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Good Or Bad From Out Of Our Mouth!?!

  Welcome to another new year!  Full of changes and challenges.  One of those challenges for me is to search my heart and to be careful what I put into it, and also, what comes out of it.  Scripture stresses that what comes out of our mouths is a very accurate picture of what we are carrying around in our hearts.  If our words are used to bless and encourage others, there is good evidence that we have a compassionate heart.  If we share the good news of Jesus Christ, our heart demonstrates that we are grateful for our own salvation.  There are many messages that our mouths proclaim the condition of our heart.  When others around us are in a crisis, do they know that they will find peace and comfort in our words?  Do we frequently and spontaneously offer prayer for others?  Do our words and they way in which we say them demonstrate a patient heart?  All of these behaviors indicate a heart condition that is the same as that of our heavenly Father, a heart of love! "But the things