¶ Language and Body Language Power
Hello , hello , hello everybody , hello , yeah , doing something a little different . Yeah , let him start off today . Yeah , yeah .
Caught me off guard there for a minute there .
What's going on ?
Those who don't want looking now , didn't want seeing if she was getting to give me a nudge like you gonna say something . Oh , you gonna say something , i'm on somebody . Oh , right man , that gets your word here now Where we at , though . We are in episode eight of God's Diamonds in the Ruff , the Podcast .
Those who don't know us , i am Michael and I'm Catherine .
We're so glad to meet you .
I'm so glad to .
If this is your first time , if you didn't know , we are married . Amen Married of how long honey ?
Eight years .
Eight years , yeah , eight years , and we got three kids together . Well , he has one and I have two , and but we got three . Two plus one makes three , amen , amen . My aunt and I grown . Now we got one more nest of baby and that's Tatiana Amen , yeah , she's nine , turning ten . They all growing up . Bad , yeah , amen .
so we've been doing this for quite a while now . Amen , grateful and thankful for what God is doing through us . Amen , and without further ado , diamonds , we are ready to pray . Amen , how little . Yeah , let's pray .
Amen , let us pray , dear Heavenly Father , our Lord , and I say we will just come to you again to say thank you for your grace and your mercy , for you did not , you did not , we don't , we don't deserve the grace and mercy that you give us , but you give it to us anyway and we thank you for it .
We come begging your forgiveness for anything we might have said , done , thought or even might have thought of billing and , as you cast those things in the picture , hell where they came from . We pray a super prayer right now for your grace and your mercy upon the ones that does not want to know who you are .
We pray in the neighborhoods that you will just change their minds and just speak to them privately , that they have no other choice but to turn towards you .
We pray in the neighborhoods asking you just to touch each one of us , from the crown of our head to the bottom of our feet , as we continue to , in your word that you will just give us the new understanding of what you want us to know . We pray in the neighborhoods for your love never changes , but I always should , especially if it does not reflect you .
We pray in the name of Jesus that you are , just make those changes that we need to make our lives better . We pray in the name of Jesus , cancer , counseling any assignment that the enemy might have over us and send it back into the picture where it came from . These things and all things we ask , all in your precious and powerful name , jesus Christ .
We say thank you , we say amen , amen and amen . Hey man , to God be the glory , hallelujah . So where we leave off honey ? we left off at talking in James , chapter 1 , verses 6 to 18 , speaking about our behavior , of why it's so important for us to change how we think .
Because you know , it's one thing to say that you change them , but if you're speaking it don't line up with your doing . It . Is your behavior really changing ?
all right now . Wow . So there you go . Today , we talking about our language , man , and how we're talking , amen , and how it has everything to do with our man , our mindset , amen . And you know , the perfect book to talk about this is still in James , amen , james , chapter 3 .
And so I guess the first question would be for everyone how is my language , am I able to tame my tone , amen ? and you know , really the first , the response to that would be if our mind is changed and so allow , tone , man , hallelujah . And we are still , you know , thinking along the same mindset we had before we were converted .
Converted , then you gonna sound the same , mm-hmm , you know what I mean . But because who he is , he's gonna change your language . What's your thought so far , honey ?
when , since you come out like that about the language , you know , i would definitely say for myself you know , you know is When you , when you use your language , if your language don't change and you just like me , for instance , you know I used to pop off cuss words left and right , didn't care who was around , didn't care who cared , didn't even care if it ,
if a Christian heard or Anybody heard , for that fact . But now you know , as as I get closer , a closer relationship with God , you know my popping off of Cuss words is not as as frequent .
But even when they do come out , it sounds kind of weird to me for me to say those things right , um , so , as I'm looking at , i'm actually I'm looking down at the Bible .
Let me show you , i'm looking down at the Bible and I got mine too looking at chapter three and In the first summer , read the first two to three verses And it's really just gonna open the door to the type of language was gonna talk about today . And it says my brethren , be not many masters . This is knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation .
Don't try to walk around like you know everything , okay . Like you can't be taught , okay , he says , for in many things we offend all . If any man offend not in word , the same is a perfect man and also an Able also to bridle the whole body . Let me just gonna pause there for a second . So today we're gonna be talking about words of offense , amen .
Because he says to us that in many ways and many things we offend everybody . We can offend anybody with what we are saying . He says , if you are able to control everything that comes out of your mouth , he says , your body would be perfect and you would able to be , you would be able to bridle your whole body . Amen . So you know our , our words .
He's definitely teaching us here so far that our words are Are Connected to our body language .
You know what I mean , what you're thinking you know , i was definitely say so because you know if you , if you think about , think about this was in that , for example . You know this I would say action speaks louder than words . So if you get that , that posture of You , don't give her you know what , you don't even have to say it .
It's like when you , when you think about it and And you mentioned to me before plenty of times When you get your arms folded like this , you're not allowing the spirit to come in .
It's your body language and and I would definitely say that the words do line up with your body , because You don't have to think nothing or say nothing for somebody to see what your actions are .
Yeah , absolutely . So we can speak a whole language without , without even words . You know , sometimes our attitude speaks before we even open up our mouth . If we're pissed off and You know somebody's coming to ask you a question , you already pissed off and look at it . You like I'm not gonna ask her , i'm not gonna ask him . They look like they're mad .
You know what I mean . Or Because you're having a rough day , nobody wants to say anything to you . You know what I mean And you know we got to be mindful of that . We got to be real careful of that . How we Speak without , without words .
First , amen , our body language was like he was saying you know your arms is cross , it's somebody's calm coming to you to ask your question . Yeah , just like when we had a dinner table . When we are ordering food , we smell it before we even it , before we even open up our mouth , and we've already decided whether I want to eat this or not .
It's the same thing . When people come in your presence , they've already decided , decided by , by , by your posture , um , what kind of mood you're in . You know what I mean And you know I , i , i , i Can speak on my own behalf , you know .
In regard to words of offense , i , my sister , just said the other day Was yesterday , well , for you would be last week , okay , oh , she said to me . She said , uh , she said she was asking , she was calling , trying to reach my husband . And When I told her where he was , she's like oh , shoot . And I was like what do you mean ? Oh shoot , just .
I ain't want to ask you and I said Ask me what I said . You didn't want to ask No , cuz you know how you are . Whoa and I said I said , well , what do you mean ? Oh , you know how you are . I Said , well , i said , and I was offended . I was offended , i was very offended . I said , well , talk about rude , that's rude , anyway .
Then then she says , well , anyway , i Was gonna ask him if he could go get my niece's Medicine , and I said , i said I don't mind getting your medicine , getting this man getting our medicine , so because I need to go there anyway , my point is is that If you carry yourself in such a way Because typically I was no , and that other other party she said , was
you make me feel guilty for asking ? Because there have been many instances where the only reason that she would call me most of the time Is because she needed me to do something for her . Get something . I think I've said it several times to her , the only time you call me when you need something , when you want something .
Well , what I realized In that moment Yeah , it was rude and , if ever , but it was a truth for me Understand . It was something that I needed to hear , because it made me put myself in check and I thought , wonder , does anybody else think that You know what I mean ? because that's not the language I want to speak , but that's the language I've been speaking .
Do you understand what I'm saying ? sometimes you don't understand . You don't realize that you are offended people , until they tell you That's crazy . I was just a blow my mind , but I'm like thinking to myself Do I really do that ?
You know what I mean and I you know and in my mind I'm saying well , i'm just telling the truth , yeah , he's the only time you go . That
¶ The Power of Communication
might be true . What you're saying is somebody Oh well , you know . Oh well , you know what I'm saying . But what is that really saying ? somebody , somebody , look , people should be able to call you and actually do something for them . You know what I mean with the same language . Say as you know .
And the message I'm relating to her is I want you to call me other than just for Something you need me to do for you because I'm your sister . You know what I mean . But the same language I'm asking her for is the same language I need to give , because most of the time , i don't call her unless I need something . Ain't that something ?
I'm just being a little transparent right now .
You know , it's always , it's always the eight , like you say , it's always a two-way or two-sided street .
Because , you know , i I'll say for myself , you know , and I and I have a tendency of thinking this out loud , and It shows when you , when you , if you really patented it shows , and even with the body language , i Could be at work or something , and I could see somebody come down the floor like , oh , now what , when you , when you have that mindset or
saying , and You can just it could be not even just moving your body but moving your eyes , like rolling your eyes , the use it up , that that vibe of oh no , i ain't gonna ask him , i go ask somebody else first , and that person And that person that they might ask Don't know the answer to what they want to know .
So we got to be careful because , you know , we got to be very careful of our attitude , that we , that we push off , because The answer that they need might , from you , might be the very answer they need to save their life , and they go ask somebody else and the answer that they receive might take their life .
And you know , but and then another thing that that was say she said she said well , i said , she said well , i said what makes you think he don't think that That you're being worse , or whatever had him and she said , well , he don't never say anything . So I've said all of that to say , and we're saying all that to say , that you know how we communicate .
It matters , and and sometimes Our strongest language is words that we don't have to say , that we don't even say . You know what I mean . My intent was to say the truth . Her intent was to Really avoid the truth . You know what I mean .
And if my , my perspective wasn't in my attention and my focus wasn't in Jesus , then I probably , you know , i could have cussed her out or , you know , set a whole bunch of unnecessary words and then not even be talking to my sister . We are focused on Jesus . Then , even when we feel like we're offended , we're gonna find the truth because Jesus is true .
You know . I mean we wonder why people want to approach us or why people don't have relationships with us . Sometimes it's something that we were communicating to them , sometimes they wanted , but because we never give them a welcoming , welcoming ear or a welcoming body language . They just avoided . You know what I mean .
They won't because they're thinking oh well , they don't want nothing to do with me , they don't want me bothered with me . They don't ever talk to me . They this , they that , the other , and sometimes that's not the case . Maybe they don't know how to communicate with you . Do you understand what I'm saying ?
We gotta be careful because in many things we can offend all .
Any more thoughts , honey , no more thought that really sounds , because you know it's very easy to To offense from my in the body language . It's very easy to exactly so .
Now let's take it a step further . Now , what about what we are speaking ? I mean , we've already spoken of it , but we just gonna take it a step further and look at verse 5 . He says , even so and before that he was talking about More matter of fact , let me just go ahead and read it So we're not going backwards .
Verse 3 He says behold , we put bits and out in the horse's mouth that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body .
So he talks about the horse , with fact that the bid Tells the horse look , the horse can't talk , the horse can't communicate , but when the bit is in his mouth , when you move the bit that's in his mouth , his whole body will turn with it .
Okay , he says behold also the ships which , though they be so great and Are driven of fierce winds , yet They are turned about with a very small Hymn . He says whether so ever the governor Listed . So he says It's same , the same thing works in regard to a horse as to a ship is nothing But a small motor that turns the whole thing .
You can't turn the thing without turning the whole body , and it's the same thing . With our words We turn our body , our mouth speaks and so does our body Language speak .
¶ The Power of Words and Language
Verse five , he says even so , the tongue is a little member and Boasted great things . Behold how great a matter . A little fire Kindle it . So he says the tongue Can't start a force fire that can't be put out . If we are not careful , our tongue can be very , very offensive , he says . And the tongue is a fire , a World of iniquity , he said .
He described the tongue as a world of Iniquity . The world was fear is filled with so much diversity , so many people , so many things in regard to water , trees , sky , sun , cars , boats , on and on . He says the tongue is a fire and it is a world of iniquity , a world of troubles In problems , he says .
So is the tongue Among all our , among our members , that it defiled the whole body , he says and said if on fire , the course of nature , and it is set on fire of hail . I'm appalled for a second , michael . What's your thought ?
You know , when I , when I look at that , that When it talks about the horse body and and How everything we do or say it reflects , it's almost like our body get the message out first for our words to . And if you equivalent that to a fire , it's almost like you got a grill , a charcoal grill .
Okay , we know the coals in it , it starts to fire , but sometimes the fire don't get all the way out or get get started properly . So we got to add the lighter fluid onto it . But when in light light enough strike a match , our tone , our mouth is like that lighter fluid . It gives that boost with the body that I'm giving out yeah , yeah , hmm , wow .
And look , you know what I noticed about verse 6 . He says it , says it and set it on fire . The course of nature . The course of nature is our nature to be self-centered , selfish , self drawn to self . He says the . The tongue doesn't help it . You know what I mean .
When we are speaking , sometime we can speak a language that's all about ourself and add to a flame that's already burning selfishness . You know what I mean . Our words aided , he said , and it sets on fire of hell . Look , we can be a like a walking time bomb bomb .
You know people , as Michael's already said , sometimes we can get into the presence of people because we're upset , we got something going on . People can see our fire before we ever get to them and they'll run away from fire . Nobody goes to war fire , they run away from fire . You know what I mean .
Unless you got a fire that you want them entertained to make bigger than what is , then what it already is . A whole lot of times we get angry on our job , forget anger on their jobs . It only does it .
Take one that's big and bold enough to say something and everybody else they got that same fire is drawn to it and makes what is a a small thing a huge and gigantic thing . Amen , if you're not careful .
So you know , we can either speak fire in regard to life or fire that speaks death and it's because it said that , he said the power of the tongue you just be like or death to a situation you can .
You can be in a mist or somebody that is trying to do right , and your negative thoughts and negative ways can actually turn them more negative than they was already at exactly .
But vice versa , you could be positive , speaking the fire , and change that whole mindset by just saying one word that's right love that's right and that's why focusing on Jesus will change your language .
It will change your words , it will change your direction , it will change the trajectory , thank you . It will change that for somebody else , a man , you know that's that's why I like about you know .
When we're together , we we help each other and we we fill in the gaps of speed . That's right and that's what you know the mindset of the language is all about . You know , because you know you got to be able to help somebody .
And that's what I like about the way we do , because It's almost like we know exactly what you're gonna say before you say it , or trying to get the words And that's how we should be with everybody . We should already know what that person needs and not speak the negativity to them .
Yeah , because look as the scripture goes on and you can read it in your own private time . go all the way to 12 , because we'll pick up wherever the Lord takes us . But realizing that our tongue has our life or death says that it talks about the fact that fresh water and salt water , they don't come out at the same time . It's one or the other .
So when you are in a situation where you're being challenged with your posture , challenged with your words , if you can say nothing at all , don't say anything . Mama said if you ain't got nothing nice to say , then don't say it . You know what I mean . If you're having a bad day and things just ain't going right , you need to pray Amen .
This is like a mind that's focused on him , because we don't want that to spill out on others , because it is a deadly poison . It can ruin somebody else's day . because you're having a bad day . You know what I mean . Just because your outlook is blem , is dim or bleak , it doesn't mean that you have permission to mess up somebody else .
I love her , tabitha Brown . She speaks about that all the time . just because you're having a bad day , don't go out there , going out there to mess up somebody else's day . Our words have power , not just our words , but our body language . But when it's focused on him , everything that you are going to do is going to be led by him .
It doesn't mean that you don't have bad days , times when you're going to say something , do something that's not right . It doesn't mean that . But you learn how to control it or tame it . Amen , that is my final word , honey .
My final word is just when we go out even if we're in our own house and you know , because it starts in your house and it ventures on to when you go out into the world make sure that your language lines up with who God is . And when I say language , I'm not just speaking about the verbal language , I'm speaking about the physical language that's your body .
Make sure that lines up in the way and according to the will of God , Because you can have a you can wake up on , as they always say . You know , I woke up on the wrong side of bed .
If you feel that you woke up on the wrong side of bed , get back in the bed , roll over to the other side and get out , Because if you wake up and you feel like you don't want to be bothered , lay back in the bed and roll over to the other side , because evidently you need a little more help with the , with the love from the Lord .
And something you said about the salt water in the first water , and it's kind of funny , A little humor , real quick .
You know , there's one thing I like about salt water and and fresh water There's certain fish that can live in the first water that can't survive in the salt water , and certain ones that can survive in the salt water and they can't survive in the fresh water . But then there's some that's a weird creature that can survive in both .
Yeah .
That everybody can survive in both sides On them . Just thought , having a moment .
But that's true . You know what I mean And I truly believe that the only way that we can survive one be able to be It really . It takes me to the sermon and how and how it is that the common And the flesh , the spirit , the carnal mind and spiritual mind are at war with each other all the time .
But scripturally , he tells us , he teaches us that because you have the spiritual mind , you're able to comprehend the carnal mind , so that you're able to discern , i guess you would say how to navigate through a carnal mind with a spiritual mind . But a carnal mind absolutely cannot discern the things of the spirit .
But he's given us the stability to be able to discern the mind of a carnal mind . You understand , and that's like a , that's a way to look at that , being able to survive in a salt water and a fresh water at the same time . It's because it's led by the spirit .
Amen , the spirit knows all things And what we must realize is that when our mind is set on spiritual things , which is Jesus , then he will give us the ability to be able to go down there where the carnal mind is , and be able to go and do what you've been called to do in the spirit there , in the carnal mind , for someone else and come back out , away
from that . You're not . You won't be trapped in that world because you're not of that world . Jesus , come on somebody . You're not of that world any longer because you passed from death to life in him .
Jesus , come on somebody , y'all better talk In a real quick , i like , about the discernment , because you know we can sit back and see the carnal . We can discern the carnal things because we can sit back and say that stuff right , there don't make sense , but we know the right and the wrong . But the carnal mind only knows the carnal things .
Don't understand what's the right way . That's right . That's right , all right . Y'all We done went over over over , so let's pray . Father , we thank you so much again for this day . We thank you , god , for all that has been said and done , and we pray for every hearer , everyone that has received what you have given .
God Bless , bless , bless as you see fit , father . We thank you again and we bless your name . Pray this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ . We do pray . Amen , amen , amen , hallelujah . Before he even says it , just know that next week , when you tune in , we're going to be talking about our mind set .
Still on the topic of our mind set and how it has everything to do with being able to handle earthly and heavenly wisdom Amen , hallelujah , amen . Next week .
And remember until next time . You are a diamond in the rough .
Hallelujah Amen .