Mike and Chris discuss the importance of speaking life into others and being intentional with our words. God numbers our days and knows exactly how long we are here so we never want to take anything for granted. Who can you build up and encourage today? What is God prompting you to say to someone right now? Don’t wait and take the opportunity to tell truth and speak life into someone.
Proverbs 16:24
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
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We say the most important things to people when it’s almost too late — at bedsides and funerals — when we could have been saying them all along. In this episode, Mike shares the “see you later” conversation he just had with his grandmother, a faithful believer nearing the end of her life, and the question it raised: why do we wait for a crisis to speak life into people? God numbers our days (we don’t), gracious words are “sweetness to the soul and health to the body” (Proverbs 16:24), and “a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold” (Proverbs 25:11) — so this episode ends with a challenge: whoever the Lord is bringing to mind right now, don’t wait until tomorrow. Below: the key takeaways, the scriptures discussed, and the full episode transcript.
What a Deathbed Conversation Teaches About Words
Mike has lost his mom, his dad, and his grandfather — and never got a conversation like this one. Sitting with his grandmother, two things struck him. First, in her final days she talked only about the things that matter most — strong memories, her dad, the people she loved; not one word about to-do lists, calendars, or the daily stressors that consume us. Second, they exchanged loving words about what they’d meant to each other — and Mike couldn’t shake the question: why did it take this conversation? They could have been saying these things to each other their whole lives. For the believer, death is not finality — it’s a transfer — which made it a sweet “see you later.” But the lesson stands for the living: don’t save the words.
The Compliment Chris Never Got To Give
Chris shares the other side: he’d recently met someone’s family and was genuinely impressed — and it occurred to him late one night, mid-text, to say so. He decided to save it for the conversation they had scheduled that Friday. The friend passed away before Friday came. “We never know how long we have people,” Chris says — there are no guarantees, and we shouldn’t take for granted that people know what we’d tell them. The missed opportunity became the reason to never wait again.
Why We Talk Ourselves Out of It
It’s rarely that we don’t want to say the thing — we just talk ourselves out of it. It’s late. We’ll see them Friday. It might come across as weird, or too emotional, or over-spiritual. Pride whispers that a deep compliment costs us something. And Chris names the darker layer: there’s a real enemy invested in keeping us distracted — seeing people as rivals or problems, worrying about people instead of talking to them — because he knows what Spirit-prompted words can do. Jesus never told anyone “we’ll get to that later”; the model is timely truth, spoken now.
Imagine If Everyone Acted on the Prompt
Both have lived the receiving end: a friend says something out of nowhere and the response is “I was just praying about this five minutes ago.” The speaker didn’t know — the Holy Spirit did. Mike does the math out loud: if millions of believers simply acted on their promptings — called, texted, stopped someone in the hallway — people would be getting encouragement, answers to prayer, and rescue from dark thoughts constantly, delivered through ordinary tongues. “Hurt people hurt people,” Chris notes — but the flip side is just as true: encouraged people encourage people. Every obeyed prompt can start a chain reaction.
The Challenge: Pause This Episode and Say It
Odds are, someone came to mind while you read this — a name, a situation, maybe a conflict where you’d need to apologize first. That’s the assignment: pray “God, show me who I need to build up today” — and when prompted, go. Don’t delay. There is nothing to gain by waiting and, as both hosts learned the hard way, everything to lose. And if you’ve waited before and missed the window — there’s grace. Start now. Stop, call, text, look them in the eye and speak life. You will never regret it, and whether or not they follow Jesus, they will feel loved, seen, and heard.
Be a Truth Teller
Ephesians 4:29 sets the filter — no corrupting talk, “only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear” — and Ephesians 4:25 sets the identity: put off falsehood and speak truthfully, “for we are all members of one body.” Speaking life isn’t flattery; it’s telling the truth about what God has done in someone, out loud, on time. Storytellers of the gospel, truth tellers in practice.
Scriptures From This Episode
Proverbs 25:11 · Proverbs 16:24 · Ephesians 4:29 · Ephesians 4:25 · the tongue’s power in James 3 · God numbering our days and dwelling places (Acts 17:26; Psalm 139:16).
Go deeper: Why Is Encouragement So Important? · Scripture on Encouragement · Scripture on Speech · Scripture on Death
Full Transcript — Not Quite There, Episode 6: Don’t Wait Until Tomorrow To Say What You Should Say Today
Mike: Well, lots to celebrate this week here in the city of Dallas. You know, that’s where we are. We’re here in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas. We got the Stars and the Mavs going to the Western Conference. Final. Are you not excited about this? What? Mike, where did I grow up? Uh you’re gonna say you’re an avalanche fan in hockey.
Chris: I am an avalanche fan.
Mike: Oh, and the Nuggets that also just got destroyed by the Timberwolves. Yeah. This is why you sound sad right now. Oh man, well, too bad for you. So we are going forward, everyone. I know if you’re not a Dallas fan, you might be tuning out right now, but There’s next year. There’s we have the Cowboys here. There’s nothing el I mean we need some winning teams, so y’all know we’ve been in a lot of pain with the Cowboys for I can’t remember now, way too long. Thirty years. It’s about to be thirty years. When’s the last time that Wait, no, not ninety-five, it was ninety eight, wasn’t it? Ninety-eight the last time we won? Oh. Oh, that’s only, you know, twenty Twenty six, twenty-seven years. Mavs, when did they win their uh their title? Oh you’re gonna put me on the spot. I don’t remember the year. I just remember Beat the Heat. Okay. And we did it. Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. The Nuggets, they they did it what last year? No one cares about the Nuggets, man. No one, no one cares. With your main guy, the Joker, who shows no expression. Ever while he’s playing. Yeah, the the joke. Yeah. Only he knows I mean only he knows the punchline. And can you even name a player from the Avalanche? Yes. Oh. Very much so.
Chris: Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Mikko Rantanen, and you’re making all these names up right now.
Mike: Yuri Luckinnen. Those are within our top six. All right, you might know. You might know. Well, we are excited and we’re celebrating Dallas winning and good luck to them uh for the future. How are you uh How are you doing today? How’s your day been?
Chris: Day’s been we we had a little bit of hail. Just a little bit. Yeah? Just a little bit. Yeah.
Mike: Yeah. Had some storms moving through.
Chris: Storms moving through the Dallas area. That’s always fun. Um But yeah, uh we just we we have some weather around the area, of course, and it always kinda gets you a little bit on edge when you think of stuff falling from the sky here in Texas. It can get pretty large.
Mike: Bigger in Texas. Did you get damaged? No damage. Okay, good.
Chris: I could tell.
Mike: Okay. Yeah. Do you ever go out and collect the hail and like bring it inside and Why would why would I do that? Don’t people do that? Like it’s like uh looking at a little ice cube circle?
Chris: Yeah. Okay. But whatever.
Mike: Do you do that? I Uh no, I was just curious if you do. So I’m realizing it was a stupid question. Nothing. I’m glad we just wasted forty-five seconds talking about this. How’s that canker sore, by the way? You know, it is healing. I’m so glad you asked about that actually. It has been hanging around so I look There’s two of them. That’s why I was hurting so bad. Do they multiply or I don’t know. Yeah, little baby. I’ve never seen like two pop up like that. And then Um, but I realize we’re gonna talk about this today. It is finally started subsiding as of about yesterday. So getting a handle on no sore in the gums uh anymore healing healing out of the gums you stop biting your gums and look what happens it just kind of goes away oh yes we’re healing we’re healing well Um you know, for me, for my day, thanks for asking, by the way. I appreciate you asking about that co-host Chris. How’s your day, buddy? Oh, thanks, man. Thanks for asking. That’s so nice of you. Um Honestly, this past week has been kind of difficult. It’s been a heavier week than normal. You know, you just don’t know what’s gonna happen each day. You know, the Bible talks about God uh has allotted our time periods and dwelling places kind of meaning That not everyone’s gonna live to be a hundred, you know? Um not always gonna be fully healthy. You just you really you really don’t know each day. But sometimes when big things happen Or people get sick, it it kinda reminds your perspective that life is pretty fragile. Um so This likes last week for me um has been pretty challenging. One of those one of those scenarios is uh, you know, my grandmother, she’s a faithful believer, she’s been a believer, she’s almost 90. Um And like I I don’t think anyone would be surprised. I don’t think you’d be surprised by this either. You know, she it looks like she’s gonna be passing away soon. So it was one of those conversations last week where you you kinda meet up. Um since you have the chance and you kinda say uh I was about to say goodbye. You say see you later. You know, especially for the life of the life of the Christian. You know, death is not uh it’s not finality. It’s really just a transfer. You know, and biblically if you read about that, you know, we’re made to live forever. You know, death is just a product of sin. And luckily for those of us who believe and follow Jesus, we transfer to heaven afterwards. That’s not it. So it was it was a chance for us to meet up and uh say some things to each other uh before she passes away pretty soon. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Not easy. Um And I know that you know, even with the knowing that it’s a see you later, it still I’m sure a lot of memories, a lot of emotions and a lot of things come to mind. Um what what do you say during those times? Um what what what’s important to say?
Mike: Yeah. That’s uh Well that’s private, so I’m not you know I can’t believe you’d asked me that. That was really offensive. So anywhere you’d want to.
Chris: Let me frame it a different way. Let’s avo let’s avoid discomfort here and reframe it
Mike: Yeah. Rephrase it. Just tell me again. Well her social security and blood type. Let me go ahead and share that for all of us. Um it’s five five five. I’m just kidding. So you know So so here’s a couple observations I made. I’ve had some family members pass away. You know, my my mom my mom’s passed away, my dad’s passed away, my grandfather’s passed away. And in all those scenarios, I never get to have this kind of a conversation. So this is actually a first for me. Um so I didn’t know what to expect. I was nervous. And um thankful at the same time. And now on this side of it, you know, it it made me think a couple things. Made me think For her, she was really only talking about the things that matter the most in life And shared with me some various things and shared some things with me about her her dad. And it was clearly memories that were really strong to her, you know, in her in her last days. So it definitely made me think, wow, you know what, we’re we’re really not going to be concerned with the many, many things we get worried about in our day-to-day. um, you know, the the different my to-do lists or my calendar or the stressors of life when I’m laying there in my deathbed, I don’t think I’m gonna be thinking about that stuff. But also We shared some really just kind of loving moments and phrases and how much we’ve how much the other person has meant to us in our lives. And I just, I just couldn’t help but think, like, why why does it have to be in this conversation? that we’re saying things we could have been saying this the whole the whole time. We couldn’t have been saying this my entire life to each other. And then it kind of got gets my brain going on, okay, why don’t we do that? as a whole, like as a people, we don’t we don’t tend to be so direct and just speak life into each other without there being some kind of a crisis. Yeah. You know? What are we doing instead? I don’t know. Uh I’m just like regular conversation or keeping it surfacey, just like shooting the breeze or Or even like what we just did, you know, hey, how’s your day and how’s it going? And uh look at what the Mavs are doing, you know, like something where like, okay, that’s that’s cool. It’s temporary, it’s not gonna really matter on our deathbeds Uh I don’t know. I think we’re just filling the void with other words. And I don’t I don’t mean to say that I f I’m sorry, I’m going off on a tangent. I don’t mean to say that like it’s it’s bad or insincere to talk about the other stuff. It’s just been making me think over the last few days, okay, am I really saying how much people mean to me, or am I really telling them what the Lord has prompted me to tell them on the spot in the moment? really sincere, like stopping them in their tracks, looking them in the eye, saying something really directly to them.
Chris: Yeah. What tends to get in the way there? Because I think uh you know e even though we might have the thought of what we might say to somebody. Maybe the timing doesn’t always line up. Maybe they’re not in front of us. Maybe uh we’re we’re expecting that we’re going to see them, you know, later on and be able to tell them that. So what do you What do you do during that time when you’re prompted? Uh should you reach out right then or is it one of those things where you’re Uh you’re just counting on the fact that you’re gonna see them again.
Mike: So that’s a good question. I probably default to I’ll see him again or Yeah, I can’t get him in person. I don’t want to text this or I you know, for me, I’ll answer for me not for all like I’m probably just talking myself out of it. And I I don’t even know why. It’s not that I don’t want to say it. I just It just doesn’t happen. So this this this took me on like a journey over the last few days of okay, what does scripture say about the timeliness of this and just the power of our words. Um so I didn’t share with this with you ahead of time. I’m I’m gonna share a couple of verses. That’s okay.
Chris: We’ll let it slide.
Mike: Thank you. Thank you. And I’m I’m gonna read the whole verse versus you just reading, you know, two or three words out of each verse. Yeah, you’ve done that before. So um cue the laugh track. Uh I don’t have that one loaded. Okay, so Uh Proverbs 25:11 says a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Um that one sticks out to me because not because of apples or gold or silver. Um it’s just fitly spoken, like timely, timely word. Um, you know, Proverbs 16:24, gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. Um, you know, in James it talks about how powerful our tongue is, whether we’re uh giving someone a compliment or whether we’re tearing them down. There’s a lot of power there’s a lot of power in our words. Yeah. And I’ve just I’ve kind of grabbed Peyton and Matthew recently and said some things to Joel where it was like, okay, I’m just gonna, you know what, I’m just gonna be the guy. That’s just gonna really, I believe, be prompted with something meaningful. And I’m just I want to stop them and just tell them. You know, we don’t know our days. Our days are numbered. We don’t know when we’ll have our last breath. God knows, and that’s great. He should know. If he doesn’t know, that would be concerning. And so since we don’t know, what do we have to lose? You know, maybe one of the reasons, you know, now we’re talking to maybe maybe one of the reasons we don’t do it is our pride or people will think we’re weird, I guess. By Yeah, which is It’s funny, right? Because it’s a it’s a compliment to them, but I guess we’re thinking maybe it’s such a deep compliment. They’d be like, what’s wrong with you? Or I don’t know. Why are you so emotional? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. But being over spiritual. They could be like, oh I this spiritual guy gonna say like I don’t know. All I know is Dad says he’s gonna love me again or that he loves me again.
Chris: Yeah.
Mike: Yes. Yes. All I know is we I don’t think we do it enough. And I bet I’m not the first person to witness and see those conversations coming out at the last minute. And which also leads me to think they’re not happening. They’re not happening before that moment. So like what do we have to lose? Why not? You know, have you ever had a moment like that? Have you ever had someone speak something to you? And in the moment they had no idea And it was the perfect time for you to read something like that.
Chris: I haven’t um there’s not really an example that comes to mind right now, but I know that that’s happened and Um, you felt not only was that person speaking to you but that God was speaking through them to say exactly what you needed to hear uh on the flip side there, um, you know, uh speaking what we feel like we’re we’re meant to tell somebody soon Um we never know how long we have people. And um you know, there there’s certainly a recent situation where I had an opportunity to tell somebody just how um how impressed I was meeting some of their family that they introduced me to. Mm-hmm. And I was waiting a couple of days until we were scheduled to have another conversation to tell them that. Mm-hmm. And now um that They’re not with us. And I I I’d missed that opportunity to tell them that. And I really wanted to say that to them. Um and so that reminded me just of the fleeting nature of uh our lives here and that there are no guarantees. Um and we do. We need to take the opportunity to tell people how we feel about them. w as often as possible and not take it for granted that they know.
Mike: Yeah.
Chris: Why’d you wait in that like in that example, why’d you wait? It was late. Um and uh we were texting and uh it occurred to me um this is something that I want to share with them. I really enjoyed meeting uh his sons and you know was glad that he introduced me to them. Um I figure, well, because it’s late, uh we’re going to talk Friday because that was the plan and I was gonna share that with them on Friday some more.
Mike: Isn’t that crazy? I I know we can’t be the only I know we’re not the only two guys that have had those scenarios where you know we missed it. Yeah. We could have said it before. It’s just, it’s really impressing on me lately. And this is, I mean, this goes for more than This goes for speaking life in the people. I think this goes for sharing the gospel. You know, we’re called biblically to go share the gospel, you know, make disciples of all nations. We’re sharing that Jesus lived a perfect life. You know, he died on the cross, paying the penalty for our past, present, and future sins. And Rose from the grave, actually rose from the grave, you know, defeating death and sin. There’s this victory there in Jesus. And if you Confess with your mouth, you know, and believe in your heart that make Jesus and Jesus really is your Lord. Like you’re like, okay, I’m in. Jesus, I’ll I believe you, I’ll follow you. Yeah. You’re saved, right? And You know, I just there’s just a sense of urgency that I don’t always have. And I just, man, I really wish I could keep that perspective. without something tragic having to happen. Sure. And I know the Lord will use the tragic things and again he he numbers our days. He knows when that’s gonna happen. And maybe it’s even for conversations like this that spurs on urgency for us. I just want to keep that urgency. Like if the Holy Spirit promised me to Say, you know, Chris, you are a faithful man of God. That you were an excellent husband and an excellent father. And even your with your upbringing, it could have gone many different ways. And While the Lord is responsible for all that, you still also chose to follow Jesus. And you’ve had many crossroads and you’ve chosen the godly path multiple times. That’s incredible. And I love you for that. Now that was an example. Now I’m not really saying that to you right now. I don’t want you to take that. I don’t know.
Chris: Oh well you’re just an example.
Mike: There’s just uh there could be many Chris’s out there. You don’t I’m not I I don’t know why I don’t know why you’d get teary-eyed and think it was me saying that to you, but but that’s that’s an example. And like it and it’s like I mean that So why isn’t it funny? We don’t we just don’t do it very well.
Chris: Don’t do it. I mean we um On the one side, we do have our Lord and Savior that models that for us, right? I don’t recall Jesus saying to the disciples, hey guys, you got time, you know. We’ll get to that later. But I also know that we have a real enemy that wants to distract us and keep us thinking about other things than um being intentional with the people that uh we do this life with. Yeah us see them as r rivals or uh uh people that are you know c causing things to go wrong or problems or you know even w thinking about our family thinking about uh just Being worried about them versus talking to them. Um so I mean I think there’s a lot of situations there where we just get distracted and don’t see the situation for what it really is. The opportunity is there.
Mike: Have you ever experienced so instead of being the receiver, have you ever experienced being prompted and you said something to someone? I mean, right away or in a timely way, where they they received a like, wow, you have no idea w why that means so much to me. Have you ever experienced that?
Chris: There have been times where I may have shared something with somebody about something that I observed about them and they said thank you for that and just, you know, told me a lot more than that as far as why that was important to them.
Mike: Yeah. Like in the moment. Like you got him in the moment.
Chris: I really needed to hear that.
Mike: Thank you.
Chris: I was thinking about this.
Mike: Yeah.
Chris: And or I’ve been struggling through this and you seeing that tells me exactly what I you know what direction I need to go in or I didn’t w I didn’t mean for all that to happen. Yeah, you didn’t know. You didn’t know. I was just telling you something that I saw about you that I, you know, felt felt prompted to tell you because God was prompting me there.
Mike: Doesn’t it make you wonder how often if we were all walking around saying the things that we’re prompted with, like the godly things and speaking life into people. I bet people would be getting messages left and right, and frankly from the Lord, just the Lord using us. even answers to prayer or an encouragement or timely someone is um uh thinking about really bad things and it’s just your your someone interjects right then in that moment, right? Or someone’s really down on themselves and then they Get this word of truth about what the Lord’s done. And I’m like, I bet if we were all, there are millions of people all calling or seeing each other or texting, just acting on the prompts. I bet so many of us would be taken care of through the power of our tongues that it just it just I don’t know, it just makes me think it’s like we’re s we’re barely like scratching the surface on how often we actually do it. ‘Cause I I cause with you I’ve had those experiences. I’ve had those experiences where I’m like, hey, you know what? I want to just I I I want to tell you this today. And I don’t always say, hey, I think this is from the Lord. Like I don’t I don’t always know. Right. Um, but I’ve seen the fruit of saying something to someone Out of nowhere because you just felt prompted and they’re going they they respond with like, wow. I was just praying about this five minutes ago And it was like you’re answering my prayer. And of course you’re like, well, I you know, you’re you’re like, I didn’t you know you didn’t know that. But it’s like, wow, the Holy Spirit just used me to speak to this person So I I want to do this more often. I just want to do this more often. I just I don’t want there to have to be um a really sweet conversation like I had with my grandmother. for those moments to happen. And it was a great conversation and she’s in a great place and she’s ready to go to heaven. You know, it’s it’s a sweet conclusion to that. But it’s just making me really go through uh the people in my life and wanting to intentionally pray more. Okay, God. Just please let me hear you. When you prompt me and please let me act on that just because we’re taking everything one day at a time.
Chris: A couple different positives there too is that um when you’re doing that, you’re building people up, right? Yeah. And it’s the Holy Spirit that’s helping to do the building. And so you’re speaking life into them. You’re uh affirming things, even though that that was meant for another Chris out there somewhere when you were saying that, of course, you know I’m feeling like, hey, thank you. You’re you’re you’re saying these really nice things and Um it it just it it gives life. Yeah. You know, when you’re hearing these things that it’s not just you saying that you feel like God is saying something to you and reminding you of your value and your worth in Him. Yeah. Who wouldn’t want to be on the other side of that?
Mike: I yeah. That’s that’s a good point. I’ve never had anyone be like, I can’t believe you I can’t believe you would say that to me. Stop talking to me. You know, Ephesians 4:29 says, Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear So it is a good it is a good reminder on are the words we’re using building each other up? You know, of course, are they timely? Yes. I mean that’s mainly kind of what we’re talking about. Just do it when you’re prompted. But I mean have a whole nother episode about this and the power of the tongue in our words, but are our words building each other up Or I I guess you would have to say the opposite. Or are they tearing people or someone or yourself? Are they tearing Tearing us down. Yeah, too often I think it’s the the other.
Chris: It’s the um um W without having a a focused effort to build people up, I think our natural tendency because of sin is to say something negative or to um point out the things that we’d don’t like or disagree with.
Mike: You think that’s just attractive to us because of sin?
Chris: I think that’s kind of the main thing. I really do. I think it’s just part of our nature. It it It falls easier with us and we have to remind ourselves and like what we’ve talked about previously before, just You know, being in the Word and being sensitive to the Holy Spirit working in and through us. Yeah. That’s that’s building time there.
Mike: Yeah. Yeah. You know, it w it’s making me think for I mean I’ve been thinking about this and we didn’t really I didn’t really share this with you ahead of time. So I’m you know, n I think naturally we’ll both think about this going forward It makes me think, you know, anyone out there who’s listening, you know, chances are over the last since since this episode started, it’s possible. I mean, I’m gonna say it’s it’s probable that God has maybe brought someone to your attention. Like a name or a situation, a conversation, some thought and I just I’m I’m just gonna put this out there. It’s just kind of like a challenge. Something just to apply is whatever it is or whoever it was that was been prompted in your mind at all, or right now while I’m talking. I would challenge you to to really think through, I think I need to say something to that person. You know, of course Building building them up, not tearing them down. I’m I’m hoping you’re not thinking of like, oh yeah, you know, Billy Bob, I need to go punch him in the face. Um not advocating that. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Um we would definitely No That’s not a situation we would support. But no, for real, uh I bet you’re being prompted with someone. And you might even have to go apologize first. I don’t know. Maybe it’s a conflict. But like, would you be willing the next few days or in the next week, or if you’re hearing this right now, to stop and pray God, will you will you show me who I need to build up today? And when you’re prompted, just go just go do it. Like don’t delay it. There’s nothing to gain by waiting. And I I would say from my experience, I think you would agree, there’s everything to lose by waiting. And of course there’s grace. If you wait and you didn’t do it or you’re thinking about past situations and you didn’t do it, that’s okay. Start now. You know Would you pray and be willing? Reach reach out to some right now. Pause this podcast. Call them. You know, t text them. Do whatever. Just reach out right now. and speak life to whoever it is the Lord’s prompting you to do that with.
Chris: That gets pretty exciting, right? Just to think about what that can do for somebody. You know, too often we hear about uh hurt people, hurt people, right? Yeah. On the flip side of that, encourage people can encourage people. And so doing that, you never know what you’re helping to release in that other person to you know replicate that. Yeah. To encourage others in their life. Just having had you be honest with them and and you tell them how you feel about them and you tell them uh positive things about them that you’ve recognized. Yeah it’s worth it. It’s a a chain reaction. It’s so worth it. Things that I believe that the that the Holy Spirit is doing number one. Yeah. And that pleases God.
Mike: Yeah. And it is timely. We do not talk to each other these these days like this anymore. Like a it’s like honeycomb sweetness, like the what the word is saying, like Like golden apples. Love golden apples. Had so many of them. It’s it’s it is a rare thing to stop someone and look them in the eye and speak life into them. It’s so sad that it’s so rare. But since it’s so rare, let’s take advantage of it and glorify the Lord and do it. It’s gonna it make waves with people, whether or not they’re followers of Jesus or not. They’re they’re gonna feel loved and seen and heard. You’re never gonna go wrong doing that.
Chris: Yeah, and so a part of what you’re doing in that and what we’re doing together when we’re Sharing like that with somebody about, you know, our feelings about them and or maybe even a word that God has that he’s prompted us is that we’re telling the truth. And we’re gonna find out. And we’ll cover this more in later episodes because it certainly have a lot of road to travel in the sense of, you know, the value of telling the truth and Um, you know, that that just sets us up well to get in that regular habit of being truth tellers. Yeah. I like that. We’re storytellers in in the gospel, but we’re truth tellers in the practicum of actually carrying it out. So but we’ll leave you with a verse here, Ephesians 4. 25. Uh therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor. For we are all members of one body. And if we’re building that body there, then you know we’re we’re doing good things. We’re we’re helping each other out.
Mike: Yeah. True tellers. True tellers. I like it. Let’s go be true tellers. Yay!
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