Wrong Associations will kill you!

READ:  2 Kings 3: 1-20;  Proverbs 13: 20

Three Kings as well as their armies and animals found themselves in a dire situation.  They had gone seven days in the desert wilderness without any water.  Water is a necessity of life.  It's not an option or a luxury.  Water is necessary to sustain life.  Without water, you will die.

The King of Israel begins to complain and blame God for their dilema, but it was not God's fault.  God didn't tell him to go into the wilderness and God didn't tell him to go in a roundabout way.  The King did that himself.

The bottom line is that the King was a bad influence.  Sometimes the biggest problem we have is our friendship circle and wrong associations.  You need to reevaluate your friends and eliminate the whiners and complainers.  In other words, sift out the doubters and pouters.  Deliver yourself from people with no vision and who spend all their time wallowing in the mud of self pity and then get mad because you won't wallow in it with them.

Wrong associations will kill you!  They will steal your joy, steal your passion and steal your faith.  If it hadn't been for King Jehoshaphat, who knew the power of a word from God they would have all died in the desert wilderness.  He asked, is there not a prophet here that we may inquire of the Lord?  He knew that one word from God can change everything.

You need to surround yourself with people that know one word from God can change your world!

Psalm 107: 20 "He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions".