The Power Of Your Tongue.

With just a simple word, you can destroy a person’s self-image. With just a word, a parent can determine a child’s future behavior or even a curse.

Author: Gordon Menhya

Humans use the tongue’s movability for speaking. Only when tongue, lips and teeth work together do sounds from the throat turn into understandable letters and words.

The tongue is extremely agile and quick: It can produce more than 90 words per minute, using more than 20 different movements. The tongue is essential for pronouncing the consonants “t,” “d,” “l” or the rolling “r.

Tongue is the most powerful part of the human body as well as the most dangerous weapon through which you can incite violence, hatred and star wars much more than the physical weapons.

“Let them eat cake if they can’t afford bread” This is a famous phrase by Queen Marie Antoinette that sparked off the 1789 French revolution.

This was just bare misuse and bad selection of words from her tongue that cost many French their dear lives.

With just a simple sentence, you can destroy a person’s self-image. With just a word, a parent can determine a child’s future behavior or even a curse.

This basically because the tongue has the power to create happiness, inspire, joy, a sense of belonging. Or it absolutely can cause a lot of damage based on how it’s used.

The power to control your tongue is in your hands.

Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and many other religions advocate for good usage of our tongues and nice selection of words whenever we speak or communicate.

The holy bible says that God created the earth and all its fullness by just mere uttering words.

Similarly, the sages and Islamic scholars warn that the tongue should be guarded from following these types of speech; lying, speaking ill of others, breaking promises, slandering, arguing.

Let not your tongue utter worthless words of destruction, words of pain and wrong because they have the power to hurt and cause pain.

Just imagine a girl being told by her boyfriend that it’s over. Whatever she will feel is a result of her boyfriend's tongue. The emotional trauma and depression this girl suffers is just a mere use of words. Words can really take you deep.

It is scientifically proven that words of peace and love strengthen our areas of frontal lobes and promote brain cognitive functioning.

It’s with no doubt that I reaffirm the phrase “Action speaks louder than words” however words speak volumes to our dear hearts and souls.

Actions basically speak to our physical body but words speak to the depth of our hearts and inner man in us.

Just imagine how words are so strong that the majority have fallen deep in love just because of their lover’s nice selection of words.

Not so far from you is music, Music is basically words spoken from our tongues. With their tongues, motivational speakers and politicians have influenced our thinking and direction in which we see our lives.

Imagine people you have made miserable with your tongue. Think of many people who feel depressed, low self-esteem because of misusing your tongue.

What if you used your tongue to otter out encouraging words of freedom, and hope? How many people would you have made happy, joyful by using your tongue in the best way?

It is in our human nature to seek appreciation and praises from other people. You dress well, you drive a good car all because you want others to notice and praise you.

Food for thought, we can’t really appreciate or praise ourselves but when someone else does it, you can take it seriously.

The holy bible confirms the power of our tongues in proverbs 18;12 when it says that death and life are in the power of our tongues and those who love it will eat its fruits.

This means that we have the power to manifest, declare our heart's desires by the use of our tongues and they will come to pass.

Start manifesting and proclaiming something great about your life and see how it will come to death.

Let’s invest our tongues in good ways that benefit our personality and community at large.

Before you say anything impulsively, take a deep breath and think about the consequences of your words before they come out of your mouth because the moment they leave your mouth, it’s impossible to un-say them.