The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 9 August 2025: Avoid Wrong Counsel
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TOPIC: Avoid Wrong Counsel
READ: 2 Samuel 10:1-5 (NKJV)
- It happened after this that the king of the people of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
- Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the people of Ammon.
- And the princes of the people of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David really honors your father because he has sent comforters to you? Has David not [rather] sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
- Therefore Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of their beards, cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away.
- When they told David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and [then] return.”
THE MESSAGE:
Our text yesterday showed us the kind nature of King David to Mephibosheth which he also extended to Hanun the son of Nahash from where we read today, for the sake of his late father. David wanted a legacy of relationship with the generations of those who were good to him. But in this case, it was misunderstood. The princes of the children of Ammon gave a wrong counsel to Hanun saying, “Do you think that David does honor your father, that he has sent comforter unto you? Has not David rather sent his servants unto you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?” The wrong counsel he received led him to seize and humiliate David’s emissaries. David’s retaliation was brutal and devastating.
On one hand, we should be very careful over the kind of advice or counsel we give to people because it may cause them pain. On the other hand, we must rightfully discern the counsels we receive so that we don’t hurt ourselves and others. Some persons today are suffering because of wrong counsel that has destroyed their relationships, families and businesses. May God keep us from such error!
PRAYER: Whatever I am going through now because of wrong counsels, O Lord, turn it around for good in Jesus’ name, Amen!
PRAYER POINTS ON TODAY’S DAILY FOUNTAIN DEVOTIONAL
DATE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 09, 2025
TOPIC: AVOID WRONG COUNSEL
- Father in the name of Jesus, thank You for the grace to see this new month and day, the eighth month and the two hundred and twenty-first day in the year 2025 in good health, sound mind and in joy.
- Father, thank You for the special gift of life, many wished to see this new month, but they couldn’t.
- Thank You Jesus for being there for us, Your children.
- Thank You Lord for Your plans for me this month. They are plans of good, not of evil, to give me a good and successful end.
- Father, please forgive me all my known and unknown sins, and let no sin reign over my life this year, in Jesus’ name.
- Every Ahithophel around my life, Lord, separate us by fire, in Jesus’ name.
- I refuse to act on wrong counsels, in Jesus’ name.
- I refuse to mislead or be misled by wrong counsel, in Jesus’ name.
- Whatever I am going through now because of wrong counsels, O Lord, turn it around for my good, in Jesus’ name.
- Holy Spirit, help me to have a deep, flourishing and an unbroken relationship with God, in Jesus’ name
- LORD, help me to get my life right this year, and let Your perfect will be enforced on me, in Jesus’ name
- LORD, help us to get it right in Nigeria, and let Your perfect will be enforced on us in Jesus’ name.
- Heavenly Father, let Your peace continue to reign in every part of this country,
- Whether the devil likes it or not, I will make heaven and receive my eternal rewards in Jesus’ Name.
- This is the day the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
- Personal and family prayer requests.
- Confession: God bless the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), God bless the Universal Church, and God bless our country Nigeria – 1 Chronicles 17:27.
- Thank You Lord for answered prayers, in Jesus’ Mighty Name we pray. Amen.
