Strategic planning is the key to warfare; to win, you need a lot of good counsel. (Proverbs 24:6 MSG)
One of the distinguishing factors between successful people and the failures is the counsel and the quality thereof they get. Those who choose to drift along in life with no wise counsel in their lives end up making devastating decisions with untold consequences that can even cost their lives.
Rehoboam was the son of King Solomon and when he took over from him, he had to match the wisest king who ever lived. Every move he made was going to be critical. This was not so, his very first move was disastrous because of failure to harness the power of good counsel. The people came to him, asked him to lighten the load that his father had put on them. He first approached the elders that gave his father counsel. They told him to make it easy for the people. He rejected the counsel of the elders.
He went to the young people he had grown up with and asked their counsel. They gave him the wrong counsel and he chose that. (1 Kings 12:14)
and went with the advice of the younger set, “If you think life under my father was hard, you haven’t seen the half of it. My father thrashed you with whips; I’ll beat you bloody with chains!”
From then on the kingdom was split and out of twelve tribes, Rehoboam remained with only one tribe, Judah. Good strategy comes from good counsel. Retention of things comes from good counsel. Progress comes from good counsel. When you take counsel, it is not based on your emotions but from the spiritual and natural realities. Never discard good counsel because of pride and other emotions.
Many are in trouble today, lost all the things that they had accumulated owing to a lack of good counsel. Seek good counsel and make use of it! This gives you a ticket to your next level of success.
I pray for you today that you may be able to seek and identify good counsel. May your life turn out to be what God always intended for you.
Declare this,
I choose the wisdom of God. I will win all the battles in my life through strategic planning that comes from good counsel.
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