Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. PROVERBS 11:14
BBLE READING IS PROVERBS 19:20-21
20. Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
21. There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
MESSAGE FOR US
In Isaiah 9:6 , the Lord was called a counsellor. A counsellor is a person you go to when you do not know what to do next.
Counselling is very important in the life of every believer. The quality of the decisions you make will be determined by the advice you receive.
The quality of the advice you receive is a function of the experience and training of your adviser. So, there are good and bad counsels.
Psalms 1:1 forbids believers from receiving counsel from unbelievers. If you make an unbeliever your adviser, he will advise you contrary to the word of God.
Psalms 106:43 says whenever you take advice contrary to Gods word, you provoke God to work against you.
For instance, if someone advises you to go into premarital sex for whatever reason, that advice violates the word of God in 1 Corinthians 6:18 which says: Flee fornication.
If you then go ahead to do it, it must mean you are prepared to face whatever consequence that comes to you.
Asides a few cases of God’s infinite mercy, your sin will fling the door open for the devil to do with you as he pleases.
KEY POINT TO NOTE
Until you cut off from ungodly counsels, you may never experience Jesus as the Counsellor.
OTHER BIBLE READING ;JOB 7:1-21, JOB 8:1-22 , JOB 9:1-35 , ACTS 7:44-60