Great things happen when we apply God’s Word to our lives. Today, be encouraged to pursue the Truth in a deeper way.
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proverbs promises us
that
if we walk in wisdom
that everything else that we need
will come along with it i mean the
promises and proverbs
of what god will do for us if we operate
in wisdom are astounding i mean it’s
riches and honor and promotion and long
life and good health and all the things
that we really want if we just apply
wisdom
anybody who would take the book of
proverbs
study it
and apply every principle in it
would have a life that was so amazing i
mean it would be like jaw-dropping
amazing
so
before i go any further
i want you to consider are you applying
to your life
the things that you say you know
are
do you often hear yourself say i know i
shouldn’t do this but
or i know i should do this
but
well that means you know what to do but
you’re not doing it
wisdom is a depth
depth
of insight that goes beyond the surface
of a thing
wisdom takes us beyond the way things
look
to the way they really are
wisdom goes beyond
how we feel
to do what we know
is right
you see we have a flesh
and the flesh consists of our body and
our soul
and what god wants he comes to live in
our spirit and he wants
to be able to have control of the soul
if the spirit and the soul are in
control then satan has already won
well the soul is mind will and emotions
and so often people live based on what
they want they think and they feel i
want i think i feel i want i think i
feel
but proverbs is telling us that we need
to go way beyond all that
we need to live beyond how we feel i
mean our feelings are
are real
and
you know we don’t have to say we don’t
have them we can admit that we have them
but we can’t let them control our
decisions
our mind how often do we say well i
think i think i think i think but what
does god’s word say and even what we
want well i want this i want that you
know god didn’t call us to have
everything that we want in life he’s
called us to do his will and if we do
then we’ll end up with everything that
we want that is something that we really
should have i want to know today if you
want a deeper
relationship with god or if you want to
just keep stuffing your head full of
knowledge and not applying it to your
life and i know many of you are applying
it but i’ll tell you writing proverbs
was good for me
studying to teach this today was good
for me because these are things that we
need to be reminded of and reminded of
very very often
wisdom involves discernment and it’s one
of my favorite things to
ponder and think about we’re going to
talk a little bit more about it later
but discernment is something that
doesn’t come out of your head it comes
out of your spirit and so if we can
learn how to discern what’s right and
wrong
and live by that
it’s going to make our lives so so so
much better but you see to go deeper
takes more time
and the problem is is we’re in a hurry
and we’re impatient and so we if we feel
like we want it jesus we just want to
get it and if we’re going to walk in
wisdom we’re going to have to take more
time to really discern and properly
understand exactly what it is that we’re
doing wisdom always thinks about later
on matter of fact there’s a lot of
different definitions of wisdom that are
all great but i have my own little
definition that i like wisdom always
does now
what it will be happy with later on
you see a foolish person never thinks
about later on
they just want what feels good right now
but later on always comes
please understand that
later on always comes and the bible says
we reap according to what we sow and so
if you’re sowing bad seeds or seeds of
disobedience it may appear for a period
of time like you’re getting by with it
but eventually
we will reap on those seeds that we’ve
sown if we’re obedient we’ll reap on
those seeds if we’re disobedient we will
reap on those seeds hebrews 12 says no
discipline for the present seems joyous
but grievous and nevertheless later on
it yields the peaceable fruit of
righteousness to those who have been
trained by it you know let’s just say
somebody who’s
who are physically out of shape and they
need to exercise and they need to lose
weight well nobody likes being hungry
and
if i’ve overeaten for a long period of
time and i want to lose weight then i
have to cut back on my eating and i will
be hungry for a period of time and i
won’t like it and it won’t be
comfortable but when i’m 20 pounds
lighter i’m gonna love it
later on always comes
proverbs 1 7
says the reverence and worshipful fear
of the lord
is the beginning
and the principle and the choice part of
knowledge
its starting point and its essence
but fools despise skillful and godly
wisdom instruction and discipline
anytime you run into somebody that knows
everything
you can’t tell them anything
and anything
if you even suggest that they might be
wrong about something
they get all upset about it then you
have just run into a foolish person
because actually a wise person the bible
says loves correction
now i have to admit
that i’ve at least learned how to not
get upset when i get corrected but i
still working on loving it i don’t think
any of us love to have somebody tell us
that we’re wrong but it is important
that we can receive correction from
those
who
give us wise correction
the fear of the lord well what is that
that’s not something that you hear
talked about
very often matter of fact i think we
need to hear it talked about a lot more
what is the fear of the lord it’s not
being afraid of god god loves us he’s
good he’s not going to hurt us but it
means to have a reverence and a respect
for god that means you know how powerful
he is
you know that when he says something he
means it and so you’re not going to go
against things that he says just kind of
hoping that you’ll get by with it
when dave and i were raising our
children and they were young because of
the way i was raised in a dysfunctional
abusive home
and i got a lot of unfair
punishment
i had a difficult time
sometimes being as strict with my kids
as i should have been
and so let’s say they did something they
shouldn’t have done well i might be the
one that would say you’re not going out
of this house for 30 days
well
after i calmed down i knew that that was
going to be punishment for me not them
and so it was easy for them to talk me
into changing my mind
but my husband dave was not like that
he thought about
whatever kind of punishment he was going
to lay down and if he said it he meant
it and the kids knew that if he said it
it was going to happen and so they had a
more reverential fear of dave
than they did
of me
and we need to have that reverential
fear of god it’s something that’s really
missing for people the world is full of
people today that call themselves
christians that think that they can do
things and they’ll be the one that’ll
get by with it well god understands or
you know it’s the 21st century well you
know what god doesn’t change he’s the
same yesterday today and forever and
what his word meant
a hundred years ago it still means
today
the bible says that we need
understanding i actually talk about
seven foundational principles and
proverbs and they are wisdom and
understanding and knowledge and
the reverential fear of god and
discretion and discernment and i don’t
know if i forgot any but we’ll get
around to all of them and so those are
the things that we learn and they’re all
deeper things they’re not surfacy things
understanding
means mind or intelligence reflective
thought
knowledge or to perceive
with the mind well
you know you might like in in school
when kids are being taught reading
they
they not only are taught how to read but
they’re given tests on their
comprehension in other words a person
might read a book real fast but
they might not really understand
what they read and i think in time the
more you ponder something the more you
understand it mark 4 says the measure of
thought and study that you give to the
truth that you hear is the measure of
virtue and knowledge that will come back
to you again so let me ask a question
do you ever
take notes when you’re in church
or maybe buy
a recorded copy of the message
and
actually then take that message and
maybe spend
the next week in your private bible
study
going over it and over it looking up the
scriptures pondering and praying over
what it says
see i think this is what i mean when i
say we have all this knowledge but how
much wisdom
do we really have
how many people go to church and maybe
you you know let’s just say you went to
church and i couldn’t make it that week
and i said to you well how was church
say oh it was great the message was
great well what’d the pastor preach on
uh
and sometimes an hour after you get out
of church you can’t even remember what
the sermon was about well that means you
were paying attention on a surface level
and not on a level where it got really
down deep on the inside of you i
actually think we have too much
available to us today and we just go
from subject to subject to subject to
subject and never stick with anything
long enough for it to really become a
revelation in our life
i desperately needed to have a
revelation on
god’s unconditional love for me
and i can tell you i didn’t get it from
hearing one scripture
i had to study the love of god
for a year
before it really became a reality to me
and now i know
that i know that i know that i know that
god loves me
and when i’m having a problem in my life
i never say well god don’t you love me
it goes along with what the bible says
in proverbs 8 about being more than
conquerors not proverbs 8 i’m sorry
romans 8 and that nothing can separate
us from the love of god that is found in
christ jesus and so we need to know
these things in a deeper way i know that
i know that god is with me all the time
rather i can feel his presence or i
can’t feel his presence or it seems like
he’s there he’s not i know that i know
that i know that he is but i’ve studied
that for a long period of time
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