This post from David Wilkerson’s ongoing blog was just too good to not re-post as our day 696 Purposed worKING read. May we all call on our most dependable adviser today!

OUR DEPENDABLE ADVISER

by David Wilkerson

[May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011]

I don’t give financial advice—but I am in touch with the world’s one and

only dependable adviser! For every question I have on any matter, my trusted

adviser has an answer. He has been with our ministry since the very beginning.

When we moved our offices back to New York City, he moved with us. And he has

directed every real estate transaction we’ve made here. He helped us buy the

historic Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway, where Times Square Church now

holds services.

Yet he’s not only our financial and real estate adviser, he’s also our

attorney, family adviser, counselor and travel guide. Indeed, he guides us in

literally everything we do and face. The last time I talked with him (which was

this morning), he assured me he would continue to provide steady guidance for us

throughout the coming difficult times. He told me we had nothing to worry about.

Best of all, my adviser doesn’t mind if I call him every day and at any time

during the day. My adviser encourages me, “You don’t have to worry about a

thing. I’ve been through these kinds of things many times before.” It is

amazing to see throughout the Bible that time after time, in every kind of

crisis, God has always been intimately involved with his people.

The Lord was involved with David, the psalmist, when he fell on hard times.

David returned home with his army to Ziklag and found his town reduced to ashes

by a band of raiders (see 1 Samuel 30). David’s home had been destroyed and

his family taken captive—there was nothing left. Everything he worked

for—his cattle, his furnishings, his possessions—were gone. David had no

one to turn to in that moment, as his own soldiers were ready to stone him

because they blamed him for leading them into battle and leaving their loved

ones unprotected.

Scripture says David turned to his adviser (and mine): “David inquired at the

Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he

answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail

recover all” (1 Samuel 30:8). David followed his adviser’s counsel—and he

did recover all!