The Company You Keep

This is embarrassing.” The mummy replied, “Wherever I cannot pray, then I’m in the wrong company. I must go home.” Are you still in the cinema Christian? You go and watch a film, something is wrong somewhere. There are different companies that are available. If you are in the wrong company, use this time to break free. We did not say you should not go and minister to unbelievers so that they can surrender their lives to Jesus. You can minister to them, but you must not join in their iniquity. Light and darkness don’t operate together. There is no relationship between the temple of God and Belial.

These are the companies:

1. Pretenders
2. Exploiters
3. Robbers
4. Betrayer
5. Promise Breakers
6. Cheats
7. Gossips
8. Abusers
9. Competitors’ company
10. Copycats
11. Manipulators
12. The miserable friends
13. Accusers
14. Lazy ones
15. Envious friends
16. Addicts to things like drug, cigarette, alcoholic
17. Proud people
18. Know it all
19. Bully i.e. forcing you to do things
20. Attention seekers
21. The procrastinators
22. Stingy friends
23. The chameleon company
24. The disloyal company
25. The party company
26. The selfish company
27. Parasite friends
28. The actors
29. Defensive company
30. Pessimistic friend
31. The company of failure
32. Unproductive company
33. Sexual friends
34. The liars
35. The demoters
36. The emptiers
37. The spoilers
38. Wasters
39. Equalisers
40. The chicken
41. Average
42. The witchcraft company
43. The familiar spirit company
44. The cult
45. Hell fire friend
46. Prayerless company
47. No Holy Ghost company
48. No Bible company
49. No destiny company
50. No excellence company.

HOW DO I BREAK FREE FROM EVIL COMPANY?

1. You must be born again
2. You must reject counselling from ungodly
3. You must reject counsel from the unproductive
4. You must avoid discussing your problem with somebody who is incapable of bring solutions
5. Don’t follow anyone who is not going anywhere
6. Decide to fortify yourself and your life with right friendship
7. Learn to let go when it is necessary

Note this beloved, there are some people who will abandon you and walk away from you at a stage in your life. There are some people who will separate by themselves without you quarrelling with them. Once you discover that somebody doesn’t want to stay with you, the best thing is to allow them to go. Stop begging them to stay. Stop attaching yourself to somebody who has detached already. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who has detached himself from you. When you’re a prayerful person and you’re working with God and somebody decides to break off, let the person go – it means that the person was not joined to you in the first place.

In Pastoral Ministry, we have two kinds of pastors. We have the pastors we call Pillars. We have the ones we call Scuffles. The pillars will stay. The scuffles always go away. The tragedy of the scuffles is that they would have helped you to build the house but would now go away. The Bible says they were not of us, if they were of us they would not have gone away from us. So if the person is for you, he would not just disjoin himself away from you. You must stop putting your eggs under a dead hen. Many of us need to do some serious thinking. Analyse your friends. Evaluate what they have contributed to your life. Evaluate the havoc they have done to you. Evaluate the terrible advice that they have been giving to you that led you where you are now. Then make up your mind that enough is enough. Your company decides what God would do in your life. Your company decides whether you’re moving forward or you’re moving backward. Your company decides what the Lord would do in your life. When you stay too long in wrong company, sometimes, you block the good company anyway.