Speech Lessons and Skills for Improving your Communication and Life.

Speech lessons and skills for improving your communication and life. There are many books available that offer speech lessons and skills for improving your communication and life. However, it remains interesting to me that the Bible rarely counts among those referenced for improving communication skills and life. After all, if we want to maximize the potential of our speech skills, I think we can learn lessons from the God who used speech to bring the universe and life about in the very beginning! Perhaps we can't create physical universes with our words, but I believe we can gather speech lessons and skills for improving your communication and life from the scriptures, which allows you to impact the spiritual realm.

Before we move to highlighting the practical steps of learning speech lessons and skills for improving your communication and life from the Bible, I would like to point out the important connection between the heart and effective communication. Proverbs 4:23-4 speaks of the heart being the wellspring of life, and I believe that is because "the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart" (Matthew 15:18). The most effective lessons to improving communication, and hence life, are those which also focus on the condition of the heart, because otherwise words just become empty adornments on your lips, and do not create impact or change in life. Once we understand that surrendering our heart to the purification and purposes of Jesus remains the first step, we can implement the practical speech lessons and skills for improving your communication and life.

The first of the lessons to improving communication and life comes in the fact that we are told we are not to live feeding our mouth on just bread, but we also are to feast on the words and truths that come from the mouth of God. Not only are we to allow our speech to communicate praise to God, but also we are to approach our interactions with others as an opportunity to implement truth. This does not mean we have to preach each time we open up our mouth, but that we allow the Biblical principles of love, truth, faithfulness, self-control, and the list continues, to saturate our communication skills.

This brings us to the next of our speech lessons and skills to improving your communication and life found in the Bible – keeping flattery out of our skills-set. Proverbs 26:28 reminds that a flattering tongue "works ruin." Often, people resort to flattery to persuade others or get in their good graces. Perhaps using flattery in communication improves life temporarily, but eventually leads to discrediting the flatterer and causing his/her words to turn lies.

Finally, the last of our speech lessons and skills to improving your communication and life which is scriptural comes in the form of wisdom. The Bible talks endlessly about a life which uses wisdom in communication. A wise man is to use his lips to promote instruction, and a wise woman should allow life-giving wisdom to govern her responses in life (Proverbs 10,16). Wisdom means we pause before allow speech to come forth, we pray, we reflect. We are quick to listen, and slow to communicate frivolously.

To guard your heart from corruption, to make truth and love the base of all communication, to keep flattery from your lips, and to listen and instruct with wisdom are all speech lessons and skills you can gather from the Bible that will improve your communication and life. For your personal studies on this subject, see the following scriptures: Psalm 19:14, 71:8, 141:3; Proverbs 4:24, 10:11, 26:28; Ecclesiastes 5:2; Isaiah 51:16, 59:21; Matthew 4:4, 12:24, 15:18; Luke 6:45.