Healing from Infectious Unholines 2: Removing the Contamination from your Prophetic Mouth

Genesis 3:13

“¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled (cheated, outwitted, and deceived) me, and I ate.” AMPC

In the last post we covered the Split mouth of the beguiling serpent and its contamination with the influence of the spirit of this world—the Antichrist—as well as its three-part counterfeit deity: religion (Independence from God, His will, and His timing), mammon worship (Worship of the works of your hands, idolatry, and love for materialism), and Jezebel (Control, manipulation, and its seducing away from true intimacy with God). One obvious effect of this influence on someone is when they are easily predisposed to slandering and gossiping.

In terms of law, slander is defined as: “Oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth about another which untruth will harm the reputation of the person defamed. Slander is a civil wrong (tort) and can be the basis for a lawsuit.”¹

Also, among the definitions for Gossip we find:

1. Rumor or talk of a personal, sensational, or intimate nature.

2. A person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts.

3. Trivial, chatty talk or writing. ²

Spiritually, the enemy slanders and accuses when he goes before God to bring charges against a person on the earth and that way acts as a prosecutor that tells God why the individual cannot enter in to receive the blessings heaven has and fulfill God`s purpose for his or her live (Revelation 12:10).

He is also the father of lies and the things he says about people, because he is legalistic, these accusations may be true of the past or present of the person, but because he needs to partner with someone on the earth, he uses someone who is contaminated to slander or gossip, and the things they say are twisted and elaborated.

John 8:44 says, “You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.” AMPC

The contaminated person, who is influenced by him, will curse others which means that they spread lies to damage others and their name. This happens especially when the person talked about is close to being promoted or are getting ready to be used of God mightily. But there is a danger in allowing the enemy to use us to commit spiritual cannibalism—that is, murdering someone through slander and then eating up their destiny by gossiping about them and speaking lies, causing others to also turn against the person.

This is also called engaging in friendly fire. This means that instead of working together in unity as part of the army to aim against the enemy, a person that is contaminated will charge against others from the same army to do to them what needs to be done against the real enemy.

Proverbs 6:16-19 describes the manifestations of the Antichrist spirit that contaminates and influences a person to be used against others, including our leaders.

“¹⁶ These six things the Lord hates, indeed, seven are an abomination to Him:

¹⁷ A proud look [the spirit that makes one overestimate himself and underestimate others], a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸ A heart that manufactures wicked thoughts and plans, feet that are swift in running to evil,

We see the consequences of slandering and gossiping in Genesis 9 with Noah and Ham, the father of Canaan. The Scripture says that Noah drank from the fruit of his vineyard, got drunk, and laid naked for others to see. Ham saw that and went and told his brothers with malicious talk, but his brothers chose to not look at their father`s nakedness and walked backward with a blanket to quickly cover him. When Noah awoke, he found out what happened and immediately cursed Ham for his wrong doing. Verses 25-27 state,

“²⁵ He exclaimed, Cursed be Canaan! He shall be the servant of servants to his brethren!

²⁶ He also said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! And blessed by the Lord my God be Shem! And let Canaan be his servant.

²⁷ May God enlarge Japheth; and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.” AMPC

These verses explain that the one who cursed by slandering and gossiping was cursed to be “the servant of servants to his brethren” while the other two were praised and promoted. In other words, Ham was demoted to the lowest rank since, due to his contamination, he could not be trusted with handling delicate situations like covering the shame of others with unfailing love that covers all sins,thereby, violating the spiritual principle of covering the shame of others with love (1 Peter 4:8).

But it seems that Ham had a prophetic calling because as prophets, we are called to expose the enemy and his tactics, but he was contaminated. In the initial passage of Genesis 3:13, we see through the actions of Eve, that as prophetic people, we are also called to denounce the enemy and his deception. But when we are contaminated and under the spell of the enemy, we instead engage in malicious talk. 1 Corinthians 14:5 says that we are to seek after cultivating the gifts of the spirit, especially to prophesy, but the love of God has to be the root through which we speak the inspired will of God for others. The Scripture says,

“Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).” AMPC

In addition, Psalm 68:11 describes how the Lord gives a word of power, and we are to publish this Good News. When we do this in unity, rooted and grounded in love, we become a great host or army that run with the word given by the Lord and see mighty victories manifested because our agenda has become God`s agenda and not our own, without competition, or seeking to outdo each other.

“¹¹ The Lord gives the word [of power]; the women who bear and publish [the news] are a great host.” AMPC

That is because God does nothing unless He partners with us, His prophets, to be aware of or to announce how He intends to move. Therefore, in order to seek after the decontamination from the influence of the Antichrist spirit, we need to allow God to take us to the process that will rebuild us as the house of David from the ruins or the cuts in our soul, so we can then be ready to take on the enemy and take back what He stole from us, including the relationships he stole due to our slandering and gossiping.

Amos 9:11-12 says,

“^11-12 “But also on that Judgment Day I will restore David’s house that has fallen to pieces. I’ll repair the holes in the roof, replace the broken windows, fix it up like new. David’s people will be strong again and seize what’s left of enemy Edom, plus everyone else under my sovereign judgment.” God’s Decree. He will do this.” MSG

The roof mentioned in this passage speaks of a renewed mindset, the windows refer to our spiritual eyesight and our great need to learn to discern spirits so we can assess the root cause of the manifestations through the situations or people around us. These can be from the Holy Spirit,  our human spirit, or demonic spirits.

More on the next posts. As always, to God alone be all the glory. ▪ © 2017

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Footnotes:

1.       http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/slander

2.       http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gossip