Gift of the Tongue

This article is based on the song of Zacharias, which is found in Luke 1:67–79.  It is estimated that the average person speaks about seven thousand words in a single day.1 Now imagine not being able to speak at all for a whole nine months. This would equal out to well over a million words that one would not be able to speak in that time frame! This was what Zacharias had to endure while his wife was pregnant with their son, John the Baptist. He could not comfort his aged pregnant wife with...