ANOINTED WORD MINISTRIES :: What is your final choice?

LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

JoyUs Musing
Edition #10-10

Millions volunteered for military duty during World War II. The majority of these citizen-soldiers had no
idea how to conduct themselves to prevent inadvertent disclosure of important information to the enemy.
To remedy this, the government established rules of conduct.
The saying "Loose lips sink ships" came from when sailors on leave from their ships might talk about what
ship they sailed on or where it had come from, or where it was going. If they talked too much (had 'loose
lips') their unguarded talk may give useful information to the enemy. That information might later cause
their ship to be tracked, bombed and sunk. Hence the saying to remind them, "Loose lips sink ships".*

If God's world, loose lips means speaking contrary to the Word of God (Bible) and sinking your own
"ship" - your life. James 3 talks about how a huge ship is turned by a small rudder - or an entire forest
can be destroyed in a fire created by a tiny spark. Your little tongue can destroy your whole life.

Matthew 12:34 says that out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth speaks out. Whatever is in
you will eventually come out of your mouth - anger, fear, animosity, hatred. Proverbs 6:2 says you are
snared by the words of your own mouth. Jesus said that it isn't what goes into your mouth that defiles
you but what comes OUT of your mouth. Mark 11:23 says we will have whatever we say if we don't
doubt in our hearts - for good or for bad.

Example? When many people sneeze, they immediately mutter, "Hmmm, I must be catching a cold" and
don't doubt in their hearts that it will come. The habit of saying that has created many a cold brought on
by those simple words thus they believe because they sneezed, they were catching a cold. But the truth
is they gave the devil permission to make them sick by their very own words - snared. Death and life are
in the power of YOUR tongue. You will live with what you say consistently because words are spiritual and
they carry power.

It is not just the words that you speak when you pray that changes things. More importantly, it is the
words you speak ALL the time. You can go to church and pray, asking God to heal you and shout over
that healing. As soon as you step outside the church door, a twinge of pain hits your body and you say,
"Well I must not have gotten my healing."

You negated the prayer you prayed. Faith must be in your heart AND in your mouth.

The fruit of your mouth will manifest itself in your life - for good or for bad. Words along the lines like the
old song**, "If I had no bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." Other people may say things like, "This tastes
so good I'm going to die!" They think they're saying, "This is GREAT food" when, in truth, the enemy is
listening and all he hears is, "This food is going to kill me." How about, when paying your bills you keep
saying, "Every payday, money sure flies out the door, ha ha!"

Or something everyone has said at one time or another, "Man that almost scared me to death!" How
about: That just tickles me to death. I laughed until I thought I'd die, ha ha. I'm just dying to go there!
That makes me sick! (Or worse) YOU make me sick! We can't afford it. I doubt it.

These are ALL anti-covenant words - words contrary to God's Words.

So how do you make your words match your prayers? How do you talk "faith" all the time? How do you
turn your life (ship) around and quit saying wrong things? First ask God to put a guard on your mouth
(Psalm 141:3). Then ask Him to prompt you every time you say something contrary to His Word.

It won't all change overnight. Trust me; I know what I'm talking about. I started watching my words in
the 1980's - and God is STILL prompting me. Not because I say the same wrong things over and over
but because if He had hit me with everything I said wrong all at once, I'd never have been able to change.
I would have been overwhelmed with defeat and probably never opened my mouth again!

But God is merciful - He takes you one baby step at a time. He might start with, "Don't say, 'That just
makes me sick.'" Years later you'll hear, "Don't say, 'I don't know what to do about that" - a far heavier
thing we say that makes perfect sense because we often run up against things we don't know. Why is it
wrong? Because God's Word says we can know all things and God will show you what you need to know!
As long as we confess, "I don't know" we will never know. We need to say something like, "God will
show me."

So - get to work on turning your life around! Keep in mind your own loose lips sink the ship of your life
and begin to change your life, one word at a time! You WILL notice a difference.

Proverbs 18:21
James 3:2-5
Romans 10:10
Psalm 141:3
Matthew 15:11-18

* http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/237250.html and http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lslips.htm
** "Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me" song and sketch from 1960's television show Hee Haw.

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