EPH 5:4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.

Below are just a few tips to help you to stop swearing, cursing, and using profanity. I hope they can help you to get free from saying things that tend to dirty up your heart and life, and that make you embarrassed around people. They call it dirty language for a good reason.

1. Get off of all drugs that can agitate and aggravate your nervous system. This may include even caffeine if it is causing tension and negative emotions. Having drugs in your system can decrease your self-control and make you more irritable, so get them out of your body.

2. Use replacement words in your mind and it will eventually transfer to your mouth. You must stop swearing in your mind before you can stop with your mouth, so start by using words like shoot, crap, God bless it, or whatever other replacement words you can think of.

3. Renounce, repent, and ask for forgiveness for all past profanity and bind up any evil spirits of profanity to strip them of their power over you. The only way to get demons of profanity to stop landing on your life is to take away their runway of authority. There is a prayer below.

4. Pray when you get mad instead of verbally punishing things yourself. Most profanity is caused by us not trusting in God to bring justice into our problems so we must learn to trust Him when something goes wrong or when someone mistreats us. God will defend us.

5. Use scriptures to help you to stop swearing. When you are aware that you will have to give an account for misusing God's name it can help to deter you from keep doing it. All profanity leads to taking God's name in vain eventually. Below are some scriptures to use.

EX 20:7 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

MT 15:11 What goes into a man's mouth does not make him `unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him`unclean.' "

MT 12:36 But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

Just remember that if you really mean business with God when you want to quit an addiction He will be faithful to help you. So pray and invite Him into your addiction problem and He will indeed help you if you will trust Him to. Below is a prayer to pray if you need it.

"Dear God, I just renounce and repent of using any form of profanity or vile speech, and I ask that you would forgive me for every time I have ever done it. I just bind up any and all evil spirits of profanity, cursing, swearing, or coarse speech, and I ask that you would help me to change how I think and talk from now on. In Jesus precious name I pray, amen".

Feel free to repeat the above prayer every time that you have a slip and you will become more aware of what you are saying before you say it next time.