Spirit of Prevention

Some of the opportunities (“good things”) that we encounter are not good. Righteousness is doing what the Spirit of the King says to do, even if it doesn’t seem best or most effective. Asking the Spirit what to do won’t always result in righteous actions, because we don’t always hear what He says or always realize it is Him saying something. Learn something from the mistakes and keep improving. Be awesome.

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia. When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, bypassing Mysia, they came down to Troas. During the night a vision appeared to Paul: a Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us!” After he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to evangelize them.
(Acts 16:6-10 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)