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Grow Up in The Lord

 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. Proverbs 9.8-9

 1)  Guard your integrity.  Don't make promises--even small ones, like the promise of a phone call, and then don't keep them.  If your word can't be trusted on small things it will never be trusted on big things.  Good intentions are not good enough--your name and ministry's reputation is at stake.  It is better never to promise than to offer an apology for not keeping your word. Simply stated, if you can't keep promises--don't promise.  Remember, the fewer promises you make-- the fewer opportunities for failure.

2)   God said it --but, it didn't happen? Here are three Biblical reasons to check out. A) God never said it--you were deceived   B) God indeed said it-- but there was sin in someone involved. Remember the story of Aiken   C) God said it as a prophecy for a future time. It will not happen before its time and season.  You can't cause it to happen before it is time. Remember Daniel, Elijah-and the prophets of old--remember the Israelites.  When you think God said something and it doesn't happen--don't make excuses or get into human reasoning-- go immediately to God and ask Him why it didn't happen and listen to His answer.

3)   Guard against manipulation--demanding your own way at another's expense.  Quit trying to line up circumstances and people to fit into what your agenda is--to make them say what you want them to say-- so it justifies your wrong actions or beliefs and makes you feel better (soul area involved) about your decisions.  Forcing people to agree with you is the devil's trick of deception. The pressure to make people agree with what you are doing or saying --proves you're in deception. Cast out the spirit of witchcraft and manipulation.

4)    Avoid false accusation--trying to shame others. Stop trying to manipulate and hurt one another, as well as other leaders, in front of people by condemning them falsely. For example, you call a person and they don't return your call--therefore, you accuse them of not returning their calls in front of others--the truth was God had told them not to take calls because they were involved in doing ministry that required their full attention--therefore you became a false accuser of someone obeying God and publicly tried to shame them.  Satan is the accuser of the brethren. Don't join him. Don't allow him to use you to set others up for slander and attack.

5)    Don't speak for each other or anyone else.  This brings  damaging results.  I don't care if it is your best friend--don't speak for them if you value their friendship.  Don't speak for your children, spouse, or even baby Christians. "Well, he said or she said" usually is not what he said or she said--how dare you presume to speak for someone else--especially when you don't even speak the truth. If you have been doing this stop it immediately, repent, and never do it again. 1) Go to ones that you have spoken for and ask them to forgive you and 2) Go to ones you have told the "he said or she said" and tell them that you did not speak correctly about the person or their ministry.  It may or may not be too late to undo the damage your tongue has done. Learn your lesson well and keep your mouth shut and tend to your own business.  Let people speak for themselves.  The gift of gab is not a gift from God--if you think it is--you are deceived.

6)    Don't bear false witness.  This is very serious. The devil is the father of lies.  A person who lies is walking in deception.  A person involved in this kind of deception will actually think (believe) that they are telling the truth about a person or a situation and they will actually say when confronted by the person, " I thought that is what you said."  They simply twisted the person's words to make them fit in their mind what their own agenda wanted to hear--An example would be if a person was asked, " Do you believe God can heal learning problems?" The person replies, yes, that they had seen God do it.  The person (bearing the false witness) then says I will tell my relative that you said that God will heal them from learning problems.  See how the words were twisted and an innocent person was falsely accused of saying something that they did not say--to say nothing of the innocent relative with the problem told a lie to raise false hope.  A false witness damages ministries and reputations of the innocent. A false witness drags a lot of people into gossip and lies with them. God does not take this lightly. Remember, God shuts the mouths of liars and He will defend the innocent that have been falsely accused by a false witness.

7)   Keep Confidences.  People who have problems with their mouths are always looking for excuses to tell all they "know" about themselves and others.  They say, "I know that I shouldn’t say anything, but they won't mind, or they need prayer, or you are wise--let me get your opinion on this situation." They are quick to tell their gifting to others or a vision that God has given them to anyone that will listen---then they wonder why they get attacked and try to rebuke the devil with no success. They may even get in strife or offense because someone doesn't agree with them. 

8)   Stay away from idols and flattery.  Don't depend on the evangelist who prayed for you when you were healed--he didn't heal you--Jesus did.  Don't try to make godly men and women idols.  Don't say --well, if they were here everything would work out.  I know when they come to visit that every thing that I want for my family is going to happen. That is placing your trust in man and leaning to your own understanding. (You will find that what was expected doesn't usually happen either--)  You are putting that evangelist or leader in a dangerous position for the devil to attack them and their ministry though your idolatry and flattery.  A flattering tongue the Bible states works ruin.  The man or woman of God needs to walk humbly with God--they don't need big introductions--their works will prove whether they are of God or not. The evangelists and leaders are to point people to Jesus only. Don't lay stumbling blocks in their way through your pride or flattery.  Stay out of idolatry.

9)   Treat leaders with respect.  Wrong or right--leaders are still in a position of authority.  Respect the position they hold, even if they don't appear qualified for that position.  God sets up kings--you don't.  Don't try to humiliate them.  It is not your job to correct every wrong leader--it is God's job.  Stay out of judging--only Jesus is the righteous judge.  Don't have a zeal without knowledge--only babies act that way--grow up in Christ.  God is not just watching how the leaders act--but He is also watching how you act when you are around leaders.

10) No mixture--tongue control  is a heart problem--not a mouth problem.  Don't ask God to guard your mouth--when it is your heart that needs cleansing.  Ask God to show you what is in your heart--repent and ask God to cleanse you from the sins He reveals.  Spend more time with God and you will spend less time on the phone.  In a multitude of words there lacketh not sin.  The more you talk the more sins you will commit. Every action starts with a thought followed by a word.  Make your words count for good.  Talking too much and saying the wrong things is a heart problem and must be dealt with as such. The Bible talks of a deceived heart and a pure heart. Choose to allow God to reveal your heart, so that the meditations of your heart and the words of your mouth are acceptable in His sight.

In Christ,

Bobbie