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There is power in words. Words like, ‘help’, ‘no’ and ‘yes.' Words have power, and when combined with the Holy Spirit, words impact lives. Come and explore the power your words hold.

Understanding why our words matter. A middle school devotional designed to complement the teaching series, “Trending: Words” by Orange Students. In this devotional, you’ll find direction on understanding why our words matter and how to pay attention to the words you choose.

Words matter. They have the power to shift our directions and impact our stories. In this plan, Alex Lewis, Chief Sharer at Car Window Poetry, encourages readers to make a big difference in people’s lives with small sentiments of love.

This 5-day reading plan will explore different words, their meanings, what the Lord says about them, and how you can go and speak them over yourself and others. Knowing what a word means gives us a deeper understanding of how it is used in the Bible and how we can implement what the Bible says about it in our lives. God's word and your words are golden!

Share this College Devotional with others as Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this wisdom-packed devotional. Before you speak, choose to weigh your words. Let the Word of God lead your heart. In moments of chaos, choose to refrain from speaking recklessly. Choose to guard your words carefully. God-ordained relationships are destroyed when you prematurely and recklessly speak. Let God soften and lead your heart as you read this message.

The power of words! Have you ever focused on the power that words have over our lives? How do we use the words we have been given to lead a life that glorifies God?! Spend the week understanding the power behind words such as “sorry,” “yes,” and “no,” among others.

The Last Words of Jesus from the cross will help you understand his incredible love for you and purpose in this world. This 28-day reading plan helps reveal to us his humanness as well as his divinity, his intimate relationship with his Father!

Words can be used to tear down. But the words that come out of your mouth can also build up those around you. This reading plan considers God’s gift of communication and how you can use it to show Jesus’ love to others.  

If speaking up in the face of uncertainty terrifies you, this plan’s for you! Let Caleb’s example and good report encourage you to proclaim God’s Word in intimidating situations. Confident of God’s power, Caleb, in Numbers 13:30, MSG exclaimed, “Let’s go up and take the land – now. We can do it.” Part of walking by faith is speaking faith-filled words. Use Your Words and take your place!

Do you recognize the true power of your words? For both good and evil? Many people are unaware. If there was one thing you could do to become spiritually mature, would you do it? If just one thing would make you perfect, would you want to know what it is? Let’s look to the Bible for what the book of James has to say.

For many people, words like ‘holiness’ can cause resistance to lean in right off the bat. Churchy words like: sanctification, baptism, resurrection, communion, etc. can be intimidating if new to the church environments. In this 4 day reading plan we’ll tackle the idea of holiness and see how beautiful and transformational it can be.

The words you use in marriage can be … slippery. Not only because they seem to slip through your lips before you think them through, but because they can also put you on a slippery slope toward conflict and hurt. In this 7-day devotion, read real-marriage examples of how the power of our words can be used to lift our spouses higher, or tear them (and our marriage) apart.

Words are spiritual forces, producing after their kind. You bless or curse yourself with your words. This plan provides a roadmap for boldly speaking God's Word. In Jeremiah 29:11, God proclaims His good plan for your life. God is faithful and watches over His Word to perform it. Choose to believe and say what God says about you. Your good future is as close as your heart and mouth!

The book of Proverbs is a treasure chest of wisdom. This short devotional unpacks 4 key nuggets of wisdom for you to easily understand, digest and apply to your everyday life.

Our words matter. And they especially matter to God. We know this because his word, the Bible, overflows with warnings about the power of the tongue to do harm and also the wisdom of the words of the righteous. This seven-day devotion scratches the surface of the Bible’s warnings, corrections and advice about our tongue.

You'll discover the supernatural power that's unleashed in learning to say what God's told you to say and you'll find that by changing your words, you'll change your life...but it's YOUR choice.

The God of Genesis who established every star in its place and caused the earth to spin knows your name. This series highlights three themes from the first days of creation: light, mankind, and rest. Just as mankind was created in the secret place of a garden, alone with the Creator, we hope this devotional series provides a still space for you to experience and know God’s love for you.

When things get dark and bleak, what gets us going is the smallest spark of light. That tiny beacon of light is what we call HOPE. It is the difference between living and dying, between trying once more or giving it all up. Join Pastor Mark Rae in this first episode on the four words of Advent.

As Jesus hung on the cross as our substitute, the words he spoke not only fulfilled the Scripture that testified about him but showed his great love for all of us.

If you haven't guessed it yet, in this final Advent devotional plan, Dr. Mark Rae will take us through the fourth traditional word associated with Advent: PEACE. The word translated as peace in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word shalom, which means "everything as it should be." Jesus came to line up everything the way God meant it to be – Jesus is our shalom.

How many words do you think you use a day? Thousands? How many of them do you actually think about? We have so much freedom so few of us stop to consider the impact the things we say might have on others. That’s why in this 7-day devo, we’re taking a look at the potential of our words by trying to answer the question: Do our words really matter?

As believers in Jesus Christ, we ought to radiate an outrageous, contagious, and unexplainable happiness because of what we celebrate this time of the year. Join pastor Marc Rae in this third devotional plan as he tells the story of the first Advent and connects us to the Source of this unending joy: Jesus. Shout it from the rooftops, “Joy to the world, the Lord has come!”

In this 4 week study, we will dig into God’s Word and learn what He says about the words we speak to ourselves, to others, and words that change the world. We will learn to honor God and others with the words that we speak. We pray this study gives us great insight into how we can consistently speak words that give life and transform lives.

The writer of Hebrews 11 states from the get-go, that faith is an assurance, a conviction, in and of something not seen, but hoped for. Hope in this instance is rock solid, based upon the character, and articulations of God; his person and his word, in other words.

If you described life in just six words, which would you choose? Accomplishments? Happiness? Struggles? When you boil it down, what’s this journey of life really about? It’s certainly unique for each individual, but are there some larger truths that can help us make sense of this path we’re on? Through this 7-day plan, we’ll describe the most important aspects of life and give you a tool to share them.