SCRIPTURE: Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Evil communications corrupt good manners.1 Corinthians 15: 33.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Your best comes out when you hang around the best, and your worst comes out when you hang around the worst.
Our anchor Scripture above is clear about the power or effect of association.
Proverbs 13:20 corroborates it:
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
This means, the person you walk or associate with influences your life negatively or positively. Your best comes out when you hang around the best, and your worst comes out when you hang around the worst.
It is important to understand that attitude and character are contagious. Conviction is infectious.
This is why you have to be careful of the people you associate closely with. They can affect, infect or influence your life in a way that is beyond your imagination.
It doesn’t matter how positive and optimistic you are as a person, if you stay long enough with a negative and pessimistic person, you will lose all your optimism and positivism.
Similarly, it doesn’t matter how excellent-minded and future-oriented you are, if your closest friend is a mediocre-minded or future-blinded person, you would lose all those good qualities with time.
You lose your motivation if you stay around a demotivated person.
So, your potential is maximized when you stay close to people who are deploying optimal potentials.Who you are or who you want to be should affect your choice of friends.
Now, the greatest of all associations is the association with the Almighty. You become like God if you company with Him at the place of prayer and the study of the Word. You begin to look like God if you dwell long enough in His Presence. For example, when Moses spent time with God, he began to radiate the glory of God, and his face shone like that of God.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Exodus 34:29-30
My counsel is, make up your mind to spend time with God so you can display His character, lifestyle and attributes.
Remember this: Your best comes out when you hang around the best, and your worst comes out when you hang around the worst.
ASSIGNMENTS:
- Make up your mind to purge yourself of every negative and limiting association.
- Keep the company of the Almighty in prayers, the study of the Word and by upright living.
PRAYER: Lord, I ask for the grace to keep the right association so as to bring out the best in me. Help me to consistently spend time with You, Lord, in Jesus name.
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE POWER OF ASSOCIATION.
QUOTE: Who surrounds you, determines what you can suffer.Culled from the book, “15 KINGDOM STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL” by Dr Paul Enenche.
DAILY READING: John 4-6.
AMAZING FACT: The beating sound of the heart occurs because of the closing and opening of the heart’s valves.
PROPHETIC WORD (DECLARATION):The Lord en-grace you to disconnect from the wrong company with rapidity in this season in Jesus Name.
