ImageI have been thinking a great deal about the words that come out of my mouth. What I say, what I don’t say. How comfortable I am for awkward silence and when I am. Again I want my words to carry the burden of heaven – I want my words to have mass… gravity.  Not just stuff that is blown away by a gentle breeze and the tick of a clock. So I came across a prayer that Paul asked other’s to pray for him:

As for me, pray that when I open my mouth, I’ll get a message that confidently makes this secret plan of the gospel known….Pray so that the Lord will give me the confidence to say what I have to say.

So that’s my prayer too.  I re-scanned my tv channels the other day.  We are getting more channels and I noticed that channel after channel there were so many people looking right into the camera at me filling the world with words. It seems that most of these words had no gravity. It is not that I want my name remembered, it is I want the transformational power of the Word of God be the words I speak and there to be transformation. I want what I speak to be good news. Real Good News.