Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for October 11, 2026

TAME YOUR TONGUE

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 James 3:10

"Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so."

Additional Verses

📖 Matthew 12:22-37; James 3:1-18

Many homes and marriages and relationships are broken today just because of the wrong use of the tongue. Wars, at all levels up to the world wars are all products of the uncontrolled use of the tongue by leaders of different countries. James Chapter 3: 10 shows how the same mouth is used to both bless and curse. In the same letter, James raises the following questions: "Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs?" Certainly no spring can ever yield both salt water and fresh. What does this mean to you and every child of God? 2 Corinthians 5: 17 clearly reminds us that “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." Before you became born again, you were subject to the devil who is the source of curses and it was quiet normal for your tongue to release curses. After you became born again, your cursed nature ceased to exist and the nature you now have, the nature of Jesus Christ, should release blessings only through your mouth. A child of God should never curse because the Holy Spirit who is now at work in you, does not at all produce any curses. It is your responsibility to tame your tongue in order for it to adapt to your new nature. This you do by developing your thinking and talking to be Christ like through yielding yourself to the Word of God every day and practicing the Word. If you don't have the Word of God, certainly you risk yourself becoming a well full of contaminated water. As a child of God, it is a must to have the nine virtues of the fruit of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and self -control. When you have these virtues which were in Christ Jesus, you will certainly be able to tame your tongue. The devil is not at rest at all seeking to destroy those children of God who are not fully yielded to God's Word. Without the Word of God, there is no way you can tame your tongue. James 1:19-20 says, “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this, everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.” Be wise therefore and yield yourself to God's Word, so that your mouth will be a well that releases words which bless the hearer always. Remember what Jesus Christ said to His critics, the Pharisees in Matthew 12:33-35; "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things." I leave you with this question – Are you able to tame your tongue? Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear Father, I am sorry for all the time that I have not been controlling my tongue and bringing out bad words. Help me to tame my tongue and give me the right words to speak, which bring life to the hearer. Thank You LORD Jesus Christ. Amen.