Speaking words that are uplifting & encouraging to one another

Hi All!!

I have mentioned in pervious post that we are going through the family devotional book called ,OUR 24 FAMILY WAYS, by Clay Clarkson. Anyway in there we have just finished day 5 of way 7. Somthing we all certainly needed to to hear in our home.

( way 7) We encourage one another, using only words that build up and bless others.

Wow, wouldn't that be wonderful if we were able do that in our homes every day, all the time!!

In the devotional it went over scriptuers on that subject, and had a disscusion time of ways of how we can put that in to practice in our everyday lifes, and how we can encourage and build each other up more.

Hopefully we are the only family like this, but we can be awful rude to each other , and be harsh with our words to each other quite often it seems. Say things in haste that are not nice and unkind, but deep down of cousre we really don't mean it like it sounds. But now that we have been more aware of it, we have been trying hard to say things in a way that is uplifting to each other , instead of pulling one down ,or making each other feel bad, and having more patience with one another. This devotional has been very good for us.

Here I will share some scriptuers that we went over in the devotional and some I looked up in the Bible on my own.

" Let no corrupt comunication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minster grace to the hearers." Ephesains 4:29

" Not rendering eveil for evil, or railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing: knowing that ye are called, that ye should inherit a blessing." 1 Peter 3: 9

" And let the peace of god rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body: and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and amonshing one another in psalms and hymns and sprtitual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord" Colossians 3: 16- 17

" A soft answer tuneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger" Proverbs 15 :1

" A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: a word spoken in due season, how good is it!" Proverbs 15: 23

" Pleasent wors are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." Proverbs 16 :24

" Let all bitterness , and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking , be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiving you." Ephesains 4 : 31- 32


Wow, we are to be kind, loving, encouraging, and uplifting in all that we say and do!!

Somthing we definetly seem to have to work on all the time to put it into practice. Is so easy to say somthing in haste when we are upset at some one or somthing. But we need to stop and think before we speak and weigh our words thinking of the effect they will have on the one hearing it. We need to be showing God's love all the time.

Well this is what we have been learning at our house and just wanted to pass it on to others. Hope you find this encouraging, and may your hearts, your speech, and your homes be filled with kindnees , encouragement , love , and everything edifing, gloryfing and uplifting!!

Blessings, Mae

My Favorite Psalms!

There is so many vereses and chapters I just love in Psalms. They are filled with praise, comfort, encouragement, and many , many verses showing God's great protection over us!! I would say thugh my all time favortie is Psalms chapter 91.

Here I will share the first 12 verses of Psalms 91.


1. He that dwelleth in the secert place of the most High shalll abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.
3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilince.
4. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night: nor for the arrow that fileth by day:
6. Nor for thr petstilence that walketh in darkness: nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7. A tousand shall fall at thy side, and ten tousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.
8. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold the reward of the wicked.
9. Because thou hast made the Lord , which is my refuge, even the most High , thy habitaion.
10. There shall no evil befall thee, nither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11. For he shall give His angles charge over thee, to keep the in all thy ways.
12. They shall bear thee up in thier hands, lest thou dash thy foot againts a stone.


Dont you jsut love those verses! What arrrunace of proteciton from our Heavenly Father! We absolutly have nothing to worry about! He is wathcing over us and caring for us!!

Here is a list of more vereves in Psamls about God's great love and protection over his people that I love too!

Psams 27: 1-6
Psalms 62: 1-5
Psalms 46: 1-3
Psalms 23
Psalms 3:6
Psalms 56: 1-5

Hope you enjoy them as I do! Hoping you you have a great day! Mae