Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series,

What is Faith and How does it work?

Faith is how we're able to trust what we cannot see.

When we put our faith in God and choose to believe His word as truth for our daily lives,

it means we are trusting his will for us.

Faith is what allows God's power to work in our lives.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Proverbs 18 to 6 and 7. I talk to you for a minute about our words.

A self-confident fool's lips bring contention

and his mouth invites a beating.

You know, that's actually just worth reading again.

A self-confident fool's lips bring contention, starts arguments, starts fights, causes strife, causes problems.

How many times have you said something dumb or if I saw just blame on me how many times have I said something dumb because I know you don't do that and I've just started some big ordeal with somebody and just thought later, why didn't I just keep my mouth shut?

It's so hard for us to just keep our mouth shut. I often say God gave us two ears and one mouth

that must mean we're supposed to listen more than we talk, but we fail to do that.

Proverbs 1218. There are those who speak rashly. That means they just say whatever

floats around in their head and they don't really give any thought to what they're about to say.

There are those who speak rashly like the piercing of a sword but the tongue of the wise brings

healing. Isn't that good?

Proverbs 1821.

The power of life and death is in the tongue.

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