Today’s devotion is from Proverbs 16:24 (NLT)
‘Kind words are like honey — sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.’
Friends, there is an anointing on the words you speak when you line your words up with His thoughts and His living Word…
God is a God of love and it’s amazing how He tells us here in this verse how kind words, are like honey. Did you know that honey can heal a wound, help bacterial infections and it has anti-inflammatory properties. Honey is one of nature’s best all-round remedies.
The Lord likens kinds words to ‘honey’. When you are full of the life of Jesus, yielded to the Holy Spirit, your words that you speak will bring healing to the soul and minister life, peace and kindness.
When your words are that of Philippians 4:8, you will speak fruit-filled words as explained to us in Galatians 5:22, words of love, peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness. Anytime we line our thoughts and our words up with the Holy Spirit and then speak according to what the Holy Spirit instructed us to in Philippians 4:8, we know that the Holy Spirit starts to speak through us and use us as vessels of His Glory and His power… and every word you speak will be anointed of God and will bring healing, health and life to the ears listening to your conversation.
Just as kinds words out of your mouth bring healing and life to others, just so, your kind words bring healing and life to your own heart and emotions. When someone hurts you or lashes out at you, the sooner you can start speaking forgiveness over the person and the faster you start to speak and declare blessings over that person, your kind forgiving words will be honey to your own heart. Exercise your faith to keep your words ‘kind words’, words that are good and worthy of praise. Be a honey jar for Jesus.
