Introducing Speak Well Initiative (aka The Power of the Tongue)

Every human being is a player and every good player desires to score the winning goal. In what area of life do you desire to score the winning goal? What are you aspiring to achieve and what are your dreams? Believe in your dreams and go for them with all your heart and you will accomplish them. Like Napoleon Hills said, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”

As you pursue your goals and go for your dream, it’s essential for you to know the assets you have that can help you. You also need to know what can hinder you from achieving your goals. In your body, there is an organ you have that has an enormous amount of power to help you achieve any goal that you set for yourself.

This organ has the unstoppable power to either kill or keep alive any dream the mind can conceive and believe depending on how you use this organ. While some people are using this organ to help themselves to succeed and enjoy their lives to the fullest, a greater percentage of individuals, couples, families, communities, states and nations are ignorantly using this same organ to destroy their dreams and lives. This is a tragedy and regrettable.

That powerful organ is called the TONGUE. The Tongue has the power of death and life inside of it, and each person, family, organisation and country will either get death or life, depending on how they use their tongues. As it is written; “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Proverbs 18:21(KJV)

The law of gravity is firm and constant and does not have any favourites; it is impartial. Like Sir Isaac Newton said, “Whatever goes up must come down.” And this is regardless of who is involved all over the world. The law of the tongue is as sacrosanct as the law of gravity. It is also as constant as the rising and setting of the sun and as the night follows the day.

Each time you open your mouth to speak a word, you must release either death or life and there is no middle ground. Share on X

In your tongue, there is the power to kill and power to life. Each time you open your mouth to speak a word, you must release either death or life and there is no middle ground. It does not matter the subject you are talking about and whether you are talking to yourself, your spouse, child, friend, enemy or a stranger. It also doesn’t matter if you are talking about your business, health, finance, village, company, local government, state government or country.

Once you speak a word with your mouth, you are either killing or giving life to your subject of focus. But not many people are aware of the seriousness of the power of the tongue―just like not many people understand the law of gravity until they fall off from somewhere to the ground. As it has been said, ignorance of the law is not an excuse, it means that claiming or feigning ignorance of the power of death and life in your tongue does not excuse or exclude you from enjoying the benefits or suffering the consequences of the right or wrong use of your tongue.

Life is said to be 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to what happens to you. Most people react easily through their words thereby putting the power of death and life in motion. Many individuals have used their tongues to sentence themselves to a life of happiness and success by consciously using their tongue to speak the right words no matter the circumstances.

Many individuals have used their tongues to sentence themselves to a life of happiness and success by consciously using their tongue to speak the right words no matter the circumstances. Share on X

Others however have sentenced and jailed themselves to a long prison term with hardship and sorrow by using their tongue carelessly to their own destruction. Many marriages that have divorced, separated or at the brink of collapse today are there not so much because of the so-called ‘irreconcilable’ difference but mostly because of the wrong use of the tongue by the spouses.

Many villages and communities are backward and devoid of any meaningful development because of how the members of such communities have been using their tongues against their communities. Many companies, institutions and countries have been ruined not because of lack of natural resources or due to natural disasters but because of poor, wrong use of the tongue by the leaders and followers. According to Matthew 12:37 (KJV), “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

What is the way out?

Incidentally, there is no drug in any pharmacy that can help anyone know how to use the tongue rightly. No scientist has developed a vaccine on how to use the tongue. It requires individual and personal effort, commitment and responsibility.

No scientist has developed a vaccine on how to use the tongue. It requires individual and personal effort, commitment and responsibility. Share on X

Presently, there is abundant evidence that many people are living in ignorance about the power of the tongue in their lives and environment and this is the reason for the introduction of Speak Well Initiative programmes.

Please watch out for our next article which will give more details about the Speak Well Initiative.

Thank you and God bless.