“Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 8 Number 3 “Taking Aim with Our Words”

Post #351 January 15th, 2025

I have found some conference notes where Karen was speaking at a Saturday morning ladies’ event. She was to bring two workshops to the ladies that morning. Both dealt with the subject of “Make Me A Servant, Please!”

It was Karen’s conviction that she would speak only to ladies. However, this subject of being the servant of the Lord is certainly important for men as well as ladies. In the first forty-five-minute session, she was to speak about the servant and her conduct. Maybe someday I’ll share some of these notes with you.

It’s the second forty-five-minute session that I am looking at today. This spoke of the servant and her conversation, her words. This was encouraging to me, and I know it will be to you as well.
She spoke from Matthew 12:34-35 in which the Lord Jesus said, “You generation of vipers, how can you, 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.”

Karen wrote about our words and our hearts: Words come from the heart. We are reminded of this in Matthew 12:34-35. Christ was speaking to the Pharisees about the condition of their hearts. James warns us of the danger of an uncontrolled tongue. He compares it to a fire with widespread damage when left unchecked (James 3). We need to be an encourager and not a discourager. Aim to build up and not to tear down.

A note from Michael: This is so important for both men and women. As the servants of the Lord, we must trust Him to so work in our hearts that the words of our mouths will be pleasing to Him and good for others. Doesn’t that kind of sound like “Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer”(Psalm 19:14). Good! It was supposed to. Thanks for stopping by today my friends. Aren’t you glad that the Lord is still working in our lives and being our strength from day to day!