📣 TOMORROW NIGHT — THE FINAL MESSAGE in this series! Lesson 5 of 5 — Keys to Finding & Fulfilling God’s Plan for Your Life We’ve been on an incredible journey together, and tomorrow night we bring this powerful series to a close! We’ve talked about discovering God’s plan, pursuing it, remaining consistent, developing discipline—and tomorrow night we’re going to talk about PROTECTING GOD’S PLAN FROM DISTRACTION. 📅 Tomorrow Night ⏰ 7:00 pm CST 📍 youtube link 🙏 HELP US CONTINUE THE WORK If these messages and this ministry have been a blessing to you, we invite you to prayerfully consider supporting what God is doing. Your generosity helps us continue bringing biblical teaching, encouragement, prayer, and Kingdom resources to people who need them. Every gift matters. Every seed makes a difference. And we are sincerely grateful for your prayers, your support, and your partnership. www.wordoflifehouston.org — Pastor/Coach Robert E. Hardy

Word of Life Church Friday Morning Prayer. Our 30th week!! Conference Call 8/28/2026 6:00 - 6:30 am CST 701-802-5111 6154290- access code All are invited! Come join us for 30 minutes of prayer. So exciting to see how God is moving every week and more people are joining us: If you have a prayer request please post below. Remember to set your alarm 🚨

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Family and Friends, I want to take a moment to thank every member of this community. You showed up, you engaged, and you encouraged us every step of the way. We are growing — and the best is genuinely ahead. Here is what is coming your way in August: 📖 Kingdom Key Point Book 1 releasing My first book in the Kingdom Key Point series is finished and ready to be released. This has been years in the making — Kingdom principles for extraordinary living, built for leaders, entrepreneurs, parents, and believers who are serious about fulfilling God’s purpose. More details coming very soon. 📖 Volume 2: Releasing in September We are not stopping at one. The second book in the series is already in development and will release in September. 🪨 Pearls from the Proverbs — New Series Now Live Our brand new Kingdom Key Point series has launched. Wisdom Keys straight from the Book of Proverbs. The first articles are already in the community. Start reading and let us know what is speaking to you. 🎥 Weekly Kingdom Key Point Coaching Videos Fresh teaching every single week — practical Kingdom principles you can apply immediately to your life, family, business, and ministry. 💻 Upgraded Content and Coaching We are steadily building and improving. The goal is simple: provide so much valuable content that every member is consistently being coached to new heights in every area of life. My commitment to you is to keep showing up, keep building, and keep delivering content that genuinely changes lives. Thank you for being here. Blessings, Pastor/Coach Robert E. Hardy Kingdom Keypoint Coaching Kingdom Principles for Extraordinary Living Below is the link to invite someone- 👉 skool.com/kingdom-key-point-9991

Wisdom Protects and Preserves Proverbs 2:10–12 (KJV) “When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;” The Pearl There is a profound progression taking place in Proverbs chapter two. In the previous Kingdom Key Point, Solomon showed us where wisdom comes from — that the LORD giveth wisdom, that out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding, and that He has already laid up sound wisdom for those who walk uprightly. Now Solomon takes us another step that changes everything about how we understand wisdom’s purpose in the life of a kingdom leader. He does not say wisdom enters your notebook, your library, or even your mind. He says: “When wisdom entereth into thine heart.” That distinction is enormously important, because information can remain in the mind without ever becoming powerful enough to govern the life. A leader can possess impressive biblical knowledge, quote Scripture accurately, teach principles eloquently, and still make decisions that damage their family, ministry, or future. Knowledge becomes truly protective only when it travels far enough into us that it begins shaping our desires, instincts, judgments, and decisions from the inside out rather than the outside in. This is one of the great differences between information and transformation. Information tells us what wisdom says. Transformation causes wisdom to become part of who we are. When wisdom has genuinely entered the heart, the leader no longer has to manufacture a godly response every time pressure arrives — because years of walking with God have already been shaping the person who will face that pressure. The Word has become more than material for sermons. Truth has become more than content for teaching. Wisdom has taken residence in the inner life, and from that position it begins doing something remarkable: it protects. That may be one of the most overlooked purposes of wisdom in all of Scripture. We usually pursue wisdom because we want better decisions, greater success, and clearer direction. Solomon certainly promises all of those — but he also reveals something even more valuable. Wisdom can keep us from things we may never know were coming. It can preserve us from relationships we should never enter, opportunities we should never pursue, voices we should never trust, and compromises that would eventually cost far more than they initially appeared to offer. Some of God’s greatest blessings may never appear in our testimony because wisdom prevented the disaster before it ever became part of our story.