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The Key Devotional

Friday | July 30 | 2026

LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE

Acts 16:6-7 KJV
[6] Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, [7] After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.

It is important to know that everything that happens in life is to help a man with the experience needed to navigate this life. The journey of destiny will go slow when people do not learn from experience. This is why history is very useful to every one who does not want to fall into the error and also partake of the failure of the past. Your life can gain speed of fulfillment when you know the ditch that consumed the people of old so you do not fall into those ditches.
Paul was prevented from going to Asia to preach the gospel there. He immediately decided to go to Bithynia to do the same thing and the Holy Spirit stopped him again. This shows that he would have gone to waste his effort and energy on a thing that God was not interested in, in the first place. Besides this, why will he not learn that if he could make the mistake of going to where God has not sent him that he needs to ask from God where next he should go. If the Holy Spirit could show you that you can be gullible to make a mistake, wisdom demands that you commit your next move to God for instruction. He still decided to go without confirmation from God.
This is what happens to many people in life. They cannot learn from their experience. They take for granted what happened to them in the past and make themselves a victim of the same challenge in the present. It is very expedient that you should consider things so you do not enter into failure. When the disciples ignored the experience of Jesus miraculously feeding thousands with little, they mistook the instruction that is meant to protect them from becoming a victim of the devil's manipulation.
Matthew 16:6-7, 9,12 KJV
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. [7] And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. [9] Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? [12] Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
A destiny direction can easily be missed because you are not walking by the experience of the past. Paul said the things that you find in the Bible is to create experience for us to win in life.
Romans 15:4 KJV
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Do not waste that lesson that God is teaching through the last situation that you went through and the ones you have heard about others. It will surely help in your next move.

Daily Task
Mention five ways to be conscious of the lessons from experience.

Prayers
Lord, I receive grace to learn from
Lord, help me to understand your training through the situation I pass through.

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