Day 6 – Words Attack: Cussing

“Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.” Ephesians 4:29

I was fluent in cursing and swearing in my BC years. Some sailors would’ve been very proud. It took some time after I was saved to alter my words to rather be good and helpful than cursing and damning. I never realised that the foul language leaving our lips hurt the Holy Spirit deeply.

There is a difference between swearing and cursing. Swear words suggest blasphemy or invoking a deity to empower your words. Cursing implies damning or punishing someone with your words. Both of them are equally dangerous. Because words have spirit, when we swear or curse, they are like arrows hurling through the spirit realm, dead set on hitting the target to whom it was aimed and fired.

Ask the Holy Spirit to replace the cussing words with words that are good, helpful and an encouragement to all who may hear them.

Prayer: Father, thank you for teaching me to rather use good, helpful and encouraging words rather than cussing. Please forgive me the times I have cursed others and when I have sworn. Please break the power of those words over whomever they may have found a target, and please heal the wounds it left. Holy Spirit please forgive me for hurting you with the foul language I’ve used and teach me to talk in alignment with You. Amen.