Pastor Paul Enenche at Dunamis International Gospel Centre on “Access to Divine Wisdom Part 2” Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing. In every generation, there are principal people. Wisdom is a principal requirement for existence as a principal personality. Many great destines ended as disasters because of lack of shortage of wisdom. Samson was an example. Someone told him, if I want to kill you, tell me your secret and he still went ahead and told the person his secret which led to his untimely death. There are many today who enter into wrong relationships, regrettable business partnerships because of lack of divine wisdom. These are the ways to access Divine Wisdom:
i) Devotion to God
ii) Through revelation of Scriptures because the Word of God is the wisdom bank of God.
iii) Through supplication
iv) Through meditation on the Word or reflection generally about life. Joshua 1:8, Acts 10:19. The first thing meditation and reflection does is that they provoke direction and revelation from the Lord. God speaks to those who think, not worry. There is a difference between worrying and thinking. Worry is a destructive engagement of the mind. When you are bringing the problems of yesterday into the uncertainties of tomorrow, joining it with the situations of today, the end result is collapse. Worrying is the destructive engagement of the mind, thinking is the productive engagement of the mind. The process of meditation and reflection opens up channels of divine direction and revelation from above. When God speaks to you, it is wisdom. The Wisdom of God always speaks.
Secondly, the process of meditation and reflection produces a harvest of ideas from the heart or mind of man. Proverbs 20:5.
There are resident ideas in the heart of man. Ideas, wisdom and counsel that would have been there from many source but in the process of thinking, you draw it out like you draw water from a well. Suddenly you realise you have passed through certain experiences before and suddenly you realise that you did certain things to get out of the situation.
Those who think do not lack ideas or inspiration. There are many people who are waiting for things to happen by themselves or waiting for God to do everything but it doesn’t happen like that. There is nothing God gave to us that is useless including the mind. I heard Bishop David Oyedepo say sometime ago that God has given us mind so that we can give Him rest. So not everything is a prayer point, there are those that are thinking points. In the name that is above every other name, there is somebody here that is about to step into the realm of unusual answers. The truth of the matter is you think best when you think on paper. I have realized that as a writer of books, receiver and writer of songs by the grace and mercy of God that there is a connection between the pen and the thought. My secretary once told me, “how can you write 10-15 pages without cancelling anything. I realized it is because of the connection of the pen and thoughts which produces a flow. Write the vision, make it plain. I don’t know about you but the things I jotted down are the most impactful on my life.
v) Through instruction. We are talking about information acquisition. Knowledge is information, understanding is insight. When you have knowledge, you just got informed about something. When you gave understanding, you have insight into what information you got. When you gave wisdom, it is application. Wisdom is nothing but relevant information applied. You got some knowledge base and then you out it into practical application for the generation of results. There can be no wisdom without knowledge because knowledge or information are the raw materials for wisdom. Ignorance and stupidity ate twins. When you see an ignorant person, you do not need to look far to see a stupid person. An ignorant person was asked the difference between ignorance and apathy. He said, “I don’t know and I don’t care”. He defined both words with his reply. Ignorance is “I don’t know, apathy is “I don’t care”. That is the lifestyle of a confirmed person who is a fool. It has been said that if you want to hide anything from most blacks, put it in a book. that’s an endictment. If you want to add anything from an unwise person, put it in a book. A spoilt boy asked his father to buy him a car. His father bought a Bible and gave him. He said I told you I wanted a car, you are giving me a Bible. The father said, “my son, read this Bible. It can give you any car you want on earth. He threw away the Bible until his father died. He cried like he will cry his eyes out and went and picked the Bible. Inside the Bible was the car key. The father had already bought it but he wanted him to open the Bible so that he can find it. He wept and said, “I wish I had seen this when my father was alive and I would have thanked him.” He got it too late because he refused to open the book. Proverbs 15:33, Proverbs 1:1-3. Wisdom goes hand in hand with instruction. Proverbs 8:33, Proverbs 9:9, 15:5, 19:20. Those who know know that they do not know, so they keep learning. Be available for instructions. Agree to learn.
Instruction, information and knowledge make options available in times of decisions. . When you make yourself available in a lot of instructions, options or actionable steps are available. You cannot lack what to do if you are not bankrupt of information. Job 36:3. A wise person is known by the quality of their decisions.
Instruction, information and knowledge make insight from the account and experiences of others available and that birth wisdom. God’s servant, Bishop David Oyedepo said he read 39 biographies before stepping into Ministry. No wonder he is at the realm he is today because he gleaned wisdom from a wide base of information. I read all I could lay my hands then and that impacted my life so deeply. When you get wife information base, it stabilises you in what to do and not what to do.
In conclusion, everything that is of value carries a cost. Until the cost is embraced, the value is never accessed. If you need the Wisdom of God that is valuable to you, pay the price. Go for information and knowledge. Take time to sit down and think it through until you break through.
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