Wisdom For The Day Devotional 13 May 2025 By Bishop Mike Okonkwo – Keep The Right Association
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TOPIC: Keep The Right Association (TREM Devotional 13 May 2025)
“If you want to grow in wisdom, spend time with the wise. Walk with the wicked and you’ll eventually become just like them.” (Proverbs 13:20 TPT)
MESSAGE:
You are a product of the association you keep, and the environment you are constantly surrounded by. If you associate with negative people, you will produce negative results. When you surround yourself with those who are not driven towards making progress in life, it affects you such that you never strive for progress, because as they say, “Misery loves company”, and they will always discourage you.
Now, your situation might be such that you don’t have the blessing of having the right people around to influence you and a supportive environment to propel you to destiny, and this can be discouraging, but there is an even better solution for you – the Word of God. The Word of God is a sure anchor that can never fail. It is errorless, authoritative, infallible, and impregnable. You cannot spend time in God’s Word and not succeed. Remember what God told Joshua? The way to good success in life is to stay in the Word, meditate on it, and observe to do it (Joshua 1:8).
God’s Word is a lamp and a light (Psalms 119:105), such that it brightens your path, providing clarity, direction, speed, guidance, and stability through life. Therefore, you are shielded from calamity, shame, embarrassment, disappointment and failure, because you dwell in the Word and have made it your anchor. Beloved, God’s ways are higher than ours; the earlier believers realize this and align, the better. I’ve said this many times and it bears repetition; don’t ever write-off anyone who is still sitting under the fountain of God’s Word. As long as that person is feasting on God’s Word and applying the principles of the Word to their lives, they are guaranteed to succeed!
It is high-time believers stop making God a liar. God is always true, and He can be trusted even when all else fails. No Word of God is void of power, and as you behold it, it transforms you from one level of glory to another. Even if like David, people have written you off, do not fret, as long as you spend time in God’s Word and in His presence, you are guaranteed to spring a surprise when they least expect it. I declare that your season of announcement is here. In the words of the Psalmist, through His Word you “have more understanding than your teachers…” (Psalms 119:99); there’s only one association to keep for guaranteed success – Jesus, the living Word.
FURTHER READING
Proverbs 13:13-20; 1 Corinthians 1:10-31
DAILY BIBLE READING
Morning – 2 Kings 17-18; Evening – John 3:19-36
Wisdom For The Day Devotional was Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.
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