Topic: Guard Your Vision [Friday, December 9th]
Be sensible and don’t tell everything you know… (Proverbs 12:23 CEV).
When you walk with the Lord, He gives you visions for your future; visions about your life, the things He wants to accomplish with you and through you. He causes you to see into the future so you can head for that future. Everybody may not see what you see, or know the future God is guiding you into. But some people try to tell everybody what God is showing them about their future. That’ll be a mistake, except if He’s the one leading you to talk about it.
Understand that Satan doesn’t know what you see, until you tell him; he doesn’t know everything. When he hears about what you see, then he starts scheming how to work out a plan to try to stop you. There’re people who, because they couldn’t keep certain things to themselves, lost the beautiful idea they received from the Spirit. Once they got the idea for something, they started telling people about it, and Satan got wind of it and devised means to stop the idea from materializing. Don’t give him that chance.
Our theme verse says, “Be sensible and don’t tell everything you know….” Don’t always tell your plans to non-Christians. Whatever idea God gives you, get started with it first before talking about it; or else you may never start. It’s not because the people that know about your vision or even the devil can stop you; no. It’s because there’s a spirit that works with them; they may exude a certain kind of negativism that could dampen your zeal for what God wants you to do, if you’re not careful. So, be spiritually smart. The Bible says, “Watch your words and hold your tongue; you’ll save yourself a lot of grief” (Proverbs 21:23 MSG).
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for the visions of the great future that you have for me. My heart is flooded with light to see, comprehend, and apprehend my glorious destiny in Christ. I follow the leading of the Holy Spirit as He unveils His plans and strategies to me in executing the ideas you give me for success in life and ministry, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study: || Proverbs 3:32 For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret [is] with the righteous. ||
|| Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. ||
Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Revelation 2:1-17,
Hosea 1-2
2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Revelation 10:1-11,
Obadiah 1
EXTRACT FROM: Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional
