Shut Up

A war of attrition can come upon you from people you would not think are attacking you.  When the enemy is trying to wear you out, he keeps coming at you in an area that you are weak until you just give in.  This is the couple trying to have a baby, who has to put up with meddling relatives asking them every five seconds if they are expecting.  This is the mother who crosses the line to remind her son or daughter that they really should lose weight every time their feet push under the table.  This is the meddling father who constantly reminds the daughter, that she is not getting any younger and she needs to get married, despite the numerous failed relationships from which she needs a break.  This is the church mother who is trying to hook you up with a husband while trampling on your right to privacy, like you need her help.  This is the person who constantly reminds you that you don't have the finances you need.  If they said it once, it may have been a constructive.  When they said it twice, it was irritating.  When they said it three times, it was an attack.  The attack was to make you jump up and do something without thinking just so you can get the enemy to shut up.  I can remember when many people seemed to violate the privacy of my life with their notions of how they think it should have ran.  When I got tired of the voices, I shut them up.  I told all them married women who stayed in my business to go to their own homes, jump in the bed with their own husbands and leave me alone.  I told my relatives that my weight was not their problem nor their concern.  I cut off a whole side of my fathers family because they could not accept a woman in ministry.  I have stopped folks in mid sentence.  I have addressed them while the words are oozing from their mouth, not because they were trying to help me, but because they were trying to attack me.  The problems for most of us is that we don't know when we are attacked.  We get confused because the attacker is our mother or our father or our friend.  Sometimes, you got to look folks in the eye and rebuke the devil if they are acting like the devil.  I love my relatives, but they ain't above God, so in the name of Jesus, get off my back.



An Attack
http://youtu.be/feK8DO8t-Ow

Not an Attack
http://youtu.be/TEmhq6tgY9Q