DON’T EVER LOVE OR RESPECT ANYBODY ENOUGH TO DISOBEY THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO YOU.
THERE ARE THOSE WHO WENT ON JOURNEY THEY WERE NOT MEANT TO GO. THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE ENTERED RELATIONSHIPS THEY WERE NOT MEANT TO ENTER.
VALUE GOD’S DIVINE GUIDANCE AND DIRECTION.
BE CAREFUL WITH ANYONE WHOSE PRINCIPLES ARE OPPOSITE YOURS.
Avoid the wrong company (Proverbs 13:20, Psalm 1:1-4). Listen to me beloveth brothers and sisters, many people have died other people’s death. See how Jonah was inside the ship and everybody in the ship almost sank until they threw Jonah out.
There are many who died other people’s death in accidents, parties and all those kinds of things. They went where they were not meant to be.
One of the striking examples to me was the example of the relationship between king Jehoshaphat of Judah and king Ahab of Israel. There was a war between the Syrians and the Israelites and the king of Israel, Ahab asked the king Jehoshaphat to join him in the war and you will not believe what Ahab told Jehoshaphat that he agreed (2 Chronicles 18:29).
The kind of things that people agreed to is amazing. The battle was Ahab’s battle, but he told this man, who is having affinity with Ahab, which is another major matter; one of the best kings in Judah was king Jehoshaphat. One of the worst kings in Israel was king Ahab. That was his friend for this moment; “Wear your kingly clothes, let me disguise…” (2 Chronicles 18:29-32).
“This man is wearing the kingly clothes but he is not the king we are looking for.” But how many of you know that if not for God, he would have been wasted. “Even if you are not the king we are looking for, what brought you here?”
That is what the devil did to many people: “I am not looking for you, but what are you doing here? What brought you to this occasion? Where is written that when somebody die, thou must be there?” I don’t want to sound unnecessarily hard; I was meant to travel for a program and everything was already set.
Somebody had even volunteered to give us a plane to go. Everything was set and at the peak of time, let’s say one hour to go to the airport, I felt the leading of the Spirit: ‘Don’t move.’ Some people who are to go with me, have already gone ahead. ‘It’s okay, I am not moving.’ I told my wife; “I am not moving and this journey is cancelled.” She said, “Thank you Sir.”
The outcome of that event was not good, it wouldn’t be palatable.
– You will not die anybody’s death!
Don’t ever love anybody enough to disobey the leading of the Holy Spirit to you. Don’t ever love anybody enough or fear anybody enough or respect anybody enough to disobey the leading of the Holy Spirit to you, because it will only be at your detriment. As I am talking now, does anything occur to you?
You remember the young prophet? The young prophet that came from Bethel, that came to prophesy in Samaria, that God spoke to him and said, “As you go to Samaria, go and prophesy against that altar, that Jeroboam is worshipping and he prophesied and the altar torn into two and king Jeroboam wanted to slap him and his hand suspended in the air and he prayed until Jeroboam’s hand came down and an old Prophet in Bethel heard of the exploits of this young prophet and every young prophet should be careful of old prophets and old prophet is not old by age.
He is old by expiration of prophetic experience. He is old be being alive and no more relevant. This old prophet came and mighty manifestations, and he became jealous on the spot; “How can I be on the ground here and God sent somebody from another town to come and perform a miracle like this and he sent for the young prophet; he said, “Come, visit my house.
I have prepared a dinner. I want us to eat together.” The young prophet said, “God told me that when I come here and I prophesy, I should not branch anywhere. I should just return the way I came.”
The old prophet said, “An angel of the Lord told me that I should ask you to turn back.” My greatest question is: “What God told me directly versus what somebody said, that angel told him? It was God who spoke to me directly. You are telling him that angel told you, it is not even, God told me and then an angel came and say something else. It is God who told me. This is a human being, who is saying that. What is the step? God told the angel, angel told the old prophet, the old prophet is telling you – 4 steps. Now, God told you directly and you discarded what God told you in favour of what a man claims an angel told him. Supposing he didn’t hear well, supposing he heard the devil, he threw it away. Maybe, to respect the man and he started eating with him and as soon as the first bite was in his mouth, the same terrible Prophet now opened is mouth and said, “Thus saith the Lord, you have disobeyed me. Therefore, as you are going now, a lion will kill you.” (1 Kings 13:21).
So, it is possible to miss God and still be prophesying. That was how this young man died for nothing; aligning with the wrong person, hearing the voice of the wrong person and discarding what God told him. That was why I said, never respect anybody enough, never love anybody enough or fear anybody enough to disobey the leading of the Holy Ghost to you because it will be at your detriment, not His. The old prophet prophesied, he said a lion will kill you and truly as the young prophet was going, a lion met him and killed him and left his donkey. The lion stood, the young prophet laid on the floor dead, his animal was standing. Lion didn’t eat the animal and the lion did not eat the dead body. Then the old prophet came and carried the young prophet’s body to go and bury him
– No wicked man will bury you!
1 Kings 13:25-26
He said, let’s go and bury the man, because he is genuinely a man of God and everything he said, will come to pass.
– You will not die anybody’s death!
– Negative and wrong association will not kill you before your time!
So, avoid the wrong company means:
a). Anyone whose life you are not sure of, give each other space.
b). Anyone whose ways you are not sure of, reduce interaction.
c). Be careful with anyone whose principles are opposite yours; your principles of life are not the same.
d). Be careful with anyone who brings you face to face with danger, either by their actions or by their words; you are always encountering danger because of them.
-Pastor Paul Enenche on ‘PRESERVATION WISDOM’
Preservation and Power Communion Service, Dunamis International Gospel Centre.
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