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The Manifold Wisdom of God!

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  1. You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week,

  2. we hope you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter. All right,

  3. what do y' all think? Are y'all tired from worship?

  4. So I want to talk to you about the manifold

  5. wisdom of God. I actually haven't talked about the wisdom

  6. of God for quite a while. And I was in

  7. James chapter three this week, and specifically the latter half

  8. on wisdom. See first service when I said that, there

  9. was like five people in the back like getting super

  10. excited because I guess they were on the side object

  11. anybody on the studying wisdom right now? Second service? No, okay,

  12. less excitement, you're studying wisdom, okay, okay. So anyways, Proverbs

  13. thirteen twenty says whoever walks with the whyse becomes wise,

  14. but the companion of fools will suffer harm. I think

  15. it was Bill Johnson that said, if you want to

  16. kill giants, you got to hang around giant killers. You know,

  17. when you're coming out of a lifestyle of cycles of defeat, darkness, addiction,

  18. whatever it is, if you don't change the company that

  19. you're hanging around, the odds of you actually staying away

  20. from those strongholds is very limited. It says, bad company

  21. corrupts good habits. And I have watched people over the

  22. decades where they will initially repent, they will look like

  23. they're doing well, and then the enemy brings an old,

  24. familiar spirit, an old companion back into their life. And

  25. I don't remember if I said this last week, but

  26. I've watched this. For those of you that are in recovery,

  27. and you're not in your in your sober the very

  28. next thing the enemy will try to do is bring

  29. a relationship into your life every time, like clockwork, and

  30. he's hoping through familiar spirits to trip you back up.

  31. It's weird. I have Paul's the only one upstairs. I'm

  32. gonna I'm gonna remember you're up there. It's weird not

  33. having anybody up there. I'm like, but wisdom, I we

  34. better have wisdom in this hour. Time is short and

  35. if you haven't noticed, the political spirit is rearing its

  36. ugly head right now. And I want to encourage you

  37. not to fall into the trap of a political spirit.

  38. What do I mean by that? The moment you start

  39. looking at another human being as inferior and without the

  40. love of Jesus. Because of their political stance. You're under

  41. the influence of a political spirit. Are y'all with me?

  42. Some of you are, okay? Exodus thirty one, three to five.

  43. This is the first time we actually see someone being

  44. filled with the Holy Spirit. It says filled. Right, it

  45. wasn't sealed, But this is Bazazel, not Bezazel. I cut

  46. the scripture off. No not, but no, that is not it.

  47. I'm not even gonna act like I heard that, dude, Bezilel,

  48. thank you, oh my word. Anyways, Bezileel is here, and

  49. the Lord says, I'm going to fill him with the

  50. spirit of God in wisdom and understanding and knowledge, and

  51. in all manner of workmanship, to design artistic works, to

  52. work in gold and silver and bronze, and cutting jewels

  53. for settings and carving wood, and to work in all

  54. manner of workmanship. So he's filled with wisdom and there's

  55. an explosion of creativity. You understand that the moment you

  56. were born, you were born creative because God is a creator.

  57. And then you don't have to teach children how to

  58. be creative. We actually have to train them not to

  59. be creative. And we have a public school system that

  60. is literally put everyone in a box and said this

  61. is how you will learn and and this is creative,

  62. and this isn't creative. And that's a huge problem because

  63. every single one of you are creative. Imagine for a

  64. moment if God filled you with wisdom in your sphere

  65. of influence. Whatever he's called you, whether you're a plumber

  66. or a school teacher or a business owner, a programmer,

  67. doesn't matter, whatever God's called you to with an explosion

  68. of creativity. Do you understand this is how things are changed?

  69. This is how your calling actually becomes supernatural where you're

  70. not just doing stuff for the heck of it, You're

  71. not just trying to get a paycheck. You're actually recognizing

  72. that God has placed you in that in that particular

  73. place to have influence and He actually wants to fill

  74. you with his wisdom and creativity so that there is

  75. a supernaw natural expression of who God is in your life,

  76. in your career. But how many of us get in

  77. a rut and we just go to work, We just uh,

  78. it's another day, you know tgif you know, thank God

  79. it's Friday, and you're in this rut where you're just

  80. hoping to get to the end of the week. Anybody

  81. been there? I want you right now. I want to

  82. encourage you this morning to invite God's wisdom. It says,

  83. if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God,

  84. who will give it unbridled. Have you ever seen a

  85. wild horse running in the wild like full throttle, just

  86. blazing a trail. Picture that as wisdom unbridled coming at

  87. you when you ask for it unbridled. He's just begging

  88. you to stop having a spirit of stupid Like if

  89. you lack wisdom, ask and he will give it to

  90. you unbridled. What would it look like this if literally

  91. Monday morning you wake up and you go God, I

  92. want to build with you. Lord. You put me in

  93. this job, whether I like it every day or not.

  94. You put me here for a purpose. Lord, Would you

  95. use me today? Would you cause me to have eyes

  96. to see and ears to hear so that I actually

  97. don't miss your invitation for me today to be able

  98. to have a lasting imprint on somebody's life, for the Kingdom,

  99. for eternity. See, we get stuck in this rut where

  100. we start thinking in earthly terms and we get earthly

  101. results when we're supposed to be thinking with the mind

  102. of Christ, and we're supposed to be thinking in heavenly terms.

  103. So it says He put eternity into our heart. So

  104. we should be focused on what is eternal versus what

  105. is temporal, and not fall into the trap of working

  106. for a wage, of working for earthly goods, of working

  107. for earthly rewards, and actually have an eternal focus about

  108. the way we think. Where you go to your coworker,

  109. you know what I probably ought to say, probably ought

  110. to say what the Lord nudged me to say, because

  111. they may not be here on planet Earth tomorrow. It

  112. says you only have today. We only have today, we're

  113. not promised tomorrow. And it says our life is like

  114. a vapor. It appears for a moment and vanishes. And

  115. I can promise you I've been to an enough bedside

  116. over the years to know this that people aren't thinking

  117. about all the stuff they spent their life stressing out

  118. about when they're about to die. What they care about

  119. in that moment is their relationship with the Lord and

  120. their family. They care about people, and they're extremely focused

  121. on eternity. Proverbs nine tenths says the fear of the

  122. Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of

  123. the Holy One is insight. So I don't care what

  124. you look like, what you say. If you're in sin,

  125. you don't fear God. And if you don't fear God,

  126. then that means you're actually not walking in the wisdom

  127. of God. Because the fear of the Lord is the

  128. beginning of wisdom, because it says it means you depart

  129. from evil. Are y'all with me? I mean I could

  130. hit you with an IV of caffeine if I need to.

  131. Some of y' all be lining up. One of the

  132. Hebrew words for wisdom is uh choc ma, and it

  133. means skill, wisdom, wisely, or wits, and the other one

  134. is sophia and it means skill or wisdom. The word

  135. wisdom is actually used two hundred and twenty seven times

  136. in the New King James Bible. Wisdom will keep us

  137. out of trouble. Wisdom will keep us walking with the

  138. wise and not with the foolish. Psalms one twenty seven

  139. to one says, unless the Lord builds the house, those

  140. that build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches

  141. over the city, the watchman stay awake in Vain. You know,

  142. we started a watch every Sunday night for those of you,

  143. which is a prayer watch, and it's every Sunday. It's

  144. Pete at six pm. And so I would encourage if

  145. my mic cutting out, to come to the watch. But

  146. it literally says that the watchman, the literal watchman, and

  147. the old Covenant that we're watching for safety over the city.

  148. They stay awake in Vain unless the Lord watches over

  149. the city. Ephesians two twenty to twenty two says that

  150. built on the foundations of the apostles and prophets, Christ

  151. Jesus himself being the cornerstone, and whom the whole structure

  152. being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the

  153. Lord and him, you also are being built together into

  154. a dwelling place for God by his spirit. James one five.

  155. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God,

  156. who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will

  157. be given. In Proverbs, it talks about the seven pillars

  158. of wisdom. And I don't know about y'all, but I've

  159. had a hard enough time trying to figure out the

  160. seven spirits of God. Anybody been there. Anybody had done

  161. a deep dive on the Seven Spirits of God? No,

  162. uh uh, paquito. I was in Houston, Texas in twenty

  163. ten or twenty eleven. We were living in Beller, Texas.

  164. I was in my living room. Micah was just a

  165. little lad about that big Actually he was tiny. He

  166. was taking a three hour glorious nap. And I was

  167. a stay at home dad at the time. And I'll

  168. never forget it. I was. I was sitting there praying,

  169. and all of a sudden, the candlestick appeared in front

  170. of me. And I don't mean charismatic hype where you know,

  171. I had this impression of the candlestick, you know, in

  172. my minds, I know it was literally appeared in front

  173. of me and be kent and as you can imagine,

  174. it got my attention, and the fear of the Lord

  175. rose maybe fear, And all of a sudden it's in

  176. front of me and it starts moving towards me. Now

  177. the intensity is building because I'm like, what in the

  178. world is going on? And that candlestick literally kept coming,

  179. kept coming, and I felt it go into my chest.

  180. First thing I said was Jesus, I sure, hope that

  181. was you, because if not, I'm gonna need some serious deliverance.

  182. And uh in this and the it was the focus

  183. was the candlestick itself with you know, with the all points. Yeah,

  184. and it and it went in. And I thought to

  185. myself after I got my composure, I was like, Lord,

  186. what was that about? I know the candlestick in the temple,

  187. I know face value, you know that it that it represents, uh,

  188. the spirits of God. But I was like, but what

  189. is like? What is this? Why did this just happen?

  190. See a typical charismatic experience, we have an encounter and

  191. then all of a sudden we're running around telling everybody

  192. about how crazy this encounter was, how amazing it was.

  193. I had goose bumps, I felt heat, I did all

  194. this stuff. And then if somebody says, well, why'd you

  195. have it? Well, I don't know what was the purpose

  196. of it. Oh, I don't know, but it was amazing.

  197. You should have may have felt so crazy. And you

  198. have to understand that we have to be able to

  199. peer beyond just the supernatural manifestation and say, Lord, why

  200. did this just happen? What is the invitation from you?

  201. Because we will never leave the milk of the Word

  202. until we grow up in him and start asking more

  203. wise questions and not get stuck and be like, oh, look,

  204. how cool I am? Because I had an encounter, are

  205. y' all with me? And so I was pondering, Lord,

  206. why did this happen? For two weeks, I was pondering

  207. this and praying it's almost over, I promise, And I

  208. was praying over it. And I go to a Texas

  209. Ablaze conference Keith Miller. Anybody heard of those conferences. He's

  210. been around for a long time. He says something about

  211. the seven spirits of God. And there's a break between

  212. sessions and I go to the table and there's a

  213. book with the candlestick on the front of it that

  214. he wrote on the seven spirits of God, and the

  215. Holy Spirit says, this is what this is about. It

  216. was an invitation to go deep and to actually begin

  217. to understand what the seven spirits of God are. Do

  218. you understand that if the seventh spirits of God rested

  219. upon Jesus, those seven spirits are supposed to be resting

  220. upon you, because it is the Holy Spirit with a

  221. sevenfold expression. Did you catch that? So you should be

  222. seeing all of this in your life, because remember Proverbs

  223. nine to one, Wisdom has built her house, She's hewn

  224. her seven pillars. But the seventh spirits are this because

  225. this is Isaiah eleven one and two is literally speaking

  226. of Jesus and the Spirit of God, the sevenfold expression

  227. of his Spirit resting upon Jesus. It says, there shall

  228. come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and

  229. a branch from his root shall bear fruit, and the

  230. spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit

  231. of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel in might,

  232. the spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord.

  233. That is the seven spirits of God. Do you understand

  234. that we need that full expression in our life. We literally,

  235. as sons and daughters of God, should be living a

  236. life that manifests all the names of God, not just

  237. some of them. We should be living a life that

  238. we literally see the full expression of the sevenfold expression

  239. of His Spirit on our life, because we have literally

  240. been sealed with that spirit inside of us, and that

  241. spirit came upon us for the empowerment of ministry. So

  242. I like to say it this way, so you know,

  243. words of knowledge right on s Corinthians twelve. What is

  244. a word of knowledge? It's a divine piece of information

  245. about a person, placer thing, past, present, or future. That's

  246. a word of knowledge. But when you go from just

  247. getting a piece of knowledge to actually flowing in knowledge,

  248. that changes everything. And I can give you an example

  249. of how that looks like. I can be up here

  250. on the stage. I can get a word of knowledge

  251. about somebody's life for healing. Release that word, they get healed.

  252. But when I'm flowing in the spirit of knowledge, all

  253. of a sudden, now, for instance, like in a ministry session,

  254. when I flow in the spirit of knowledge, I've actually

  255. gone into their memory with them and begin to describe

  256. the room they were in in detail. That is the

  257. difference between a word of knowledge and the spirit of knowledge.

  258. Are you with me James three thirteen to eighteen? Who

  259. is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct?

  260. Let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

  261. So is wisdom angry? No, it's meek, says If you

  262. have authority over your spirit, it's better than having authority

  263. over a city. Give me some leeway with that. That

  264. was a proverb. With Justin's interpretation or translation, I should say.

  265. But it goes on to say, but if you have

  266. bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not

  267. boast and be false to the truth. This is not

  268. the wisdom that comes comes down from above, but is earthly,

  269. spiritual and demonic. So for all of you that think

  270. everything's just natural and there are no spirits, you got

  271. a problem. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there

  272. will be disorder in every vile practice. Do you hear

  273. that anybody ever had jealousy before? Every hand better be

  274. up in this room. I'll just want the lion's spirit

  275. started right here. But we've all had jealousy at times.

  276. Do you understand that literally Saul was jealous over David,

  277. and his jealousy led him to want to murder David.

  278. So the next time you want to play with jealousy

  279. and put it on a leash and call it your pet,

  280. remember that it can literally open you to murder. He

  281. looks at Jonathan, he goes, you, son of a perverse woman.

  282. He goes, do you not know, however, he's thinking, I'm

  283. about to drop a bad word or something. He goes,

  284. He goes, do you not know that as long as

  285. he's alive, you'll never be king. But the one thing

  286. that's always interesting to me was Samuel was still grieving

  287. for Saul. You see the heart of the father in

  288. the prophet literally was still grieving that the kingdom had

  289. been taken from Saul, and and and grieving for so

  290. long that the Lord comes to Samuel says Samuel, how

  291. long are you gonna mourn for Saul? Now grab your oil,

  292. and I'm gonna show you who you're supposed to anoint.

  293. Interestingly in that, because I am going to rabbit trail

  294. for a moment. The so hang on. When Saul anointed, Sorry,

  295. when Samuel anointed Saul, he had all the details of

  296. his life. He told him about the donkeys, that your

  297. father's that the donkeys have been found your your your

  298. father is now worried about where you're at. He's not sure.

  299. And he gives all these details about his life, and

  300. he says, and when you turn around, you're gonna be

  301. turned into a new man. And he tells him everything

  302. that's gonna happen as he goes down the mountain. Fast

  303. forward when he goes to anoint the to the House

  304. of Jesse to anoint the next king. Samuel actually doesn't

  305. know who it is. He literally goes through every one

  306. of his sons and says, hey, do you have another son?

  307. The Lord didn't tell him, but when he first got there,

  308. he saw the oldest son, tall, handsome, real tall, kind

  309. of my height, and just just real, real, rugged, and

  310. and he goes, surely the king is among us, and

  311. the Lord goes, no, Samuel, I don't look on the outside.

  312. I look at the heart. And some theologians suspect that

  313. David was actually the result of a extra relationship and

  314. that's why he actually was not brought in with the

  315. rest of the brothers. And he goes through all the

  316. other ones. Yeah, he's out there. Shepherding didn't even think

  317. about him. Listen, you don't need to be jealous of

  318. other people. You don't need self promotion, you don't need

  319. selfish ambition to put yourself into a place that you

  320. think you're supposed to be, because the worst thing that

  321. could happen to you is you actually step into a

  322. lane that God never called you to, and you don't

  323. have the grace for nor the ability to be protected

  324. spiritual warfare wise, and you get your butt handed to you. Now,

  325. if he puts you there, he's gonna protect you. I'll

  326. never forget. I've shared this a couple of times. My

  327. oldest son had a dream and in that dream, I

  328. was in a boxing ring and I was knocking these

  329. demons out with one punch. I was like, I like this.

  330. I like the way this is starting. Keep it coming.

  331. And Cole says in the dream, he says, Lord, how

  332. is he doing this? And he said, he only goes

  333. after the ones. I tell him to see, it's rules

  334. of engagement, just because something's there. How many times did

  335. Jesus go past people with infirmities? How many times did

  336. he go past the one laying at the pool of Bethesda,

  337. the lame man? And he's like, oh, every time I

  338. try to get in, somebody else beats me. When the

  339. healing angel, he didn't say healing angels, but when the

  340. waters are stirring, the first one ends healed. Jesus did

  341. not heal every single person, you understand that. But he

  342. healed every single person he he went to, and every

  343. single person that came to him he healed. Again, there's

  344. the paradox of the kingdom. How many times did he

  345. go by that place and that guy was there waiting

  346. for that moment. So the next time there's an invitation

  347. from the Lord for your life, don't pass it because

  348. you're not in charge. You're not the king. And when

  349. the waters are stirring, you better respond because you can

  350. miss your visitation. That was good, wasn't it. She's like,

  351. that's what I'm talking about. We'll keep you around. That

  352. was good. So this is not the wisdom that comes

  353. down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual demonic for where

  354. jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder in

  355. every vile practice. I'll never forget it. I was, I

  356. was going through Derrick Prince's stuff, you know, Derreck Prince,

  357. That dude would do corporate deliverance sessions and the recordings

  358. you would just hear people manifesting. It was so amazing.

  359. People just be manifesting all over the room getting free.

  360. See that may scare some of you, but I think

  361. that's awesome because things that hold people back and they're

  362. not even aware that it's actually a spirit, a familiar spirit,

  363. not them, and then all of a sudden it becomes unfamiliar.

  364. They get delivered from it, and that cycle stops and like,

  365. Holy Kyle, it wasn't even me. See, it's kind of

  366. hard to take authority over something that you think is you,

  367. because as long as you think it's you, you're gonna

  368. love it, you're gonna comfort it, you're gonna take care

  369. of it. And some of you have actually been trying

  370. to take care of a familiar spirit. But the wisdom

  371. from above is first peer then peaceable, gentle, open to reason,

  372. full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere, and

  373. a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those

  374. who make peace. I want to prophesy something that came

  375. to me first service, and it just came to me

  376. again right now. There's principalities fighting over this country and

  377. were I can't tell you exactly what it is, but

  378. we're about to see something very significant that is actually

  379. because principalities are fighting. So there's an event. There's an

  380. event that's about to take place in this country. And understand,

  381. and I'm not trying to be vague. I don't like

  382. being vague at all, but I just know this. What

  383. I saw was there's about to be a clash of

  384. the kingdoms, and it's specifically between principalities and there's going

  385. to be this massive explosion for a moment. And the

  386. other the other impression was that we really, really really

  387. got to be praying because the enemy wants to use

  388. that political spirit and that anti christ spirit that's partnering

  389. together to really start to create issues. We're seeing all

  390. sorts of things uncovered right now, and yet you have

  391. people with utter hatred just fully vomiting their hatred and

  392. murder all over the place. And it's so shocking to

  393. me all because put put your politics to the side.

  394. God's exposing corruption in our country and we're going to

  395. be better for it because it's getting fixed. Like do

  396. you really want to live in deception? Do you want?

  397. Do you do you all want to live with all

  398. the corruption that we've had? Seriously, like, we're supposed to

  399. be living in the light and God's drawing close and

  400. he's exposing things. But it says that they will be

  401. lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. It says

  402. they will call all good evil and evil good. Y'all.

  403. We are literally seeing this in our nation right now.

  404. So if we're gonna walk in wisdom, if we're gonna

  405. have the wisdom of God. We have to understand that

  406. it's pure. So if we're not living pure, we're not

  407. having wisdom. It's peaceable. If we're not abiding in peace,

  408. we're not abiding in wisdom. Wisdom is peaceful, it's gentle.

  409. So if you're not gentle, you're lacking wisdom. It's open

  410. to reason. So if you're a hard head and nobody

  411. can talk with you, and you know it all, that's

  412. not wisdom. That's pride. That's actually the pride of life.

  413. It's full of mercy and good fruits. Why is it

  414. full of mercy because mercy triumphs of judgment. Only judge

  415. what you want to be judged for. And that's in

  416. the context of unrighteous judgment, because Jesus told us to judge.

  417. He said, judge righteously. But he says, hey, you over

  418. there running your mouth, why don't you pull the beam

  419. out of your own eye first before you go to

  420. try to deal with a speck in your brother's eye.

  421. And wisdom is impartial and sincere, and a harvest of

  422. righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

  423. I said this earlier. If you're a peacemaker, unhealthy peacemakers,

  424. what do they do, No, they sacrifice themselves. They don't

  425. make peace. They choose to sacrifice themselves. They become the

  426. scapegoat so they can try to bring peace into a

  427. home or peace into a relationship. They take on false responsibility.

  428. They make other people's messes their own. But healthy peacemakers

  429. make peace. And how do you make peace? You got

  430. to be abiding in it. First. You understand the word

  431. for piece of shalom. The pictograph meaning of shalom means

  432. to remove the chaos that causes anxiety. So when you're

  433. making peace, you walk into a situation full of chaos

  434. and you release your peace that you're abiding in, and

  435. then guess what that causes that chaos to go. Peace

  436. Makers make peace. It's active. They don't take on false responsibility.

  437. They don't carry the burdens of other people's lives. They

  438. take them to the cross. You understand Galatians six when

  439. it says bear one another's burdens. The healthy way of

  440. burden bearing is this. When I discern someone something, they're

  441. carrying a burden. They're carrying the even literally even as

  442. I'm talking with them, I go, Lord, I just lift

  443. up this anger to you, Father. I asked that you

  444. would lift this frustration from them, because deep down inside,

  445. they're actually scared to death. They feel out of control,

  446. that this situation's not going to change, and they feel

  447. helpless to change it. Lord, would you just bless them

  448. and heal them right now? Rather than let me put

  449. that my backpack, I'll carry you. Here's another one about

  450. the sevens spirits of God Revelation five six. And between

  451. the throne and the four living creatures, and among the elders,

  452. I saw Lamb standing as though it had been slain,

  453. with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the

  454. seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

  455. Gets complicated, doesn't it. We're over here back trying to

  456. go on Isaiah eleven two. Wait a minute, now, there's

  457. seven eyes and they're sent out all over the earth.

  458. I love it. So. The fear of the Lord is

  459. the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy

  460. One is in sight Proverbs nine ten. And the fear

  461. of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children

  462. will have a refuge. Job twelve thirteen says, with God

  463. all wisdom and might, he has counsel and understanding. With

  464. God our wisdom and might, and he has counsel and understanding.

  465. Do you realize job is literally tapping into the seven

  466. spirits of God right there, describing the Holy Spirit. Let

  467. me go to I want to go to Proverbs eight,

  468. because we're wisdom and motion. I walk in the way

  469. of righteousness and the paths of justice, granting an inheritance

  470. to those who love me and filling their treasuries. Anybody

  471. want wisdom? The Lord possessed me at the beginning of

  472. his work, the first of his acts of old ages Ago.

  473. I was set up at the first, before the beginning

  474. of the earth, when there was no depth. I was

  475. brought forth when there was no springs abounding with water,

  476. before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills. I

  477. was brought forth before he had made the earth and

  478. its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.

  479. One translation says, primal dust. When he established the heavens,

  480. I was there when he drew a circle on the

  481. face of the deep flat earth, when he made I

  482. just wanted to mess with you all right there. He

  483. drew a circle on the face of the deep. When

  484. he made firm the skies above, when he established the

  485. fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea

  486. its limits so that the waters might not transgress his command.

  487. When he marked out the foundations of the earth, and

  488. I was beside him like a master workman. And I

  489. was daily his delight, rejoicing before him, always rejoicing in

  490. his habited world, and delighting in the children of men.

  491. Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not neglect it.

  492. Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily

  493. at my gates, waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds

  494. me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord. So

  495. you want to grow in favor of the Lord, you

  496. better grow in the wisdom of God. But he who

  497. fails to find me injures himself. All who hate me

  498. love death. That's wisdom. All who hate me love death.

  499. Wisdom says Solomon was the wisest man on the earth.

  500. The Queen of Sheba literally went across I don't know

  501. how many miles it was, And she said after she

  502. saw his kingdom, and it goes into detail with her,

  503. even the way the tables were set and decorated, and

  504. the way his servants were clothed. All of that pointed

  505. to the wisdom of God. Why because it directly also

  506. tied into the excellence and creativity of God. And she

  507. was breathless. She was left without breath because of the

  508. wisdom of Solomon. Y'all, what if you showed up to

  509. work Monday with wisdom like that? What if you actually

  510. viewed your problem as an opportunity for God to manifest

  511. his glory instead of you getting focused on self and

  512. thinking the world against you, two totally different perspectives, Instead

  513. of viewing the problem like, Oh, I knew this would happen.

  514. Here we go again. Tired of this garbage. I want

  515. a different job. He'd call that intercessory wining if you want.

  516. But what if you go, Oh, Lord, thank you so

  517. much for this problem. Lord? Right now, this is totally

  518. impossible for us to figure it out. Lord. All I

  519. need is a little wisdom from you right now? Can

  520. I have some wisdom to fix this? Can I have

  521. some wisdom? Lord? And all of a sudden, this creative

  522. idea pops into your head. I should have asked for

  523. wisdom when I was messing with the livestream for eight hours.

  524. This week, Carrie shows up after men's breakfast and then

  525. a couple of minutes realizes, oh, hey, the IMAX not

  526. running through the live stream feed, and I was like

  527. eight hours later that's what that was. And then we

  528. figure out it was one button bink. I feel so smart.

  529. The proverb says, don't be stupid, right, but literally, I mean,

  530. how often do we stop and say, Lord, would you

  531. please help me with this? Versus striving leaning on our

  532. own understanding? And here's the last question, who are you

  533. walking with? That's actually whise. I didn't say wise guy

  534. wise because it says, remember way back here, a couple

  535. pages of notes ago, whoever walks with the wise becomes wise.

  536. But the campan, you know, fools will suffer harm, y'all.

  537. It would actually be wise to go hang out with

  538. somebody that really screwed their life up really bad and

  539. then listen to how they did it. Jim Rone said

  540. that Jim Ron was a Christian businessman who was good

  541. friends with zig Ziggler, and he goes just go meet him, say,

  542. how'd you mess your life up so bad? Tell me

  543. about it. But the truth is when you learn from

  544. other people's mistakes, If you learn from their mistakes, that

  545. means you actually don't do what they did. Spirit of

  546. stupid says, well, I can go do that, but it'll

  547. work out, right. How many of us have been literally

  548. been set free from a stronghold from a sin, and

  549. then we willfully go back to it a couple of

  550. years later, somehow getting amnesia like this is gonna work

  551. out good this time. All right, let's stand see, I

  552. went over fifteen minutes last week, and I'm done three

  553. minutes early this week. I didn't hear the baby bo.

  554. I thought. I thought your baby would be like, yeah, hey, Anthony,

  555. would you hop on the keys for me please? I

  556. want to do a corporate prayer for wisdom. Do you

  557. understand that we didn't I mean, we didn't even touch

  558. Daniel and and it says that they were found ten

  559. times wiser, ten times better than everybody else around them

  560. after they were tested. So next time you have a test,

  561. go Lord, is this a test so that you'll promote

  562. me the squeezing. We want to get to the place

  563. where when we're squeezed, Jesus comes out well. Four or

  564. five years ago, Santana was sitting in here with his kids,

  565. and I kid you not. His son must have been

  566. two years old. Two and a half and I go

  567. and when you get squeezed, what comes out and the

  568. little boy goes coca. On the live stream, everybody lost it.

  569. I was like I say out on the mouth of

  570. Babe and are like, you know, sometimes that's true. That's

  571. what comes out, y'all. Okay, as the prayer teams come

  572. up for the rest of y'all, just put your hands

  573. out like it's Christmas. We're gonna do an air drop. Okay,

  574. So everybody, not just contacts, only open up to the room, everyone,

  575. even if it's only five minutes. We're gonna increase our

  576. spiritual intelligence. Right. So, Father, you said, if we lack wisdom,

  577. let us ask from you and you will give it

  578. to us unbridled. Lord, we want to co labor with you.

  579. We want to build what you're building. And we don't

  580. want to build what you're not building. And we don't

  581. want to rebuild what you tore down unless you say

  582. rebuild it. Lord. We don't want to lack wisdom or

  583. we don't want to walk foolishly. So Father, I pray

  584. Lord that as your word was released today, or that

  585. it'd go deep, or that your word would cause transformation

  586. inside of us. Lord. So, Father, right now, by the

  587. power of your holy Spirit and the mighty name of Jesus,

  588. would you cause wisdom to come? Would you in part wisdom? Lord,

  589. So that means some of us needs an upgrade in

  590. the fear of the Lord. So, Lord, that we would

  591. fear you, that we would depart from evil, because this

  592. is the beginning of wisdom. Lord, by just the power

  593. of your spirit, would you cause an impartation of will

  594. to happen right now? And Lord, would you teach us

  595. to truly abide in your spirit? And would you make

  596. us aware? Lord, make us conscious of what it looks

  597. like when we're flowing in the seven spirits of God. Lord,

  598. whether we need might, wisdom or understanding, or counsel, the

  599. fear of the Lord, that we would truly truly walk

  600. in humility. And Lord, please put wise people around us

  601. so that we can grow wiser. You said in the

  602. multitude of counselors there is wisdom. So Lord, let us

  603. let us get wise counsel And lastly, Lord, we lift

  604. up our country, we lift up our leaders. We pray

  605. for peace, we pray for safety. And Lord, we ask

  606. that you would pull down the anti Christ spirit that

  607. you would pull down the politic spirit, that you would

  608. pull down these principalities, Lord, that would seek to try

  609. to keep us in bondage. Lord Lord, it's getting very

  610. clearer in this hour who knows you and who doesn't.

  611. I pray that no matter what, we would continue to

  612. grow brighter as we walk with the wise, as we

  613. are children of light. So Lord, fill us with wisdom,

  614. let us walk with you, and I ask this week

  615. Lord for an impartation of creativity. Lord, I ask for

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