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Wisdom is Open to All

Since wisdom is open to all then wisdom is available to all. Wisdom sits at the point of decision, waits at the place of beginnings.

If we are willing to adjust our lives to God’s truths she, wisdom, speaks, and what wisdom says to the open of hearts is; healing, health, authority, wealth, and power. Amen!

We must separate true wisdom from knowledge.  Wisdom is not learned from textbooks and is not attained by any college degree.

Wisdom is not stored in that three pounds of gray matter we call our brain.  The brain stores gained information but the heart is open to and receives wisdom.

Wisdom from above is first of all pure, and then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. James 3:17 NKJ Bible.

 All of these attributes of wisdom are open to all of us who will yield our opinions and ideas, and our learned knowledge, and become subject to wisdom from heaven.

Yes, Wisdom from on high has the workings of God because Wisdom was the architect at God’s side when He created the world. Amen!

Wisdom was at God’s point of decision and was able to put into practice the workings and sayings of God! We also have this ability if we yield ourselves to the Spirit of God at the time of our decisions, if we call out to Wisdom with reverence and believing that God is always working on behalf of those who are seeking Him.

We then watch over our hearts, stay honest and steadfast, seek the right path and follow it, and stay out of hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is feigning to be what one is not, so hypocrisy would lead to foolishness and false morality, instead of becoming wise you become a foolish pretender. At this point, wisdom is far from you and you start making poor decisions that lead to poor choices in regards to your life, health, proceedings, and your behavior.

To obtain and walk in the wisdom necessary to change behaviors we must understand the principles of wisdom because the Bible says in Proverbs that wisdom is the principal thing. Amen!

The principles of wisdom as defined in Webster’s dictionary are a comprehensive and fundamental law, a rule or code of conduct, an underlying faculty with which in lies the power and ability to walk in obedience to wisdom.

Yes, it takes obedience to yield to the Wisdom of God, and at the point of decision, we must obey to receive any change in our behavior patterns. If we never obey or change our behavior patterns wisdom eludes us and we wander along driven only by what we know and what we can accomplish.

“Wisdom isn’t open to the disobedient and prideful, their only means of survival is in themselves, and their creative power is limited to only natural occurrences produced by human knowledge.”

To me, that statement sounds like a life of defeat and a life leading to failures in all areas of life.

As we covered earlier, wisdom is not knowledge, so to get wisdom we must ask of God, and have faith that he heard our asking.  Stay obedient to all we know of His Word, inquire of God at our point of decision and do whatever He says, His way!

Because Proverbs 3:16 says; “long life is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor.”

In the hands of wisdom is where we find our life, prosperity, and value to God. As we honor God by keeping His Words, He will honor us with Wisdom! Godly Wisdom is open to all that are willing to yield to the Words and workings of God.

Look through the opening point of your decisions, into the heavens, and get your Wisdom, you will find your real-life right there because it’s in Him.

Our God has this Wisdom and He willingly gives it to us. So open up!

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Scriptures of content and encouragement: All of Proverbs chapter 8, James 3:17, Romans 6:13, Luke 6:46, Matthew 15:7-9, 1 John 5:15 NLT, Proverbs 3:16, and Proverbs 4:7-9 AMPC, “The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding, (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation).  Prize Wisdom highly and exalt her, and she will exalt and promote you; she will bring you to honor when you embrace her. She shall give to your head a wreath of gracefulness; a crown of beauty and glory will she deliver to you. Amen!

The Doubt Bout

So what are we battling in a doubt bout? How can we strengthen our chances of winning?

 Understanding our foe is the first point of business, doubt first off calls the truth into question, and then it steals our confidence, ending in full-blown fear.

Yes, our doubts about a given situation that we are facing can quickly turn into an anxious concern, filled with alarm if we continue into the fear associated with our doubt.           

Our foe can’t be trusted, but our heart can, as we look at the verb form of trust we see an association with believe, which is to hope or expect confidently.

 Trust can become dependent on a future happening and impose a charge on our faith. We must charge or actually put a demand on our faith and this establishes the force for which to defeat our foe, doubt.

We establish a foundation for our confrontation with what is usually the unknown or the overblown force associated with our doubt, and we must ask ourselves why are we doubting and what is our doubt based on. You see doubt is not baseless just as faith is not baseless, but with faith in the Word of God, we can joust from a firm foundation.

When we try to beat doubt with our mind we become disengaged with our faith, our mind can only process what information it is given, and then it will distinguish what to trust or what to doubt by the information it is fed by our physical senses. When we feed our minds more than we feed our hearts or our spirits we leave an opening to doubts and fears, and we willingly give into our mind that is full of what we have allowed in.

 All information produces after its own kind, if we look at failure, darkness, and defeat all the time we will walk in doubt and unbelief. But when we tune our hearts and spirits to seeing what God has promised us in His Word and start applying it to our situations, doubt gets out. 

When we see a different scene in our future, our doubts turn into hope, and faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). When we change who we’re looking to we will then experience what Jesus said in John 16:13 “when He the Spirit of truth comes He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will show you what’s yet to come”. Amen!

How can we see into the future of our situations if faith is the substance of the evidence not seen? By placing a demand on our inner man and by allowing what Jesus speaks to be our guide, we walk in our future a “now” at a time! Because “now” faith is. Now, in Webster’s dictionary is defined as; a time immediately before the present and a time immediately to follow.

Wait, what? Now faith is, is immediately before the present and immediately following? Then we can live in or more likely visit that brief unseen moment called now!

When we live and walk in the Holy Spirit now moment there is no doubt, none. Our mind can’t engage in the “now” moment because it is not in the natural understanding realm.

We are truly more than conquerors in the realm of the Spirit and that is where doubt melts away.

At this point, we are not only winning rounds but we are winning the bout. You see, we really are spirits, we live in a body, and we have a soul. Amen!

When our spirit is engaged and we line up our believing to this “hole” (which is an unfilled space) this “now” moment that is in-between, immediately before and immediately following, we can really do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Amen!

At that moment we are momentarily mindless so there is no place for doubt, we are unable to doubt while in the spiritual place of our Lord and Savior. In this unfilled space, there are no negative forces because it is a God hallowed, consecrated space that can only be entered into by faith.

I am not sure if we can live in this “now” moment but I am confident that we can spend time there, now.

We can get so Word of God-focused that our spirit is stronger than our mind and we enter into Godly wisdom which as stated in Proverbs 8:12, “I wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion, verse 14, “Counsel and sound judgement are mine; I have insight, I have power” 17, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. 18, “With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.”

All of these powers and qualities are in and with wisdom, I believe wisdom can be found in the “now” moment, and in the “now” moment doubt must get out or I should say, “doubt is crowded out, by faith.

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Scriptures of content and encouragement: Proverbs 4:20-23,

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 NLT, John 16:13-15, Proverbs 8:12-21, and James 1:5-8 TPT, “And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and He will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but He will overwhelm your failures with His generous grace. Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You’re up one minute and down the next. When you are half-hearted and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition?” Amen!

Live a Life of Love

Love is patient, love is kind, and the love necessary to live in a peaceful habitation is not self-seeking, easily angered, or rebellious.

Anger is always a negative pull that instigates rebellion and leads us into the realm of selfishness, I didn’t get my way, you don’t listen to me, I want all the control of people and situations.

As we seek to satisfy our feelings we are not even remotely in the realm of love, because love is not a feeling. Sacrificial love has transforming power and is volitional rather than emotional. We love because we made a decision to love. Amen!

The Bible tells us to love with our entire being; heart, soul, and mind, and we attain this love by our inherent spiritual attributes gained by yielding ourselves to the inner Spirit of God that dwells in all who choose to believe in His Son Jesus. Amen! 

Patience and kindness are some of the attributes that show us that God is God, and when we search inside ourselves we too have a better understanding of the power of love and how it produces acts of kindness.

As patience has its perfect work in you the power of serenity produces a calmness that is necessary to act on and endure in love.

A life of love is also filled with thoughtfulness, which is the consideration for the needs of other people. Then benevolence is found in your acts of kindness and goodness and leads to the good of God being shown out of a willing heart.

When your heart is full of good you are now operating in the love that was shed abroad in your heart through the Holy Spirit. This transformative experience gives us a newfound love for God and His people and completes the never-ending cycle of divine-human reciprocity, which is a mutual dependence on one another.

This mutual dependency would lead us away from judgment and more in line with fulfilling needs. Leniency can exert a soothing influence over every thought and spoken word and lead to a situational value of life.

Good thoughts and kind words omit any wrong that has been done and set us on the path to the love of God that was initially set forth by way of charity.

Charity is thought to be the highest form of love and is actually where we derive the word, love, that we use in modern vernacular. Charity is the reciprocal love between God and man that is manifested when we have unselfish love for one another.

Here is a quote that gives some understanding; “Charity is a virtue which, when our affections are perfectly ordered, unites us to God, for by it we love Him”!

Charity is at the root of every other virtue that has related God to man, and man to man. (Man here, being male or female).

So to have a life of love we must have the desire to remove the burdens people are carrying and help all of those around us move into a benevolent state, and then all of us reaching to those in our communities, states, and countries to bring love to center stage.

We reach the whole by loving those around us unconditionally and then expecting that the love will speak with a new tone, you see our God has a tone and love causes that tone to have some notes and when we sing out or speak out these heartfelt notes, love abounds. Amen!

 We must, however, face the fact, I repeat, “we must face the fact” that we don’t naturally have this kind of love in us, we must gain this love from following God’s word and following God’s example of love, His giving us His only Son Jesus, you see giving of oneself is the greatest act of love.

By the love that is in Jesus, we can live this never-failing love life, and have all our relationships transformed into mutual affection, one for another.

We can love even the so-called unlovable, and as we do, things will change because if our love is rejected we just come back with more love. We remain full of faith, abounding in hope, and as we think more charitably, our love never fails. Amen!

Unfailing love removes all self-seeking, all malice, and all the desires to spitefully use others for our gain. As we practice living the life of love, we lead with love again and again and come to a place where we are proficient in love.

Our proficiency advances us into the main principles practiced in the Kingdom of God, and that should be our heart’s desire.

Living a life of love, we know the Way! Jesus truly is our Way Maker! Amen!

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Scriptures of encouragement and content:  1 Corinthians 13, Matthew 22:37, John 6:29, Acts 16:31, Romans 5:5, John 14:6, and 1 Peter 1:22 TPT, “Now, because of your obedience to the truth, you have purified your very souls, and this empowers you to be full of love for your fellow believers. So express this sincere love toward one another passionately and with a pure heart”. Amen! So be it!

Supernatural Increase is Coming!

 Superior and above the natural is the increase that is coming on us! Amen!

 Superior in multitude and superior in magnitude is the expectation coming on our future.

Supernatural is an existence beyond just visual, it appears to transcend the laws of nature and thrusts us into a realm of spiritual apprehension.

Supernatural financial increase is heading our way, right now in these times. Ask, Seek, and Knock, it only takes one open door to start this increase process.

Superior ability to possess what we profess is coming from spiritual enlightenment that will supersede any natural, physical ability we have garnered in the past.

Past principles are being ramped up and as we increase our faith levels our new daily principles will supernaturally overtake our past measures of security.

As supernatural financial security takes over our thoughts and we trust more and more in God, we will see a difference in ourselves versus those around us.

Supernatural financial increase will flow out of our heart, we will have brighter ideas, enlightened processes, and procedures, and we will have the ability to walk above what we see happening, by faith.

It will be like going from door to door as a salesman, but the provision at every door will be increased by God and provided according to His Word. Amen!

This supernatural financial increase and all these newfound ideas and abilities will come out of God but be found in us, found in the soundness of our minds, found in the depths of our hearts, and will be launched into by a newfound inner ability. An inner ability that up until now has been untouched, it was so deep in us that it was not readily available, but by God and by looking to Him, it will be drawn out and physically held onto.

It will take revelation and Godly wisdom to know the instructions and the steps to change what the devil meant for harm and turn it into supernatural increase. It comes as a seeing into, a knowing, a vision of possessions not yet held but totally in store for us as we dare to believe to draw it out.

Things that were all the time present but until this moment  laid hidden, hidden but always available.

As we retrace our steps we will be guided forward, yes a supernatural forward flow developed by our past deposits from the Spirit. These deposits will manifest into a supernatural explosion that will catapult us into future financial, physical, and spiritual gains.

Financial indebtedness will be replaced by financial freedom, sickness and disease will be replaced with health and wellbeing, hard-heartedness and confusion will be replaced with a grandeur spiritual awakening. Amen!

We are gaining on this supernatural increase in all areas of our life, one scripture at a time, one lesson at a time, one moment at a time, and one anointed Word of God at a time.

Supernatural increase is an active entity, it is held for us in folds of grace, distributed to us by steps of faith, and realized by staying in our place.

Our supernatural place is that place where we put aside every weight of doubt and unbelief; we put aside every trivial or minimal thought that doesn’t have the power to raise a supernatural expectation. You see, our supernatural increase will be allotted based on our supernatural expectations, and our supernatural expectations will fuel the increase.

How do we attain this supernatural increase, By Faith!

It takes our faith to draw it out of the depths of our inner selves and tap into the faith bank. Withdrawals are made by asking God, seeking God, and knocking on the vault door of God’s provision, it is full and ready for tapping. Amen!

See you at the Bank.

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Scriptures of encouragement and content; Matthew 7:7-8,

Malachi 3:18, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 3:6, John 1:31, Job 8:7, Isaiah 54:2, Ephesians 4:7, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, “But it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”