NEGATIVE POSITION  
2 Samuel 17

Have mercy o Lord; deliver me from any form of disaster that is set against me. Have mercy in anyway that I have mistaken. Let all who are set to bring me down not have its way in Jesus name. Redirect my steps from every form of disaster into deliverance. O Lord let every good advice that has been released in my direction be activated for your name to be glorified. Also, the good advice that is on the way for me, O Lord let it have its way in my life. To miss a good advice is to be messed up and it can lead to permanent termination. Ahithophel, the Gilonite, was King David’s counselor before Absalom sent for him as a counselor. (2 Samuel 15:12) Ahithophel was described as one whose advice and counsel was like that of the ones who inquired from the oracle of God. 2 Samuel 16:23, “Now the advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one had inquired at the oracle of God. So was all the advice of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.” This is a testimony that the man Ahithophel was operating a great gift of giving a precise and accurate advice as if it were coming directly from God. It was Ahithophel whom Absalom called on for advice at the peak of his rebellious attempt to knock his father David off the throne. As God will have it, Absalom refused to take to Ahithophel advice but called on Hushai the Archite. Absalom did not hesitate to disregard the advice of Ahithophel and took on Hushai because it is recorded in 2 Samuel 17:14, “So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, ‘The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel. For the LORD had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring disaster on Absalom.’” All things are open to God and nothing is closed that He does not have access to. He alone is God and forever He will be God. The Lord purposed to defeat the good advice that came in the direction of Absalom through Ahithophel. Absalom was moved to take onto an advice that was set for his destruction instead of the one that would have granted him the kind of result that he wanted. Absalom missed it because he was not directly in line with what God wanted for him and as a result, there was no good advice that could have bailed Absalom out of the way that seemed right to him. Are you in the way that seems right to you? Proverb 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to a man but its end is the way of death.”  It is worthy to look up to God and ask Him in prayer: Lord whatever I have done or that I am doing that will place me directly in a negative position to Your plans and purpose, have mercy and let me not be found in any position of negativity in Jesus name.