I still wanted to come on and give my perspective, in love on responding to foolishness.
Why? Because I have women that I am mentoring in the prophetic ministry, and they have questions about how to respond to foolishness Or they want to know why people come for them for no apparent reason?
And I even have people sending me video links with a man, or woman, or some YouTube channel, having something negative to say about me or anybody else for that matter and they say Shaneika, why haven’t you addressed this? Why don’t you respond. Praise God!
So for these reasons, I wanted to give a prophetic perspective on why it is never necessary for anybody that seeks the wisdom of God 1st in their lives to respond to lies, to respond to mockery, to respond to foolishness or mess. To understand why you don’t need to respond to anything that has no truth in it. Hallelujah!
Now I want to first make myself clear, there is difference between someone giving correction or rebuke in love or calling out a false prophet with integrity versus someone that lies, mocks, or attempts to destroy someone’s character for internal malicious reasons.
So today, I am referring to the latter, the ones that release words of foolishness, the ones that are messy, the ones that lie and purposely intend to sabotage a person because of how they feel rather than the TRUTH.
People of God, I don’t know if you all remember 2 previous videos I released, one was about a month ago and it was called foolishness will not be tolerated in 2022, a Downfall is on the Horizon, and God was saying in that word that we all need to be seeking the wisdom of God because when we seek His wisdom we will always be lead in the way that we should go, according to Gods will and purpose for our lives. Praise God!
How do we know that? Because the Bible says,
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction” Proverbs 1:7
The bible also says in Ecclesiastes 10:12-14,
12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
What does this mean as it relates to responding to foolishness or mess that comes at you or me from another person or entity?
It means plainly that a wise person should never respond, or follow up with the words that come out of a foolish persons mouth.
Why? Because it is not the truth, their words have not been thought through, because they didn’t seek the wisdom of God, Because God never told them to say what they are saying, because they just might be jealous or envious, or because they are just plain hateful, angry, devious, or miserable and they require a lot of attention from people. Period…. Hallelujah!
Do you guys remember the 2nd previous video I released about 2 weeks ago and it was called “Don’t cast your pearls to swine, a hit dog is gonna holler”.
And in that video, the Lord used me to speak about how we don’t need to respond to lies, mockery, and whatever other responses that may be used in an attempt to destroy our character, our relationships, our jobs, our ministry’s or anything like that.
Why?
Because the only time that somebody is going to respond to these things that somebody else says about them is for 2 reasons. Let me give them to you.
The 1st reason is because the dog has been hit, meaning that they are convicted, they feel guilty about what’s being said.
They feel offended by what’s been said, there is something inside of them that can relate to the word’s, and they don’t like that it has been revealed about them.
They don’t like that someone else can see it, they don’t like that someone recognizes it because it takes the cover off of their character, it takes the cover off their intentions, it takes the cover off their deceit, it takes the cover off their plot, and it leaves them vulnerable to being exposed. Hallelujah! Praise God!
That’s the 1st reason why someone would feel the need to respond to a bunch of foolishness, mess, and lies.
The 2nd reason is because of image. The Lord revealed to me a couple weeks back that some of us idolize our images and don’t even realize it.
Why?
Because when we consider what the bible tells us about idols we immediately think about the worshiping of golden calves, and statues, wooden things right? And most of us would probably think twice about worshiping some sort of an object because we know that God sees this as a serious offense, right?
But I learned that idols are not always about objects, but we can idolize people, wealth, prosperity, and certain practices too.
And in this case, I’m talking about idolizing our image and because some people idolize their image, they will do all that they can to preserve it especially if they are in the public eye.
Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with wanting to model the character of Christ, being respectful and polite, and putting forth the fruits of the spirit before man, because that is what the bible says that we should be doing when we are in contact with or in view of people.
And there is even nothing wrong with becoming righteously angry when someone slanders your speaks falsely about you.
Why? Because it’s a human reaction that we have to deal with and take it to God in prayer.
But it is another thing to hold so tight to your image that you are willing to go as far as seeking revenge or make an irrational decisions, or seek to destroy or harm the person because they tainted your image, because they made you look bad in some way.
This is especially true in ministry where some are trying to make a name for themselves, some are wanting to be popular, some want to have the most viewers or subscribers, some want to be seen as the most influential minister, some want to be seen as authoritative and/or smarter than their peers, some want to be seen as having a lot of wealth, and so on and so forth. Praise God!
These, from a prophetic perspective would be the reasons why someone would feel the need to respond to mess, to foolishness, to lies, to mockery, to hate, and list goes on. Hallelujah!
But the bible says otherwise to these responses people of God.
Outside of us modeling Christ, and putting forth the fruit of the spirit, our image is never as important Gods glory.
God is the one that should be the primary and main focus in all that we are called to do.
Our lives should not be defined by how successful you are in ministry or peoples opinions about us.
But our lives should be defined about pleasing our Lord Jesus Christ by completing all that he has called us to do in his kingdom. Hallelujah! And because we know where our rewards come from and who is responsible for making our names great in Gods kingdom.
The bible says seek ye first the kingdom of God and all things shall be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33)
Also the bible says, Do not avenge yourselves beloved, but leave room for Gods wrath, for it is written, vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord and I shall repay, says the Lord (Romans 12:19)
These verses teach us that responding to what somebody else has to say that you know not to be true about yourself or your situation, is really the opposite to what the bible says to do. Hallelujah!
So People of God, my response to foolishness and mess is not to respond at all. Why? Because I have a God that says he will do that for me.
And I hope that you will adopt this same perspective because it will keep from falling to the snares and traps of the enemy. This mindset will keep from giving the enemy what they want which is a response, the enemy wants you to acknowledge them, the enemy wants you to say their names because they thrive off of your recognition of them.
So don’t do it, don’t respond to foolishness or mess, okay?
Why? Because It ain’t worth your peace, your time, the light that shines in you, or losing your blessings following up with a fool! Amen?
So that is my perspective on responding to foolishness.
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By: Shaneika Byars Glover (February 10, 2022)
