Dear Christian Believers,

   God bless you, with His abundance of truth and grace in the name of Jesus Christ.
The doctrine and exhortation of God to His children is to speak the truth in love one to another.

Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, SPEAK EVERY MAN TRUTH WITH HIS NEIGHBOR: for we are members one of another.

  ("Speak every man truth to his neighbor" is a quote from)

Zechariah 8:16-17
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.
¹⁷ And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate saith the Lord.

  If we have the habit of always speaking the truth to and about one another we'll sure save a lot of headache and heartache in our relationships with people. The truth of God's Word keeps evil imaginations towards others out of your hearts. God exhorts us to Love one another. Jesus told his disciples to love one another even as he had loved them. Being loving and truthful are bookends for the lives of the mature in Christ.

Ephesians 4:15
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

  God has given us an abundance of truth to grow up in and to speak one to another. The word truth in verse 15 is the Greek word [aleethuo] and it means: "to act truly, to speak or tell the truth." The truth always clears the air whether you like it or not. It takes out the confusion and the evil imaginations. The truth is where God lives and where we must live if we are going to fellowship with Him and enjoy His blessings. Paul confronted the Galatians with the truth because he loved them and wanted them to get back on the Word of God.

Galatians 4:16
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?[aleethuo]

  How many times have we heard the expression. "the truth hurts?" What's meant is, the truth is piercing to us when we are living outside of the truth. Paul says to the Galatians: : Am I now your enemy because I tell you the truth? The most loving thing Paul could do for the Galatians was to speak God's confronting truth to them. They were out in left field. Perhaps there are times when we have gotten angry at those that correct us with the truth. We don't like it and find reasons to argue with what has been said. This usually starts out with I know they are right or maybe right BUT and then you list your reasons to argue against the truth spoken. The truth of God's Word is still profitable for doctrine, reproof, and correction no matter how you want to argue your case.

  When I was a small child and I would cut myself, my mother would get out the old brown bottle labeled, "iodine," WOW would that stuff sting when she applied it to the cut. Sometimes the truth of God's Word is like that iodine, when applied to out of fellowship with God wounds. We may not be too blessed at first, but if we receive it in love, we'll see the profit. The purpose of God's Word of truth applied or spoken is to get us healed and delivered, and to protect us from further hurt.

  People, the field is wide open to speak the truth. There are people in every nation, state, city, small community and family that are hurting, not because someone told them the truth, but because they have never heard the truth of God's Word and the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are also Christians that are not manifesting God's deliverance in their lives. These things cannot remain or it is to our shame. Let us renew our efforts to love our neighbor enough to speak the Truth of God's Word and minister His deliverance to all men at every opportunity so they might manifest God's healing and deliverance.

Love,
John