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Let’s Talk
Let’s Talk
Communication involves two and means to exchange or express information, knowledge, emotions, ideas, through common systems of signs, symbols, words or behaviors
Communication happens between 2 or more people. One speaks and the other listens. It involves an exchange. One expresses the information the other assimilates the information.
One speaks the other listens...
Communication through words…
Communicating through words can be very difficult but it is one of the main systems of transferring information
Here is what we know the Bible teaches us about the words that we speak.
Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
We know what scripture says about our words.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
The words we speak carry power in them. The power of Life and Death
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
We will have to answer for every word we have spoken.
But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Our words justify and condemn us!
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
We are to guard our mouth
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
We want our words to be full of grace and seasoned with salt.
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
So why do we struggle communicating in our relationships and with God?
For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
Understanding why the struggle will help us to do better in our relationships.
Most of our problems with communication come from the fact that communication isn’t an exact science.
Words are “expressed ideas”
Words are vessels that carry in them ideas and environments and can carry several meanings and applications.
To decipher words is an art especially when the word carries more than just knowledge and information.
Word are expressed in a certain context and can easily be taken out of context to mean anything
Examples of misunderstandings.
“My toddle was about to hit her head while playing on the playground, so I told her to “duck” she said “quack” and hit her head!”
My wife said she would like to spend quality time with me, I thought we could cuddle and watch a movie, what she meant was to go for a walk and have a deep conversation.
Every word we speak is birthed in an idea within a context.
When Jesus told Nicodemus that He had to be born again. The context was not understood by Nicodemus.
The context can be in:
Thought - some are meaningful others aren’t
Truth - reality or perception of reality
Mask - to hide and or conceal the truth
Emotional life - Pain, shame, guilt, need for approval, etc
Knowledge - understanding of facts
Information- repetition of facts
God Uses words… Lets see How God uses them.
It is the same with my word.
I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to,
and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
Why is God such a perfect communicator.. His words carry power and fruit.
God is perfect and there is no flaw in Him
God understands perfectly the one He speaks to.
God recognizes that not everything He says we will understand but does’t change His word because of it.
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
The pure of heart will use pure words...
Words that are meaningful will come from the one full of meaning
When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.
The words of God carry instruction but they also carry spirit
But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!
God’s words can be trusted! He doesn’t lie!
Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
God’s words are to be used as a standard.
