When you receive the Seal in your forehead God authenticates you as being His own. So when you are sealed the way you speak changes until it is always the Message of God. This is known as the logesis.
When you are sealed your speech changes from bad into good. And this does not simply mean that you give up swearing and using the Name of God in vain. It means everything you say changes.
And yet changing everything you say is a daily struggle. Your heart does not completely transform overnight. You may change overnight--good for you. But if you do not continue changing every day you have accomplished nothing.
Your heart will continue to offer you temptations from within. That is your old sin nature and you will find that it is never permanently gone. So you must put that old heart to death every day until it does not come back with a vengeance anymore.
The good news is after a while you will experience periods of respite where you can rest. You will have relief from the constant struggle, the constant battle you have waged every day. But you will also come to enjoy the battle.
It feels good to win a victory against evil. And against your past. Even when you feel you have not had such a bad past. You can always do better. You always have a much better and brighter future waiting for you.
At first much of what changes is words you quit speaking. These are words of rottenness or staleness. They will nourish people about as well as rotten or stale food. You can serve up something much better for people.
You replace those old words with new words that are morally good. Your new words will build people up instead of poisoning them or disappointing them. Now you will satisfy them.
In logesis you will speak to the needs and wants of your audience. What do they need? You will supply that for them so they do not starve. You will nourish them with the nutrition they require for spiritual Life.
And what do they want? You can even offer your audience some delicacies. You can give them more than they need, and sometimes even more than they wanted. And you can give them more than they expected.
You also will begin to favor other people as well as yourself. When you prefer another person you are not selfless though. It takes quite a self to prefer another. You do not prefer another to yourself, you prefer them with yourself.
Because when you treat yourself well you can also treat others well. It starts with you. You can not continue for any time benefitting anybody else if you are completely selfless. But you can treat them as equals to yourself.
If you speak some of your old words of staleness and rottenness it grieves the Holy Spirit. He is the one who gives you the ability to speak your new words in logesis. You shall not grieve the Holy Spirit but please Him.
And when you speak the new words by logesis, it pleases the Holy Spirit. You will serve up food for your audience as fresh as the flowering of the first blossom. And that pleases God.
When you become sealed you will change the way you speak to any audience of other people by the process of logesis. You will satisfy your audience so much that they too will want to receive the Seal.
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