 Your words have the power to encourage or discourage, to tell the truth or to deceive, to encourage someone about their future or discourage someone in regards to their past, to speak words that uplift or speak words that tear down, to speak words that bring clarity or to speak words that confuse. And the longer you repeat those things again and again, the more likely it is to become a part of somebody's thought process. And so when the scripture talks about death and life being in the power of the tongue, it's talking about the consequences of the words that we speak on a regular basis.