Proverbs 18 (continued)

1. This past week have your words been more life giving or harmful?
2. 15:4—A gentle tongue is a tree of life
3. 16:24 -- “Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the
bones.”
4. Please share about a time when some friends words to you were nourishing and life
giving at a time that you desperately needed them? How were they nourishing? Did
this inspire you to speak nourishing words to others in your life? How have you done
this for others?
5. Who do you know currently that could use some nourishing words? A Word Gift!
6. 28:23, Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters
with his tongue.
7. Have you ever had a friend rebuke you? Share about that experience. In the end was
it nourishing to your life?
8. How apt are you to rebuke a friend? Why do we find this so difficult?

9. Homework – this week find someone who needs a nourishing word and give them a
Word Gift