TIME TO TALK AND TIME TO KEEP SILENT

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

The scripture counsels that to everything there is a season, and a time to everything under the heaven...a time to keep silence, and a time to speak... (Ecc. 3:1-7). 

A lot of people have had their visions and dreams aborted by divulging every bit of their plans to whomsoever that cares to listen.The bible admonished us to be swift to hear, and slow to speak, but most often, we are more in a hurry to speak than to prayerfully seek the face of God for perfect direction on the steps to take towards actualizing our visions and dreams. In most cases, we remember God only when our wisdom fails us or when the implementation of counsels from others seem not to be yielding fruits. But the truth remains that we cannot put the cat before the horse-  Proverbs 4:7 KJV

When we present our matters to God, He will give us the wisdom, knowledge and understanding to go about it. It is this divine wisdom that will enable us to know when to talk and when to hold our peace, the counsel to accept and the ones we need not implement. Let’s take for an instance, a man whom God wants to bless and revealed to him in a vision a plot of land for sale that contains silver and gold. Rather than making haste to buy the land, he goes about telling people how rich the land is and his desire to buy it at all cost. There are people that are goal oriented and definitely they will go for the land before him. God is the source of all wisdom and He says that wisdom is the principal thing and counsels us to get it with all our getting.
It will be an uphill task for that man or woman that talks too much to record any meaningful success in any area that success or failure is determined by the level of confidentiality one can keep vital information that may make or mar the outcome of any venture. 

It is no gainsaying that sentiments should be kept at bay when handling any situation that has the tendency of building or destroying, planting or uprooting; therefore, You have no business continuing to confide your hypothetical works in a person (no matter whom he is to you) who never believes that 'any good thing can come from Nazareth'; those who are quick in identifying one’s weaknesses and never spot the inestimable potentials in him,
Continuing to confide in them just because they may feel bad at the end that you nurtured and executed a project without their fore-knowledge as a friend, brother, sister or relation is capable of causing irreparable harm to you.

A great number of the strongholds we face in life are self-inflicted. We open up at ease to the enemy even before he probes more deeply into any issue. We often sing even when no one cares to listen. One thing is clear; a talkative is never sensitive to the devices of the enemy. He can never discern. He talks without a pause even when the Holy Spirit is speaking.

In the book of 1Kings chapter 13, we read a story of a man of God and the old prophet. An instruction had been handed down to the man of God and he successfully executed it but the devil was bent on destroying him and he extended his hand of fellowship to the enemy by his ‘too much talking.’ As God has instructed him neither to stop over nor to eat during the course of his assignment, what he needed do when the old prophet invited him to eat was to politely decline. He owes the old prophet no detailed explanation of why he does not want to eat. 

We should not forget that the devil is not omniscient. He relies more often on the information we willingly or carelessly offered and our weaknesses that we have failed to deal with.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak... James 1:19 KJV

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