Grab a Hold of Wisdom

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don

Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. Well, it's a pleasure

to be with you this evening, and I have been

talking to you in the last couple of weeks about

divine wisdom. You know, this is an extremely important topic,

and it may seem I don't know, it may seem

trivial to you, but I hope that you will hear

with your spirit, that you will not just listen with

your natural ear, but you will hear what the spirit

of the Lord is saying to you individually. Because we're

in a whole new ballgame. February twenty twenty five is

not like February twenty twenty four or twenty three. We're

in a whole new era of well, we're still in

an era of grace, that's for sure, but things are

moving at breakneck speed in the spirit realm and in

the natural realm, and you have to get yourself prepared.

And I can't prepare. This is what I do to

prepare you. If you listen to me every Monday night,

I'm here to help prepare you. But other than that,

I don't know what you're doing to help prepare yourself.

So it's a critical time to pay attention to what

the Lord is saying to you. Proverbs nine ten says,

the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

And as you know, we're talking about the awe, awe,

the awe, the reverential fear of the Lord. We're not

scared of God. He's our father. We are in awe

of who he is and what He has accomplished through

Jesus on the cross. A amen. So we don't have

to grope in the dark. We are called to walk

boldly in the light of God's word, says Bobby Connor.

And I talked to you about Bobby Connor last week

and the week before, the wonderful prophet of God that

I have followed for well over twenty years. And he

goes on to say, says, the wisdom of God will

release to us the word of God and the walk

of God, embracing the awesomeness, the awesome awe of God.

So the wisdom of God released to us the word

of God and the walk of God, embracing the awesome

awe of God. He goes on to say that the true,

the true fear of the Lord will produce a valiant, unflinching,

courageous faith. Now that's what I want to have. I

want to have an unflinching, valiant, courageous faith. I hope

you want the same thing. I hope you're saying right

now to yourself. Lord. In fact, take a moment and say, Lord,

I want a valiant, unflinching, courageous faith. The spirit of truth, hallelujah.

The Spirit of Truth is preparing the saints to walk

boldly in the light of the Word of God. And

this is from Bobby Connor's The Shepherd's Rod twenty twenty

five Embracing the Awe of God. And I mentioned this

book to you a couple of weeks ago. Psalm one

nineteen one thirty, verse one thirty in the Amplified says

this says, the entrance and the unfolding of your words

give light. Their unfolding gives understanding, discernment and comprehension to

the simple. So, in other words, when you read God's Word,

it is unfolding in you and providing light to you

and providing discernment and comprehension and understanding. Psal teen, verse

one oh five is a verse that you're quite familiar with,

which says, your word is a lamp unto my feet

and a light unto my path. And that should be

I mean, just think about that. God's word is a

lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

And I've said many times before, you've heard me say it.

This is the power of God's word that can absolutely

direct the path you take, that can absolutely direct where

you go, what you do, how you do it, because

that's what God's word does. See, the Church must boldly

contend for and defend the truth during these dark days. See,

we have to defend the truth. You're going to be

called upon to defend the truth. I guarantee you You're

going to be called upon to defend the truth of

the Gospel. And I know what you're thinking. I'm not

a preacher, I'm not a teacher. Guess what. God doesn't care,

but it'll put you in a situation where you must

boldly contend for and defend the truth. Now, don't be deceived.

Don't be deceived. Yes, the burdensome yoke of the Biden

administration has been removed. Hallylujah, Glory to God. You know,

I have to say I knew it was dark. I'm

sure you knew it was dark. These last four year

years have been horrible. But I don't think I realized

the burden, the oppression that was put on us by

this administration. It the wickedness, the level of evil. Wow,

I didn't. I didn't realize how heavy that was until

it was removed. It's like President Trump becoming the president

and taking his place at the Oval office has been

like chain breaking. And I rejoice exceedingly. I presume you're

rejoicing exceedingly for that. But if you think that the

enemy has folded his hands and is taking a nap,

you're sorely mistaken. Yes, that oppression and that burdensome yoke

has been taken from the people of this country. Yes,

but the enemy is working fast and furious to continue

to do the most wicked, heinous things in our society. Now,

I want to share parable that Jesus spoke in Matthew seven,

Chapter seven, verses twenty one and twenty three, and then

it flows right into verses twenty four and twenty seven.

These are all Jesus' words. So, starting with verse twenty one,

Jesus says this. He says, not everyone who says to me,

Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven. But he

who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven.

Many will say to me on that day, Lord Lord,

have we not prophesied in your name and driven out

demons in your name and done mighty many works in

your name? And then I will say to them openly

and publicly, I never knew you. Depart from me, you

who act wickedly disregarding my commands. You know, every time

I read that, it just I don't know that set

of scriptures. You just, Thank goodness, I don't ever want

to be one of those. I don't want to be

one of those who says, Lord, I prophesied in your name,

lord demons, I did a lot of mighty works in

your name. And to hear the Lord say, depart from me,

I never knew you. That is frightening. But the Lord

makes a caveat here. He says, not everyone who says

to me, Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven.

But here's the one who's going to get to enter.

The one who does the will of my Father, who

is in heaven. Now, how are you supposed to know

the will of the Father? Very simple? Read God's word,

that is the will of God. That's why you have

to be in the word. Now Jesus goes on. It

just rolls into the next verse twenty four. So everyone

who hears these words of mine, meaning God's were the Bible,

the words in the Bible. So everyone who hears these

words of mine and acts upon them, obeying them, will

be like a sensible, prudent, practical, wise man who built

his house upon the rock, and the rain fell, and

the floods came, and the wind blew and beat against

that house, Yet it did not fall, because it had

been founded on the rock verse twenty six. And everyone

who hears these words of mine and does not do

them will be like a stupid, foolish man who built

his house upon the sand, and the rain fell, and

the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against

that house, and it fell, and great and complete was

the fall of it. So it's it's pretty simple here.

You've got to build your spiritual house upon the rock.

The rock is Jesus. The rock is Jesus and his word.

And if you remember what I said, the prophetic word

was for twenty twenty five, hear and obey. See, you

have to act upon God's word. You have to obey.

You want to be a prudent, practical, wise person who

builds their house upon the rock of Christ. Because for

sure the rains are coming, baby, the floods are coming,

the wind's blowing, it's gonna beat on your house. All

kind of calamity can come against you. And yet you

won't fall, You won't falter, you won't pull away, you

won't draw from God, because you're founded on the rock.

But the person who hears, you know, there's how many

thousands of people go to church every Sunday. They hear

they hear God's words, Jesus said. And everyone who hears

these words of mine, lots of people hear his word

every Sunday and does not do them, doesn't act upon them,

will be like a stupid, foolish man who build his

house upon the sand. When you build your house on sand, man,

it's unpredictable, it's unstable, it's full of the flesh and carnality,

and it will fall, and the fall of it will

be great. Jesus said, it will be great. So here's

where you need to be as a believer. Isaiah twenty six,

verse three. This is the amplified classic version. You will

guard him and keep him imperfect and constant peace. In

other words, you is God. God will guard the person

and keep the person imperfect and constant peace. Whose mind,

both its inclination and its character is stayed on God.

Because this person commits himself to God, to the Lord,

leans on the Lord, and hopes confidently in the Lord.

So if you want to walk in peace, if you

want the Lord to guard you and to protect you

and to keep you in perfect peace, then you have

to commence yourself to him. You have to lean on him.

You have to hope confidently in him that he's gonna

take care of the situation. He's going to take care

of the rough going that you're going through. Amen. Now

I want to look at Psalm thirty nine in the

New King James version and Psalm thirty nine, and this

is a psalm of David, and he says, I said,

I will guard my ways lest I sin with my tongue.

I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle while a

wicked are before me. I was mute with silence. I

held my peace even from good, and my sorrow was

stirred up. My heart was hot within me while I

was musing, the fire burned. In other words, when he

was as he was meditating, And he says, Lord, this

is David. Lord, make me to know my end. And

what is the measure of my days? That I may

know how frail i am. Indeed, you have made my

days as hand breaths, and my age is as nothing

before you. Certainly every man at his best, every man

at his best state, is but vapor. Surely every man

walks about like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in

vain and heap up riches and does not know who

will gather them. And now, Lord, what do I wait for?

My hope is in you. My hope is in you. Hallelujah.

I'll just stop there. This is a very humbling prayer

that David is making, very humbling. Certainly, every man at

his best state is but a vapor. When you think

you are something so special, you think you are the

king of the mountain or the queen of the hill,

let me tell you, at your best state, you're nothing.

But vapor. You're like a shadow. So we have to

realize there were nothing Without God, we're nothing. We're just

a vapor. And David says, my hope is in you, Amen,

our hope is in God. What else do we have?

Jeremiah in Jeremiah chapter twenty nine wrote this lost my

place here. Okay, this is in the amplified Classic, and

it says, then you will call upon me, meaning the Lord,

and you will come and pray to me, and I

will hear and heed you. Then you will seek me,

inquire four and require me as a vital necessity, and

find me when you search for me with all your heart.

So we just call upon the Lord. He's our hope,

and he's saying here if you, if you come and

pray to me, I'm going to hear you. I'm going

to heed you. Not just hear you. I'm going to

heed you. And then you'll seek me and inquire and

require of me as a vital necessity, and you'll find

me when you search for me with all your heart.

So there is this place as a believer. David said,

you're my only hope. My hope is in you. You're it.

And Jeremiah it says man, you know if I seek you, Lord,

if I inquire of you, as if you're the most

important thing I need, I'll find you when I search

for you with all my heart. And that needs to

be the cry of your heart. This is a Psalm

eighteen twenty eight through thirty one. This is in the

Amplified Classic, And really you should meditate on these scriptures.

And this is what it reads. It says for you,

meaning God. For you, God, cause my lamp to be

lighted and to shine. The Lord, my God, illumins, illumins

my darkness. For by you I can run through a troop,

and by my God I can leap over a wall.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of

the Lord is tested and tried. He is a shield

to all those who take refuge and put their trust

in him. For who is God except the Lord? And

who is the rock save our God. Wow, I really

love this set of scriptures. God, you cause our lamp

to be lighted and to shine, and you illumine our darkness.

And we can run through a troop. And by you,

Lord Boy, we can leap over a wall. Wow, You're

a shield to those who take refuge and put trust

in you. So he's our protection. He's the one that

takes a way for us to do something that's exceedingly

abundantly above all that we can think or ask. Amen James,

Chapter one, verse five. If any of you is deficient

in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God who

gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding,

and it will be given him. So if you say

to yourself, look I need wisdom. I lack in wisdom.

Right here the word says, if you lack, ask ask God.

He will give it to you liberally. He's not gonna

begrudge you. He's not gonna find fault with you. It

will be given to you. You ask for wisdom, God's

going to give you wisdom. And you know, we have

to make up our minds not to continue to stumble

about in the confusion that seems to gridlock the culture

we live in. We have to walk with a God

given purpose, a God given you know, goals. We shouldn't

be vague and thoughtless in these last days. This is

not a time to be foolish. This is not a

time to lack wisdom. This is a time to gain wisdom.

Paul the Apostle gave a very severe warning in Ephesians

five point fifteen through seventeen, and the amplified Paul wrote this.

He says, look carefully, then, how you walk, Live purposely

and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless,

but as wise, sensible, intelligent people, making the very most

of the time, in other words, buying up each opportunity,

because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be vague

and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly, firmly grasping

what the will of the Lord is. So this is

a severe warning from Paul to the church. You have

to look carefully how you're walking, folks. You have to

live purposely, worthily, accurately, not as a wise, unwise, witless person,

and redeem the time. Make the most of the time.

Because the days are evil, are they not? So be,

do not be vague and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping,

firmly grasp what the will of the Lord is for you.

God God's promises of continual guidance and provision are sure.

They're sure God's word is yes, and amen. There isn't

a no, there isn't a plan. Be God's word is

sure and steadfast Psalm thirty two eight. The Lord makes

this promise to us. He says, I will instruct you

and teach you in the way you should go. I

will guide you with my eye. How about that God

will guide us with his eye. He will teach us

the way we should go. And then John writes in

the Gospel of John sixteen thirteen. He says, but when

he the Spirit of truth, the truth giving spirit, comes,

he will guide you into all the truth, the whole

full truth. For he will not speak his own message

on his own authority, but he will tell whatever he

hears from the Father. He will give the message that

has been given to him, and he will announce and

declare it to you the things that are to come,

that will happen in the future. You just have to

have an ear to hear. You have to have a

strong desire to walk in the truth, the whole full truth. Amen.

And God will speak to you, and he will declare

to you the things that are going to happen in

the future. M I like that things that are about

to come. And let me end with this scripture this

is Luke twenty one thirty four. But take heed to

yourselves and be on your guard, lest your hearts be

overburdened and depressed, weighed down with the giddiness and headache

and nausea of self indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries and

cares pertaining to the business of this life. Lest that

day come upon you suddenly like a trap or a noose.

Wow wow, wow, folks. We have to position ourselves in

a place of humility, purity, holiness, so that the Lord

can entrust us with an impartation of divine wisdom which

comes from above. So this is not a time to

be self indulgent, drunk, worldly worries, cares pretending to the life.

If that's what you're doing, then you're walking and living

in the flesh. You're not in the spirit at all.

But we want to grow strong in the Lord and

in the power of His might. Amen, Well, this is

Don Noble. You can go to www dot Purehart today

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