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Those Who Are Slanderers

Copyright © 2024 Dag Heward-Mills

First published 2025 by Parchment House

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A king who is loyal and true will keep his power. Loyalty will keep his kingdom strong.

Proverbs 20:28 (ERV)

Chapter 1

What is Slander?

Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it.

James 4:11 (NIV)

1. To slander someone is to attack the character of a person who is not present.

2. To slander someone is to attempt to discredit a person, by direct accusations or innuendos.

3. To slander someone is to attempt to belittle a person.

4. To slander someone is to speak in such a way so as to shame and dishonour a person.

5. To slander is to lower the estimation of someone in the eyes of ordinary people.

6. To slander is to cast somebody in a bad light.

7. To slander someone is to depreciate a person’s reputation in the eyes of the public.

8. To slander someone is to attempt to lower the value of a person to his followers and admirers.

9. To slander someone is to portray the person as less impressive or important than previously thought.

10. To slander someone is to circulate malicious and injurious stories about the person.

11. To slander someone is to make a malicious statement, designed to injure the reputation of the person.

12. To slander someone is to make a damaging or derogatory remark about a person.

13. To slander someone is to cause an unjustified injury to their good reputation.

14. To slander someone is to speak unfavourably about a person when they are not present.

15. To slander someone is to represent someone incorrectly, falsely, improperly and unsatisfactorily.

Chapter 2

Who is a Slanderer?

YOU SHALL NOT GO ABOUT AS A SLANDERER AMONG YOUR PEOPLE; and you are not to jeopardize the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16 (NASB)

1. A slanderer is someone who acts on behalf of satan to attack God’s servants by intentionally spreading as much slime and scandalous information about them as possible. This is done to lower people’s estimation of God’s servants, and therefore reduce the scope of their ministry.

2. A slanderer is a bitter personality who campaigns to lower the value and admiration that others have of God’s servant.

3. A slanderer is a demon-possessed and extremely bitter personality who seeks to destroy someone he hates, by informing the public about confidential things, tales, secrets, stories and rumours that he feels will damage the person he hates.

4. A slanderer is a jealous person who hates the success and leadership of another and who goes about intentionally sending malicious information to spread rumours, scandals, and unverifiable stories about people, who otherwise have a good reputation in the church.

5. A slanderer is a disgruntled former employee who seeks to destroy his former place of employment by destroying its good image.

6. A slanderer is a preacher who, instead of preaching and testifying about Jesus, spends his time maliciously sharing shameful and unfortunate news about a fellow Christian. A slanderer’s aim is not to win souls, but to inform the church of the mistakes of others.

7. A slanderer has the aim of destroying the ministry of a servant of God who has a good and fruitful ministry, by spreading WhatsApp messages, messages on social media, text messages, stories, scandals, and questions about the life, character and ministry of God’s servant.

8. A slanderer is a campaigner who goes around from person to person, to convince them that the servant of God they honour, and respect is an evil and unacceptable personality.

9. A slanderer is a pastor who seeks to destroy and lower the reputation of the ministry he once belonged to.

10. A slanderer is a low performer who seeks to justify to the public why he lost his job, by spreading false stories about his former employer.

11. A slanderer is a smear campaigner. He goes around from house to house with his vitriolic stories and information. A slanderer is a campaigner, and he will call person after person diligently, to give information he believes will damage the ministry of another.

12. A slanderer is someone who has lost all power to harm another minister, so he resorts to spreading lies, part truths, unverifiable stories and suspicions about God’s servants. The slanderer hopes that all he says will stick to and damage God’s servants.

13. A slanderer is someone who hopes to portray a church or ministry as less acceptable, less commendable, less important and less impressive than people generally think it is.

14. A slanderer is someone who writes, publishes, spreads and circulates malicious and injurious stories about another person. A slanderer is someone who attacks the character of a person.

15. A slanderer is someone who casts a servant of God in a bad light. A slanderer is someone who attempts to belittle ministers of the gospel.

16. A slanderer is satan personified. Satan is an accuser. A slanderer is an accuser. A slanderer is someone who attempts to discredit and damage a person, by directly accusing him of many things. A slanderer will speak many outrageous and preposterous accusations.

17. A slanderer is someone who attempts to discredit and damage God’s honoured and anointed servants by speaking and writing against them, using insinuations and innuendos.

18. A slanderer is a spreader of shame. A slanderer is someone who writes or speaks in such a way that shames and dishonours another person.

19. A slanderer is someone who misrepresents another person to the general public. A slanderer writes and speaks incorrectly, falsely, improperly and unsatisfactorily in order to achieve his aim of hurting the person he slanders.

20. A slanderer is someone whose aim is to lower the estimation of God’s chosen servant and to depreciate the Lord’s anointed in the eyes of the public.

21. A slanderer is someone who releases, writes or publishes derogatory and malicious information designed to injure the reputation of a person. A slanderer is someone who speaks unfavourably about a person who is honoured in society, to make people dislike or disapprove of the person.

Chapter 3

A Slanderer is a Devil and an Accuser

Even so must their wives be grave, not SLANDERERS, sober, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3:11

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called THE DEVIL, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 12:9

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false ACCUSERS, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Titus 2:3

The words SLANDERER, DEVIL, and ACCUSER are used interchangeably!

In the scriptures above, the words “accuser”, “devil” and “slanderer” are all translated from the same Greek word, DIABOLOS! This means that the words “slanderer”, “accuser” and “devil” are interchangeable.

The closest you will ever get to experiencing the devil physically is to encounter a slanderer. A slanderer is a person who goes around intentionally and energetically from person to person, spreading rumours, stories, messages and information to whip up disaffection against a leader.

I have encountered this kind of person a few times in my ministry. One time, there was a man who spent his energy, time and money going around from house to house to stir up hatred against our church. He continued this until all the neighbours of our church disliked us and became filled with hatred for us. Our neighbours even went on a demonstration against the church. This man surely went about as a slanderer to turn the hearts of the people against us.

Remember the scripture:

YOU SHALL NOT GO ABOUT AS A SLANDERER AMONG YOUR PEOPLE; and you are not to jeopardize the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16 (NASB)

I once encountered a person who went around from person to person giving slanderous stories and unverifiable information about ministers in our church. By the time this fellow had finished spreading his wicked stories, there was confusion and uncertainty everywhere in the church. If you ever encounter someone who follows the Leviticus 19:16 description of a slanderer, and who has time and energy to go up and down, from person to person, with information and scandalous stories, you have encountered a slanderer!

These slanderers claim that they love the church and are fighting to prevent the church from falling into sin and decay. It is interesting how slanderers see themselves as righteous men who are exposing sin and correcting unrighteousness.

A slanderer’s scandalous rumours ensure that some people are damaged forever and are unable to ever serve the Lord again. It is difficult to get bad stories out of the minds of people no matter what you do.

Watch out for people who make phone calls, send messages, and make contact with people they do not even normally speak to, just to spread stories and give information against God’s servant!

YOU SHALL NOT GO ABOUT AS A SLANDERER AMONG YOUR PEOPLE; and you are not to jeopardize the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16 (NASB)

It is that movement and energy of a slanderer, the moving up and down from person to person, the intent to defame, the intent to defile and to damage, that defines a slanderer. A slanderer is a living, moving, active human devil in your midst!

When a slanderer is sent against your ministry, it means a living, vicious devil has been sent to attack you. Some think that when the devil comes against you, he will come in the form of a red dragon with wings. Indeed, that old dragon will appear to you in the form of a slanderer. When a slanderer is sent against your ministry, it means a potent accuser has been unleashed against you. When satan visits your ministry, you will experience him in the form of a slandering personality and an accusatory person.

The effect of accusations and slander cannot be overemphasized. You will probably not understand it until you have experienced it! The scripture teaches that your entire ministry will be jeopardized because of a slanderer! Slanderers put the ministry into jeopardy.

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; and YOU ARE NOT TO JEOPARDIZE THE LIFE OF YOUR NEIGHBOR. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16 (NASB)

To be in jeopardy means to be in a hazardous or risky situation. To be in jeopardy means you are exposed to loss, harm, peril, danger or death. A slanderer causes your entire ministry to be in danger of loss and harm.

Chapter 4

Lucifer, the First Slanderer

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. BY THE MULTITUDE OF THY MERCHANDISE they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28:14-16

Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, BY THE INIQUITY OF THY TRAFFICK; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Ezekiel 28:18

Thou shalt not go up and down as a TALEBEARER among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:16

Lucifer was the first slanderer. The behavioural pattern of a slanderer was first seen in none other than Lucifer who became satan. Every slanderer since then has followed the example that Lucifer set when he fell from grace.

Below, you will see the connection between the merchandise of Lucifer and the trading of a talebearer.

Lucifer’s Merchandise: Hebrew word: rekûllâh (Strong’s number H7404, Feminine passive participle of H7402) trade (as peddled) {merchandise} traffic.

Talebearer: Hebrew word: râkîyl (Strong’s number H7400; From H7402) a scandal monger (as travelling about): {slander} carry {tales} talebearer, A trafficker, trader.

The Hebrew words used for Lucifer’s merchandise are similar to words used for the word “talebearer”. A talebearer is a trader, a scandal monger! Lucifer trades in tales, scandals, stories, whispers and gossip. A talebearer is also a trader in scandalous stories and gossip.

1. LUCIFER THE SLANDERER: A MAN OF PERFECTION.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Ezekiel 28:15

Lucifer the slanderer presents himself as a good and righteous person. The slanderer will say, “You need me now more than ever. I am your friend.” “I have information that is vital for you. What I am telling you will save you and help you.”

The perfect disguise for a slanderer is apparent perfection. He seems to be a good person with a good heart. He gives the impression that he just wants the church to be pure and do the right thing. But he is full of vice and his hatred is directed at God’s servants! With smooth words and great blasphemies, he desecrates God’s house with his slime!

Lucifer used to be perfect! “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee” (Ezekiel 28:15).

Watch out for seemingly perfect men who present a good front, but are busy spreading gossip and finding fault with everything.

2. LUCIFER THE SLANDERER: FULL OF ENERGY AND MOVEMENT.

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; THOU HAST WALKED UP AND DOWN in the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28:14

Lucifer walked up and down amidst the stones of fire. He was full of energy and movement. He could not sit still for a moment. He had to see someone, he had to make many calls. He had to make contact with as many people as possible and spread his stories.

This is the pattern we see in Lucifer. “Lucifer” has a burden to move around energetically, to gossip, to find fault and to accuse. It is as though the slanderer has no other work to do than to spread bad and scandalous stories.

Initially, Lucifer moved up and down in the midst of the stones of fire in a good way. Today, he is still moving up and down, but to perform wickedness.

Always notice the unexplained energy of a slanderer when he makes phone calls and composes texts with malicious and damaging stories that he sends around the world.

When you encounter someone who is filled with passion to spread slander and rumour, you have encountered the devil in human form. That is the return of Lucifer; pacing up and down with his evil trade.

3. LUCIFER THE SLANDERER: THE UNRIGHTEOUS TRADER.

By the multitude of your iniquities, IN THE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF YOUR TRADE You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you.

Ezekiel 28:18 (NASB95)

Lucifer was a trader. He traded in tales, stories, slander, rumours, lies and defamation. This was his sin! The sin of his trade! What was his trade? The trade of scandal, rumour and gossip! Lucifer trades in rumour, fault finding, malice and defamatory tales.

Just like the talebearer described in Leviticus, Lucifer traded in scandal. The Hebrew word translated “talebearer” is the same root word translated as “traffick” or trade in Ezekiel 28.

Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by THE INIQUITY OF THY TRAFFICK; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Ezekiel 28:18

In Leviticus, the word “talebearer” or “slander” is the word RAKIYL which means a scandal monger; a trader in scandal, rumour, an informer and a slanderer!

In Ezekiel, the word “trade”, or “traffic” is the Hebrew word RAKAL, which means a trafficker or trader who goes about dubiously.

So, we see here that Lucifer had a trade and his trade was to spread evil stories. The scripture describes it as “the iniquity of thy traffick.” In other words, the sin of your dubious trade.

Lucifer was a trader in slander, scandal, rumour, stories, tales, gossip, libel, lies and defamation! That is why satan is called “the slanderer”!

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer [slanderer] among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16

4. LUCIFER THE SLANDERER: DESTROYED BY A FIRE FROM WITHIN.

Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; THEREFORE WILL I BRING FORTH A FIRE FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Ezekiel 28:18

Slanderers are destroyed by a fire that comes from within. The words of a slanderer lead to his own damnation and destruction. This is what the Bible describes as a fire from within. Slanderers destroy themselves because with time, people see through their actions and are able to tell that the slanderer is a devil in human form.

Chapter 5

The Sins of a Slanderer

All of them are stubbornly rebellious, GOING ABOUT AS A SLANDERER; They are bronze and iron. THEY ARE, ALL OF THEM, CORRUPT.

Jeremiah 6:28 (NASB)

THOU SHALT NOT GO UP AND DOWN AS A TALEBEARER among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16

1. The sin of breaking the law: A slanderer breaks the law of God.

YOU SHALL NOT GO ABOUT AS A SLANDERER AMONG YOUR PEOPLE; and you are not to jeopardize the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16 (NASB)

The law explicitly teaches that no one should go about as a slanderer. A slanderer breaks the laws of God by what he does!

A slanderer is an evil sinner. In the law of Moses, there are severe warnings against being a slanderer. Indeed, it is a sin to write or publish stories, spread rumours and information about someone in such a way as to belittle and destroy the person. All who fear God must be afraid of becoming the spreaders of stories, rumours, half-truths or outright lies.

2. The sin of damaging another life: A slanderer damages lives.

Do not go about spreading SLANDER among your people. DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT ENDANGERS YOUR NEIGHBOR’S LIFE. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:16 (NIV)

There is a severe warning for those who are talebearers! In the scripture above we see that slander can endanger someone’s life. Do not be someone who bears tales, questions, rumours, unsubstantiated stories and unverifiable information that are damaging to people’s lives.

I remember a news item I read about a man who was taking his mother-in-law to the hospital when she died in the car, enroute to the hospital. A rumour spread in the village that the man driving the car had killed a woman and was secretly going to bury her. This man’s car was quickly surrounded by the villagers because of this false story. He was hurled out of the car and beaten to death by the crowd. Indeed, an innocent man was murdered because of this unfortunate, fake story.

3. The sin of campaigning against God’s servant: A slanderer goes up and down.

THOU SHALT NOT GO UP AND DOWN AS A TALEBEARER among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:16

Going on a campaign to spread stories is what the Bible calls “going up and down” to destroy someone. A slanderer campaigns actively to destroy someone. He goes up, then he goes down on his wicked mission. He calls one person and then another, trying to get people to join his malicious mission.

He goes from person to person seeking to convince them to stop believing in someone. It is a sin to be an active campaigner, a spreader and publisher of texts, WhatsApp messages, Facebook posts of lies, scandalous stories and insults on social media to smear the reputation of God’s children.

...Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.

Psalm 105:15

Many pastors who leave churches as disgruntled employees become slanderers and follow this wicked pattern of slandering.

4. The sin of revealing secrets: A slanderer reveals secrets.

ONE WHO GOES ABOUT AS A SLANDERER REVEALS SECRETS, But one who is trustworthy conceals a matter.

Proverbs 11:13 (NASB)

You may justify the revealing of people’s secrets for many reasons. However, you must remember that a slanderer is a devil and an accuser. There can never be a day when it is a good thing to be a devil!

You may have thought that it is a good person who goes about revealing the scandals and secret sins of others. After all, he is spreading the truth and enabling people to have facts and truth in their hands. However, it is not so! It is evil men who go around spreading secret sins and scandals of others. A slanderer is a revealer of secrets. Read it for yourself: “ONE WHO GOES ABOUT AS A SLANDERER REVEALS SECRETS, But one who is trustworthy conceals a matter” (Proverbs 11:13 (NASB)).

God sees slandering as evil and you must also see it as evil. . Slandering is evil because you are just spreading the failings of a fellow brother, who is as weak a person as you are.

People who fall into sin are to be helped to get up and walk again. People who fall into scandal and outrageous sin are to be given a helping hand to walk again and not to be pushed further underground, so they never rise again. Remember the important scripture: “Rejoice not against me O my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise again.” How can a person rise again if you keep spreading his failings to everyone?

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

Micah 7:8

A slanderer is someone who reveals secrets in order to destroy someone’s reputation. There are many secrets that when revealed will destroy a person’s reputation. A slanderer is someone who intentionally reveals secrets and hidden things to cause a collapse and general destruction of a church.

Beware of people who seem to have some deep information that no one else has. Beware of people who are inquisitive and seek to know things that do not concern them. They are only seeking to know secrets that they can divulge later as part of their slandering campaign.

5. The sin of separating families and friends: A slanderer separates friends.

A perverse person spreads strife, and A SLANDERER SEPARATES CLOSE FRIENDS.

Proverbs 16:28 (NASB)

A slanderer speaks in such a way as to cause division and separation. Wherever a slanderer has lived and operated, there is strife, division and confusion. A slanderer is someone who separates the sheep from their shepherd. Through slanderers, many of your loyal church members will fall away. They will no longer be part of your fold because of the slanderous stories they have heard.

A slanderer will spread stories in a church in such a way that will cause stirring and unhappiness in the church; everyone will be unsure whether the stories they have heard are true or not. Where there are slanderers, everyone distrusts everyone! The slanderer succeeds in separating the sheep from their shepherd. A slanderer is indeed a devil in our midst.

6. The sin of rebellion: A slanderer is a rebellious person.

All of them are STUBBORNLY REBELLIOUS, GOING ABOUT AS A SLANDERER; They are bronze and iron. They are, all of them, corrupt.

Jeremiah 6:28 (NASB)

A slanderer is usually a stubborn and rebellious person who listens to no one. Rebellion is defined as a resistance to authority. When a person rebels and hates authority, he seeks a way to destroy the person he has rebelled against. He has no other way to express his hatred for his former pastor or leader but to slander and speak maliciously about him.

I remember one rebellious slanderer who left our church. He was advised by many top leaders in the body of Christ to stop slandering me; but he would not listen to anyone. He went on to spread false stories about me to the extent that some people who had invited me to speak in their churches cancelled their invitations because of this fellow’s slanderous posts.

Watch out for rebellious leavers and disgruntled employees. They are often rebellious men with no hope for restitution. Such people will be your worst slanderers. But God will give you the victory over all slanderers! A slanderer is a devil, and he will be destroyed in the end.

7. The sin of spreading fear in the church: A slanderer spreads fear.

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. FOR I HAVE HEARD THE SLANDER OF MANY: FEAR WAS ON EVERY SIDE: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

Psalm 31:11-14

As the scripture above says, slanderers spread fear through their stories. Through a slanderer’s stories, fear and panic spread in the church. Many people feel their church is collapsing because of the words of a slanderer. They feel their church is doomed because of the fear and panic that runs through it like wildfire.

Fear is an evil spirit. God has not given us the spirit of fear. God is not the one spreading fear. God gives a spirit of power, love and a sound mind.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2 Timothy 1:7

Many faithful followers are alarmed by the false and misleading stories of slanderers. Slanderers are so happy to announce the fallout from their stories and slander. They say, “Oh, have you heard that brother so and so has left the church? Mrs Ssokeyloo has also left the church and now attends Goobleygob Ministries. Wow! I hear everyone is leaving! Everyone is leaving! Many people are not happy with what is going on!” Indeed, a slanderer alarms the congregation and spreads fear everywhere.

But do not worry, dear friend, God will cause you to trample over satan and his demonized slanderers. It is only a matter of time before you will hear of those slanderers burning in the very fuel they had planned to use to burn down your church.

8. The sin of combining leadership with slander: Some church leaders are slanderers.

You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed, those who stray from your commands. Remove from me their scorn and contempt, for I keep your statutes. THOUGH RULERS SIT TOGETHER AND SLANDER ME, your servant will meditate on your decrees. Your statutes are my delight; they are my counselors.

Psalm 119:21-24 (NIV)

Rulers and elders of churches also sit down and slander people. Slander from a church leader can be particularly devastating. The authority of pastors gives credence to the stories they are peddling. When a pastor or bishop is a gossip, it is particularly dangerous. There are pastors who come alive whenever there is a story going around about someone involved in a scandal. Gossip is their food! They love to perch on a high pedestal and chat with other “birds of gossip”. For such people all their chatting is fault-finding, sarcastic remarks, accusations and unrighteous judgment.

Whilst some church leaders are also slanderers, others are not. I am always alerted in my spirit when I speak with a slanderer. Oh, how they love to give inside information about what is happening and what they have recently heard.

Some churches are filled with gossip groups who discuss various emerging scandals and rumours. The church is full of people who gossip and find fault with everything. That is why it is important to teach against gossiping, accusations and fault-finding.

Satan is the ultimate slanderer and he and his cohorts sit on the shoulders of top church leaders and spread rumours, slander and accusations. Remember that it is difficult for people to forget stories once they have heard them. Once stories are spread, people do not forget them.

May the judgment of God visit all fault finders, gossips, accusers and unrighteous judges within the church!

May a slanderer not endure on the earth; May evil hunt a violent person violently.

Psalm 140:11 (NASB)

9. The sin of pride: Slanderers are cut off because of their pride.

WHOSO PRIVILY SLANDERETH HIS NEIGHBOUR, HIM WILL I CUT OFF: HIM THAT HATH AN HIGH LOOK AND A PROUD HEART WILL NOT I SUFFER. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

Psalm 101:5-6

A slanderer has a high look and a proud heart! This is what the scripture says. Pride and overconfidence are the reasons why slanderers embark on their wicked campaigns. These proud individuals have secret meetings and make phone calls to spread tales, stories and rumours. All such proud acts are noted by God. Their high looks will be cut off.

God promises death to slanderers! Be careful, those who slander have a death sentence looming over their heads. Do not be close to a slanderer, lest you partake of his judgments. Wickedness will not prevail on the earth. God will allow the blasphemy for a season and a reason! After a season, an end will come to all slanderers, and they will be cut off!

Chapter 6

Why God Allows Slanderers to Operate

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast-all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.... “If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.” This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

Revelation 13:5-8,10 (NIV)

1. God allows you to be slandered because He Himself suffers slander and blasphemy from godless men and beasts.

And HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

Revelation 13:6

If Almighty God suffers slander, then who are you to complain about being slandered by evil men? God’s house, His tabernacle, His name and all those in heaven are slandered regularly by the slanderer! You must understand that being slandered is part of being a godly person.

2. God allows you to be slandered because it is part of the war.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, TO BLASPHEME his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

Revelation 13:6-7

We are in a real war. There are real haters and murderers out there in the realm of the spirit. God teaches our hands to war. He shows us how to fight the slander and the blasphemies of wicked and ungodly men.

The key to fighting slander is to not have the honour of men. If you are immune to the praises of men, you will also be immune to the slander and malicious talk of men. Remove yourself from every platform where you receive honour from men. When you do not belong to certain groups, you will be unaffected by the opinions of those groups, and you will also not mind what blasphemies and slander they hear.

3. God allows men to slander you because it is only for a season.

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

Revelation 13:5-6

There are certain things in the Kingdom which are allowed but are also time bound. Blasphemers and slanderers can only operate within a season. The slander cannot and will not go on forever! These evil powers have an expiry date on them. In the scripture above, we see that the season of allowed slander was forty-two months.

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; AND YE SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION TEN DAYS: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Revelation 2:9-10

In the scripture above we see that the church in Smyrna was taken through a tribulation. It was also a timed tribulation. It was to last only ten days! After ten days, God would not allow it to continue.

Take heart in your sufferings and tests. God is not dead! God is “wild”*! God is very conscious of all that is happening. He will respond! He will react! He will right the wrongs and fight back at satan and his agents.

All the tests you are going through have an important spiritual effect on your life. The powerful effects of slander and tribulation in humbling and purifying God’s servant are worth far more than the “peace” you would have otherwise enjoyed.

Whether it is forty-two months or ten days, remember that every power has an expiry date. There will be a time when the powers of the slanderer will come to an end!

4. God allows men to slander you to work patience in you.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

James 1:2-4

When you are slandered by wicked men, you must consider the provocation as something God allows. Count it all joy because the temptation and provocation of slander are working out patience and endurance in your character.

Your character is definitely modified after you have been tested, tried and tempted. An untested aircraft is different from one that has been tested. You would not want to sit on a plane that has not been tested. Allow God to take you through various tests, so that you become a valuable and usable vessel.

One day a sister told me she did not like being talked about at all. “I hate such things”, she said. I told her that she would have to resign from Christianity then, because in the church we have some of the most ardent slanderers ever. The devil loves to use Christians to slander because slander is more powerful when it comes from someone seemingly righteous. The slander you will experience is even more evil and more deadly if it comes from a high authority in the church.

I once met a pastor who had been slandered by a disgruntled former employee. When he described the insults and slander he had endured from this son of his, I perceived that he had become a much more mature Christian because of it. I loved him more and could relate to him better.

Slander will harden you! Being spoken about maliciously will toughen you up. Once you are unaffected by damaging and slanderous speech, it means you are unaffected by the praise of men. Who is man? What does man’s opinion matter? It is what God thinks about you that matters.

Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God can make him stand.

Romans 14:4

5. God does not stop temptations but allows them to happen to solidify your faith.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR THEE, THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Luke 22:31-32

Why did Jesus not pray that the temptation of Peter would not come on? Indeed, Jesus did not pray that Peter would not be tempted. Jesus prayed that Peter would have the right mind and heart of faith AFTER the temptation.

It is only the temptation that could knock out Peter’s attitude of arrogance and overconfidence. Jesus preferred that Apostle Peter should be humbled by the temptation so that he could be reformed. Peter needed to reform his thoughts and beliefs about himself and his ministry.

Jesus did not prevent the test, the trial and the temptation. He preferred for Peter to be tested. Indeed, slander will do something good for you and your personality.

Slander has a humbling effect on you. When you read about what is being said about you and what people think about you, you will realize that you are nothing. You will give up trying to have a great reputation. People will speak about you as though you are an object that does not have life or feelings. The insults will flow from the lowest of men! Liars will feel free to speak abominations and blasphemies just at the mention of your name!

Men, women, boys and girls alike will write and speak great malicious words which people will believe wholly. Many simple people will believe all the wicked things that they read and hear about you. You will stand before men and women and wonder what they think about you. You will see confusion and uncertainty in the eyes of many people. These things are indeed humbling.

6. Slander is a door to higher levels in the ministry.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts 14:22

Tribulation is pressure, affliction, anguish and persecution! Persecution is inflicted by slander and by malicious and damaging speakers and writers. Slander causes an unbearable burden and oppression. Many ministers are utterly and profoundly distressed by the slander perpetrated against them. Paul said that we would enter the kingdom through tribulation. That includes the tribulation of slander. Amazingly, troubles are the springboard that lead you to higher levels. Slanderous, bad stories about you will eventually lead to your promotion.

Those whom God has drawn to you will never be affected by any slander about you. It is only those who are not a part of your life and ministry who will be put off by any rumours about you. People who love you will never leave you because of a bad story whether it is true or not. Those who love you cannot be driven away from you because of a bad story. If anyone leaves me just because of a bad story or rumour about me, I would prefer for that person to stay away forever. There have been rumours about me since I began in the ministry. Ministry is always practised in the midst of bad stories, rumours and lies.

Peter the apostle was slandered and accused of robbing the grave of Jesus to make people think that Jesus did not actually rise from the dead. The Roman soldiers spread the story that Peter had stolen the body of Jesus. Peter was forced to start his ministry amid such slander.

And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

Matthew 28:12-13

Just as Peter went forth into his ministry amid slander, many great evangelists have received worldwide renown through the slander and bad press they received. These troubles and tribulations they experienced were actually a door to higher levels and larger crowds.

Many of my detractors and slanderers have worked to increase me and take me higher in ministry. If you have spiritual discernment, you will notice that you go higher with every trouble that you go through.

Chapter 7

The Slander of Your Vision

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED, AND THERE THEY SHALL DIE. And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, AND MADE ALL THE CONGREGATION TO MURMUR AGAINST HIM, BY BRINGING UP A SLANDER UPON THE LAND, Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

Numbers 14:34-38

One of the greatest examples of slander is when the spies brought up slander against God’s promised land. The spies damaged forever the reputation of the promised land that God had described as a land flowing with milk and honey. The report of the spies was so damaging that no one believed in the idea of a land flowing with milk and honey any longer. The entire Israelite population was outraged about the idea that God would lead them to a land full of giants and call it a land flowing with milk and honey! It was as though God was a liar and had deceived Moses into leading the people into a death trap.

God knew that His land of milk and honey would never be received as a good thing anymore. It was now more known as a land of dangerous giants. This portrayal of the promised land as a dangerous, life-threatening place is one of the greatest reputation-damaging slanders of all time. This slander cost the lives of two million people. Two million people believed the bad stories about the promised land, and they all died in the wilderness. Slander is truly a work of the devil.

The judgment of a slanderer is that he will be wiped out forever. God decided that the entire congregation who had murmured, because of slander against the vision of a promised land, should be wiped out.

The slander, evil report and negative news about the vision of the promised land caused an entire nation to perish! This is why slanderers have a lot to answer for.

I predict that all slanderers who cause God’s people to go astray will receive their due judgment.

“Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord” (Psalm 83:16).

Chapter 8

The Slander of Your Character

IF A MAN TAKES A WIFE AND, AFTER SLEEPING WITH HER, DISLIKES HER AND SLANDERS HER AND GIVES HER A BAD NAME, SAYING, “I MARRIED THIS WOMAN, BUT WHEN I APPROACHED HER, I DID NOT FIND PROOF OF HER VIRGINITY,” then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. NOW HE HAS SLANDERED HER AND SAID, ‘I DID NOT FIND YOUR DAUGHTER TO BE A VIRGIN.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, and the elders shall take the man and punish him. THEY SHALL FINE HIM A HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER AND GIVE THEM TO THE YOUNG WOMAN’S FATHER, BECAUSE THIS MAN HAS GIVEN AN ISRAELITE VIRGIN A BAD NAME. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:13-19 (NIV)

Here in this story, we see an irreparable slander against a virgin. In the scripture above, a man had sex with his new bride and announced afterwards that he felt his wife was not a virgin when he married her. This gave a bad name to the young bride, making her unable to recover from her husband’s depiction of her as a shameful slut.

The man who brought this slander did this because he did not like his bride after sleeping with her and wanted to change her. It is unfortunate when people who have a change of mind about a relationship do not just leave quietly. They want to slander the person they are breaking away from and cause irreparable damage. Can you imagine how difficult it would be for this young lady to recover from the slander of this man?

This is what some dismissed or disgruntled former employees will do. When they decide that they want a change of employment, they say many bad things about their former workplace.

Slanderers will pay a heavy price because they have attempted to destroy your life and ministry and give you a bad name.

The slanderous man will be made to pay heavily for the slander he has spread about you. The slanderous man in the scripture had to pay a hundred shekels for his terrible slander. Never become a slanderer! The price is too high for you to pay!

A slanderer aims to destroy his former church in such a way that it will not thrive anymore but take heart! The church is very resilient! Your ministry will rebound and become even stronger.

Slander has never been able to destroy God’s work. It may only make the work of God more difficult and slower but it cannot stop what God has purposed to do. God has stretched out His hand and no one can turn His hand back.

This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Isaiah 14:26-27

Chapter 9

The Judgment of a Slanderer

MAY A SLANDERER NOT ENDURE ON THE EARTH; May evil hunt a violent person violently.

Psalm 140:11 (NASB)

1. A slanderer will be cursed!

DO NOT SLANDER A SLAVE TO HIS MASTER, OR HE WILL CURSE YOU and you will be found guilty.

Proverbs 30:10 (NASB)

Even slaves who are slandered, release curses against the slanderer. A slanderer will be cursed over and over by the ones he slanders.

Whether he hears the curses being spoken or not, the slanderer is being cursed continually by the people he has slandered! O slanderer, do not worry about whether you see or hear anyone cursing you; you are being cursed day and night! Even slaves who are slandered release curses against their slanderer.

I remember one slanderer who sent a message to the person he was slandering. He said “Stop cursing people! It is not biblical!”

He said this because he had watched his victim issuing curses against those who slandered him. “Stop the curses,” he cried. “ It is wrong to curse.”

However, curses continued pouring over his head from different quarters. I heard of several groups and individuals who continually cursed this fellow. They cursed him privately and they cursed him as a group. And indeed, he was truly cursed.

Later someone spoke to the slanderer and told him, “It was spiritual insanity to have attacked that church like you did.” This accursed, miserable slanderer developed crises in every field of his life and encountered the sword of the Lord.

The words and actions of a slanderer are so painful that he is due a curse! Never forget that even slaves who are slandered release curses against their slanderer. All who spread stories and information intending to harm someone should know that curses will abound in their direction!

2. A slanderer will not endure on the earth.

MAY A SLANDERER NOT ENDURE ON THE EARTH; May evil hunt a violent person violently.

Psalm 140:11 (NASB)

Slanderers are destined to have their stay on earth cut short. Evil will hunt a slanderer. Slanderers must watch over their shoulders constantly. They will not endure on the earth. This is why many who choose to slander others as a profession do so at great risk to their own lives. “Professional slanderers” can become some of the most hated people in society. Many people detest slanderers because they damage people’s lives irrevocably.

It is almost impossible to change people’s minds, once the slanderer has published preposterous stories and rumours based on half-truths and difficult-to-explain realities! Those slandered are left with the impossible task of having to clear their image and reputation.

3. A slanderer will not be allowed to remain in the church.

LORD, WHO MAY RESIDE IN YOUR TENT? WHO MAY SETTLE ON YOUR HOLY HILL? One who walks with integrity, practices righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart. HE DOES NOT SLANDER WITH HIS TONGUE, Nor do evil to his neighbor, Nor bring shame on his friend;

Psalm 15:1-3 (NASB)

Do not allow slanderers to stay on your leadership team! Do not allow slanderers in your board meetings! He who slanders others to you will slander you to others. It is just a matter of time! Psalm 15 describes people who will be allowed to stay in the house of God and those who will be allowed to remain as members. Once you have slandered the brethren, you can no longer be allowed to stay and dwell amongst us!

Lord, who may be allowed to stay in Your holy tent or reside in Your holy hill?

No slanderer can be allowed to settle in amongst us! Drive away slanderers! Let them go! Do not feel sorry for them! You are better off without a slanderer! To be a slanderer, is to be a devil! How can you accept a living, human, breathing devil into your midst?

Do not receive people who come with stories and rumours against their former church. Do not accept people who are filled with unverifiable, wicked and slanderous stories about their last employer.

Read the psalm carefully; Lord, who may reside in Your tent? Who may settle on Your holy hill? In other words; “Who can become a member of your church?”

Certainly, you should not receive a slanderer into your midst! Some people receive slanderers into their fold because they seem to be bringing news of the downfall of their competitors and brothers. Do not be fooled by this very common trick. The downfall or difficulty of your brother does not mean that you will do well.

4. Evil will recoil on the slanderer.

LET EVIL RECOIL ON THOSE WHO SLANDER ME; in your faithfulness destroy them.

Psalm 54:5 (NIV)

Recoiling evil! Frightening! Evil will recoil on those who slander me! Evil will boomerang to the sender! Evil will boomerang to the speaker and writer of slanderous, damaging and defamatory articles!

A boomerang is a piece of wood that is so designed that when it is thrown it returns to the thrower. A slanderer will have the evil that he throws out return to him in a fantastic way.

A boomerang is something that does injury to the originator! The originator of the slander will have a thousand times more evil returning to himself.

I remember people who sat down at meetings, devising slander and saying with glee, “This story is electrifying. This will send shock waves!” They devised evil with the intent to destroy me. But there are scriptures and curses for all who devise such things. Evil will boomerang to them in shocking ways! Keep watching!

Evil will recoil and rebound against slanderers. This is what the Bible teaches. Every evil work of a slanderer will spring back against him with force and energy. If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7)!

Did Germany and Japan expect to bomb Europe, England and America and not be bombed in a more terrible and fantastic way? Indeed, by the end of the Second World War, both Germany and Japan were virtually flattened by bombs. They had sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind!

The evil they had unleashed on Britain and America, in the bombing of Britain and in the bombing of Pearl Harbour, boomeranged back to them a thousand times over. This is what the Bible teaches as recoiling evil! It is indeed frightening!

Chapter 10

Seven Prophecies for Slanderers

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me; THE LIPS OF THOSE that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I AM THEIR MUSICK. RENDER UNTO THEM A RECOMPENSE, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. GIVE THEM SORROW OF HEART, THY CURSE UNTO THEM. PERSECUTE AND DESTROY THEM in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:61-66

Jeremiah prayed and prophesied against the people who insulted him from morning to evening. He prophetically prayed about those who reproached him. It is time to deploy all spiritual weapons and truths against the slanderer. Jeremiah asked the curses of the Lord to be released against all his slanderers. A fight against the slanderer is a fight against the devil himself. Make no mistakes about that.

Remember that a slanderer is an accuser and a living devil. The word diabolos is translated as “devil,” “accuser” or “slanderer”. Therefore, you must fight the slanderer with equal strength and determination as you would fight the devil. Release all prayers and declarations just as the prophet Jeremiah did.

Seven Prophecies

1. O slanderer, bearer of wicked stories and messages that corrupt and offend the house of the Lord! The sword of the Lord is flying in the realm of the spirit and will locate you no matter how far away you are. For you thought you were safe in your high tower, far away in a distant land. The sword of the Lord shall travel far and pierce your heart, O slanderer. The sword of the Lord shall enter into the house of the slanderer and scatter and destroy whatever is in the dwelling place of the slanderer.

For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:10

2. O slanderer! You shall go forward in your obstinacy and meet a great rock. For no one could counsel you! For no one could guide you anymore! No one could reason with you! No one could love you anymore! Therefore, thou shalt encounter a rock! Thou shalt encounter a hard block! Thou shalt encounter a concrete wall! For it shall be a supernatural rock, the rock of the Lord. The rock shall stop you and shall stop your slander! The rock shall be harder than your stubborn forehead! The rock shall break your head in pieces, O slanderer. For your destiny is to be suddenly destroyed by what is harder and stronger than thee. So shall it be!

The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads.

Psalm 7:16 (NLT)

3. O slanderer, you shall be beaten with many stripes. Your wounds shall cover you. For every lie that you have told, you shall receive a stripe. For every falsehood you have peddled, you shall be stricken. For your multiple adulteries, you shall endure shame, defeat and poverty forever. O slanderer, you shall have many stripes. O slanderer, those curses that were meant for others shall be yours forever. For you said, I shall lie and deceive and shame God’s servant, but you shall be ashamed a hundredfold and your everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten! It shall come to pass upon the slanderer.

But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Jeremiah 20:11

4. O slanderer! Thou shalt perish in the fire. For the Lord shall consume thee with a fire! You and all of your stubborn wickedness shall be consumed in a fire. For you said in your heart; I shall lie and steal and defraud the church of God. For your extortion and your blackmail, you shall be consumed in the fire that is determined against you and all that is yours. Your house, your dwelling and all your labours shall be consumed in a great fire. You shall not be able to stand in the fire of judgment!

Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

Isaiah 41:11-12

5. O slanderer, you threatened and attacked the church. You should not have touched the church! For you have practised your bewitchments on many others but you should not have touched the church. It is hard to kick against the pricks! From now on, you shall perceive what it means to say “It is hard to kick against the pricks.” Fire! Fire! Fire! It is yours from the Lord! Many are they who lament and speak of your treachery but it shall be the fire of the Lord that will consume you, with your smooth and deceptive speeches! You cannot be restored. You cannot recant because your doom and destruction are determined by the Lord!

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Psalm 62:3-4

6. O slanderer! You have caused devastation in the house of the Lord. You sowed confusion in the church of God. You never knew the effect of your defamations and libels. Darkness descends upon you now. O slanderer, this is a darkness that you cannot shake off.

I see the dust! I see ashes! Dust thou art and to dust you shall return. From ashes to ashes the slanderer shall return. From earth to earth and he shall be gone forever! These words shall follow fast behind the slanderer, for they will be pronounced over the slanderer.

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Isaiah 8:9-10

7. O slanderer! Thou art a fig tree from which no one shall ever eat fruits again. From henceforth and forever more, no one shall desire your fruits anymore! Yea, your days of bearing fruit are over. No man eat fruit of thee from henceforth and forever more! Your ministry is over. Your life is over! Your fruits are not wanted anymore!

O slanderer, you shall encounter that which shall overcome thee. For you have said in your heart, there is none that can ever control me or counsel me. Henceforth you shall see that which overpowers and that which overcomes! Remember O slanderer, My church is the apple of My eye! You pierced the eye of the Lord when you attacked His anointed servants with your slander.

Therefore, you shall fall and you shall slip and you shall roll and you shall drop and you shall wallow in your own slime and in your own vomit and in your slander.

O slanderer, All that see thee shall stand in awe and say “Is this the one who caused the house of the Lord to tremble?”

And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves].

Genesis 12:3 (AMPC)

Chapter 11

Psalm 109 for Slanderers

MAY THIS BE THE REWARD OF MY ACCUSERS FROM THE LORD, And of those who speak evil against my soul.

Psalm 109:20 (NASB)

Psalm 109

1] God of my praise, Do not be silent!

2] For they have opened a wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3] They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And have fought against me without cause.

4] In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer.

5] So they have repaid me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

6] Appoint a wicked person over him, And may an accuser stand at his right hand.

7] When he is judged, may he come out guilty, And may his prayer become sin.

8] May his days be few; May another take his office.

9] May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

10] May his children wander about and beg; And may they seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

11] May the creditor seize everything that he has, And may strangers plunder the product of his labor.

12] May there be none to extend kindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.

13] May his descendants be eliminated; May their name be wiped out in a following generation.

14] May the guilt of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And do not let the sin of his mother be wiped out.

15] May they be before the Lord continually, So that He may eliminate their memory from the earth;

16] Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the afflicted and needy person, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

17] He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

18] But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered his body like water, And like oil into his bones.

19] May it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And as a belt which he constantly wears around himself.

20] MAY THIS BE THE REWARD OF MY ACCUSERS FROM THE LORD AND OF THOSE WHO SPEAK EVIL AGAINST MY SOUL.

Psalm 109:1-20 (NASB)

“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Ecclesiastes 12:12