Let me start by sharing a dictionary's definition of each:
- Wisdom is defined as a wise attitude, belief, discernment, insight, and perception.
- Revelation is defined as an act of revealing or communicating divine truth, something that is revealed by God to humans.
How does one get wisdom or insight? The bible is very clear on that - Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
1 Chronicles 29:11
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James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
Many believers think that wisdom can only come from reading the Word of God. The Word of God is absolute truth and there is no denying the great wisdom that is in the Bible! It's a great place to start and definitely a must to put man's teachings to the test. However, I believe that there is more than one way to get wisdom and revelation.
- Ken's life verse is Jeremiah 33:3 - it says - Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
- A verse the Lord highlighted to me years ago was Revelation 4:1 Come up here and I will show you what must take place after this.
- Matthew 11:15 says He who has hears to hear, let him hear.
These are all verses that are at any believers disposal to use. These verses are ones that have opened many doors into revelation that we could not of got any other place. Remember, revelation means something that is given to us direct from God!
Dan Stone in his book The Rest of the Gospel, When The Partial Gospel Has Worn You Out writes - "Wisdom is revelation of the knowledge of God. Revelation comes in through our spirit and through experience". This means that if we ask God for wisdom, He will reveal things unknown to man through your spirit man and even through an experience that might seem unbelievable or "out-there" to others. God wants to give His children wisdom, insight and revelation in all that we do and say.
Ken and I lead what we call "Treasurehunts". This is where we gather a group of people together and we ask the Lord for clues (revelation) on where to go, who to pray for and how to pray for them. I've shared some stories in previous posts. This is an example of asking for wisdom, asking for God's will. He freely shares with us. As we step out in faith and obedience (two main things that win you mega brownie points with God), He reveals things and people are blessed, encouraged, healed, whatever. There is nothing in the Bible that I'm aware of that would give you this experience or experiential knowledge? However, there is a verse in John that supports this - I only do what I see the Father doing.
Another example of divine wisdom and revelation and health update: There are many, many, many folks praying for my healing and have for a long time! THANK YOU!!! It seems over the past 15-20 years, my health has been in a domino falling mode. One issue after another continues to spring up. People often ask how should I pray? Good question!
Recently I was at a conference and the speaker called me up to pray for my healing. He had no knowledge of anything going on with me other than I had raised my hand when he asked if anyone had pain in their body. (He had prayed for several others before me, all of which the Lord gave him very specific revelation and many were healed instantly). Whoohoo! Praise the Lord! Anyways, when I got up there, he looked at me and said this "There is only one thing I know and that is you can do nothing". That one sentence was all I needed to hear to believe that he was legit and it was from God. (For months the Lord has been telling me that there is NOTHING I can do - my healing is in His timing and for His glory). When he prayed for me, he asked the Lord to reveal what the cause of all my health issues were. Unfortunately, he did not get any revelation but told us to pray for specific revelation knowledge. He felt that was from the Lord.
We did. I was going to see a new doctor that next week and so we began to pray for specific wisdom, insight and revelation to be given to this doctor. And you know what, God did just that. This doctor asked the right questions, discerned from my long history of issues and was able to find the very first domino that started this health mess! The good news is that we have an official medical diagnosis that very well seems to be the cause of at least 90-95% of all of what's going on. The bad news is that in the natural, the doctor only trying to be realistic doesn't have much confidence we will be able to reverse anything or stop my out of control body from getting worse. But...... my God is way way bigger than all of this. I feel the Lord has given me and a few others revelation knowledge on how to pray now for my healing and even the timing of my healing... and the experiential revelation is yet to come! Yippeee!! I will be FREE! I cannot wait!!
A verse the Lord gave me when I first became a Christian was Malachi 4:2
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Summing all of this up. God wants us to be so in love with Him that we will desire nothing more than Him, that we are never truly satisfied with what we know. Ask Him to put a hunger and thirst in you that cannot be quenched! He is truly all we need to walk out the lives He puts before us. If we seek His Kingdom first, if we ask Him for wisdom and insight each day, even each moment, He will freely give us all that we need!
With what is going on in the world, we need to be asking God for wisdom on how to pray and what we can do as the Church! It will take the Church working together and God's wisdom to help us navigate the days ahead. Your prayers are essential and they can change the course of things.
What do you need wisdom on today? Are you facing some challenging times in your finances, health, marriage, business or anything else? We challenge you to meditate on those three bullet point verses above and ask the Lord for a very specific answer... so that when He gives you it, you will experience true revelation that comes only from HIM!!!!
Proverbs 4:7 Also says the beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom and whatever you get, get insight!
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