Good Morning,
There is a heightened sensitivity to offense, to giving offense
and to being offended. The words of your mouth are powerful weapons and
mighty tools. They can be used to build something or someone up as well
as to destroy something or someone in your life. Death and life are in
the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit
of it. (Prov.18:21) The link to offenses
and the love of God
'waxing cold' is very strong. If you use your mouth as an extension of
the love of God, (even when speaking truth that may hurt), it will be
housed in love. I'm not saying truth won't offend us, but it will carry a
healing with it to restore. The Bible says, "that a brother offended is
harder to be won than a strong city and their contentions separate them
like the bars of the castle." (Prov. 18:19) This kind of offense comes when words spoken come from
a place of anger, hatred, bitterness, unforgiveness, jealousy and the
list of fleshly and sensual emotions not under the control of the
Spirit. On the other hand, when words are spoken from the place of the
love of God, it may tear down but the purpose is to build and repair.
The season that we are in now, the enemy, the prince of the
power of the air has turned up the notch to twist and mix the words that
you are sending out into the atmosphere. (Ephes. 2:2) The caution for us then is to live truly, deal truly
and to love truly. We must learn to study before we speak or answer
anyone, be slow to speak and let your words be seasoned as with salt. (Prov. 15:28; Jas.1:19) Do battle in
the Spirit to shield yourself against offense, stay in the Word. Keep
yourself covered with the armor
of God. When you are hearing, filter everything said through My
Word. Don't be easily offended because it is attached to the root of
bitterness that enters into your heart and begins to eat away at what
you have built up in the Word. This root of bitterness has the ability
to
spread like cancer from the offended one and the offender and infect
all those around. (Heb. 12:15) This root left unchecked grows into sicknesses and
diseases. It produces fear to receive and give love, which in turns
produces a paranoia of others. So, let's stop it now! It is a trap, a
snare set by the enemy to make you fall in it. This time let the enemy
fall into his own pit that he set. Walk on by it, by walking in love.
Forgive and let others go, but don't be foolish enough to keep poking
your head into the snare.
Get wisdom and apply this to your life. God will reveal to you
the necessary steps of love, to keep you and preserve you from
bitterness and unforgiveness. This kind of bitterness leads to
'spiritual cataracts.' Your vision becomes blurred, you see things that
are not quite clear. You end up in a state of deception, where you
perceive things wrong. Your comprehension becomes dull, and you are not
able to see things afar off. You become spiritual near-sighted. And we
as Christians need to be able to see from afar, otherwise we end up
stumbling over truth. This offense has opened the door to
the enemy to steal right before your eyes. Do not let him divide and
destroy My house. Do not allow the enemy to cause you to sow the wrong
kind of seeds, to cause you to have an unwanted harvest. Do not let this
continue in My house.
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 