Why Are You Following the Crowd?
👑 God Has Something to Say, Even When He Seems Silent
Sometimes life hands us harsh realities, sudden reversals of fortune we never planned for and cannot immediately explain. The instinct in that hour is to panic, to scramble for the nearest human solution, or to measure our chances against however many people seem to agree with us. But Scripture teaches something different. In every situation, God has something to say. Even when He appears quiet, He has not stopped speaking. The silence is never empty; it is simply a season that requires you to tarry a while, to look around instead of running, until the purpose behind your situation comes into view.
Many people today have surrendered to their fears while their hearts still dream of a miracle. Tension and pressure have convinced them there is no hope, no way, and no future left. Look closely at such a person and you will see the map of frustration and disappointment written across their face, not because God has failed them, but because they stopped searching for what He was already saying. Prophet TB Joshua spoke directly into this kind of moment:
“As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing!.” — Prophet TB Joshua
That is the opposite of how the flesh reads increasing pressure. The flesh reads heat as danger. Faith reads heat as proximity to breakthrough. And whatever solution you chase from human help alone, instead of waiting on what God has to say, will only postpone the evil day. It stores up future trouble rather than resolving present trouble, because a fix that bypasses God rarely outlasts the crisis it was meant to solve.
🙌 Daniel in the Den: Habitual Devotion, Not Desperate Prayer
Daniel faced a similar test decades later, when jealous officials manipulated a law specifically designed to trap him for the simple crime of praying to his God. When Daniel learned the decree had been signed, sealing his fate before the lions, Scripture records something remarkable about his response.
“Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.” — Daniel 6:10 (NIV)
Daniel did not launch into a desperate prayer of rebuking his enemies or commanding God to intervene. He did not instruct God in how the situation should be handled. He simply continued his habitual devotion, praying toward Jerusalem and thanking God, exactly as he always had. His mind was disciplined enough to remain God’s servant rather than becoming its own master in a crisis. That discipline is what allowed him to offer a prayer that sprang from need rather than panic, and to leave the outcome entirely in God’s hands.
“So he had the stone brought and placed over the mouth of the den… My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight.” — Daniel 6:17, 22 (NIV)
No one can be in a place before God. He is always one step ahead, closing the mouths of lions before a single accusation is ever spoken in heaven’s court.
🌊 Moses at the Red Sea: Calm, Calculated and Focused on God Alone
Consider Moses, standing between an advancing Egyptian army and an impassable sea, with an entire nation behind him losing faith by the minute.
“Moses answered the people, ‘Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today… The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.’” — Exodus 14:13-14 (NIV)
Moses was neither moved by the regrets, murmuring, and loss of faith rising up behind him, nor threatened by the chariots closing in ahead of him. His focus stayed fixed on what God had to say concerning the task at hand, not on what the frightened majority around him were shouting. Prophet TB Joshua described exactly this posture:
“When your focus is on God, you would be calm, calculated and determined, even when everything around you is unquiet.” — Prophet TB Joshua
He also gave the principle behind Moses’ composure in the plainest terms possible:
“Never allow your situation to dictate the direction of your confession. Moses did not allow the Red Sea to dictate the direction of his faith.” — Prophet TB Joshua
Trouble does not require an invitation before it arrives, and it did not wait politely for Moses either. But there will be troubles that are not unto death, only for the glory of the Lord, and the sea that looked like an ending became instead the very doorway through which an entire nation walked into its future.
⛓️ Joseph: When Man Rejects You, God Begins to Direct You
Few lives illustrate the cost of standing with God’s authority against man’s majority verdict better than Joseph’s. His own brothers, the majority closest to him, rejected him, threw him into a dry pit, and sold him into slavery. In Egypt, he was framed and imprisoned for a crime he never committed. Every human court that ever judged Joseph got the verdict wrong.
“Pharaoh said to his officials, ‘Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?’” — Genesis 41:38 (NIV)
That rejection only provoked God’s direction in Joseph’s life. When man rejects you, God begins to direct you. It was the Lord’s doing, shaping in secret what no committee of brothers would ever have voted for in the open. When God looks at a rejected man, He sees something the majority around him has already decided to ignore. You are what God says you are, you have what God says you have, and you can do what God says you can do, regardless of how many voices disagree.
That is precisely why the better a man is, the worse he is often thought of by his rivals. Everything genuinely good in a person tends to provoke envy, and the fruit of envy is never anything but harm. Joseph’s enemies could strip him of his coat of many colors, the outward symbol his father had given him, but they could never strip him of the wisdom and grace of God working quietly beneath the surface of his circumstances. Prophet TB Joshua put this precisely:
“When you know your real value, your enemies may rob you of liberty and confine you in a prison cell but they cannot shut you out of the throne of mercy and communion with God.” — Prophet TB Joshua
God’s government and authority are incontestable. Men may vote you out, talk you down, and paint you black in the eyes of a watching crowd, but they cannot touch what God has already spoken over your life.
🐑 David and Goliath: One Voice Against a Trembling Majority
If Joseph shows what it costs to trust God when man rejects you, David shows what it looks like to trust God when the entire majority around you has already surrendered to fear.
“On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.” — 1 Samuel 17:11 (NIV)
Every soldier in Israel’s army, the trained, the experienced, the majority whose job it literally was to fight, stood frozen by Goliath’s taunts for forty straight days. Into that unanimous paralysis walked a young shepherd with no armor and no military standing, carrying only a sling, five stones, and an entirely different authority he was answering to.
“David said to the Philistine, ‘You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty… the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.’” — 1 Samuel 17:45,47 (NIV)
When the giant fell before the young, seemingly inexperienced David, the Philistine armies were defeated and took flight before all Israel. David’s victory did not honor the majority’s caution. It honored the God whose authority he trusted when everyone qualified to know better had already voted for retreat.
🧭 Why You Need an Independent Mind in a Crowd-Driven World
Without an independent mind, every decision you make will simply follow the majority. That kind of person says, “I don’t want to say yes until I see how many others will say yes,” or, “I don’t want to say no until I see how many others will say no.” As a Christian, you need an independent mind to live above the senses, in the realm where God’s authority, not the room’s temperature, sets your direction.
Joseph’s mind was set on things above from childhood, and that setting never changed with his circumstances. Whether in the dry pit where supply was scarce, in Potiphar’s house where he lived in the midst of plenty, or in the harsh conditions of an Egyptian prison, he depended on God alone to clothe him, feed him, and sustain him. He relied on God’s aid because he had proven it reliable, dependable, and sufficient in every extreme his life passed through. Prophet TB Joshua described the shift that produces this kind of independence:
“When you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, you change and become a man who is directed by your Heavenly Father, not by the influence of others.” — Prophet TB Joshua
Jesus Himself modeled this when satan tempted Him with bread after forty days without food. Satan knew exactly how hungry He was and aimed the temptation precisely there.
“Jesus answered, ‘It is written: Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” — Matthew 4:4 (NIV)
An independent mind is not stubbornness. It is the settled ability to hear from God directly and obey Him even when no one around you is doing the same, whether that costs you comfort, reputation, or the approval of people whose opinion you once needed.
🙏 Prayer
Lord, forgive me for every time I measured my confidence by how many people agreed with me instead of by who You are. Teach me to trust Your authority the way Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego trusted You before the furnace ever opened, the way Daniel trusted You before the den was ever sealed, the way Moses trusted You before the sea ever parted. Give me an independent mind, directed by You and not by the opinions surrounding me. When man rejects me, let it only provoke Your direction in my life. Keep me calm, calculated and determined, even when everything around me is unquiet. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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