Bay Chapel is a life-giving church in the New Tampa community. We meet Sundays at 10:00 am and you are welcome to come anytime in person or online. Find out more at baychapel.com —---Subscribe to receive our latest messages. ——Stay Connected, ask for prayer and find out more.http://www.baychapel.com/connect——Bay Chapel exists to help people ‘Find God and Find Life’ through a relationship with Jesus Christ. To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: http://www.baychapel.com/giveMessage Notes: Summer at Bay Chapel | July 9, 2023James 1:26 (TLB) Anyone who says he is a Christian but doesn’t control his sharp tongue is just fooling himself, and his religion is worthless. √  The tongue is disproportionately powerful.James 3:3-4 (NLT) We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.√  The tongue is inherently evil.James 3:5-6 (NIV) The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.√  The tongue is untamable. James 3:7-10 (NLT) People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right! √  My words reveal what’s in my heart. LIFE-GIVING WORDS  I. ALLOW GOD TO CHANGE MY HEART.Psalm 19:14 (NLT) May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.II. PUT A FILTER ON WHAT I ALLOW IN MY HEART.Matthew 12:34-35 (NIV) For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.III. SPEAK LIFE-GIVING WORDS. WORDS OF PRAISEProverbs 25:11 (CEV) The right word at the right time is like precious gold set in silver.WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENTEphesians 4:29 (GNT) Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you.WORDS OF HEALINGProverbs 15:4 (NIV) The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life…WORDS OF FAITHI John 5:14 (MSG) My purpose in writing is simply this: that you who believe in God’s Son will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have eternal life…And how bold and free we then become in his presence, freely asking according to his will, sure that he’s listening.

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