TOPIC: SHARPEN YOUR SWORD THROUGH COUNSEL
TEXT : Psalms 16:7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
Memory Verse: Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
FOCUS
This morning we are looking at, sharpen your sword through counsel. Counseling is of God, God himself counsels people, He tells people don’t go this way, go this way. Why do we need counsel? The Bible says there’s a way that seemeth right to a man, man will look at it and say this is good but the end of it is destruction. God doesn’t want us to think in our mind and take crucial decision that will lead us into trouble. So, God has placed people in every aspect of life who could offer us counsel. When you see someone who is left alone, he will soon crash.
In the multitude of counsel, there’s safety. What you don’t know, somebody knows it. The area you are struggling with, there’s someone that is a master there. Why will you not go for counseling? There’s nothing you want to be that someone else is not so why don’t you go for counseling. How does God counsel comes? It can come in dream. You remember the story of Joseph, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream that they should carry the child and run away. If Joseph had said no, Jesus would have died.
I want you to know that God is for you, go for counseling, ask the Lord to give you counsel. The word of God is also another avenue you can receive counsel; when you read the story of people you can also receive strength.
LESSON
Hosea 11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
The scripture is about the Israelites who refused to go for counsel. There are people who counsel themselves, their counsel is evil, they have nothing to offer than to rebel and the Bible says they will fall by their own sword. When you are carrying a sword and not taking counsel, that same sword can kill the carrier. When you reject counsel, God rejects the person.
In the multitude of counsel, there’s safety. Safety in the sense that you are preserved, there’s a way that seemeth right and the end is destruction. That is why sometimes you have to look inward and ask, this decision I want to take is it good enough. If it’s not then go for counseling. Don’t sit in the will power of your destiny and drive yourself to destruction because you are too arrogant to go for counseling. What you don’t know, you don’t know. God has blessed us with the gift of men that we can climb on their shoulder and you don’t have to go through their experience to learn.
When you are always sitting in your own counsel and don’t go for godly counsel, the sword you are carrying have the power to destroy.
PERSONAL CONFESSION
I receive the spirit of counsel in the Name of Jesus Christ.
PRAYER FOCUS
Father deliver me from pride that will prevent me from going for right counsel in the Name of Jesus Christ.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Until you receive God’s counsel, your sword will be in effective.
Nothing brings understanding like a good counsel.