Category: Know When To Shut Your Mouth

7 Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

8 But the man of God said to the king, “If you  were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place.

9 For so it was commanded me by  the word of the LORD, saying, ‘You shall not eat  bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.’ ”

10 So he went another way and did not return by the way he came to Bethel.

When God speaks to us, there are assignments and there are instructions. The assignment is the task to be carried out but the instructions are for our safety. Many has failed to separate the assignment from the safety information like the small prophet did.

The small prophet, as we often call him, in our Bible Reading today, was given an assignment to King Jeroboam and the instruction for his safety but he exposed all his safety instructions to his enemy. Many Christians have fallen victim of this, because we couldn’t tame our mouth, thereby exposing what God instructed us, personally, to our enemies who used it against us. We all know the end of the small prophet, I pray may we be delivered from the troubles of mouth in Jesus mighty name.

Tame your mouth. Watch what you say and to whom you say it. Above all, differentiate your God’s given instructions from your assignment and you will walk in success.

Good morning.