Watch Your Mouth – Part 2 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life Teaching

The Holy Spirit is here to help us live with joy, peace, and power to be His witnesses. On this episode of Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer, learn how your words impact God’s power in your life!

Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives.

With a heart to share Christ and love people, Joyce’s messages help people in all walks of life to grow in their faith, learn to study the Bible, find healing from the wounds of life, get answers to life’s questions and encounter the love of God in a powerful way.

I’m Joyce Meyer, and I believe that god can heal you everywhere you hurt.
So when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the day of Pentecost, one of the first things that he did was he touched their mouths.
And so I think we need to pay some attention to that. You know, there’s some reason for that.
And Paul said, just to go on a little bit here.
Paul said, do not forbid anybody to speak in tongues. So if anybody tells you, oh, you can’t do that.
Say, the apostle Paul said I could.
And Paul said, I thank god that I speak in tongues more than you all, but yet, he said, I would rather speak a few words with understanding than to speak in tongues all day long unless there’s somebody to interpret and tell people what’s being said.
So let’s don’t make too much out of it, but let’s don’t ignore it.
You know, it’s about the Holy Spirit not tongues.
When I go buy a pair of tennis shoes, I don’t go in and ask for a pair of tongues.
I get tennis shoes and the tongues come with it.
Well, when you Oh my gosh.
I am getting myself in so much trouble up here.
When you seek the Holy Spirit, he will give you the gifts to use for the good and the profit of all as he determines and desires.
Amen? And so don’t make you really don’t have to make too much out of any of the gifts.
You just seek the Holy Spirit.
You seek god And before you know it, you’re gonna be walking in this supernatural power and have everything that you need to do anything that god asked you to do.
Amen? Alright. So let me just say this.
If you’re sitting there and you’re like, I wish I knew what you’re talking about, lady, but I don’t have a clue.
I feel about as lost as I can be. I’ve got a book.
And if we don’t have it with us, it’s called knowing god intimately.
And it talks about all the gifts of the spirit and all the fruit of the spirit.
And I’ve got another book on being baptized in the Holy Spirit, so you get those and study them.
Study study study. If you wanna know something, don’t just wait for somebody else to come and tell you everything.
Get hungry for god and dig until you know.
If you wanna know more about what I’m talking about, go home and get out of concordance.
And I’m in my gosh. Today, all you gotta do, you you can ask Google anything and it’ll point you in the right direction.
Just give to the spirit. Put it in Google and see what comes up.
And then look up all the scriptures yourself, you’ll find that it’s in the Bible.
You don’t have to live without power.
You do not have to live without power.
And when the holy ghost comes upon you, acts 118, you shall receive power.
Power to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, judaea Samaria, to the ends of the earth.
When the holy ghost comes upon us, we are to have power.
Power to be able to control ourselves and to discipline ourselves and to do what god wants us to do.
Alright. I am gonna make some effort here to calm down just a tad. Alright.
I’m gonna tell you a story. See, I I’ve done this long enough.
I can sense when the anointing is real strong on me and when it’s maybe not quite as strong.
Always anointed to do what I’m doing, but there are times when the anointing is so strong or the presence of god is so strong that I just feel like I’m flying up here.
And it’s like, I mean, I have no idea what the next thing it’s gonna be.
It’s gonna come out of my mouth, but it just keeps coming out and coming out and coming out.
It seems to help people. So that’s just the way we go We just do it that way.
And so if if I’m missing that because I’m not like a polished public speaker that’s gone to a bunch of public speaking classes.
I just had a big mouth, and god decided to use it. Amen?
I was I mean, I was always a fairly good communicator.
I can get my point across, and that really is the main and probably the only real strong gift that I have.
I’ve got a lot of common sense But I mainly just have this gift to communicate god’s word.
And Since I don’t do a bunch of other fancy stuff, you know, if this isn’t working, I can’t stop and sing a great song and just, you know, amaze everybody.
I am telling you that I have to have god’s anointing or I am in serious trouble. Okay?
So when I don’t have that, If I feel that the anointing is not strong, then I can’t wait until I get done.
And if I’m watching the clock, not being able to wait until I get done.
I know that I’m in trouble.
So that happens to me almost never, but, occasionally, if god’s trying to get my attention about something, It will.
You don’t know it, but I know it.
So many years ago, I went through a little period of time where I was teaching just like I always do, but I just felt like there was no anointing at all.
And I hated it. Hated it.
I felt like that everything I was saying made no sense at all.
So I would say to Dave, just feel like there’s no annoying. He’s like, what are you talking about?
It was good. Everything was fine. Um, at least glad god hides it from other people.
And so this went on for few times when I’d go out and speak, and I finally just I told Evan, I said, I don’t know what is wrong with me, but I am not going to bed tonight until I find out.
So I went in my office, and he went to bed.
And I was just crying out to god just tell me what was wrong, showed me what was wrong, and he never showed me anything.
Well, the next day, Dave said, I think god showed me what’s wrong.
Don’t you absolutely hate it when god does that?
I don’t want you to tell him what’s wrong.
I want you to tell me what’s wrong and keep it between me and you.
Well, the minute he said that, I just already got all my all the way out.
Like, you know what’s wrong. You’re gonna you’re gonna tell me what’s wrong.
And so he said So I’m like, okay. What is it?
And he said, Well, you remember the other day when you were talking about so and so, and it was actually a preacher that I know.
And you said And I had said some not so good things about his preaching.
Like, I thought he just, you know, kinda rambled and went off a bunch of different directions and never really finished his point.
Well, Dave agreed with me. But god wasn’t dealing with him.
And then not only did he not deal with Dave about it, he tells Dave, that’s my problem.
Now I know that this sounds funny now, but it was not funny when it was happening.
And so I just I actually got madder, so I just went back to my room, decided I was gonna stay up some more.
And so took a few days, but god led me to these scriptures in James 3, 1 through 10, that I’m getting ready to read you.
Not many of you should become teachers.
For you know that we who teach will be grudged, will be judged with a greater strictness.
So I’m gonna read you the rest of this in a minute for another purpose, but the bottom line is is I had actually done a very bad thing as a teacher of god’s word in saying something downgrading about another person teaching God’s word.
We don’t need to be judging anybody, but if you wanna get in trouble, you just go judge somebody that’s doing the same thing you are.
Maybe you’re a lead vocalist in the church choir, and you have a great voice.
And somebody else that they let do specials once in a while, you you say it.
Uh, they couldn’t sing their way out of a paper bag. I don’t know why they let them sing.
Well, you better start repenting fast. Yeah.
Are you do oh, you don’t understand what I’m saying.
I know a doctor who talks bad about other doctors, and I’m like, oh, you don’t know what you’re doing.
Need to be careful. See, I I want to put a little bit of reverential fear in awe in you today that god does not like it when we gossip and slander other people.
And then?
So I got it.
I mean, I heard God.
I only did that one other time in my life, and it was a couple of years after that, same type of situation, same results, Sometimes god has to teach us things a couple of times.
Not many of you should become teachers because we who teach will be judged with a greater strictness.
For we all stumble in many ways, if anyone does not stumble in what he says, He’s a perfect man able to bridle his whole body.
So, wow, what a statement. If anybody can control their mouth, they can control every other thing in their life.
If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they all us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
Two examples here, a bit in a horse’s mouth is just a little tiny piece of metal, But that horse that can weigh as much as 15, £1600 can be controlled with that one little tiny piece of metal.
So he’s saying that your whole life, the direction of your whole life can be controlled by this one tiny little thing, which is your tongue and the words that you speak.
Does anybody need this today?
Secondly, look at the ships, although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder, wherever the will of the pilot directs.
So the captain of the ship can stand in one part of the ship.
And with a wheel, give direction to this gigantic ship by one little rotor that nobody can even see.
I don’t think we have any idea.
And I, I believe, I’ll say for me, I don’t think that I have any idea still as much as I’ve studied it, talked about it, the real power of words, because I can tell you if we really did we would be a lot more careful about what we say.
Amen?
Now Get out of concordance and look up every just do proverbs.
Just read through proverbs and highlight every scripture about the mouth and words.
There’s nothing more important than the way we think and the way we talk. Amen?
Verse 5.
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts some great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire. And the tongue is a fire.
A world of unrighteousness, the tongue is set among our members staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and it’s set on fire by hell.
Well, so how do you like that?
For every kind of beast and bird of reptile and sea creature can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being contained the tongue.
It’s a restless evil full of deadly poison.
With it, we bless our lord and father, and with it, we curse people who are made in the likeness of god.
So you get that. We come here. We sing our we sing our songs of praise.
I love that song, our defender. All we do is bow down. All we do is praise him.
All we do is worship, and we love that song.
But then if you hadn’t have heard this message, you won’t do this now.
But if you wouldn’t have heard this message, there’s a possibility that somebody here would have left, and you would have driven home with somebody and talked about, well, I, I, I think she talked too long, or I think she talked too loud or, you know, you know, whatever.
I mean, we, we used to go to church and then we’d gone to lunch with our friends and have the pastor for lunch.
You know, it was like lunch fun to gossip about everybody in church. We didn’t know any better.
Nobody had ever told me what I’m telling you here today. Does anybody believe what I’m saying? Amen?
And because the tongue is so It’s so hard to control.
Why is it that we just can’t hardly stand not to tell the thing we heard?
Especially if it’s a bad thing. Let me read you this.
I thought this was really good.
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge and high esteem.
One day in acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, Do you know what I just heard about your friend?
Hold on a minute, Socrates replied before telling me anything I’d like you to pass a little test.
I call it the triple filter test. Triple filter. That’s right. Socrates continued.
Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you’re going to say.
That’s why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is truth.
Have you made absolutely sure that what you’re about to tell me is truth? No.
The man said, actually, it was just something I heard.
Alright, said Socrates, so you don’t really even know if it’s true or Now let’s try the second filter.
The filter of goodness is what you’re about to tell me about my friend something good. No.
It’s actually on the contrary. So Socrates continued.
You wanna tell me something bad about him, but you’re not even sure that it’s true.
Well, you may still pass the test, though, because there’s one filter left.
The filter of usefulness is what you wanna tell me about my friend going to be useful to me.
Well, no, not really. Well, concluded Socrates.
If what you want to tell me is not true, not good, and not even useful, then why bother telling me at all?
Let’s think about James III again, for we all stumble in many ways.
And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Matthew 123435. Out of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Oh, I didn’t mean to say that.
Well, it had to be in there for it to come out. Amen?
And the more you think about something, the more likely you are to say it.
You’re brutal vipers. How can you speak good when you’re evil?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
So he’s saying that if you listen to yourself or you listen to other people, you can quickly find out what kind of person they are.
Listen to yourself, and you’ll get to know yourself.
Yeah. Wow.
That’s about all you say about that, isn’t it?
I mean, if you gossip your gossiper, If you complain, you’re a complainer.
If you lie, you’re a liar. Not trying to make you feel bad.
I have to apply the same thing to myself.
I don’t wanna live in this dream world that I’m this great Christian, if, really, I’ve got some blaring problems that I’m not even paying any attention to.
But it’s so important who you hang around with. Let me tell you something.
The people that you spend time with have a real influence on your life, because like I talked about the anointing, I believe it’s transferable.
And I believe that you start getting some of whatever you’re around.
This would happen with your pastor, anybody that you listen to a lot, it’s certainly not just me, but people who listen to me a lot like maybe every morning while they’re grubbing to work or, you know, and they’ve done it for for years.
It won’t be long, and you’ll hear somebody say, you sound just like Joyce Meyer.
Or your husband might say, you’re starting back. Like I said, lady on TV.
Well, it’s true. Whatever you’re around a lot, you start becoming like that.
So you need to be careful who you’re spending time with because they are influencing you.
Don’t hang out with negative grouchy grumbling, gossiping, slandering, people.
Amen? Get around somebody that’s got something good to say.
Somebody that’s positive.