Do You Talk To Much

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“Do you talk too much?” this was the question asked on Sunday, February 26 at Johnson Chapel AME Church/Malakoff for its Annual Lay Program.

Rev. Jackson graduated in 1997 with a Master of Divinity, former Dean of Chaplain at Paul Quinn College, former Pastor of St. James in Terrell, TX., and presently as we all know, is Senior Pastor in Athens, Texas.

Rev. Mark Jackson Pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church noted as we come to the end of Black History month, there is times to speak and times to listen.

Jackson express to the congregation that with this theme “Do you talk too much?” (Proverbs 18:21; Matthew 12:36; James 1:19) he prayed, prayed, and prayed, but concluded that we kill things with what we say.

“With this question, “Do you talk too much?” there are times when things should not be said; something we should know when to be quiet,” said Jackson.

Jackson stated that when we are talking there are times when we do not even know what we are saying. People do not realize that the words coming out of our mouths have a negative or positive reaction on others.

People today do not realize that words coming out of their mouths may have an impact on families, finances, even on us.  Words that we say have an effect on everything that we do and maybe the product of words that may have been spoken by ourselves.

 Jackson said, “The tongue holds POWER.  POWER to give LIFE and POWER to DESTROY.  You have to build yourself, your church, your family, etc., up; you must know that wherever you are GOD is there also and can build up anything into greatness.”

“One thing that we as people must realize that we walk by FAITH and not by SIGHT,” said Jackson.

People today must know that they live by the words, which are spoken.  If the word is Possible, then people should know by FAITH anything is POSSIBLE.  If the word is Healing, then people should know that GOD is a HEALER.  Then is no need to have your head hung low, but lift your head up high and know that GOD is an AWESOME GOD.

The congregation moved by the strong message given by Rev. Jackson expressed their thankfulness and praise for a favorable way to close Black History Month.

Now, ask yourself that question, “Do you talk too much?” Now, what is your answer? 

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