Christian Living

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Why Lie

Lying is telling an untruth or leaning someone to believe something that is not true. If you say you will do something and don’t do it then you lied no matter the excuse. If you say something is when it is not it’s a lie. If I say I make one hundred thousand dollars on an application and only make eighty thousand; I lied. We as the people of God must be sure we don’t lie, mislead, or deceive ourselves or anyone else in no way whatsoever. We cannot misrepresent the facts in no way and think it is okay.

Jeremiah 27:10 for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

When we mislead with a lie we are prophesying a lie. We are foretelling or predicting something that is not true. If I ask you for twenty dollars and you say I don’t have no money it’s a difference in saying I don’t have twenty dollars to give to you. When we say soothing truths just to make someone feel good; we lie. We delude (mislead, deceive), beguile (charm, deceive), and play tricks (deception, artifice, ruse); this is also a misrepresentation of the truth. Lying bring forth a treacherous spirit. We deceive ourselves and it makes us unfaithful to the truth. Our ways become deceptive and our actions disloyal. After a while we become unstable in our spirit and it is difficult to hear truth. Rather than accept the truth and repent we devise up more untruths that can only be detrimental to us. It is traumatic, alarming, upsetting, and frightful the spirits that roam around us each day that we do not rebuke. The things we lie about is trivial, insignificant and they have consequential and relevant results to our Spirit Man. We lose the power to prevail and conquer over the lies we tell. We sometime never recover from the consequences of that lie.

Lies have wrecked many marriages, tore up Churches and the harmony once shared in the relationships we may have had. I have been taught that if you lie you will steal; if you steal you will kill. One piggybacks off of the other. In other words if you lie to get a church you have to keep lying to keep it. If God didn’t have anything to do with it from the beginning it is a lie. Many are called, few are chosen and some just went. A lie is the truth distorted. We falsify the truth just like our daddy the Devil. The Devil is the father of lies because he conceived in his heart to take over the throne of heaven from the one that he was created to serve. He blundered when he allowed covetousness to get in his heart. He coveted God’s position and so to the point that he envied Him. He devised up a plan in his heart because by this time he had gotten so jealous of the one he served to overthrow the Kingdom of God. One step at a time he will mislead us. He piggybacks off what we say, see, hear, or do. He watches over man to bring accusations against us. Watch out if a lie so fervently (enthusiastically) comes out of your mouth.

After a while when we have acquired a spirit of lying, it just so easily come out without us even thinking about it. Do we realize what we have allowed to happen to us? We have become a spiritual felon; a criminal, outlaw, convict, and delinquent for the kingdom of the Devil. We caress his thoughts as true. We ponder on the thoughts until we grasp it as true. We perceive in our senses that we are right and everybody else is wrong because we lack the same experience with God as they do. We believe them to be a liar because of what they are going through and consider them to be unsaved. We think something to be true and it’s hard to break into the truth to find out if it is or not. Some things we hold true to us is not of God at all. We move on feelings just as Satan did in heaven. He had a feeling that he one day would be the Father of Heaven and so now he desires to be King in the earth when he is only a prince of the air. We need to be made aware of these spirits and respond positively to making a change if we are found to be guilty.

With a lying spirit rests the works of the flesh and they manifest themselves in our life in one way or the other. We are talking here about covetousness, jealousy, envy, strife, contention, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, seditions, heresies and perversion as it relate to Christians. Most Christians does not find themselves in fornication or commit adultery, and lasciviousness that may easily be recognized by others. Their sin is to the spirit although it is done in the flesh too. How we respond to things, especially a lie tells us where our sensitiveness lies concerning God. Do we enjoy it when others are done wrong? Do we act sensually when we are in the presence of the opposite flesh not our husband or wife? Are we even aware that we are doing some things? Do we enjoy causing others pain? Is it always about us rather than the next person; our neighbor? Are our reflexes in check; how we respond to things is important. We must respond to things in life in a Godly manner if we say we are God centered. Our opinions can lead or mislead; our outlook on things can do the same. We can no longer go forth in life as Christians and fail to have the proper discernment where Christ is concerned. To be a Christian means we are Christ like.

We become liars and pretend we know truth. If we know truth then we must do the truth. We are guilty of dissembling God’s house just as Satan did in heaven because we have lied, misled, and conjured up our opinions on a matter. We feign through it and say others have fabricated the truth. We have thrown a lie around and gotten others to believe it that they lean towards what we want them to think. Only what is fitting and suitable to us is what we want around; but what’s wrong with someone being different? God have differences in the gifts, talents, and abilities in man so why do we want to make people like us? When someone is more experienced in things in the midst of us; we find we cannot use them so we rid of them and do just as Satan did. We get a group to believe like us or we get followers to go with us in our mess. God forbid! What is this world coming to for the Christian? We have taken down to the world’s order and compromised our integrity. We congregate, gather, assemble, convene or meet with mess, confusion, and contention in our hearts all the time. God is not the author of confusion but our daddy the Devil.

It’s time to come out of confinement. Those that are with God are urged to come in submission to God once again. Beware of those that will not submit themselves to prayer; personal or intercession. The Church has lost the power of intercessory prayer all over the world because most of our prayers are of a lie. We pray in the flesh rather than the Spirit. We pray for things that edify our lives rather than the lives of others. Prayer is communion with God and intercessory prayer is those assembled coming together to pray as the Spirit leads. At some point we should pray out of ourselves. At some point we should pray for mercy and blessings for others and not just our self or Church. The whole world needs prayer. We pray as the leading of the Holy Ghost give us utterance. Our prayer should be God centered with thanksgiving and praise for what He has already done. We pray prayers of deliverance, wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Then we pray not with vain repetitions but without ceasing.

When prayer stops, the lying began. Why Lie? Tell the truth, be truthful, walk truthfully and be true through and through. God Bless.

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