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BY THE RIGHT WORDS - PART 5
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THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2026
Proverbs 18:20 (ESV)
"From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips."
The focus in today's article is majored on the first segment:
"From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied"
The "fruit" of a man's mouth here suggests the impact of a man's spoken notions, including new ideas, voiced opinions, communicative expressions, symbolic pronouncements, articulated dictates, revised descriptions, and more kindred-minded sound waves.
In spiritually-interpreted sense and essence, the tongue is doorway to the stomach [belly], and the stomach hosts the "fruit" of a man's mouth in a ripe arrangement before it's womb gives birth to visible earthly realities. Therefore, understanding the process of our speechifications being activated to come to pass involves light coming into the inward belly, on the influential account of our utterances, meaning that the "belly" is an emblematic location where our words (whether positive or negative) evidently show as being deeply ingrained in us. It is therein that the words are significantly formed until they shift from invisible state or internalised shape or veiled form in the belly, to tangible possibilities on earth.
The Scripture stated that "Death and life are in the hand of the tongue, and those loving it will eat its fruit" (Proverbs 18:21 BLB). Both possibilities, namely life and death, which can influence our daily outcomes, are the elementary functions of the tongue, and they are produced, depending on the nature and significance of our spoken words.
Notice the articulated rendering within the proverbial versified statement, "those loving it" What does that imply? In the context of our versified proverb, does it suggest those that love life, and those that love death? Not at all. The gramatical role of the noun phrase "Those loving it" is indicative of all "persons" utilizing the versatile technology of the body organ, namely "tongue." Let me analyze it more precisely: It is implicative of a participial phrase, pointing to those sharing in the fullness of the influence and power of tongue. They are "you and me" who derive pleasure in harnessing the organ of speech, via our "daily basis" communications.
Hence, when any of us utilizes the impactful nature of the tongue, the effect is that we get to reap the produce or benefit of rightly or positively-spoken words, as well as the disadvantage of negatively-conveyed wordings. In a nutshell, the tongue determines the influx of light (life) or darkness (death), hence the life-giving words you speak give rise to illuminated belly, while negatively-inspired utterances saturate the stomach with unprofitable darkness.
But as a child of God, you must eagerly bear in mind that the entrance of the Word gives light (Psalm 119:130 KJV). Hence, as long as your conscious focus is on confessing and declaring the Word of God, light is effectively internalized, and this implies that the influx of the right light links Word-based perception and declarations to the conception of subsequent establishment of favourable results.
Beloved, when you are a Word-lexical analyzer, it denotes that you have become intentional about using the light of divine revelations from the Scriptures to design your daily vocabulary or lexical concept because they yield true fruit in the belly, where the speech is processed and perfected to give rise to glorious outcomes. Stay tuned for part 6. Shalom!
Scripture Reading - Proverbs 13:2; Proverbs 31:26; 1 Peter 3:10; Colossians 4:6.
Guided Prayer:
Heavenly Father, I'm forever grateful because you've empowered my tongue to be useful in demonstrating the dictates of your Word through transforming factors and influences, such as praiseful emphasis, compelling encouragement, desirable positive confessions, prayerfully-decreed utterances, and exuberant declaration of faith-filled words, in Jesus' name, Amen.
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