The Truth of Lies

Lies are, as all we know, false. They create a false reality. The unfortunate bit about them is, once they’ve found their way into our minds, it is hard to unhear them!

Perhaps, gossiped about you people have. And a little bird tells you what they said; That you are ugly. That you are useless. That you are a pain to your workmates.

Even if they are wrong, and even if your identity has already been fully set as concrete, the people who said these words could be the reason why the lie might become a truth. It’d hurt if they were your close friends, and that can stick to your mind’s floor. How?

Firstly, you’d hear the news and throw a tantrum.

“How could they?!” Reaction is okay, but how you respond after that will determine the trajectory or fall of the lie’s power.

Secondly, you’d call someone to talk about it. The person could encourage you, but then you tell another, and another and another. You don’t realise it, but you’re confessing what the other people said about you.

“Can you believe what they said? They said I was a hypocrite!”

Even if some might lift you up, watch out for advice that might encourage you to fight back.

Thirdly, your mind thinks deeply about the thing. Your mind’s continued meditation creates truth out of that false reality. The next time you fall short, the enemy might show up and say,

“Other people are fasting and praying and you’re not! They are reading the Word and you’re Netflixing! No wonder they said you’re a hypocrite!”

Suddenly, it gets to you. If you don’t rebuke the fool, he uses the same words he heard in your conversation. Just like he did to Eve. He uses the conversations he hears, and then creates doubts & truths.

If the lie isn’t uprooted, staying long enough, having you voice it on…it soon becomes reality as you create it with the power of your tongue. You’ll realise in the long run that yes, it was gossip. But you empowered it. Making you start to live a lie, and accept lie as gospel truth!

If at stage 2, someone called someone who advised them to fight back, stage 3 would have been skipped as the act of fighting back will have quickened it with stage 2 to happen simultaneously.

You are loved. You are okay.

Choose not to give lies attention. For if you do, the truth of them you’ll manifest.

I remember being accused of being gay! It was a lie, but the more I heard it, the more a wicked voice in my head became louder saying things like, ‘Boys who like over taking care of their hair could be gay!’, ‘You look so pretty, like the girl-pretty.’ ‘You write like girls as they say. You’d be gay!’

ARGH! It was a war in there! And up to today it still goes on about other stuff, but this is how I have fought lies from becoming truths;

1.Not giving attention to lies. For I’ve seen that merely not speaking back, but having lies run back and forth, tolerating it in my mind, is the first thing they need to gain roots. IGNORE! IGNORE them I say!

2. Speaking truths countering the lies. I’d tell myself; ‘ I’m a guy. A dope guy. A handsome & talented one, with a hot girl & a quiver full of children soon. I was parented on grooming. It’s still essential in this generation. I am favored and I have good understanding with men.’

You may not have the capacity to stop people from saying lies about you! But like you can stop a bird from laying a nest on your head, do not allow them to settle in your mind! That’s where the real battle is!

There’s a principle that states, if you keep calling things that are not, as though they were, they become! Now just imagine if this principle is applied to a lie…!