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they turned completely away from Suicide, domestic violence,
the church and God. hate crimes, depression, are
escalating at alarming rates in
We have no right to inflict
injury onto others with our mouths. some areas of the world.

If there is no longer any We must be careful when and
condemnation upon us, then what how we speak about anointed men
makes us thing we can go around and women of God.

placing condemnation on others?
We may know their actions,
We are anointed to speak life but we do not know their heart, or
into people and that places a what their relationship is with the

responsibility on us. Lord.

Not everything that comes It is dangerous place to be
into your head should come out of when you start trashing someone

your mouth. Trust me on that. who has a relationship with God.
The words that we might speak
But if we renew our minds
daily by the Word of God the Spirit against that person might be
will teach us how to think and what coming against the anointing of

to say. God.
And sometimes it may not
“Touch not mine anointed and do
my prophets no harm.” Psalms seem like we are talking that

105:15 “bad.”
One example that I can think
We live in a unique time and
season where we are seeing an is very common right now do to
atmosphere charged with an the pandemic would be, re-opening

almost immeasurable hatred never the church. I have heard great
seen before that has allowed the men and women of God being
enemy to open monumental doors bashed because they did not open

of offense in today’s society. soon enough, they did not close,
they did not do it the way we think
Now more than every there is they should.
a great need to watch what we say
about others. We do not always I have watch as different

know the people we are talking Pastor friends of mine opened their
about as well as we think we do. 14.