Quote: Originally Posted by Elshevia Dear Ger, I will ask the Holy Spirit to stop my tongue wagging all on its own, but the words just come out, even when I say to myself before I go anywhere keep your mouth shut, if someone in the company says a sarcastic remark, my tongue will move and speak before I can bite on it, and my answers usually shut the person who was talking up, but I will try God bless you ger, in 2008. Elshevia.
Hello Elshevia,
The same difficulties as you have, so have I. Perhaps I can serve you with some of my experiences . There is a possibility, that you say: "Oh...I knew it already for a long time and I have done this a thousand times.
But let us try: You tell me that you sometimes are sinning with your tongue: - the words come out beyond your control - your tongue is moving beyond your control.
When you have done that , you should at first think of 1 John 2 v 1 " If anybody DOES sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defence- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One".
I have myself the experience, that every time I went directly after the sin to Jesus and confessed.... that can be a question of seconds in your brain, so to say: 'piping heat'. .....that I 'heard' Jesus saying: "Also for this I have given my life". And I daresay, that I gradually got victory over many daily sins , when I acted like this several times.
But you can next to it say to God in your prayer: " O Lord...just as Paul said in Romans 7...I have no internal power to resist to many of my iniquities. Just as Paul discovered that all our victories over sin and devil only are possible in Jesus our Lord, so I pledge on your grace and mercy Lord, that they help my inner person, willing, but not being able, to conquer.
And moreover you can say to the Holy Spirit: "O dear God the Holy Spirit....I open up all the rooms of my heart for you. I need so ardently your help. Thank you, Holy Spirit".
These things will help you to be still more blessed on your way upwards.
Proverbs 4 v 18: "The path pf the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day".
