Good morning everyone!  The second lesson text for today is from the Book of James chapter 3.  The section is titled, "Taming the Tongue".  I encourage everyone to read chapter three and pray your way through it; as we should do with all of scripture.  "What is God trying to say to me?" should be the question you ask to yourself.  And when the question is asked; we need to shut up and listen; something I have a hard time with sometimes.  So this morning I invite you to read James 3 and then join me in a word of prayer:  <READ JAMES 3>

Let us pray…

Oh God, you have given us many gifts to take care of for you and to use for your glory.  All we have is yours.  But one of the things we have, we often times use for evil; mainly our tongue.  We are told we can not tame the tongue which leaves us in the shadow of your mercy.  Please enter my life and grant me a tongue that brings you glory; not one that curses you and others.  As a captian controls the rudder on a ship, please be the one to direct my tongue.  Remind me that what I say is out there for good.  Oh God, giver of good things, give me a tongue to glorify you and to uplift people around me.  Through your Son, Jesus Christ, who died and rose from the grave for the forgiveness of our sins, Amen! -EDH-