Indiscipline – A Deadly Enemy Of Destiny

TUESDAY 28^TH OCTOBER 2025

 TOPIC: INDISCIPLINE – A DEADLY ENEMY OF DESTINY

 SCRIPTURE: Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people), Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil.  Ephesians 5:15-16 AMP

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: If you cannot control yourself, you can never control your destiny.

A life of indiscipline or lack of self-control is a terrible enemy of destiny. Indiscipline has rendered many people useless on earth. It is a life where everything goes. It is when a person has no power to do what is right or avoid doing what is wrong.

Beloved, note the following facts about discipline or self-control.

1. There can be no destiny without discipline. Our key example here is Esau. Esau sold his birth right for a pot of meal because he had no discipline. The outcome: he lost his destiny (Genesis 25:29-34).
2. If you cannot control yourself, you can never control your destiny. If you cannot control yourself when it comes to anger, inappropriate relationship with the opposite gender, food, sleep, etc.; you cannot control your life and destiny. Until you are ready to change something inside you, there is nothing you can change.
3. Self-control is a product of mind control. When a man cannot control his mind, his life will be out of control (Proverbs 4:23).
4. If your flesh does not respect your will, there is nothing that will respect your life. If your will says, “Do not go out with that man, he is not your husband”, but you still proceed, you have no self-control or discipline. Nothing and no one respect a person whose flesh does not respect their will.
5. It is the strength of your will that undergirds the strength of your destiny. When the flesh rules your life, the future is not guaranteed.

Now, what are the criteria for a life of discipline?

1. Absolutely surrender yourself to the control of the Holy Spirit.
2. Learn to say, “No” to the flesh.
3. Surround your life with disciplined people.

Beloved, you don’t have a spare life so you must make up your mind to deal with this enemy of destiny called indiscipline.

Remember this: If you cannot control yourself, you can never control your destiny.

ASSIGNMENT (S):

1. Go through the criteria for a life of discipline in today’s lesson again.
2. Study the lives of great and disciplined people and uphold their principles.
3. Make demands on God to submerge your will in His perfect Will.

 PRAYER: Lord, open my ears to your Voice of guidance always. Cause the voice of my flesh to be buried in Your Voice that I may live a life of absolute obedience to You, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE DEADLY ENEMIES OF DESTINY BY DR PAUL ENENCHE

 DAILY BIBLE READING: Luke 22-24

QUOTE: To conquer anything in this world, you must first conquer yourself. Culled from the book, 21 Foolish Things People Do by Dr Paul Enenche.

AMAZING FACT: There are up to 4,800 stars born every second.

PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: The Lord en-grace you to live a life of discipline and impact in Jesus’ Name.