Why We Must Guard Our Pillars

Look at any building. What keeps it standing is its pillars, so it is wisdom to guard ours.

Your pillars are the things that keep you going and rising in your purpose and destiny: your prayer life, your giving, your consecration, and your personal dealings with God. Guard them. Expose them, and you put your whole building at risk.

Consider Samson. He revealed the secret of his strength, and it cost him his freedom, his sight, and his destiny.

That is why silence is sometimes the way to win. Silence is not fear. It is knowing when and how to act. Think of Jesus before Pilate. Why did He stay silent? Not because He had no answer, but because He knew what He was doing.

The enemy works by investigation. He asks: what keeps this family strong? This business? This ministry? Once he finds the pillars, he attacks them, because that is how a building comes down.

Samson shows the same truth in reverse. At the end, he asked to be led to the pillars of the temple. Once he reached them, he had what he needed to bring the house down, and he killed more in his death than in his life.

Learn to keep your words for the right season. Joseph shared his dreams too quickly, and it cost him dearly. Mary kept things in her heart and pondered them.

So the message is simple: know your pillars and guard them. Do not feel pressured to share everything God is doing in your life.