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I rise, I flourish and excel on every side through the wisdom of the Holy Spirit
As we step into 2026, let us determine to navigate wisely by the help of the Holy Spirit.
This year, here are 11 things to avoid.
Avoid stupid mistakes
I was unmindful water was still in my hand while trying to raise the fan and it dropped in the fan and blew it up. I found out too late that the fan was already at its highest. It is fixable but it will cost me money. Avoid stupid mistakes in 2026. Proverbs 14:8 says, "The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways." Think before you act. The heat was a lot and I wanted to solve the problem but the solution I chose became a bigger problem. I who was teaching my mentee's daughter to think before acting did not think in that instance.
Avoid nonsense friendships
I carried on the friendship because this was the only man still living I had taken to my parents. One day I asked a question as a friend expecting something worth holding on to as excuse not to remarry, he assumed I was insinuating marriage and he said, "you had your time". It hit me hard and there and then I realised this friendship had different definitions for me and for him. I was holding on to friendship as first woman (he never married) or first friend, he was holding on to an old flame. Understand that if such a friendship is with sexual benefits, it is an exercise that will profit little and may end up closing you spiritually and socially to better option. Thankfully I chose the path of righteousness. Avoid nonsense friendships or redefine your friendships in 2026. Proverbs 13:20 warns, "Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. Choose your circle of friends wisely this year and let go of any Jonah that can make your boat sink.
Avoid silly errors
I once gave a mentee letter of invitation to enable him travel to the USA but in his excitement he left his application form at home when going for his visa interview. Of course he was denied! Money, time and talent went down the drain. Avoid silly errors: Proverbs 22:3 says, "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple, keep going and pay the penalty." Be alert and cautious.
Avoid regrettable disobedience
This was years ago; I told God if you could bring someone to tell my husband he offended me, I will not take laws into my hands. God did but because he refused to sincerely as for forgiveness, I took laws into my hands. The price of the disobedience is one that could take a lifetime to pay but God's merciful kindness came through. Avoid regrettable disobedience: Psalm 119:11 says, "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you." Stay rooted in God's word.
Avoid terrible omissions
In 2015 December when I told my husband I was heading to camp to spend the rest of 31 and 1 of January 2016, I omitted the fact that I was inviting him because I loved him and wanted him to be divinely covered. I may have omitted the fact that it was by divine instruction... He said no and I let him be. But that was the beginning of the end of the enemy sealing his coffin. If only I knew, I would have told him clearly this was divine instruction and I would knelt down to beg him. He is dead and I am still suffering homelessness in America. Avoid terrible omissions. James 4:17 reminds us, "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, commits sin." There is sin of omission and sin of commission; do NOT neglect opportunities to do good.
Avoid senseless arguments
A man God led to a lady started their journey in courtship. He was NOT born again but he had to find Jesus because he loved her. One day, they argued about who would name their child and the lady insisted his unbelieving Muslim mother will NOT name their child. They were neither married nor have a child on the way; they were not even having sex! That was the beginning of the fight that tore them apart. Years after they went their way neither of them had a child. That was an insensible argument caused by satan. Avoid such this year as it could rob you of divine connections.
Avoid obvious pitfalls or crashes
Some pitfalls are NOT obvious but some are. You see a vehicle bigger than yours submerged in water and you say, I am a child of God, I will swim through. That is foolishness. I learned from a channel last year that Myles Monroe of blessed memory was warned of an impending storm or hurricane before he flew. He flew believing God will navigate the plane without issues died. Sadly he died with his wife and others. He was also at a conference ahead of the crash where the Holy Spirit showed me something and I said to my husband that it appeared his ministry was hinged on him, his wife and his children. I remember saying that if anything happens to him, the ministry may NOT survive. Normally he should have been in retreat before the invitation to the conference he honoured and he would likely had gone to the Bahamas earlier and missed the storm. The question is, did God led him to accept the invitation or he couldn't say no because of the calibre of people that invited him. Be sure it is God before you enter obvious pits of the enemy.
Avoid subtle repression and depression
It is big that you gave up your marital surname as a woman; I never did legally. Though I still carry my husband's last name proudly, I have NOT allowed the burying of the family name God positioned me into. If you are married and all the time he or they write Mr and Mrs or his first name without your first name, you are being subtly repressed. Moodiness, "I just don't 'feel' like talking" is subtle depression that can become a monster. Break the ground either wants to breed in.
Avoid enemy territory
The mercy of God will sustain you but avoid enemy territories. If you are pushed there or sent their by political decrees like Daniel was, God will shut the mouth of the lions for you. A woman is called a witch and God is NOT leading you to visit, please don't go.
Avoid loss or wasteful spending
I was in a tricycle and my money flew off, I mentioned it but the tricycle rider completely ignored me. That was NOT paper, that was not. If I had kept it well, it would not have been blown away. I consoled myself by saying that someone may have prayed for money and it would meet a need. Avoid eating things that could make you sick because at the end money will be needed to treat you. If sugar or ice water does not work will with your system, avoid.
Avoid sinful gatherings and location/relocatio
n unapproved by the Holy Spirit
Go only where God leads. Those who came with Anthony Joshua the celebrated boxer were coming to enjoy December or perhaps even "detty december" but two of them are dead. God saved his life by reading him to change his location. Ther3 are invitations to gatherings or events that you know are not right, say NO. If God is NOT leading you to go to a particular location or to relocate, avoid it this year. Stay where God put you. While in Jamaica, word came from my mentor for us to go to Montego Bay in a bid to jet out but God led me to tell her it is better we stay in Kingston. Brethren, we may have lost our lives there because it was worse hit and those there could not travel out from there. God weakened the hurricane where we were and directed the storm away from our location. Like God used the slave girl for Naaman, God can you anyone for you this here. Obedience is better than sacrifice, 1 Samuel 15:22. God led me to add this: I visited someone and immediately I got there I became uncomfortable and I should have left; she was on a call for minutes and served me drinks to pin me down, which I ignored while she continued with her call. Thankfully I obeyed God and ate before going otherwise hunger would have turned to anger. Cut a long story short I found out the next morning that I had caught an infection. She was treating an ailment and I was unmindful of this in spite of God leading me to see the medications on the table. The visit was meant to be short and though God gave me a reason to leave early, I decided to stay so I can minister to her. Thankfully God led me to take things that healed me of the infection. The visit and the length of stay at the location was avoidable.
Lamentations 3:22-23 in the King James Version (KJV), are well-known verses that reads:
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Brethren, cry out for mercy the mercy of God to bless you will wisdom to position yourself rightly this year.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10
As we decide to walk wisely in 2026, leaning on God's wisdom, let us always remember to ask for God's mercy to keep us away from invisible fiery darts as we in Godled wisdom, dodge the visible ones.
I rise, I flourish and excel on every side through the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
