{"id":1636,"date":"2014-05-22T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2014-05-22T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:12:00","slug":"proverbs-chapter-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs Chapter 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We see riches and true wealth explained, as well as the call to discipline your children and many other truths in this chapter.\u00a0 I want to look at verse 3 concerning guarding your mouth.\u00a0 The old saying; \u201csticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me\u201d, is wrong.\u00a0 Words have the power to bring life and death to one\u2019s soul and spirit, see Proverbs\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1545434576\">18:21<\/span>\u00a0and James 3:5-6.\u00a0 We need to guard what we say and speak life into people\u2019s lives.\u00a0\u00a0 The way we give correction can encourage one to go on or to live in defeat.\u00a0 Ministries can be stopped by simple words of death that side track glorious works for God\u2019s kingdom.\u00a0 Bring life to someone today by speaking words of Christ and of hope.\u00a0 Bring life to the church by praising what God is doing and not what is wrong.\u00a0 There is more good God is doing than any of our little bumps and little detours that distract us from His grace and mission.<\/p>\n<p>In business we are told that\u00a0one negative review can cost you 30 customers, a study by Convergys found.\u00a0 Marketing Metrics tells us it is easier by 50% to retain a customer than to gain a new one.\u00a0 I say this because the church body at times forgets the value of us together as the body of Christ.\u00a0 We need to encourage one another and uplift one another and not be so negative when one does something a different way.\u00a0 We are all striving or should be, to do what is best for the church and for the glory of God.\u00a0 God gives us the power to speak life into someone\u2019s life today.\u00a0 What an awesome ability to exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}