SOMEBODY LIED TO YOU

NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, SOMEONE HAS LIED TO YOU.  BIG LIES, LITTLE LIES, HURTFUL OR HARMLESS, A LIE IS STILL A LIE.  IN FACT, WE OFTEN COME TO EXPECT CERTAIN PEOPLE TO LIE TO US............USED CAR SALESMEN, "AVAILABLE ONLY ON TV" COMMERCIALS AND UNSCRUPULOUS ATTORNEYS, TO NAME A FEW.  WE ALSO HAVE A TENDENCY TO LIE AS WELL, BUT THATS A DIFFERENT TOPIC.  TODAY, I WANNA POINT OUT TO SOMEONE THAT "SOMEBODY HAS LIED TO YOU."

TO THE PERSON READING THIS, IF YOU CANNOT IDENTIFY, I FEEL SURE THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN.  WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE WHO "WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING."  WE ALSO KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE "ONCE A DOPEHEAD, ALWAYS A DOPE HEAD."  WE MIGHT LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THE PERSON WHO IS "NO GOOD, JUST LIKE HIS DADDY WAS."  WE MIGHT HAVE A COUSIN THAT "WONT EVER CHANGE.  SHE HAS BEEN THAT WAY FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER."  THE KID DOWN THE STREET MIGHT BE THE ONE WHO "WILL END UP IN THE PENITENTARY CAUSE THATS HOW HE WAS RAISED."  I COULD GO ON AND ON..........WE ALL KNOW THESE PEOPLE.....IF ONLY THROUGH WORD OF MOUTH.  WE MIGHT NOT HAVE EVER LAID EYES UPON THE PEOPLE BUT INSTANTLY KNOW "OF" THEM BY THE MENTION OF THEIR NAME.

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE PEOPLE I JUST MENTIONED HAVE BEEN TOLD A LIE!!!!! 

NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THERE IS NO NEED TO BE ASHAMED!  NO ONE IS PERFECT...WE HAVE ALL DONE WRONG...NO ONE HAS ANY REASON TO POINT THEIR FINGER IN YOUR DIRECTION.  FOR THE LONGEST TIME, I HAD A HARD TIME FORGIVING MYSELF FOR THINGS I HAD DONE WRONG.  I WAS SO VERY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT OF ME.  I SEE TODAY THAT THE DEVIL USED THOSE VERY THOUGHTS IN ORDER TO KEEP ME UNDER HIS CONTROL.  HE HAD ME DOWN, RIGHT WHERE HE WANTED ME.  UNTIL THE LORD STEPPED IN AND REVEALED TO ME A BETTER WAY................................

I OFTEN MENTION THE SEA OF FORGIVENESS....I LOVE THAT CONCEPT!  I ALSO FIND STRENGTH IN THE WORD OF GOD!  IT LIFTS ME UP WHEN I AM DOWN....SETS ME STRAIGHT WHEN I LOSE DIRECTION...REASSURES ME IN EVERY WHICH WAY.  JOHN 1:12 TELLS ME THAT GOD GAVE ME THE RIGHT TO BECOME HIS CHILD WHEN I BELIEVED UPON HIS NAME.  COLOSSIANS 1:13 REMINDS ME THAT GOD DELIVERED ME FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS AND CONVEYED ME INTO HIS KINGDOM.  THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION TO THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS (ROMANS 8:1)....AND THAT MEANS ME...THAT MEANS YOU...THAT MEANS TO ALL WHO CALL UPON AND BELIEVE IN HIS HOLY NAME!!!!

FORGET THE LIES WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD....CALL UPON GOD'S TRUTH....TELL YOURSELF, "I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST, WHO STRENGTHENS ME!!!!!!"  BELIEVE, RELY UPON AND TRUST IN HIS WORD!