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Unguarded Hearts

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Proverbs 4:1-27

Devotional

Even as you strive to stop saying toxic words to others, you will still have to deal with toxic words being said to you. As a result, you must do what God’s Word tells us to do when others speak toxic words to us: you must guard your heart against them.

How will you guard your heart against toxic words?

via Soul Detox | YouVersion.com.

Here’s our WORD for today not only for ridding our minds and souls of toxic thinking but every other issue of correction plaguing us.

13 Hold fast to discipline, don’t let it go; guard it, for it is your life.

via Proverbs 4:1-27 CJB – Listen, children, to a father’s – Bible Gateway.

23 Above everything else, guard your heart; for it is the source of life’s consequences.

via Proverbs 4:1-27 CJB – Listen, children, to a father’s – Bible Gateway.

This one is settling in hard on me. 

My life.

Your life.

Our lives are what our hearts make them.

No one can ruin, stain, disrupt, corrupt, etc. etc. etc.  my life but me; and I do that with my very own unguarded heart.  Does this bear witness with you today?

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Sticks and Stones

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Day 8 of Soul Detox

Proverbs 12:11-23

Proverbs 18:21

Devotional

Words can hurt you and the right words can help heal you. Those words that crush and hurt you are known as toxic words. Toxic words are incredibly dangerous not only when they are spoken to you, but when you speak them to others. This week you will read from God’s Word about the dangers of toxic words and the power of life-giving words.

How are toxic words infecting your life right now?

via Soul Detox | YouVersion.com.

Do you remember that childhood saying: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.”

How many of us have personal experience with that lie?!

How many of us know in a moment we can slash others with emotional wounds that take a lifetime to heal?

How many of us think phrases (and even say them aloud) to ourselves if others said the same words to us we would be crushed?

How many of us know our words matter? Those we say to others and to ourselves?

How many of us are willing to allow the HOLY SPIRIT to teach us a better way of speaking and thinking?

8 Idle talk can pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise can heal.

via Proverbs 12:11-23; Proverbs 18:21 CJB;NASB;KJV – He who farms his land will have plenty – Bible Gateway.

Proverbs 18:21 The Message (MSG)

21 Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.

via Proverbs 12:11-23; Proverbs 18:21 CJB;MSG;KJV – He who farms his land will have plenty – Bible Gateway.

So what is the HOLY SPIRIT saying to you about your words? What is He saying to me? Are my words: Sticks, stones or healing balm? That’s a good question. And I know the answer. A mixture of all three.  My quest for today is to heavy that mixture on the healing balm side. You too?  :)

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Fixing

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Day 6

Soul Detox

Hebrews 3 encourages us to fix our thoughts on Jesus; however, that can be difficult with so many toxic things trying to capture our thoughts away from Him. Our thoughts are so easily influenced by such toxic things as influences, relationships, and words. Strive to block out and remove all of the toxic things polluting your life and instead fix your thoughts on Jesus. Fixing your thoughts on Him is critical in filtering out all of the toxins in your life.

How different is your life when you focus your thoughts on what is true and good rather than on toxic things?

via Soul Detox | YouVersion.com.

Our passage reading for today is Hebrews 3:1-6. Click HERE to read.

13 Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin.

via Hebrews 3 CJB – Therefore, brothers whom God has set – Bible Gateway.

So how is your day-to-day different for you when you focus on JESUS instead of toxic thinking? And does this verse say to us if we keep on with our toxic thinking that our hearts will become hardened?

Happy Saturday my Friends,

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