Sunday Message · Fountain of Grace International · Pretoria North
The Hidden Cost of Staying Silent at Work, Home, and in Life
You have brilliant ideas, strong convictions, and things that matter. But fear, insecurity, or waiting for permission keeps you quiet-while less qualified people advance, your relationships suffer, and your potential dies unspoken.
Pastor Ricardo Zaal · Fountain of Grace International, Pretoria North
Your Silence Is Literally Costing You Everything
You sit in meetings with perfect ideas but never speak them. You watch someone less qualified than you get promoted because they opened their mouth and you didn't. You have a business idea buried in your notes. You have a conversation your marriage desperately needs, but you keep it locked inside. This is not a small thing. Your silence is the reason your life looks nothing like it could.
Growth does not happen in silence. A child drinks milk through a straw with a closed mouth, but to eat solid food-the food that makes you strong-the child must open its mouth wide. You have been sipping milk for years. You are still where you are because you never opened your mouth to take in what would actually grow you. The promotions, the influence, the doors, the opportunities-they all go to people willing to speak, even when they are not as qualified as you are.
Words Create Reality and Establish Your Identity
The Bible says 'Let the weak say I am strong.' Not think it. Not feel it. Say it. When you keep quiet in your weakness, you stay weak. But the moment you speak strength over yourself, something shifts inside you and around you. Words are not just air leaving your mouth-they are declarations that shape what becomes real in your life.
Someone else is naming you right now. If you stay silent when someone calls you incompetent, invisible, or incapable, that name sticks. Everyone sees you as they named you because you never named yourself. You have the words. You know the truth about who you are. But the world only knows what you actually say out loud. Your identity is not determined by what you think-it is determined by what you are willing to say.
You Do Not Need Permission to Start Speaking
Jesus did not wait for a synagogue invitation. He did not wait for credentials, an ordination, a platform, a microphone, a building, or a crowd of ten thousand. He saw a multitude on a mountainside and opened his mouth. He had no stage. No permission. No official title. What he had was something to say and the willingness to say it. The moment he opened his mouth, authority filled his words-not because he had been officially appointed, but because he spoke what was true.
You are waiting for the perfect moment that will never come. You are waiting for permission that no one will ever give you. You are waiting for a platform that you can build yourself. Stop waiting. The platform exists right now-in your workplace, your home, your friend group, your community, your social media, wherever you are. Jesus opened his mouth without the stage. What are you waiting for?
Speaking Up Changes Everything-But Only If You Actually Do It
Your spouse needs to hear what you really think and feel. Your children are growing up not knowing what you stand for because you have never said it out loud. Your boss needs to hear your idea before someone else claims it. The person God put in front of you needs to hear the truth from your mouth, not from a video online. You are not being humble by staying silent. You are being disobedient.
The gap between what you think in private and what you speak in public is destroying your life. Your silence has cost you years-in your career, your relationships, your influence. This week, speak. Tell your spouse what you have been holding back. Share the idea with your boss. Tell your children what matters to you. Say the thing you have been thinking. One conversation, one moment of courage to open your mouth, can change the direction of everything.
Authority Comes from Opening Your Mouth, Not from Titles
The religious leaders of Jesus' time had titles and credentials. Jesus had none. Yet when he spoke, people were astonished because he taught with authority. Authority does not come from being ordained or formally trained. It comes from knowing what you know, believing what you believe, and having the courage to say it. A person with no official title can speak to a situation with more power than a credentialed person who is afraid to speak.
Peter and John had no formal education. They had been called unlearned and ignorant men. But when they opened their mouths after being with Jesus, people recognized something had changed. Boldness had entered them. The boldness came from speaking, not from waiting. You already have what you need inside you. The only missing piece is your willingness to open your mouth.
The Cost of Staying Silent Forever
Behind closed doors, you have been speaking wisdom to one person at a time in back rooms while others who are not as wise get credit and platforms because they speak in the front. Your anointing, your knowledge, your insights-they mean nothing if you do not open your mouth. No one knows what you carry. No one benefits from what you know. And you remain unseen, unheard, and stuck.
Your business stays in your notes. Your marriage stays broken because the real conversation never happens. Your children grow up confused about what you believe. Your colleagues advance past you. Your voice is silenced not by anyone else, but by you. This is the moment to stop. Open your mouth. Say what matters. Build your own stage by speaking truth wherever you are. The world needs what you have to say.
"You have been waiting for a platform that will never come-but the platform already exists right where you are standing."
- Pastor Ricardo Zaal
Key Takeaways
- Growth Requires an Open Mouth A closed mouth cannot eat solid food. You cannot grow on milk and silence. Every level of your life-your career, your relationships, your influence, your potential-requires you to verbalize what you know, believe, and stand for. Silence is not safety or humility. It is stagnation. Speaking is the physical act that breaks you out of where you are and moves you into where you are meant to be.
- Words Create Reality Before Anything Else Does Before your promotion exists, you have to speak it. Before your idea becomes real, you have to say it out loud. Before your marriage heals, you have to have the conversation. What you say out loud becomes the truth that shapes your life and the lives around you. When you stay silent, you are allowing other people's words-their opinions, their names, their narratives-to become the reality everyone accepts about you. Your words have power. Use them.
- You Never Need Permission to Be Who You Already Are You do not need a title, a credential, a platform, a perfect moment, or someone else's approval to open your mouth and speak truth. Jesus did not wait. Peter and John did not wait. They knew who they were because they had been with Jesus, and they spoke. You already know what you know. You already believe what you believe. The only permission you need is the permission you give yourself to stop waiting and start speaking right now, exactly where you are.
If you are in Pretoria North, come on a Sunday - these messages are preached live every week at Fountain of Grace International, 323 B Danie Theron Street.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I speak up and nothing changes?
The point is not to guarantee an instant result. The point is to stop letting silence be the guarantee of nothing changing at all. When you speak, you create the possibility for change. You shift the room. You position yourself differently. You refuse to be invisible. Even if one conversation does not solve everything, it breaks the pattern of silence that has been protecting your stagnation. Start speaking and watch what happens over time.
How do I know when to speak up and when to stay quiet?
Stay quiet when speaking would cause harm with no purpose. Speak up when silence is costing you your growth, your opportunities, your relationships, or your ability to stand for what is true. Speak when the moment matters most-like Adam should have spoken to protect his wife. Speak to the right person when it will actually make a difference. But do not let fear, insecurity, or waiting for the perfect moment keep you silent about the things that matter.
What if people judge me for speaking up?
People are already judging you based on the incomplete picture your silence gives them. When you speak, you give them the real picture. Some will still disagree. Some may not like it. But the people who matter-the ones who need to hear what you have to say-will recognize something true in your words. More importantly, your life will change because you stopped letting fear control your voice. Speaking has a cost. Silence has a much higher one.
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in our mouth. And our mouth is the reason why we don't open it and click refresh. So our mouths are the thing. This is now the lips. The mouth is what I'm talking about. So sometimes our mouths are the ones that get us in trouble and sometimes our mouth is the one that gets us out of trouble. But my message today is entitled why staying quiet is costing you everything. So when my message says why staying quiet is costing you, I just want to make sure that I make you understand what or who this message is for. Because this message is for that person that you keep on sitting in meetings and as you sit in meetings you have like all the right ideas. You have like all the right things that you have in your heart. Your heart is pure but every time when it comes to speaking you don't speak up what you have in your heart. And sometimes you miss opportunities that could have brought you before kings and queens. The entrepreneur that have business ideas but sitting with it literally on their notes. So these are the people this message is for. Sometimes it's for that husband that that wife that was supposed to say something but they shut up and shutting up is not going to get you anywhere. If I can I if I can give you an analogy for somebody to grow the unfortunate part is you have to open up your mouth. Now what do I mean by that is that when you don't open up your mouth you can't grow because the Bible says it that when you are young you drink milk and as you grow older you you get to eat the the the harder stuff. But how do you move from milk to the solid food if you don't open up your mouth? So your growth is in your mouth. Your growth is in what you have to say. So sometimes our situations is that we have to speak to the situations because this is what the Bible even says let let the weak say I'm strong. So if you keep on sitting in the weakness and you don't say you are strong that's where you will sit in that same situation. You will sit in that same situation because if you say let the weak say I'm strong it brings out the strength in you. Then you have this message is also for the same person that has been keeping quiet in meetings thinking that whatever they are saying there is not right but you kept on keeping quiet because everything they say goes against your values. But because it goes against your values you can't do anything because you cannot cannot open up your mouth. Your mouth is so many things that move in and out of it and for your growth you have to open up your mouth. You have to start don't start just sipping on the milk. Open your mouth to put in something bigger so that the solid foods can grow you. The promotions goes to somebody who is louder than you but they are weaker in your thinking. The promotion goes to the person who kept on saying what you have said already when the meeting wasn't there. Sometimes you don't understand how come this one gets the promotion better but you are better than him. You know more than him. You are even more qualified than him but they getting those promotions because of they speak. Sometimes it's because of our our quietness that we sit in desperation wanting to move to another working place because of you feel that you've been verbally abused but you cannot open up your mouth because the verbal abuse has become so long that you felt like I can't take it anymore. This message is for you. The thing I can tell you Nair. God has given Adam a job to do and what God says to Adam he says name the animals. What does that have to do? Naming it means that you have to verbalize what this animal is going to be called. So naming the naming convention helps somebody to see you as for who you are. If somebody calls you a domkop because you keep quiet everybody sees you as a domkop. You keep quiet when somebody names you while you know it's not the case and you kept quiet. The identity they gave to you through the naming of your animal within you it becomes that because they said it you haven't said it. And the reason I say they said it is because they named you. Adam has named the animals but do you know what is the problem with with him? God asked him to name everything in the garden. He had the words for every animal but the moment that matters he didn't have the words. The moment that Adam had to say something he didn't. The moment when he had to say something he didn't. And that's what I'm not understanding. Why is it that that is the time that actually happened more or that that was the time that actually happened that more lives were changed because of that specific moment? The time where he could have said to Satan stop speaking to my wife, stop speaking to Eve but the moment when he didn't say anything the wife's mind was changed through the words of Satan speaking into her life. He had words for the animals but didn't have a word that counted at that moment. Adam was supposed to speak up say to his wife look you are beautiful look no no no you you you have everything that is necessary but because he kept quiet the devil kept on kept speaking to Eve and this is the reason why we have to keep quiet at certain times not at the time when it matters the most and you keep quiet no you have to choose your words yes I fully understand but the thing is when you start speaking it needs to matter the most. Let us read in Genesis 3 and I want you to read Genesis 3 verse 6 where the Bible says and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to to be desired to make one wise she took off the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat with her standing there right with her instead of saying it he even also partake in what she was doing instead of stopping her he partake if you go to to to Israel for the whole 40 years Israel or let me say Moses sorry for the whole 40 years Moses was the the mouthpiece for Israel and then what happened is they were not taught how to speak for 40 years they kept quiet and when Moses died a whole generation could not speak up for themselves for 40 years you kept quiet somebody else have to speak for you you have not teach yourself how to speak and suddenly the person that was speaking for you died Israel now they have to stand up for themselves but do you know one thing I can tell you or no let me let me do this let's read Exodus 20 if you read Exodus 20 verse 19 Exodus 20 verse 19 says the following and they said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we die imagine they they and they said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let us not speak let us let but let not God speak with us lest we die it's because they have not spoken their own words and I need to to to to tell you there's somebody who is a curse breaker because this curse breaker what Moses or the Israelites didn't speak up for themselves let me rather say the Israelites when the Israelites didn't speak up for themselves and Adam didn't speak up for themselves there's a new generation that came and this was Jesus who started speaking up for us Jesus started speaking up for us now I want to I want to tell you if you go to to to Matthew 5 verse 1 Matthew 5 verse 1 when you're there let's speak and seeing the multitudes he went up into the into a mountain and when he was sick he disciples came unto him verse 2 and he opened his mouth and taught them say if you if you if you have an understanding of this you can say you can see what it says and seeing the multitudes number one Jesus saw that there's a lot of people that at this moment when I keep quiet it might not make a difference we will all go on with our lives but whilst the multitude is here when he sees the multitude he then went up the mountain almost like as if he's been looking for where anybody everybody else could see him better remember this is no pulpit this is no microphone this is no invitation that somebody invited him to speak this is literally a place where no rabbi asked him come this is literally a place if you can call it no one invited him to say now it's the time what did Jesus do he opened up his mouth where Adam was keeping kept was keeping quiet when Eve was doing what he was doing here Jesus comes and break the curse of being quiet when things is supposed to be come to the right place some of us keep quiet where we supposed to make a difference here Jesus comes and we might see this some some people say or most people read this as the sermon on the mount as Jesus was most famous for sermons but Jesus did not wait for the synagogue to invite him Jesus did not wait for validation oh no you can start speaking no you have the right clothing on no you can start speak no you have the right eloquence you have eloquence speaking you have the right verbal ways of saying it no that was not it even waited for the multitudes to be more he just used whatever was there at that time whatever was there at that time and the one thing that you must understand that especially in in what we call the Christianity of today most people are waiting for a platform to start speaking so they waited for all this ah no man i need a i needed a church to start speaking i needed this and that and the other he didn't wait it for that what then happened is that when he started speaking the stage was made for him let me let me make an example do you know it's 20 is it 2020 or 2021 or 22 i can't remember but it was during the year of covert namaskar when we said we started the church it's 2020 or 2021 okay but yes 21 i would yeah i would i would say more or less that time less that time but what i'm trying to say is that at that time i did not wait it for us to to have a church building or for us to have a a place of worship that we call a worship place we just used what we had so there's no need for a stage no need for a platform no need for a pulpit it was just me and can you remember mr there was a time where i i was preaching a lot of times only by myself with the camera in front of me you remember there was no one that came to church not even my own family was was coming to listen to the the sermon but i kept on keeping on i took that camera and i stand in front of that camera and i started speaking as god laid on my heart no questions no who i wonder if somebody is listening i wanted to i wonder is there anybody online that will even listen i didn't care all i did is i started speaking i used the the jesus model if i can call it that way just open up your mouth and he opened his mouth and taught them the principles that jesus has taught us at that time is still valuable even the more today must i make an example the person on tiktok that has more followers than you is the person that have verbal abuse or not verbal abuse verbal diarrhea must i explain what i mean by verbal diarrhea they just said whatever comes to their mouth they don't even have to think all they say is this is what i am saying this is what i am thinking this is how i think it thinks things would be and here you say oh this person is wrong no this person can't be saying that he said but have you said it no you didn't so with people who have verbal diarrhea they get more people that listen to their opinions and how they see life you sitting there and thinking this is how life is supposed to be but you don't verbalize it or don't say it upon the tiktok or the instagram or the facebook platforms you default back to what the person that opened up their mouth said because that is your default setting now you just keep on believing what they say because they have a platform that they speak on i want to go to the the phrase open his mouth in greek it's anoxis to stomach out dough i've tested i didn't say it correctly but that's not what matters the next thing that matters is this is not a word for a casual talking that is the greek it's not a casual talking it's not a chit chat it's not a skernis this is the formal phrase used when somebody is about to say something that will be remembered this is that somebody will say that will be remembered paul opened his mouth before the before kings peter opened his mouth at pentecost in scriptures opening your mouth is a deliberate act it is the moment you decide your silence is over that is what this greek word the word for for or the formal phrase used when somebody is about to say something where the greek word anoxis to stomach at all means so let me i want to give you three three things that happened in the scripture the number one jesus opened his mouth without the stage why waiting upon a stage why do you have to wait upon a stage there was no building needed there was no pulpit needed there was no platform needed nor was there a microphone needed let me speak about your life you have something that you value value so much but because you're not saying it to others they don't see your value do you know what i mean by that when you have a mouth without a stage it makes more impact at moments where you speak what god has laid upon your heart sometimes when there's a a a camera yeah this camera yeah what we call a camera so sometimes when there's a camera we think it makes more impact when the cameras are on we think it makes more impact when a pastor stand on a pulpit and start saying something that is not the time the time to speak because when you say something on the stage i keep on saying it you remember i i i made an example of the song of hill songs let me make an example of the song of hill songs now the song of hill songs this is that's that specific words it says you said on sunday how much you want revival but then on monday you can even find find your bible where is the power the power of the cross in my life so when on sunday the words that was said is not loved on monday it's just bare words that was used it's just a bubbling or it's just a yep yep yep because it doesn't make sense that when on sunday the word goes out but on monday there's no word in you so the words on a pulpit does not matter last week or the week before i told you what is the use when somebody asks you for bread and you say god bless you is that use because the word that you say needs to be backed up with action jesus opened his mouth without having a stage and the the the words that came out of his mouth was so powerful let's let's go to look for verse 18 look for verse 18 sorry it says the following the spirit of the lord is upon me did you hear this is if you if you have the the what is this bible the the jesus words bible the speaking you would see it's in red meaning this is where jesus was speaking every on this bible every words in red is where he spoke so when he spoke he says the spirit of the lord is upon me because he had anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor he had sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set the liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable here of the lord so the annoying thing where g when jesus spoke it was already been set upon him did you hear what i said i i deliberately emphasized the word when he said the spirit of the lord is upon me because he had he had so it's a past tense you have been so much anointed but your anointing means nothing if you don't open up your mouth your anointing means nothing if you don't open up your mouth the use of of of having everything that you have have but nobody knows about it near this one he just want to break oh that one that breaks get more people to listen to him than you that think ah he's breaking some people announce themselves way before anybody else know them the opinion that we had a previous um pastor that we followed and i kept on saying this guy is too much of himself he's like but then afterwards i realized but these things that he was talking about was he was able to make us believe that what he is doing was correct although most of the things i never uh i never uh accepted to to to do the same things i was kept on saying no that one is not for me i would only take up the things that i felt that this was the right ones for me but yet the following for him was of large the reason being is because he can say it with his mouth he has a way of speaking it not bragging about it but speaking it sometimes we feel like no this is a a person that breaks so that the number one thing that you must understand don't wait for for pulpits don't wait for stages don't wait for crowd don't wait for 10 people where you are start speaking oops start speaking jesus opened his mouth did you hear he says and seeing the multitudes that's now in matthew five Matthew five Matthew five verse one and two Matthew five verse one says and seeing the multitudes did you hear he saw the opportunity seeing the multitudes he went up into the mountain so meaning to say when he saw the multitudes he chosen to he chosen him to to position himself so that everybody can be able to see him when he starts speaking what do we do taking the breath you you go into hiding when you're supposed to say something adam goes into hiding when he was supposed to tell adam to i mean to tell if a no god said we can't eat it no what he did he kept quiet the time when it means the most to open up his mouth we keep quiet when there's a multitude of people and we start only speaking to the person next to you don't see the opportunity that can open up your life for you open your and seeing the multitudes he went up into the mountain meaning he put he set a own platform for himself and when he said he was said his disciples come unto him do you see this is the people that know him was the ones that come first so whenever you start speaking the people that knows you the people that has been walking next to you they will come and sit next to you but don't just think they are the only ones that will be able to listen they will not be the only one that will be listening somebody will also come and say yo but this is true let's join into this conversation and when they joined into the conversation and he opened his mouth and taught them you see so when jesus opened his mouth he teach them just remember at that time jesus was not a rabbi this was not a rabbi he didn't even had a formal training he didn't go to school or go to rabbi school or whatever they call those platforms it's like it's like they didn't they didn't say oh let me let us ordain you first as a pastor then you can start he didn't waited for those things he didn't waited for the moment of you when when somebody says no you are anointed no he knew he was anointed he's he's he's you you remember my my my first message that i've i've preached in this in this series i said that he knew who he was because jesus was was told by the father who he is not by men or anybody any person else so because he know himself he know being anointed you knowing that you are anointed knowing what you carry but you kept keep you kept quiet for many years so jesus spoke anyway without him being ordained he spoke let's go to Matthew 7 and i want us to read 28 and 29 Matthew 7 verse 28 and it come to pass when jesus had ended these sayings the people were astonished at his doctrine for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes did you hear not as the scribes the one thing you must understand authority if you if you if you talk about if you talk about authority authority doesn't come with titles somebody who has never been ordained as a pastor can speak with authority to a demon and says hey you leave but some people waited for that ordination first before they start speaking to demons while demon has been tramping on them while demon has been making them doormats they waited for that don't wait for a title authority comes from opening up your mouth listen can i tell you something no growth comes from a closed mouth let me speak to you about the fact that what can i use yeah let me use this you know ne when you drink milk you can close your mouth like this you will still be able to suck milk through a small thing you can do that but the moment you start growing this is too small for you you have to open up your mouth to start eating solids growth come by opening up your mouth solids is the thing that makes you to grow stronger not milk milk you can still sip through a straw but solids need you to open up your mouth for how long have you been eating on milk or drinking on milk is that not the reason why you are still where you are if you go to x4 verse 13 now x4 verse 13 says the following now when they saw the boldness of peter and john can you hear when they saw the boldness of peter and john my question to you is is what make them to seed okay no no no let me let me not let me not confuse you when they saw the boldness of peter and john and perceive that they were unclean and ignorant men they marveled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with jesus it's like they knew something with these guys has changed because now boldness has entered them they were unlearned they were ignorant no qualifications that they had but they had been with jesus and they opened their mouths you have been with jesus why not opening up your mouth you know sometimes sometimes i'm asking myself now when i speak to to owners of of of companies and i had to do a pitch at first when i was when i started in the business that i am i only used to speak to a certain department but as my my my knowledge about the industry grew i now started moving away from this specific people and i moved into the ownership side because when you speak to a owner they make a decision there and then like literally if if you if if they can see there's value in what you are saying they will tell you now there and then where can i sign while the other ones that i used to speak to before what they would do is they would go and say no i'll have to speak to this one and that one and the other one i'll come back to you sometimes years and years will pass and yet you will not have an answer but when you speak to the owner itself the value that you have so you need to make sure that even when you speak speak to the right people don't speak to a secretary asking them to make an owner's decision issue i hope you i hope you understand if i can if i can make an example to you if you want to become a doctor do you want to go to a school where they teach you from grade one to grade 12 why speak to a principal of that kind of school and you want to become a doctor to get information from a school board to make a decision what it is to become a doctor why go to that extent and not speak to the doctor himself to ask how did you get there so speaking to the right person will put you into the right direction jesus opened his mouth in a place where people called the wrong room explain what i mean by the wrong room if you want to speak to a doctor you speak doctor's language and the doctor will tell you you are not in the right place your your language doesn't correspond with us but when a doctor speak to you who doesn't know the moment that the doctor speak to you who doesn't know the doctor have an open you you call it like a a way of opening up your mind to what you don't know now let me go go go one one further for somebody to know about doctors they need to sit with a lot of lot more doctors but for for a doctor to sit with a doctor both of them teaching each other the only time they can be able to learn is the moment somebody speaking to their lives teaching them jesus was in the wrong room sitting with fishermen sitting with tax collectors talking about the kingdom of god of god that's a wrong room for a rabbi to sit in wait once you to to come to to being a jew he doesn't go into the where religious doesn't allow him to go let me call it that way you can't go out of the synagogue and go and preach somewhere else jesus went there he went into the wrong rooms the rooms that he wasn't seen to be going there he went there for a doctor to become a doctor he must get into the doctor's side but if he doesn't know know where he want to go it's going to be a problem now the sermon of the mount was not preached to the to the religious ones it was preached to the multitudes the fishermen the beggars the sick people the sinners according to matthew five was one seeing the multitudes that's what he said so he this ties straight to the last week's sermon that we were speaking about the wrong people you move towards they are the audience so open up your mouth in front of them you remember last week i said to you about people jesus were went to he went into the the people who were drinking today's religious people the moment you pick up a glass of wine you are not from from from from christ like a demon possessed person last week i spoke to you how jesus went in there please don't get me wrong sometimes and i'm not saying all the time sometimes you are not silent because you have nothing to say you are silent because you are waiting for the permission you are waiting for the platform you are waiting for a perfect moment a permission a platform a perfect moment will never come it will never come that is what is killing you because one thing i can tell you now i was actually during the course of this week i sat with a few notes that i made i think it was monday or tuesday and the notes that i made there was giving me so many things that happened in the past and i saw to myself but these were things that i i know them from long time ago but i have not spoken about any of them do you know i run churches for the last 20 plus years and i was never the one that was in front of a church do you know what i did i would go to the church and speak in the back rooms this is what you're supposed to do do this do that do this do that i never speak up in front of anybody i just tell this one look this is what you do next that is what you do this is what you do and when they do it they come back to me and says wow that was a good idea that you gave me i didn't say it in front of a crowd or even making the crowds know that i even know those things all i did is i started serving in the background less did i know the serving in the background was the reason why most things in my life did not go according to plan my silence were killing me i remember sanet telling me once you are such an anointed guy yet you feel afraid to speak to people and i was like what do you mean you know exactly what i mean that was her words i need you to understand that the business that you have been having will stay in that notes that you have made all those years because your mouth has been kept closed your marriage is dying because you are holding back those real conversations that you should be having i can tell you now your children are growing up not knowing what you stand for your children are growing up not knowing because you have never said it out loud don't come to the to the table while we are eating and you come with your cell phone you have not said that but every time you see them on the on their cell phone while you are busy eating you get angry have you spoken to them have you told them you have not told them you should be verbalizing it not holding it in thinking that they must think it is the right thing jesus did not wait he sat down on a rock and opened his mouth i need you to to to take a few things during the course of this week goes to your friends your colleagues whoever needs to hear your idea what is that idea that you have what is that one idea that you think if you can speak to somebody it might open doors let's hear those ideas this week maybe your spouse your husband tell them how you feel because that might just open up a conversation that could have long time ago changed your relationship to be a better relationship but because you kept quiet they didn't think it's an issue the person god put in front of you who needs to hear the gospel from your mouth not from a youtube not from a tiktok reel or whatever instagram reel no from you say it out loud the thing that you think in your heart say it out loud it might be just the one thing that will make your life to change heavenly father we've been in silent rooms we've been in rooms where we kept thinking out loud but thought somebody would be in our thoughts and yet we haven't said it today i pray in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior take away the cover that satan has put on our mouths so that we might not speak so that people can see our destinations our destinies our moves our right tracks take it away from us remove it now in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior we have been waiting for stages but today i pray in the mighty name of jesus let every place where we are be a stage in jesus mighty name forgive us for letting weaker voices fill the rooms where we were supposed to be speaking those people that we taught they know better just because they can speak better they are not better than us we pray now in the mighty name of jesus like jesus that was on the mountain no building no permission no qualification just a voice in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior we pray that we will open up our mouths amen and amen let's share the grace now may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god and the sweet fellowship of the holy spirit rest and abide with us all until jesus comes surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever in jesus name amen and amen