Truth Teller: The Friend That Every Man Should Have

By Cornelius Dennis PH.D.

There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother (see Proverbs 18:24 TLB) It is true not everyone you meet has been sent by God. Some people have been handpicked and deployed by Satan to derail you from fulfilling your life's purpose. "Truth Teller" exposes the lies and strategies used by Satan to gain strongholds in the lives of individuals, families, and even entire generations. Learn how to recognize the counterfeit plan of Satan versus the genuine plan of God for your life. Become empowered and arm yourself with the knowledge to identify: • healthy divine connections to people that have been preordained by God • demonic agents assigned to destroy your destiny working through people Once you have been made aware of God's divine connections, whether male or female, you will become more cognizant of how to nurture those relationships while maintaining the purity of each person's God-purpose in your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781635255010

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Truth Teller

The Friend That Every Man Should Have

Cornelius L. Dennis, PH.D.

ISBN 978-1-63525-500-3 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63525-501-0 (Digital)

Copyright © 2017 by Cornelius L. Dennis, PH.D.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1 - David and His Family

2 - Samuel: David’s First Important Connection

3 - King Saul: David’s Next Important Connection

4 - Jonathan: David’s Soul Tie

5 - Those Related to Your Destiny

6 - Designed to Destroy Our Destiny

7 - God’s Greater Election of Purpose

8 - Michal: David’s First Wife

9 - Nathan: David’s Truth Teller

10 - The Truth the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

Foreword

It has been said that the truth hurts but Scripture tells us AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE (John 8:32 KJV). In this book, Dr. Cornelius Dennis gives the reader accounts of historical events that transformed the lives of those who adhered to the truth when given by A FRIEND THAT EVERY MAN SHOULD HAVE. One of the greatest needs of our day is having such a friend. Truth Teller is a brutally honest book where the author engages this issue head on. Your life will be changed for the better after reading this book.

Dr. Ron Cooley Senior Pastor

Restoration of Souls Ministries

Truth Teller is a must read book for every man and woman who is seeking to find the key to reaching his/her life’s potential. I am delighted with Dr. C.L. Dennis’s new book Truth Teller. This book will challenge you to look beyond your present circumstances and understand what has limited you from becoming the man or woman God intended you to be. Furthermore, you will discover not every bad person who came into your life or every dire event that took place was meant to hold you back. Moreover and to the contrary, there may be divine connections and situations that were allowed to help launch you into your destiny. I found this book to be both inspiring and motivating. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. I believe Truth Teller will help catapult those who are striving to reach their next spiritual level.

Th.D.,

Joe Mejia

Introduction

At some point, those who are searching, striving, and aspiring to take hold of and accomplish a greater purpose during their lifetime must evaluate the various relationships they’re associated with, stretching from family to a host of societal affiliations. The necessary consideration should be warranted in determining how many are simply acquaintances versus what you might consider friends. Of these, there may only be a few that you would consider true friends or what I call truth tellers. How do we define a true friend? Does the saying hold true, a true friend sticks closer than a brother? Actually, what may be defined as a friend who sticks closer than a brother or sister could prove to be completely absent in most of our lives. This might explain why we spend more time tolerating, stomaching, and pacifying most of the people around us instead of maximizing the full potential of every divine connection ordained by God. Through the course of time, we may have developed the propensity to be drawn and attracted to demonic assignments that cater to the lust of our flesh (anyone who looks like, sounds like, or acts out all the behaviors that appease our flesh) as opposed to the relationships God intended to help catapult and push us closer to our destinies. Undoubtedly, if we habitually function in our flesh regarding a specific subject or area of our lives, we will tend to be drawn to and enticed by individuals speaking to those things that appease our flesh more than our spirit, For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit (Romans 8:5 KJV).

The words do mind (fron-eh-o) in the above-referenced scripture means to exercise or condition the mind, that is, entertain or have an emotional opinion set, to be mentally ready earnestly in a certain direction, and to be of the same regard or way of thinking, that is of the flesh or the Spirit. The Greek word fron-eh-o signifies the preconditioned mindset of an individual who is beforehand emotionally and mentally tied to a set way of thinking. Throughout the many stages of our lives, it is probable that most of us have been swayed and habituated by surrounding cultural influences that consequently played a major role in the development of our psyche. As a result, the vast percentage of our lives could be dominated by a fixated, engrossed pattern of behavior along with excessive impulses and susceptibilities that give way to the various schemes and plots of the enemy designed to beguile, seduce, and deceive us into focusing on the things of the flesh rather than the things of the Spirit.

The various trials or temptations the enemy strives to bring our way can be a direct result of our engrossed lust (longing for, excessive desire, and extreme want). The Bible says, Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed (James 1:13–14 KJV). Engrossed lust, if not acknowledged, repented, and resisted, can be the key factor that determines who we let into our lives versus who we cast off.

True friendships that stand the test of time and trials are extremely rare. Similarly, friends may come and go but having a lifelong, close, personal friendship is truly a great blessing. Many acquaintances will prove to be productive assets helping propel us further into our destinies or the very tools used by the enemy to keep us stagnated, unproductive, and running in a continual circle of replicated mistakes. Therefore, it’s extremely imperative to determine which people add great value and enrichment to our life’s journey versus those who bring about chaos, ruin, and destruction to our life’s purpose. The productivity and fruit developed through every connection, whether good or bad, will be a direct result of the seeds we allow to be sown into our lives: "Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit" (Matthew 12:33 KJV).

What may prove to be even more puzzling is how easy it can be to identify a true friend versus an unproductive, stagnant, bleed-you-dry acquaintance. Yet a very large percentage of people seem to have a really difficult time letting go of the most ineffective relationships and tend to shun from healthy, beneficial correlations. These types of relationships (strongholds) can be defined as soul ties (souls being knit together, becoming one flesh, etc.). A soul tie can serve many functions but in its simplest form, it ties two souls together in the spiritual realm. Soul ties can be good or bad. For example, the soul tie between married couples would be considered a good soul tie: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh (Ephesians 5:31 KJV).

This type of soul tie is supposed to bind them together and create a bond that’s difficult to separate. As a matter of fact, it has been recorded that couples who divorced still found themselves strongly connected to one another after many years even though they were no longer physically together. On the other hand, soul ties between fornicators (sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who are not married to each other) can lure a beaten and battered man or woman into a pattern of relationships that he or she would normally hate, despise, and run from in the natural realm. Instead, they are drawn to them and others like them, knowing they may not be loved and treated according to the standards a beautiful human being deserves. When a man or woman has continual, ungodly sexual relations with numerous people, ungodly soul ties form that are destructive, distort the soul, and must be acknowledged as well as repented of (consider one’s way and the potential of fatality; to turn away from such behavior). The Bible says, What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh (1 Corinthians 6:16 KJV). Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (Galatians 5:19 KJV). "I tell you before, as I