Six Signs You Need to Stop Talking
Have you ever wished you’d stopped talking about five minutes before you actually did?
Because I’ve been there myself, I want to help protect you from saying potentially embarrassing or hurtful things. And I’ve prepared a list of six warning signs to let you know when it’s time to stop talking.
Sign 1: You’re Complaining, Not Explaining
There’s a subtle difference. Explaining is simply telling someone about your situation. Complaining is when you have an attitude that says “I’m being inconvenienced.” (See Philippians 2:14-15.)
There will be times when keeping quiet in order to avoid complaining seems so hard you almost can’t stand it. But God will always give you the grace to do it. And if we ever want to arrive at our Promised Land, we need to stop complaining about the way God’s getting us there.
Sign 2: You’re Criticizing Somebody
Picture this. Someone says or does something you think they shouldn’t have done and all of a sudden, you’ve got about a hundred opinions about them that you want to talk about!
First Thessalonians 4:9 says, “But concerning brotherly love [for all other Christians], you have no need to have anyone write you, for you yourselves have been [personally] taught by God to love one another” (AMP).
In other words, sharing your critical opinions about other people is always a mistake. We need to cover one another with love, instead of uncovering their weaknesses and pointing out their flaws.
Sign 3: Your God Is Too Small
Whenever we say, “I can’t do this” or “It’s too much for me to take,” we’re actually defeating ourselves―and we’re not trusting God to get us through it.
What we need to say is, “God is bigger than every issue I will ever have to face, and I can do whatever I need to do through Christ who strengthens me.”
The Bible says that David ran quickly toward the battle line to face the giant Goliath. Sometimes we stare at our circumstances too long. We end up scaring ourselves half to death instead of believing God will give us the victory when we face our giants.
Sign 4: You’re Self-Inflated
We like to boast about what we’ve done, what we can do, and what we’re going to do. If we’re not careful, we can even take credit for things God did!
Everything we do, we should do it as unto the Lord. (Colossians 3:23) I don’t think we can even begin to know what God would do for us and the things He would allow us to participate in if we would learn to keep our successes a secret between us and God, unless He specifically gives us permission to share them.
Sign 5: You’re Standing in Judgment
Matthew 7:1 (NLT) says, “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged.” I think this is really important for Christians because we can get our religious, snooty noses up in the air. And if somebody does something wrong, they’re out of the group.
We can look at everybody else through a magnifying glass when we’re a mess ourselves and can’t even see it. So we need to remain humble before God and before others.
Sign 6: You’re Just Being Negative
The world is full of negativity. Instead of adding to that negativity, Christians need to be positive about the problems and circumstances we face.
We may not get everything we want, the way we want it, when we want it, but God will take care of us and give us grace to have joy and be positive in the midst of any situation. And that’s an awesome way to live.
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2013-04-06 09:34:59
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Joyce Meyer what a poc!
What is a poc ?
as in pig’s, ‘what a poc’ ?
Piece of ? I think I get it, crap? Aren’t you being very very negative and judgmental? Why? What do you have against her? Do you wish your wife were like her and know you can’t handle it, and that makes you jealous, therefore, lash out at this woman and try to detract from her obvious rightness in this? Just wondering out loud, pigs
This might be true even more so now in present times when individual’s spiritual beings are so mutilated. Americans in particular like to believe in the falsehood that thought, beliefs and spoken words have no connection to ones spiritual wellness. While freedom of speech and thought are treasures, theirs are a bounty really only reserved for the country of individuals with the self disipline to maintain and build one’s spiritual being. As a people’s spiritual construction falls into disrepair, the connective features between ones spirituality and one’s beliefs, thoughts and words become loose and woobly. As falsely held beliefs and thoughts and words that aren’t correctly aligned with the spiritual line of the universe become rampant in a society, the truth some people ‘claim’ to be ‘seeking’ will become and even is, just an elusive MEMORY in a small percentage of the country’s population. Most either won’t maintain or actively seek to destroy ones own spirituality so one can join in on all the false witnessing ‘fun’. The country that becomes so sickened will soon manifest the horror of their own mutilated souls onto the present physical realm of that country. We few, who WALK THE LINE with our own spirituality can only wonder what will befall us all at the hands of the spiritually mutilated and obscene.
Negative tools are just as useful as positive tools. All tools are good for somethings, bad for others. Good and bad are 100% subjective to your own opinion, and the modality of the age and place.
Good advice.
I’m not Christian, but I do appreciate the fundamental precepts that one ought to live an ethically moral life, one based on love and forgiveness.
I for one am glad alternative media is not a popularity contest. As far as America’s LACK of civil discourse over the programming of people to believe utter spiritual nonsense, the more said the better. In case no one has noticed the false witnesses are winning. Idolizing the false beliefs caused by the false belief programming rampant in American society will bring the nation to a breakover point when veils are lifted and people see the matrix of lies they’ve been fed that imprison them, spare no speech to break your brothers free! The more of your brothers who are free, the more of your brothers that CAN be free. Many people have been spoon fed a poison to their true spirituality, that lies to them with the false belief, if my brother DOESN’T have it, there is a greater chance I will. False beliefs such as these are sickening the true spirit inside us all which comes from the universe. Many such false beliefs are being fed to all, to sicken and weaken their true Godly spirit. Yes, speak up! It is being done on purpose, and it started a very long time ago. This type of anti-spiritual activity is best handled by bringing it up, much and often, and putting the anti-spirit in it’s place.
when should you stop taking about ‘God’ and his offspring harry potter?