As I ponder on this question I am looking around seeing all kinds of craziness. I do not want to judge any one for the Bible says not to do so (Matthew 7, says not to judge ~ and if you do you will be judged to the extent of your judgement on ohters, going on to say to deal with your own problems before trying to help deal with someone elses...or else you are a hypocrite). My next question being do you let someone come to you or do you go to them??... Galations 6:1 also says if any man be over taken in a fault those which are spiritual are to restore them in the spirit of meekness; considering themselves becasue they to can be tempted. The Bible also warns us not to speak flattery{Psalms 5:9, 78:36, Job 17:5} (just tell people what they want to her~don't be an ear tickler), but from my experience people would much rather have thier ear tickled than hear the TRUTH. In my personal opinion flattery is equivilent to lieing, you are not speaking truth you are dressing it up as to not offend the person. 1 John 2:21 says.. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Collosians says, lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds. Proverbs 12:6 says.. The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. I believe many can not handle the truth because we abuse and misuse our gift God gave us to be able to help people with our mouths. Gossip and rumors run rampid these days, so when you are speaking the truth to someone the feel like people have been talking about them behind their backs placing judgement and insted of seeing someone who wants to help them, thus most of the time people get offended and defensive. Or it could possibly be that we/they already know the TRUTH and are not willing or ready to do what we know needs to be done to make the necessary changes in our lives to reap the benifits of those necessary changes. Until submittend to the Lord no one can lead a person out of thier cycle(you can help with prayer and truth, but you can't make someone see or do what they are unwilling to see/do). All our answers lie in one book, the Bible...James 4:7 submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Matther 7:7 ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matthew 6:3 But seek ye firstt the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mountt up with wings as eagless; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint Proverbs 3:5-7 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. In seeking the Lord with my questions I feel he is the only one with the answers and I know I must be careful not to judge yet speak the truth in love and meekness...which I need HIS help with, sin easily angers me. I do not like knowing I have hurt the Lord nor do I like it when someone else does it either...Lord help me not to judge and have self control. I want to be able to discern when I am to speak up and when to shut up and not let me get in the way....Ephesians 4 says, I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 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. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Lord I ask that you help me be all I can be through you...
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