Some events require preparation. I would not want to teach a class or present a speech without preparing. Neither would I want to go unprepared to a business session, a board meeting, or a person-to-person confrontation.

To one degree or another, all the above events require more than having written or mental notes. They demand a certain state of heart and mind.

How do I make that kind of preparation?

Know God. Consult His Word. Pray. Yield to Him. Live for Him.

That’s some of what I get from this:

“The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD” (Proverbs 16:1).

That would also stand me in very good stead for those unanticipated, unplanned events for which I cannot prepare specifically.