Chit Chat…

Okay so here it is the ugly truth ‘Gossip’…

Is it right? No.

Is it cool? No.

So why do people do it???

It gets attention, its conversation… Uh! huh! but really so is talking about the weather and we know how often that changes. So, don’t waste your breath on meaningless chatter. 2 Timothy 2:16 NIV. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

If you have nothing nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.

Honestly, if you are talking about someone and their not standing right there taking part and involved in the conversation, you shouldn’t be talking, unless what you say behind their back is what you would say looking them square in the eyes and telling them the same things right to their face… If not ‘Stop talking’.

Treat others how you want to be treated.

Luke 6:31 NLT. Do to others as you would like them to do to you.

Take this with a grain of salt, because no one likes to be gossiped about, so don’t even lie and say whatever I don’t care what people say about me, hmmmm…. OR I’d say it to their face because I dislike that person… Really? If so, the person doing the hurting toward another person probably is hurting on the inside and don’t want anyone to know it, (Inviting Jesus into their heart would be a blessing for them, all we can do is pray that the Lord sends people into that persons pathway and that their heart softens to receive the special message God will seed into them). Well you shouldn’t care but there is a fine line to what you let get you down and what you can honestly say that you can ignore or not care about.

Here’s the tip only listen to and agree with what God says about you. No one else’s comments matter, and don’t believe everything you hear either rumors are entertained to gain hype and attention.

When the group your hanging out with is gossiping about someone, don’t add to the conversation, change the subject and if it becomes a constant habit with that particular person or group of friends get a new person or get a new group of friends. (And then pray for them).

People can be stuck in their ways and they don’t even realize, but it doesn’t mean that you need to get stuck with them, give them a heads up that what their doing is wrong and you won’t be a part of gossip. Encourage them to do the right thing and stop. Help pull them out by praying with them or pray for them. Bring to their attention that they wouldn’t like it if someone was gossiping about them.

Proverbs 16:28 NIV. A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.

Proverbs 26:20 NIV. Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.

Galatians 5:15 NIV. If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will destroyed by each other.

Galatians 6:9 NIV. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

I pray our Spirit ears are open to hear the Holy Spirit clearly that when we are being convicted of unwholesome thoughts and talk coming from our lips and is not life giving out of love we stop what we are thinking or saying and change our minds, we repent and spread love, Lord we need your guidance Holy Spirit help us to say all the right things you want us to say, Plead the Precious Blood of Jesus over us, In Jesus name, Amen.