FAITH CAPSULE: Do not make a place for spinning truth that terminates divine destiny. 

1 Samuel 15

Twisting truth is a blatant lie. 
Twisting truth is evil.
Deuteronomy 19:19 responds to lying as evil by stating, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.”
One will twist the truth to deceive, steal, and bear witness to the act of demonstrating inconsistency in the word of God. 
Twisting truth is a choice of living for the father of lies. 
John 8:42-47 records the word of Jesus, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear because you are not of God.” 
Twisting truth is evidence of not listening to the truth but paying attention to lying.
Twisting truth is evidence of accepting the devil as a father.
Twisting truth is doing the will of the devil.
Twisting truth does not have a stand before God. 
To have a stand before God positions one in the place of power of God. The standing of Elija before God was rooted in not twisting the truth. 
1 King 17:1-2 records the stand of Elijah before God, “And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.” 
When the word of God does have a place in one, it becomes possible for one to claim to stand in the word, just as Elijah took a stand and commanded rain to stop for three years and a half. 
One that does not twist truth stands in place of pleasing God. 
Twisting truth is evidence of not believing God, not hearing God.
Twisting truth yields spinning (turning) truth. 
Attempting self-defense provokes spinning the truth. 
The problem is that when one twists often, such becomes convinced that lying is the right way. 
Spinning truth also leads to too much talking and leads more to lies. 
Saul defended by spinning (twisting) the truth. 
Saul was with the word of God to destroy Agag but spare Agag. (1 Samuel 15) 
Twisting, spinning truth made Saul incur a curse that rejected him from being king. 
Avoid twisting truth; do not make a place for spinning truth that terminates divine destiny.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a vessel of lying, spinning the truth of God.