READ: JAMES 3:3-6
The head harbours the
eyes and ears. It also harbours the mouth. This may be viewed through different
prisms. It can be inferred that the head is expected to feed the organization
he is heading because food enters the body through the mouth. Some heads take
advantage of their position and suck dry the organization and at the end they
are head over emptiness. Some departments and churches face high labour
(workers) turnover because their heads have no control over their mouths. When
a leader uses his mouth to constantly degrade, disgrace and abuse his
subordinates, he erodes his own powerbase, honour, and sensibilities. When they
can no longer stand the insult, they begin to leave in droves. Some believers
have used their mouths to put to flight their destiny-helpers.
On the other hand, there are heads who use their mouths to feed the organizations they head with ideas, inspiration, hope, prayers, positive confessions and in the process build up a strong and virile organization. At the end, they prolong their headship over those organizations. As the head of your family, school, business, are you feeding it with destructive or constructive food? Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” In the head is also the tongue. The tongue is capable of life and death depending on the direction it is applied. One easy way to destroy an organization is to get the head to say the wrong thing. As a head, you must be very careful about what you say.
James 3:3-5 says the tongue is the steering-wheel of the body. It has tremendous control over the body. Never speak evil of your family, church or organization. Make positive declarations. Only say what you desire to come to pass in the lives of your members. If they are weaklings, do not confess them as weaklings. Rather speak strength to them. Some pastors will say: our members are extremely poor! No wonder they are still battling with poverty. Confess wealth and prosperity upon them. And change their mindset through God’s Word. Back this up with prayers and they shall prosper.
On the other hand, there are heads who use their mouths to feed the organizations they head with ideas, inspiration, hope, prayers, positive confessions and in the process build up a strong and virile organization. At the end, they prolong their headship over those organizations. As the head of your family, school, business, are you feeding it with destructive or constructive food? Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” In the head is also the tongue. The tongue is capable of life and death depending on the direction it is applied. One easy way to destroy an organization is to get the head to say the wrong thing. As a head, you must be very careful about what you say.
James 3:3-5 says the tongue is the steering-wheel of the body. It has tremendous control over the body. Never speak evil of your family, church or organization. Make positive declarations. Only say what you desire to come to pass in the lives of your members. If they are weaklings, do not confess them as weaklings. Rather speak strength to them. Some pastors will say: our members are extremely poor! No wonder they are still battling with poverty. Confess wealth and prosperity upon them. And change their mindset through God’s Word. Back this up with prayers and they shall prosper.
MEMORIZE:
JAMES 3:6 –And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course
of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
