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Your tongue is your glory. What you speak steers your life. Invite the Holy Spirit to pilot your words, and watch alignment unlock your next season.
Matthew 12:37
“Your very words will be used as evidence, and your words will declare you either innocent or guilty.”
Jesus makes it clear: what comes out of our mouths either justifies us or condemns us. The question then is: what kind of words justify, and which condemn? To answer that, we must understand God’s purpose for the tongue.
David gives us a key insight in Psalm 16:
Psalms 16:8-9 [NKJV]
“I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope.”
When Peter quotes this passage in Acts 2, preaching on the day of Pentecost, he adds a Spirit-revealed clarity:
Acts 2:25-26 [NKJV]
“For David says concerning Him: ‘I foresaw the Lord always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.”
What David called his glory, Peter identifies as his tongue. The Word of God reveals that our tongues are our glory. God gave us tongues for one supreme purpose: to bring Him glory.
Anything that comes out of our mouths that does not glorify God is a misrepresentation of Him. Scripture is uncomfortably honest about this: it is sin. It is what condemns us. We are justified only when our words rightly reflect the King we represent.
James doesn’t soften this truth:
James 3:6 [NKJV]
“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.”
Not all tongues combined … the tongue. Singular. Left unchecked, every human tongue carries destructive potential. But God, rich in mercy, has not left us without a remedy.
Three Practical Steps to Redeeming Our Tongues
1. Call the problem by its right name
Change begins with honesty. As long as we excuse, minimize, or rename the issue, nothing changes. Scripture calls it sin, and when we agree with God in truth, grace meets us there.
2. Confess and receive cleansing
1 John 1:7-9 reminds us that confessing our sin unlocks forgiveness and continual cleansing. God is not looking for perfection, but honesty. When light exposes the issue and we respond humbly, cleansing follows.
3. Be filled with the Holy Spirit
On the day of Pentecost, the disciples received tongues of fire: a new fire that replaced the hellish fire James described. Immediately, they spoke in tongues and glorified God. The same pattern appears in Acts 10 with Cornelius’ household.
James likens the tongue to a rudder:
James 3:4-5 [NKJV]
“Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!”
The Holy Spirit must be the pilot of our lives, steering that small but powerful rudder. Without Him, our words expose us. With Him, our words align us.
Deuteronomy 30:19 [NKJV]
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;”
The stakes are eternal. Destiny follows declaration. We either speak death, or we speak life into our future. Enter your new season by speaking in agreement with God. Choose life.
Prayer
Father God, I come before You in humility and truth. I acknowledge that my tongue was created to glorify You alone. Where my words have misrepresented You, I repent and receive Your cleansing through the blood of Jesus.
Holy Spirit, I invite You to fill me afresh. Take full control of the words that come from my mouth. Let my tongue be a vessel of worship, faith, and alignment with Heaven. Guard my speech, steer my life, and cause my words to justify me, glorify You, and release Your purposes on the earth.
I declare that my mouth will speak life, truth, and glorify You. Be glorified, Father, In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
