Word Up

To cleanse or to detoxify? That seems to be the question.

And word-up. Listen. We need both.

Not for the body (because it just so happens that the liver and kidneys are part of the best cleansing and detoxifying system ever created), but for the tongue.

Yes, the tongue.

No regular cleanse will do.

This cleanse calls for a holy mouth-wash,

a Word-Wash applied to the tongue for fresh breath,

a breath of fresh air,

a cleansing breath for self and others.

And this detox calls for an elimination of toxic words,

those words which

gag the truth,

suffocate the spirit

and rot any hope.

Listen.

When we are still and silent, we can actually hear both heart and breath, the rhythms instilled in us by our Creator in the beginning.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

Sometimes we have to go back to the beginning to understand.

Our Creator, our master-cardiologist Who also happens to be the heart-Maker is telling us and warning us:

"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34

The best detector of heart disease is the tongue.

So hear the tongue and assess

using exploratory surgery and oral surgery and Soul Surgery

to truly get to the heart of things.

For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebr 4:12

Words that operate on us and in us can repair us.

Healing is about making us whole is about making us holy.

Holy is sacred and consecrated.

Give us this surgical scripture

to renew us,

to re-Word us and re-work us

to sanctify us and save us,

to save our hearts

by creating His heart in us

so that our tongues can speak only Truth.

Give Us These Words, this daily bread!

And as though on cue, God whispers,

My Word.

Oh my word...I mean, not my word, but God's Word...

Because

God's Word is light - is seed - is truth - is life - is Christ - is health - is God - and is that what we've been missing all this time

in our pursuit of the best cleanse and the most effective detox?

We don't have to order it, wait for it or follow the latest trends:

Our personalized prescription for this cleansing and detoxifying is as straightforward as knowing and nourishing with Good Words,

God's Words.

We can trust God to lead us to the Right Words

every time we open His Word.

We can insert ourselves fully

by inserting our names into these Words

and by speaking them internally and externally

until they become us.

​Good nourishment is transformational.

(Practice by placing your name in each _______.)

"Give attention to my Words, _____, for they are life to those who find them, and health to all your flesh." Prov. 5:20-22

"My Word is a lamp to your feet, ______." Psalm 119:105

"You shall not live on bread alone, ________, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord." Deut 8

"The Word became flesh and dwells among us, __________."

And by the way...

You, ________, are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you. John 15:3