for us and preserving our lives from dangers. We have been entering our public transports and private vehicles every day to anywhere we want to go. While others meet the severe injuries and death of their life by motor or road accidents, we always return home safe and sound.

We seldom thank him, we seldom praise him because we always don't seem to realise that anywhere we go and anything we do has been the Lord God Almighty behind the scenes showing us mercies and preserving our lives.

Many people go to sleep and were the end of their life on earth.

They don't wake up to see another daylight again. They just died suddenly in their sleep. But you always sleep and wake up safe and sound, hello is that your making? Between night and day, a lot of evil things goes around us while we still lie down lifeless sleeping.

Between day and evening, a lot of evils encompasses us in all our endeavours but we still pass through the day and night hours safe. We go about our normal activities like going to work, school or anything we want to do without remembering our Lord Jesus who gives us grace, protection and mandate.

A lot of Christians today don't even pray at night before day sleep. And oh yes, they even forget to pray and thank God for another day. They don't pray to commit their life and daily activities in the care of the Holy Spirit before they set off to wherever they want to go and anything they want to do.

They're just vulnerable to the kingdom of darkness to launch an evil attack on them anytime. Yet, the mercies of God still preserve their souls.

It is not even shocking to admit that we still have Christians who don't say a word of prayer and thanksgiving before they eat. They're quick to fill their mouth with food than to praise the one who supplied them with the strength to work for that food they want to enjoy.

As children of God, we should learn to praise and tell God of His goodness and the wonderful works He does in our lives and we should continue doing this throughout the day and just before we sleep.