No Setback this Year! | Pastor Princewill Afolabi
Channel: Princewill Afolabi Ministries [PAM]
Date: 2023-01-15

Topic: No Setback this Year!
Text: Proverbs 4:18
Date: 8th day of Jan, 2023

Setback is not from God. Ruth 1:19, John 10:10. God wants us to keep learning. The devil is the one behind setbacks yet he may use witches and wizards, cult people but he is the main thief (a thief is anyone who takes what does not belong to them without the owner’s consent).
There are some things the devil cannot do to a Christian if he hasn’t yet succeeded to get them to do certain things.

There is a way you live your life that will make it easy for the devil to rob you.
Things to put in place so as not to suffer setback.

1. People suffer setback when they become proud. A proud person is anyone who believes that he knows it all. Dan 4:30-35. If the devil succeeds to make you proud, he will succeed to bring you down.

#No matter how God blesses you, humility is the gateway to greatness.
Don’t ever get to a point in your life where your mentor and leaders can no longer talk to you. Pride is the gateway to setback. Don’t allow pride, no matter how.
If you are privileged to get to any point in life, it is humility that is sustaining you there. When you get to a point where you no longer see God is the doer of great things in your life, you are proud.

God will never share his glory with anyone so He is looking for who to bless that will return to give the glory to Him.

2. When they begin to see the things of God as less important.
When the devil begins to make you feel that the things if God should be treated as less important. Haggai 1:9 People suffer setback when they no longer committed to the things of God.
Always remember that God requires that we give Him all our attention, not partial. 
When we give Him first place in our hearts, He will make us to consistently increase.

3. Wrong association can be the reason for setback. Everybody cannot be your friend. In have to Jonah 1:1-12 be prayerful about friendship. Don’t let people choose you as friends, you should have a standard. Choose friends by praying to God. 
#Storms come to offload the beauty of people’s destiny.
There are some Jonah's you need to cut off this year. God is dealing with some of your friends spiritually but you are trying to shoulder their problems.

4. Wrong choices. This year, be careful of the choices you will be making. You don’t just wake up and decide to do some things. Be cautious! 
#A decision is a destination in disguise.
Learn to always program with your mind. 2 Samuel 11:1-5
A wrong decision can create an everlasting setback.

5. Sin is another for setback. David took the wrong choice by staying at home but he created setback by allowing sin. 
Sin is the devil’s bait to rob people.

6. Loss of focus from the real thing. Don’t let them give you wrong vision this year. Don’t allow anything that is not real to change your focus this year.
Labor leads to success, not luck. God wants us to live our lives on principle not on miracle.
# A man that believes in labor has a guaranteed future but he that believes in luck has a shaky or no future at all.

7. Insensitivity. When people are not sensitive enough by not reading the lines and checking well. Don’t be a fool, be sensitive.

Prayer
Father, lead me again this week.

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