The Power of Wisdom

 

The Power of Wisdom

 

Proverbs 3:13   ¹³ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Happiness and joy are two different things. Happiness pertains to externals and can be enjoyed even by the ungodly. Joy pertains to that which is within and can only be enjoyed by those who know the Lord and have the precious fruits of the Spirit.

 

James 1:5   ⁵ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

This is referring to proper knowledge of the word of God. there are two sources of wisdom, Gods wisdom and worldly wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to use your knowledge and make it work for you.

You must have Gods wisdom working in your life. Knowledge alone is not enough. Only three percent of people in business for themselves succeed.

A lot of college graduates end up a failure, not because they didn’t have knowledge, but because they lacked the wisdom to make their knowledge work for them.

Wisdom does not come from reasoning; wisdom grows out of Love. Success grows out of wisdom.

 

Colossians 1:9   ⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

That your might be filled with the knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. That you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing.

This is the hope that has been laid up for us in Heaven. Being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Strengthened with all might according to His glorious power. Who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son.

Wisdom never acts outside of love. Love is the basis of God. Through wisdom God has given us the ability to enjoy our inheritance.

Jesus has made wisdom available to us. Wisdom is in the Word, life is in the word, however we need the Holy Spirits wisdom and discerning to understand the true meaning of the word.

A barn full of natural knowledge is not enough. Without the wisdom to use it we will fail.

Ephesians 3:16-19   ¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸ May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

This is referring to all the revealed perfections of God, not just his grace and power. To be strengthened with might by His Spirit, will be done providing our faith is ever in the cross, by and through which the Holy Spirit works.

To know the love of Christ, speaks of knowledge gained by experience, to know the love of Christ you must have a relationship with him as Lord of your life, and continue your walk with him to keep developing the God kind of love.

To walk in love is to walk in the highest spiritual realm there is. We are to walk even as He walked. Since we have been given the same capacity as Jesus we are therefore responsible for it.

We must have knowledge of Gods word so the Holy spirit can give us understanding, then by faith when we walk in love, Gods manifestation of things will be perfected in us.

We must always put love first because Faith works by love and love always prevails. It produces victory. Then Gods goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life.

Hosea 4:6   ⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

The lack of understanding the word of God holds more people in bondage than anything else. We must seek wisdom and understanding of who we are in Christ. We need to have an understanding of our place in Him and His place in us.

 

Colossians 1:9   ⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

For this cause is referring to the fruit they were bearing for Christ with prayer offered for them that this fruit would continue and not be hindered by a false message.

Philippians 4:7    ⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

The peace of God is sanctifying peace, it’s beyond the understanding of the human mind. It keeps our hearts and minds renewed and that gives the Holy Spirit the latitude to help us.

Wisdom is available to every person, no one needs to be a failure. Until we place our dependance on God, his ability in us remains dormant. Staying dormant until we act on and confess the word of God.

Not using Gods knowledge is a lack of wisdom. We receive wisdom only as we make the confession of the word. Jesus is our wisdom, through his word and the Holy Spirit.

We are linked to all of Gods wisdom. Gods way of thinking is incorporated into our minds as we renew our minds daily by the word of God. Gods word is his will for our lives.

Don’t be slow to lean into Gods word and use it to open up all the avenues of success. He is waiting for us to speak and believe in his word.

YOUR BODY-SOUL AND SPIRIT

 

                       YOUR BODY-SOUL AND SPIRIT

 

In Genesis 1:1 the word says “in the beginning”. The word genesis means beginning or origin, and unfolds the record of the beginning of the world of the human history and of civilization, and salvation.

 

Genesis sets the stage for the entire bible. It reveals the person and nature of God, who is Creator, sustainer, judge and redeemer. The value and dignity of human beings, made in Gods image, saved by grace and used by God in the world.

 

That is where Genesis begins, when we read Genesis we should be encouraged. There is hope, no matter how dark the world situation seems, God has a plan.

 

No matter how weak you may feel in God’s word, he loves you and want to use you in his plan. You do have a purpose in His plan.

 

We will always be facing great choices, but with God we will win, disobedience occurs when people choose not to follow God’s plan of living. Genesis teaches us that the earth is well made and good.

 

People are special to God, especially the believers. They are unique when they obey God. They find peace with Him, with others and with themselves.

 

Genesis 1:26-27   ²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

²⁷ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 

Let us make man and ‘wo-man’ in our image, after our likeness.

 

Why did God use the plural form, ‘let us’ make people in our image? It was a reference to God the Father, Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. All of whom are God called the trinity.

 

The first human, Adam was formed from the earthly elements, and became a living being by receiving the breath of God, not pro-creation as of today through other human beings.

 

The body is made up of flesh and bones, the body that you see in the mirror and dress each day is actually not the real you, the real you is your soul and your spirit. Your body is the vehicle that carries and houses your spirit man.

 

 

People try to believe what they read or hear, unfortunately many ideas printed and taught are not true.

 

So, your flesh and bone body are only a vehicle to transfer your soul and spirit from one place to another. For instance, like your car.

 

If you have been redeemed by Christ Jesus, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

 

1 Corinthians 6: 19-20    ¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

²⁰ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Your body is not only to move you from point A to point B but also that it is the temple of the Holy Spirit. this actually refers to the human body of the born-again believer, it is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit.

 

Ephesians 4:30   ³⁰ And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

 

Once you make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life you will be sealed by the Holy Spirit. With the acceptance of Jesus, the Holy Spirit sanctifies and purifies your heart so the Holy Spirit will have a sin free temple to abide in.

 

Your soul is quite different than your body. It is made up of three parts: your mind, your will, and your emotions.

Your mind is what you think with, either good or bad, the thoughts are transferred down to your will.

Your will is what you want or do, or your desires. However, you must be careful in this area this is a place Satan will battle you and deceive you if he can.

This can be passed on to your thinking, and to your emotions, which is mostly what we act on.

 

Ephesians 6:12   ¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

 

Paul is not only giving this counsel just to the church, but to all individuals within the church. As you do battle with the powers of darkness, light is the strength of the church, whose power comes from the Holy Spirit, it will protect your mind, known also as the helmet of salvation.

 

John 10:10   ¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

 

Satan comes to kill steal and destroy the word, our joy, and our righteous thoughts. The battle ground is in our minds.

The way you think will change your spiritual life.

 

Ephesians 4:23    ²³ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

As we are renewed in the spirit of our mind, we must not be driven by impulse, we must put on the new nature, head in the new direction and have the new way of thinking that comes from the Holy Spirit. Renewing our minds with the word.

 

John 1: 12-13   ¹² But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

¹³ Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

 

Your mind is how you think; your will is what you do; and how you do it, as your mind dictates it. If you don’t renew your mind daily with the word, and protect it, Satan will steal the word and your ‘will’ won’t know the right way to respond.

We are made up of our body, our soul and our spirit, whether or not you have made Jesus the Lord of your life. Your mind, will and emotions still operate on carnal knowledge, or if you are saved it will operate on wisdom through and by the Holy Spirit.

 

Your will only responds to how you think. If you are filled with the spirit and the things of God, your ‘will’, can operate on that spiritual knowledge.

 

If you are not born again and focus on worldly things, then your ‘will’, operates on natural knowledge, which Satan can control at any time.

 

John 6:38-40   ³⁸ For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

³⁹ And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

 

⁴⁰ And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

 

Again, we see where our “will” is something that we do; Jesus came down from Heaven, not to do his own “will” but to do his Fathers, ‘Gods’ “will”. God decided to send Jesus. If we believe on Him, ‘Jesus’, we would have everlasting life.

 

So, your will is something you do by the choices you make. Same as it was Gods will to send Christ Jesus to be our Savior.

 

Your emotions!

 

Your emotions are a strange part of the human soul. Sometimes they can be very calm, and other times in a rage.

 

We often label different emotions into a common group. Like, happy or sad. We forget to experience that emotion for what it is.

 

Negative emotions can literally control our lives in a bad way, but positive emotions are always the same, happy, full of love, confident, and leads us into a relaxed life.

 

Positive emotions create positive thinking, self-motivation, self-esteem, and personal development. It all is according to how you think. Your mind, your will and your emotions are the three parts that make up your soul.

 

Emotions play a very big part of how your spirit man operates. However, even though your body, your soul and your spirit are three different controlling units, you must not allow your body and soul control your Spirit.

 

Your spirit is your inner man that abides in God’s word, it is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

 

When the Holy Spirit comes and lives in a believer, they will have the world, the flesh and the devil coming against them at the same time, Because you have woken up an evil spirit called Satan who wants to destroy the word of God in you.

 

If you keep your soul and spirit in line you will be strong. If you let your soul, which is made up of your mind will and emotion, team up with your body, which is your flesh, your spirit man won’t have a chance.

 

The way to stop Satan from working in your life is by the renewing of your mind, daily by the word of God. Satan is still walking the Earth seeking who he may devour. Stay alert, serve God, seek the word daily.

THE INNER IMAGE OF GOD IN YOU

 

THE INNER IMAGE OF GOD IN YOU

 

Read 2^nd cor 5:7   For we walk by faith and not by sight.

God has given you the principle, and the power to make permanent changes in your life, and in your circumstances. (Principle means: the basic way in which something works). But first you have to understand an important principal… it is the principle of Inner image

 Genesis 1:26   ²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 When God created the earth, he had to first have an inner image or idea of what he wanted to create. He took the principle of the inner image and added faith and the power of His words, and created.

 For your inner image to work, you need to use words for your base… the word of God. The word has supernatural power. If you fill that word with faith and speak it out it will work for you.

 You have to use words to get that image from the inside of you to the outside. Words are powerful; they are containers that can carry faith and love.

Words are so important they can determine our eternal destiny.

 Proverbs 18: 21   Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

 We are the only creature on the planet that has the power to speak words.Satan chose his own words and was doomed forever: words can destroy or they can create. Words can take an inner image and project it to the outside world.

 Once you understand that… you can put the principle of the inner image to work in your life. Words not only release the creative force of faith; they also produce images.

 When you hear the word dog, you form a picture in your mind of a dog. that is an inner image; words paint pictures in our minds. We have to get that inner image to line up with the word of God. God’s words are packed with faith.

 That faith is the energy that is in the word that gives it power to bring itself to pass.

In other words, transfers it from inner image to a physical reality.

 Isaiah 55: 11     So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

 God’s word is a living thing. It is alive with Gods own faith. Just as Gods faith energized the words he spoke, the faith he has given you, mixed with his words can create new realities in your life.

 By the power of the Holy Spirit you have faith inside of you. When your inner image matches Gods word, then your faith can produce the end result that God desires for it to produce.

 You need to realize that when you start putting these principles and this power to work. You are going to run into some heavy resistance from Satan. He is going to do everything he can to stop you because you have just become one of his greatest enemies.

 And because he understands the power of the inner image, he will work hard to distort that image. He will try to up root the word of God that has been planted inside you.

 Sometimes we decide, I am going to turn over a new leaf in my life, I am going to make some changes. You get geared up, excited, ready to shake those old habits that have been haunting you. then something happens, your determination weakens your new leaf begins to look similar to your old leaf, suddenly you find yourself back where you started.

Nothing has changed, you begin to doubt if things will ever change.

This has happened to all of us more times than we would like to admit.

God has given us the power to make permanent changes in our lives. First you need to understand the principal of inner image.

 Ephesians 5:1-2   ² And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.

 When God created the earth, he took the principal of His inner image, added faith and power of His words.

If we are going to imitate our Heavenly Father, we must put the principal of His inner image to work.

 Don’t waste your time trying to dream up an inner image of your own.

 What you need is to use as a basis for your inner image and for the words you speak is the word of God. The word of God has supernatural power.

 If you fill that word with faith and speak it out, it will work to change your circumstances as surely as it did for God himself.

 When god wanted light he said, “let there be light”. The words he spoke were directly related to his inner image. He used His words to get that image from the inside to the outside.

 Words are powerful, they are containers that carry faith and Love. words can also carry fear and hate. Words are so important that they can determine our eternal destiny.

 Romans 10:9-10   ⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Proverbs 18:21   ²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

 Power of life and death are in the power of the tongue. We are the ones who will choose which of those, life or death, we will speak into existence.

 We have the power to speak words, no other creature on earth has that power. Words can destroy or they can create.

 They take an inner image and project it to the outside world. Once you understand that you can your inner image to work in your life.

 You may be working to be a winner while seeing yourself as a loser. How do you change that? With the word of God.

 Words not only release the creative forces of faith; they also produce images. When you hear the word cat, your mind forms a picture. Words paint pictures in your mind.

 I am talking about getting your image lined up with the word of God.

 John 1:1-4   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Hebrews 11:3   ³ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

 Everything that is or has been, or will ever be was brought about either directly or indirectly by the word of God. Words are packed with faith and power.

In fact, that faith is the energy that is in the word that gives it the power to bring itself to pass.

Isaiah 55:11   ¹¹ So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Gods word is a living thing, it is alive with Gods own faith. By the power of the Holy Spirit, you have faith inside you as a born-again believer.

When your inner image matches Gods word then your faith can produce the end result that God desires for it to produce. Our desires and faith must match up to the plan God has for our lives.

Putting these principals to work in your life will run into some resistance from Satan. He is going to do everything he can to stop you because as a co-worker with God you become Satan’s greatest enemy. Satan wants to stop the word of God from taking root in your heart.

Satan is working to stop you from cultivating an inner image of the Word in yourself. He knows once you have that inner image of God in you that nothing can stop you from receiving power, knowledge, and wisdom from God.

Once you get in agreement with the word, Satan can’t stop it from coming to pass. It is the word in you that he is after, not just you.

He will use these five things to get your mind off Gods word and onto natural things: 1. Persecution, 2. Affliction, 3. Cares of this world. 4. Deceitfulness with riches. And 5. Lust of the flesh and things.

Paul says, walk by faith, not by sight. When your body says I am sick, remind your body that you believe it is healed.

When you have the same image inside of you that is the same as Gods inner image of you then you can be confident that your body is going to change, it has no choice, it has to line up with the word of God.

Your mind is like a camera, the picture it takes is just an image of what it sees. Likeness is an image of the real thing. You can’t give an image that is not from God dominion over you.

Once you have a clear image on the inside of you and you release your faith, that which is inside of you becomes reality on the outside.

Get into the word and let it begin to shape images within you, then speak it out in power and faith in the name of Jesus.

THE POWER OF GODS WORD

 

THE POWER OF GODS WORD

 John 1:14   ¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The word made flesh is referring to the incarnation of God becoming man. He dwelt among us is referring to Jesus, being perfect, but not holding himself higher than all others, rather lived as all men, even as a peasant.

1 Peter 2:9-10   ⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

¹⁰ Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

A chosen generation is a new creation that never existed before, made up of all who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. A royal priesthood is referring to Christ who is king and high priest.

Because we are “in Him” we as well are kings and priest.

John 14:20   ²⁰ At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Revelation 1:5-6   ⁵ And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

⁶ And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

All of this was made possible by what Christ Jesus did at the Cross and only by the cross.

A holy nation, a peculiar people, a multitude of people of the same nature. Each saint is Gods unique possession. It is just as if that saint were the only human in existence.

In times past we were not a people of God: focus here is on people without God in their life. Without God there is no heavenly standing in any capacity. After accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior we become the people of God, all of this is made possible by what Jesus did at the cross.

Which had not obtained mercy refers to, mercy and grace was obtained at the finished work at the cross; we now have obtained mercy. Mercy is a product of grace which was obtained at the cross.

Gods word is full of life and power, making it active, energizing and effective in our lives, the very entrance of God’s word gives light and our ability to conquer.

In the name of Jesus, you can walk out of the realm of failure into the realm of success.

2 Timothy 1:7   ⁷ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Fear is an evil spirit that Satan uses to control people of weak faith. This strategy of his has worked from the time in the garden of Eden throughout history up to today. The word says this too is a disposition of the mind. However, God’s word says He has given us a spirit of power, love and a sound mind,

God has delivered and drawn us out of the control and dominion of the devil and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dear Son, Jesus.

Now we can rejoice in Jesus, who has come, that we might have life and have life more abundantly. Today we are a new creation, the old us has passed away and the new us lives on in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:5-7   ⁵ And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

⁶ The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

⁷ Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

We walk by faith and not by our five senses, it is faith that controls, not our sight. Start looking forward to the word of God and forget those things that are behind you.

Keep Gods word in the midst of your heart, for His words are life, healing and health to all your flesh. Let God write them in the tablet of your heart.

We must strive to be like a tree planted by the water, not being moved by every little whim that the devil tries to throw at us. Tell the devil, I am the righteousness of God and I refuse to give you any place in me.

Sometimes when the world seems to be turned upside-down, we start to lose faith. God is still God even in these dark times, His word is full of power.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:13   ¹³ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Wisdom on spiritual knowledge does not come from natural reasoning, that is why we cannot lean on the natural way of thinking. The natural way of thinking will not produce spiritual understanding.

Wisdom of the word, knowledge, understanding and discerning of the word only comes through the Holy Spirit. That is why God said my ways and thoughts are higher than your ways and your thoughts.

Matthew 28:18   ¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Jesus holds all power in Heaven and in the Earth. If you are a believer and made Jesus the Lord of your life, then you have access not to this power but to the authority of it in the name of Jesus. When the word, power, is used in the scripture concerning the people it means authority or dominion.

Dan 4:2-3   ² I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.

³ How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

We have Dominion over our adversaries who have been put under the feet of Jesus. His power to live a holy life has been settled in heaven for the believer in Christ through what Jesus did at the cross.

In the exceeding greatness of His power and his power toward us who believe, it works for us according to our faith in the finished work of Christ at the cross and by no other means.

Far above all principality and power and might and dominion of every demonic spirit: Christ Jesus was given this exalted position and will retain it forever.