WHAT TO DO ABOUT LIES PEOPLE ARE TELLING ON YOU!

Many years ago my heart was overwhelmed by all the lies that people were saying about me. It is not that I took personal offense, but so many of my parishioners were leaving because of these lies. At times I would have meetings with some of these people who were highly offended by the gossip that was being spread about myself and my family. I would literally spend hours not justifying myself but trying to explain the truth.

In all of the meetings I had with these people, not one time did I ever discover where it helped. No matter how much proof, evidence, witnesses that I had to prove these lies otherwise, not one time did it help. People who wanted to believe these lies, simply would not stop. Then those who believed these lies would spread them to others. It seemed as fast as we saw people coming, being touched of God, being healed and delivered, were leaving even faster.

I really began to seek the Lord about what could be done. The first thing the Lord told me is that I needed to be like Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:22 JESUS who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 24 who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Jesus did not defend himself. Truthfully in my heart, I was only trying to share the truth, for the sheep would not be destroyed by the lies and the gossip. Now, one day as I was in prayer I heard the Lord say to me: Son, A Naughty Heart Will Listen to A Lying Tongue. People With Evil Hearts Listen to Gossip, and You Cannot Help Them! I asked the Lord: what do you mean? He said to me: they are listening to these lies and this gossip because they want to find fault with you. They want to believe the evil reports that are being told because their heart is full of evil. I asked the Lord to show me this in the Scriptures. He took me to Proverbs 17:4

*A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Other translations then King James are much stronger in this regards:

*CEV-Troublemakers listen to troublemakers, and liars listen to liars.

*GNV-The wicked giveth heed to false lips, and a liar hearkeneth to the naughty tongue.

*NIRV-Evil people listen to lies. Lying people listen to evil.

I no longer worry about people spreading gossip or lying about myself, as long as what they're saying is not true. If what they are saying is true, then I need to simply repent. Yet, even after I repent for something I did do wrong, (not an imagined wrong) people still speak evil.

The Lord spoke to me years ago he said: Son if you hear something about a person, they truly did it, but they repented, how do you know if they repented, or did not repent? I said to the Lord: I don't know? He said to me: That's Right! So, while you're saying they did certain things without you knowing it they could have truly repented, but you are not aware of it. I said: Yes Lord! He said to me then: so then just keep your mouth off of them for they are my servants and not yours. At that moment I repented and I said: Okay Lord!

Now, this does not mean that we do not correct wrong teachings and doctrines, but we do not attack the person personally. Yes, by their fruits we will know them. If we do not see the fruits of the spirit then we simply do not follow them. On the other side of the coin, we are to pray for them fervently that God would help them.

James 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26 and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.