I wonder if this will need to be discussed until Jesus returns? WHAT YOU SAY IS EITHER A BLESSING OR A CURSE. What you talk about is either FROM THE LORD or it is SIN. Read your New Testament carefully - Jesus ALWAYS proclaims - "I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR MYSELF OR IN AND OF MYSELF - I SPEAK THAT WHICH I HEAR THE FATHER SPEAKING." The word is VERY CLEAR that if HE DOESN'T tell us to say it we are NOT TO SAY ANYTHING!
I was at the fitness center yesterday (Friday). Ran into a woman that my sister has been friends with since we were teens. They are still friends. I have not seen her in a very long time (since my children were little). She said hello and then proceeded to TELL ME THINGS ABOUT MY LIFE, ABOUT MY DAUGHTER'S LIFE, MY GRANDCHILDREN'S LIVES - and I was in SHOCK! Why does she know EVERYTHING about our lives?
The Lord had me write to my sister and rebuke her - telling her that to talk about another person is called MURDER in the Bible! The Lord had me admonish her to NEVER speak about me or my family ever again - not to anyone! The Lord had me tell her that the ONLY thing we are to speak to other people is the Word of God! That's why the bible says "Let your yes be yes and no be no" - if you do not have anything Godly from His word or His throne to say, you are not supposed to say ANYTHING. If you CHOOSE to disobey God and speak to others about your OWN personal life, that's between you and Jesus, but you must know that even THAT is SIN.
Her response? She wrote to the woman I ran into and YELLED AT HER! To which the woman humbly apologized to my sister writing, "I am so sorry....I didn't say anything about her in front of people....believe me, if I ever see her again I'll just say hello."
First of all: the sin was my sisters NOT this woman. This woman does NOT know Jesus and as such, would not know what is sin and what isn't - the world sits around and gabs, 'small-talks', chit-chats - talking about everyone and everything under the sun - so a non-believer would not know that it is AGAINST GOD to do otherwise. No, the original letter to my sister was HER rebuke, which the Lord expected her to discern HER ERROR and it was her place to then come back and confess her sin. INSTEAD she rebuked this woman....who didn't know any better.
So now the mess increases - you have a saved woman who is walking with unconfessed sin, who is accusing and rebuking a non-saved woman, and the non-saved woman humbly apologizing but also completely turned away.
The Lord had me write to the following to the woman:
Dear V.....
(My sister) had NO RIGHT to say anything to you - you have nothing to apologize for.
I am a minister. I preach the truth of God's word. The truth of God's word is that GOSSIP is sin. The error was (my sister's) not yours - she should never ever have spoken ANY details about my family or myself to you. It has nothing to do with you personally - we are not supposed to talk about people to ANY other person. That you knew all that you did about me and my family shows that (my sister) is the one walking in error before God.
You have nothing to apologize for.
(END LETTER)
The Lord had me write the following to my sister:
V-- didn't do anything wrong - it was your error - you are not supposed to talk about other people to other people (meaning, she would never know anything about me or my children etc if YOU didn't tell her)! It is AGAINST GOD for you to talk about us to her or anyone! Maybe you just consider it 'small talk' or maybe you think "Well, other people talk about their families to their girlfriends"... But YOU are not just OTHER PEOPLE - you are a child of God! You represent His kingdom! Talking about details about me and my family to NOT GLORIFY GOD! It is gossip! And that is a sin.
You need to apologize to HER for saying anything to her - because it was your sin and not hers. It had nothing to do if she said something in public or private - the sin is that she KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT ME AND MY FAMILY AT ALL! That's scriptural - you are not to talk to other people about other people -
Let me say it again - from this day forward, do NOT TALK ABOUT ME, MY CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN TO V---, TO YOUR BOSS, TO MOM, TO YOUR HUSBAND, TO CHURCH MEMBERS, TO ANYONE...THE ONLY PERSON YOU SHOULD TALK TO ABOUT US IS JESUS! That is the ONLY reason the Lord has permitted me to speak ANY details about any of them to you - so you could PRAY! NOT to share the details with other people.
(END LETTER)
DO YOU KNOW THE VERY WORSE THING? THIS WOMAN WILL NEVER EVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN! NOW God cannot even use me to minister EVER to V--- - because she will always remember my sister's rebuke - she will always remember that my sister got on her for talking to me WHICH WAS NOT A SIN (an unsaved person is not accountable for the principles of God - she has no idea that her words are curses) - - - but the devil will always remind her that "Ooooh I better not talk to her again because I don't want to do anything wrong"...
WHAT A WHOLE LOT OF MESS - OVER WORDS!
Do you ever stop and ask the Lord why there are over 400 scriptures about the MOUTH in His Word? Words are either a blessing or a curse! Words have His power - they are decrees! When you talk (seemingly harmlessly) to ANYONE - your spouse, friend, family members, co-workers - about ANYONE - THEY then go and talk those things. There are NO HARMLESS WORDS when they come from the flesh, gossip, life - anything that is not spoken by God is is NOT HARMLESS (all words spoken that are not of God are words of murder, deceit, sin, death)!! It is a viscous endless cycle of death! The ONLY speaking that brings life are the direct words from the Lord's mouth to your mouth and the words from His written Word. PERIOD. Let your YES BE YES AND NO BE NO.
Meaning DO NOT SPEAK EVER UNLESS HE GIVES YOU UTTERANCE.
You do know there is a scripture that proclaims YOU shall give an account for EVERY IDLE WORD YOU SPEAK DURING YOUR ENTIRE LIFETIME? Do you know that an IDLE WORD is EVERYTHING YOU SPEAK THAT was not spoken by God?
Matthew 12:34-37 (King James Version)
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
(NOTE: some synonyms for idle: baseless, frivolous, vain, meaningless, futile, worthless, wasteful, reprehensible)
That is why NOTHING should come out of our mouths that GOD did not put in it. And if you're not sure, you keep your mouth silent. Because God will NEVER have a saint of God speak to a lost soul about the lives of believers (or anyone else!). He will ONLY GIVE YOU WORDS OF LIFE TO GIVE TO THEM! The only words that offer eternal life are His.
I pray that the Lord turns this situation around. Not only opening the eyes of my sisters' understanding and bringing her to repentance; but also that the friend will not be turned away from God for this situation.
I pray that ALL WHO READ THIS consider the gravity of your speaking - and that you STOP SPEAKING. That you take His word SERIOUSLY and know that you are KILLING THOSE YOU TALK ABOUT
PURPOSE THAT YOUR MOUTH SHALL NOT TRANSGRESS! (Psalm 17:3)
Psalm 141:3
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Leviticus 19:16
Do not go about spreading slander among your people. Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.
Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Proverbs 6:2
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Proverbs 11:13
A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.”
Romans 1:29
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips.”
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.
Exodus 4:12
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Exodus 4:15b
and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
Psalm 71:8
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
Psalm 81:10
I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalm 145:21
My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Proverbs 8:7
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
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