Commit to Memory: “My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent…My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path.” Proverbs 1:10, 15 NKJV)

One of the ways God has made life easier for everyone who so aspire to rise and soar is when we decide to keep and walk with the right association or company. Why? Your net work determines your net worth. Who are your acquaintances? Who are the people you take advice and counsel from? Who are the people that influence your decisions and judgement? Who are the people that guide you from failing? Who are the people that inspire and bring out the best in you? Friends, you need to search and find such persons so that your life’s journey can be safe. The Message Bible puts Proverbs 1:10 & 15 this way. It says:

“Dear friend, if bad companions tempt you, don’t go along with them. Oh, friend, don’t give them a second look; don’t listen to them for a minute. They’re racing to a very bad end, hurrying to ruin everything they lay hands on. Nobody robs a bank with everyone watching, Yet that’s what these people are doing- they’re doing themselves in..”

Life can be so stressful and seem very difficult when you keep the wrong association. Many lives and destinies would have been amazing today but full of regrets because of wrong associations. One of the valid prayers you can ever ask of the Lord is to pray that God should surround you with people who will be an addition to your life and by so doing bring out the very best in you. Pray for such people, walk with such companies. In fact God can stir the hearts of such associations and bring them your way. You get messed up when you get involved with a messed up person. See what 1 Corinthians 15:33 have to say in this wise:

“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”

Are there friends or people in your life presently with whom you’re not experiencing any meaningful progress, or whose friendship hinders your all round effectiveness, then it’s high time you gave up such friendships. Let it go else you cannot go upward or forward. Don’t negotiate; don’t bring in sentiment, just end. It will cost you to redirect a course of laughter. You may say I have been a friend to him or her from childhood or donkey years but its wisdom to separate at this time in as much they are subtraction in your life then let them go. I pray the courage to make decisions on your association that will put your life in the right direction, the Lord will release on you today.

 Reflection: Your assignment determines your association; your association determines your manifestation.

Prayer Lines

•Father, deliver me from wrong associations.

•Father, I receive grace and courage to let go companies that are not adding value to my life.