Watch Your Mouth Growth and Study Guide: Understanding the Power of the Tongue
By Tony Evans
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Shape Your Speech—
Shape Your Life
Perfect for group or individual study, this companion guide to Watch Your Mouth by Dr. Tony Evans will help you take to heart the Bible's life-changing truths about your words. Get everything you need to prompt further growth and discussion, including...
- Subject Summaries—short overviews of the main points of each chapter
- Reflections—questions and suggested Bible reading for pondering the lessons
- Application—deeper questions and exercises to apply the lessons to your life
- Scripture Memorization and Interaction—specific verses to study and rewrite
As you complete each step in this guide to Tony's teaching on the tongue, you'll discover what it really means to glorify God with your mouth.
Tony Evans
Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, founder and president of the Urban Alternative, former chaplain of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and present chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on nearly 1,000 US radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit TonyEvans.org.
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Watch Your Mouth Growth and Study Guide - Tony Evans
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
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WATCH YOUR MOUTH GROWTH AND STUDY GUIDE
Copyright © 2016 Tony Evans
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contents
How to Use This Study Guide
PART 1: The Power of the Tongue
1. Dynamite in Your Dentures
2. Lord of Your Lips
3. God in Your Gums
4. Power in Your Palate
5. Victory in Your Voice
6. Wisdom in Your Words
7. Ministry in Your Mouth
8. Thanksgiving in Your Throat
PART 2: Perils of the Tongue
9. Judgment in Your Jaws
10. Evil in Your Esophagus
11. Satan in Your Speech
12. Dirt in Your Discourse
Appendix 1: Small-Group Leader’s Guide
Appendix 2: Dr. Tony Evans and The Urban Alternative
More Great Harvest House Books by Dr. Tony Evans
About the Publisher
How to Use This Study Guide
Welcome to the Watch Your Mouth Growth and Study Guide. It is intended to be used with the book Watch Your Mouth to help you go deeper into those truths and apply them to your life. If you are using this study in a small group or at home with your family members, be sure that everyone has access to a copy of the book Watch Your Mouth ahead of your start date. Read each chapter in the book before responding to the questions in the corresponding chapter of the study guide.
You will notice that each chapter of this study is divided into four sections:
• Subject Summary
• Reflection
• Application
• Scripture Memorization and Interaction
Each of these sections has been designed with a unique purpose. The Subject Summary provides a brief review of the chapter. If you are using this study guide in a group setting, consider reading this section out loud.
The Reflection questions lead you on a journey through several Scriptures and important thoughts. Keep your Bible handy beside you or on your phone or tablet so you can look up the recommended additional reading. Spend as much time as you need reflecting on the principles introduced in each question and each Scripture you read. Then record your thoughts in a journal.
The Application section takes the truths to a more personal and practical level in your life so you can apply them to the decisions you make on a regular basis. These questions will sometimes include additional Scriptures for you to read but will often be focused on how the principles you are learning can best play out in your life. They may call for direct action that you implement later in the week or even that day. Keep a note of your personal challenges and applications so you can track your implementation and progress in these areas of spiritual growth.
Finally, the Scripture Memorization and Interaction section provides you with additional learning opportunities, so keep your Bible handy and be sure to look up and read each verse. If you are in a group situation, everyone’s ideas do not have to agree. Allow each person the freedom to express themselves without interruption. In addition, any action steps suggested can be discussed and applied according to your own timetable.
May you enjoy this study and truly experience all God has in store for you as you discover the ways in which your words really do matter—to yourself, to others, and to the Lord.
Part 1
the power of the tongue
1
Dynamite in Your Dentures
Subject Summary
Dynamite is a powerful thing. It can be used to bring people together, or it can be used to blow people apart. It can help make life better, or it can ruin someone’s life altogether. It is a powerful tool that can give life and take it.
We all have a similar power within ourselves. We have access to something so strong—for good or for evil—that we bring life or death into situations on a regular basis. What’s worrisome about this, though, is that most of us do not realize this power. And far too many of us let it ride roughshod over other people in our lives.
You and I were created by God with access to an internal, explosive power that can construct or destroy. It is the dynamite in our dentures—the tool known as the tongue.
The mouth has the power to destroy anything in its path. The muscle in the mouth is no small thing. In fact, some couples have gotten divorced because of the sticks of dynamite that continue to blow up their relationship. Some people have not spoken to members of their family for years because the blast was so big and the pain was so deep, they have been unable to recover.
God might not use soap on our tongues to steer us in the right direction concerning this critical source of life or death in our mouths, but He does ask us to use some salt. Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person,
writes Paul (Colossians 4:6). Or if you don’t prefer salt, He suggests some honey: Pleasant words are a honeycomb: sweet to the taste and health to the body
(Proverbs 16:24).
In the book of Deuteronomy, Moses tells the Israelites, I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live
(30:19). When Moses says life and death,
he is not referring to killing people physically. He means they can choose to bring blessing or destruction through their choices, including