{"id":2386,"date":"2025-07-29T03:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngcug.org\/leuben\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:23:19","slug":"the-power-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/the-power-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2386\" class=\"elementor elementor-2386\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4156afc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4156afc\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd48617 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cd48617\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 data-start=\"2565\" data-end=\"2598\">\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <strong data-start=\"2573\" data-end=\"2598\">5. The Power of Words<\/strong><\/h3><p data-start=\"2600\" data-end=\"2728\"><strong data-start=\"2600\" data-end=\"2613\">\ud83d\udcd6 Verse:<\/strong><br data-start=\"2613\" data-end=\"2616\" \/><em data-start=\"2616\" data-end=\"2705\">&#8220;The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.&#8221;<\/em> \u2014 Proverbs 18:21 (NIV)<\/p><p data-start=\"2730\" data-end=\"2908\"><strong data-start=\"2730\" data-end=\"2748\">\ud83e\ude9e Reflection:<\/strong><br data-start=\"2748\" data-end=\"2751\" \/>Our words can either build or break, heal or hurt. As followers of Christ, we are called to speak life. Be intentional with what you say \u2014 your words matter.<\/p><p data-start=\"2910\" data-end=\"2996\"><strong data-start=\"2910\" data-end=\"2924\">\ud83d\ude4f Prayer:<\/strong><br data-start=\"2924\" data-end=\"2927\" \/>God, help me use my words to encourage, heal, and bless others today.<\/p><p data-start=\"2998\" data-end=\"3083\"><strong data-start=\"2998\" data-end=\"3015\">\ud83c\udfaf Challenge:<\/strong><br data-start=\"3015\" data-end=\"3018\" \/>Give a sincere compliment or encouragement to three people today.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f 5. The Power of Words \ud83d\udcd6 Verse:&#8220;The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.&#8221; \u2014 Proverbs 18:21 (NIV) \ud83e\ude9e Reflection:Our words can either build or break, heal or hurt. As followers of Christ, we are called to speak life. Be intentional with what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leubenfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}