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TOPIC: GET GOOD COUNSEL FOR YOUR SUCCESS

HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE HOREMOW

DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR.

DATE: SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 2026.

TOPIC: GET GOOD COUNSEL FOR YOUR SUCCESS 

TEXT: 2 SAMUEL 16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

KEY VERSE: PROVERBS 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Many live without counsel and that is why they fail. You make assumptions, take decisions without seeking God for guidance. God will direct you to see somebody more experienced than you on that matter to tell you what to do. When God called Paul the apostle, he asked him to go into the city where he would be told what to do. 

But you do not want to refer to any man; you just take up something and do it. You go into any venture and just move forward. That is why you fail because you did not seek counsel. Whatever comes to your mind, you just go ahead to execute it without praying through for guidance. You go ahead without seeking counsel to know whether your thought is correct or not. 

In the church, you have your pastor but you do not bother to see him for counsel. That is the reason why you fail. Do you want to marry? No counsel; no advice. Whoever you choose, you go ahead to marry. You dream and wake up to carry out what you dreamt about. Who told you that the Lord spoke in that dream? You did not bother to verify. That is why you failed. The devil gets you cheaply. 

Your mind is so simple that you are easily carried away. That is why God is asking you to check it up by counsel. Even in secular matters, there are specialists in various fields that you need their counsel on how things should be done. There are people with understanding in that field you need to consult to receive sufficient counsel. If this be so in secular world, how much more in Christ? 

An idea came to your mind and you want to go and start a ministry? You just move without consultations from people higher than you to ask questions on your dreams and feelings? You may have dreamt that you were preaching before a multitude and you are thinking that that is a calling into the preaching ministry. You did not seek counsel, but you just went ahead and fall and go to hell! Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 

Thought for the day: Every purpose is established by counsel.

Song for the day: What shall I render (3x), to you O Lord …

Bible reading for the day: Lamentation 1-2

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