“a time for silence and the time for talk.” Ecclesiastes 3:7 GNT
Practical Insights in Regards to Speaking or Being Silent:
A Time To Speak
1. When you’ve been spoken to.
2. When you enter someone’s personal space.
3. When you have something to say that’s worth hearing.
4. When you need to express what someone needs to hear.
5. When you need to comfort, encourage, or praise someone.
6. When you need to welcome someone or make them feel comfortable, wanted, or needed.
7. When you know the truth and you know it needs to spoken.
8. When the Holy Spirit prompts you.
9. When injustice has been done and the victim or recipient needs a voice that they don’t have.
10. When you are trying to build a relationship.
11. When you speak out of a heart of love with the right motive.
12. When something needs to be said.
A Time To Be Silent
1. When nothing else needs to be said.
2. When someone needs you to listen more than they need to hear what you have to say.
3. When someone else is talking.
4. When you really don’t have anything to say.
5. When you’re angry.
6. When your motive is wrong.
7. When you don’t know all the facts.
8. When the Holy Spirit is talking to you.
9. When you’ve not earned the right to speak into the situation to the person’s life.
10. When you need to think about what you are wanting to say.
11. When you need to give yourself or the person you are in conflict in a minute to get over the hurt or rejection that is being felt.
12. When God tells you to not say anything.
