Hello and welcome to the One Thing Podcast. Today we talk about a special gift that God has given to each one of us. It is the gift of our voice—to be able to speak, the ability to speak words toward The Lord, to ourselves, and even to one another.

"The words we speak can be words that glorify God."

Think about that for a moment. The words we speak can be words that glorify God. They can glorify His kingdom by bringing life and His light into one another—sweet to the soul, and healthy for the body. On the opposite end we see, also in the Word, that a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit. A deceitful tongue, a tongue that accuses, a tongue that breaks down, that doesn’t speak the truth of The Lord—it crushes the spirit.

What will you and I use our gift for today? The gift of our voice—the ability to be able to speak. Will we choose to fill ourselves with the Word of God and to bring it forth, using it to glorify Him? Using it to glorify His kingdom, and bringing light and life through our words to one another? Or, will we choose to speak idle words? Will we choose to speak words that are not good, words that tear down rather than build up?

"Bring the Word so deep that every word that we would speak would reflect who YOU are..."

May we submit ourselves to God in such a way that every word that we speak, every word that we allow to come from our voice, that they would be used to bring glory to God and to His kingdom. Holy Spirit, enter into our hearts today. Bring the Word so deep that every word that we would speak would reflect who You are, that would be sweet as honey to someone’s soul today, and that they would bring health, good health, to somebody that may be struggling. I don’t know how many times in my life that I may have been in a tough situation. I may not have known what to do, but then somebody comes on in and speaks a word of life that has saved me over and over again.

May we be the voices of The Lord. May we be the vessel that he uses today. What will you do with the gift that God has given you?