Sound Speech
“ Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?” The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” ” John 7 : 45 - 46 NKJV While reflecting recently on the devastating influence of darkness, the spirit of the Lord brought a direct instruction through the scriptural revelation “ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven (Matthew 5 : 16)”. Likewise, when we need sound salvation from darkness, God often needs sound speech with light from His people. It implies that in desperate moments and seasons of the challenges of life, God often expects the reverberation of sound speech with character, confidence, and consecration. These are the likes of the days in the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ, when officers and soldiers were employed to search, seclude and segregate him from the society. It turned out that these officers became exposed to the sound spee...