Zip It
The Keep It Shut 40-Day Challenge
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Publisher Description
This follow-up devotional to the New York Times bestseller Keep It Shut takes a deeper look at the advice and commands of Scripture concerning the tongue, offering practical how-to's that will inspire you to use your words to build, bless, encourage, and praise.
Each day we speak thousands of words in dozens of places. One thing is certain about the words we speak, type, and text: they are powerful, and they have consequences. They can impart love and life or deliver discouragement and defeat.
No wonder Scripture contains more than 3,500 verses about the power of the tongue. This devotional will take you on a journey over the next forty days to learn to choose and use your words wisely--saving you a boatload of regret and wounded relationships.
Each of the forty interactive entries includes a Scripture-verse focus for the day, a story or teaching point, and reflection questions. Each entry ends with both an action that will help you carry out the directive in the verse and a prayer prompt. The entries in Zip It build upon each other, equipping you with new tools for how--or how not--to use your words.
Ultimately, Zip It will challenge you to use your mouth with godly purposes. To build . . . not to break. To bless . . . not to badger. To encourage . . . not to embitter. To praise . . . not to pounce.
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Ehman (Keep It Shut), bestselling author and Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker, writes on the challenge of keeping one s mouth shut so that the few carefully chosen words one does speak will serve to enhance ones life and build up others in the process. Ehman makes her 40 chapters easy to follow; they re filled with prompts, suggestions, and resources that will facilitate using self-control to speak only in ways that bring help, not hurt, into everyday situations. No matter whether people are angry, tired, irritable, hurt, sad, happy, or joyful, she writes, they are all in control of how they use their voices. Ehman sets biblical guidelines for using one s thoughts (which necessarily affect one s words) to the betterment of others. Readers will laugh, cry, and commiserate with her real-life examples of how she successfully (and not so successfully) tamed her tongue at crucial life junctures. Readers will also receive daily nudges to stop before they speak, consider before voicing strong opinions, and learn to make reparations as needed. For Christ-followers looking to harness the power of their words, Ehman is a clear, persuasive guide.
