Truth

Sometimes we Must Tell People what they Need to Hear Instead of what they Want to Hear—R Fritz

Truth should be given to people who need answers no matter what we think their reaction will be. We believe people cannot handle the hard issues when we do not give them credit with God’s grace and love. We forget we are not alone in the times when we are needed to give people news or what God has for them. I have had many different missions given to me to perform for God. This was a friend who was asking me if somebody was taking advantage of them monetarily over time. At the time when I was given the information, I was not given anything from the Holy Spirit, so I agreed with my friend that maybe that was part of their ministry. A few hours later when I started writing a blog the Holy Spirit brought back what was said by my friend and the situation giving money to this other person a few other times. As I start to think about that situation, it is revealed by the Holy Spirit there is something wrong with this other person who my friend talked to me about. I started to pray about how to proceed by talking to my friend asking what I thought and decided to take another person, not involved in this situation, to talk about what was revealed to me. Before we went, the person was not involved, and I investigated this other person and what was revealed was eye opening. When we met with my friend who was giving the money to this other person it was revealed what was said was this other person told my friend that this money to live was put into his ministry. This other person was living out of his vehicle telling my friend they needed to get money to meet with my friend for my friend’s ministry to pay for gas. What I also told my friend was that this other person had asked for money from me which I would give for somebody looking to take care of themselves to get a job a few years back. I was told this other person was not looking for a job. We showed the evidence we had to convince my friend the Holy Spirit sent us to reveal what was hidden from my friend. This is the problem with the way we think that God brought this other person to tell us what we want to hear, and this other person that sounds like the real person sent by God verses my friend who became the cash cow for this other person. This other person who was taking advantage of my friend was using religion to get an advantage in a spiritual battle. I even said the Holy Spirit revealed to me where this other person could get a job if they wanted one. Hours later it was revealed by phone call my friend told me that they told this other person should not call again. 2Timothy 4:3-4 says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” We want to believe people and not look at the truth around us. My friend was told by many people that this other person was taking advantage of them.

What we do not understand is Satan gets involved bringing Bible verses to accept this other person that we believe was from God. The Holy Spirit that lives in me also knows Bible verses and they are spoken out. We enable the other people when we let them keep taking advantage of people we know when the other people need to make mistakes and learn from them. Sometimes we need to let these other people see life where our only steps are upward towards God where they listen or by themselves come face to face with God. I felt bad this other person has a spirit problem with issues that are spiritual where they need to deal with them trying to control somebody. Friends do not let people get hurt when we see that or in my case the Holy Spirit showed me it is time to say something because the Holy Spirit had it handled, I just needed to set up the meeting and start the conversation. John 15:12-14 says and this is Jesus speaking “This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” Would we lay down our life for our friends? Jesus is speaking to us to love everybody as he has as friends. We need to speak up when we see something going on that affects friends and people we know, that is God’s commandment. We have a responsibility to always do the right thing where sometimes we fail and learn from the things we could not do. What I have learned is when the Holy Spirit is involved, and I believed I failed the Holy Spirit would tell me “I have not failed” because the words we spoke or the actions we did were what the Holy Spirit needed even though it did not look like it to us because it was done in the spirit.

We need to be the person God meant for us to be. We really have to step out of our comfort zone as I find that out every day, even after spending almost twenty-five years learning who Jesus is and following him and his ways which requires us to be spiritual which if we believe in Jesus where he gave his life for us. The Holy Spirit would be that spiritual blessing from God that lives inside of us and shows us the thoughts and ways of Jesus as well as giving us the answers to things in the Bible, God’s word. Whatever we do starts with love. God Bless.