Take a look at these questions:

• Have you ever responded to a question someone has given you without first hearing the info?
• How you ever given a response to someone out of your emotions without thinking?
• How often have you spoken negatively about a situation knowing the full facts?
• Do you make statements about things that have nothing to do with you?
• Are there times where being quiet was the best policy but you said something anyway?
• Did you ever say something about anyone and made the situation worse rather than better?
• Have you ever made a promise to someone because of time constraints especially when you didn’t know you had the in the first place.

Weigh it before you say. Does anyone recall the statement: Jesus if you get me out of this situation this time, I promise I won’t do it again Jesus. I’ll start back going to Church again. Oh Hallelujah. In any case you wind up doing the same thing over again. A lot of times we’ll make statements like that and we won’t fulfill it. In Matthew it says that you have to give account of every word you speak.

Matthew 12:30-37

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

How can you love My word and hate Me, and how can you hate the Word and love Me? You will not be forgiven for a LONG TIME if you blaspheme against the Holy Ghost. You say “Lord, I will do this,” and you put a stipulation on the Lord. “Lord I’ll do this…if You give me this.” Lord I will do this…tomorrow. Weigh it before you say it. A lot of times we blurt something out of our mouth that didn’t even make sense when we were thinking about it. We don’t think. You remember the moment when they got on your last nerves and you just blurted something out? When people make statements that they haven’t rationally dealt with before they speak. When you say something out of your mouth its a contract between you and that individual. Now, whether its a hate contract, loving contract, disposition of anger, or whatever the case may be, when you say it out of your mouth. That’s a binding contract. “I can’t stand your guts!” Have you ever seen their guts? Have you ever though about what you said before you said it? Did you know that most people say things out of emotion more than reason and reality? Because of that fact, they get caught in a present tense disaster. How many know what love at first sight is? When you hear that, your eyes get really big and swell, arrows are flying, hearts are popping. That’s not reality. You can admire someone at first sight, but you can’t be in love at first sight, because you don’t know them. So why are people always saying I love you? Because they want something? The mindset of people is to do one thing, they want to utilize you for whatever reason, they say I love you because its a submissive word. Love bears all, believes all, love hopes all things, endures all things love never fails…Most say I love you because they want to bring you down to their knees to be submissive to them. “If you love me, then you’ll do whatever I say.” Why do people want people to love them? Think about it. People want love because they want acceptance. I was a nerd in school, with a pocket protector. But I was never one to looks for the gang or look for someone to accept me, because I couldn’t be anyone but me.

James 1: 15-24

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

“James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” What someone says about you doesn’t make it so. What they say doesn’t mean anything. They need a crowd to turn and say people about you to convince you that you are no good. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Its when you think that you aren’t fearfully and wonderfully made. Forgive yourself for talking about yourself. Its when we get in the mirror and talk about ourselves. “Look at you!” Why do we do that to ourselves. No one’s said a thing to us, but we’ve created a whole scenario about ourselves. What people say about you means nothing. God made a definite statement of who you are and what you are. So what comes out of your mouth can hinder you. Understand, we condemn ourselves more than the world does, and we abide with what we say about ourselves. Isn’t that true? Are you ready to commit to something?

[At this point in the service, the Holy Ghost moved upon the room, and Pastor Catron spoke into the lives of those present].