Episode 2-46: Gifts of the Spirit Series: Word of Wisdom
Welcome Back! I am your host Dawn Simmons and in this episode of Conquering Our Unseen Enemies we are continuing our discussion of the spiritual gifts and this episode is specifically devoted to the gift of Wisdom. What we are talking about here is a supernatural level of wisdom, which is one of the Revelation gifts. Many of the people I have heard say they think they have this gift, actually don’t and the reason I can say that with ease is because most people don’t understand what it is, it is not related to what we consider earthly wisdom. To get to a better understanding we need to lay the foundation real quick.
As always, let’s discuss our Top Show points:
· Discussed the spiritual gift of Wisdom, which is one of the Revelation gifts.
· 1 Corinthians 12
· Power Gifts, Spoken Gifts, Revelation Gifts
· The 9 Spiritual Gifts are: wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, healings, miraculous powers, prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues, interpretation of tongues.
· The definition of wisdom is: the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.
· Worldly wisdom and Supernatural wisdom are not in the same family.
· To understand wisdom, we have to first believe, understand and trust that this gift is truly, positively and absolutely given to us by the One True God. There is no other source of supernatural wisdom.
· This gift is like no wisdom here on earth, that is generated by man, no matter what they do, no matter what their education, no matter what their IQ.
· 1 Corinthians 2, Paul discussed Godly wisdom
· We should all be on the same page that the One True God knows the past, the present and the future.
· The gift of wisdom isn’t just a stand-alone gift and it is more than just one thing. It is a set of something in a moment in time that relates to a set of something in the future. Remember earthly wisdom and spiritual wisdom are not related.
· Let’s go to Genesis 6, verse 11and 7:11, the story of Noah
· The Lord gave Noah a word of wisdom, meaning He gave him an explanation of an event coming in the future and what he would need to do to avoid that destruction.
· Let’s take a look at a New Testament example of a word of wisdom being given in Acts 9. In this example we saw two gifts in operation, the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge.
· Discussed Saul’s encounter with the Lord on his way to Damascus.
· Acts 9, verse 10:
· Example of a word of knowledge when God shared with Ananias Saul was in Damascus and where he was staying, and Saul’s vision. That was a word of knowledge revealed through the Holy Spirit, Ananias could not have known that on his own.
· The word of wisdom. The Holy Spirit says he will use Saul in the future as His chosen instrument to proclaim the gospel to the Gentiles.
· Ananias chose to obey the word of wisdom given and the world was changed as a result.
· To further clarify, the word of wisdom is not what Solomon operated with, that was an elevated level of earthly wisdom to navigate what happens on earth at a given time.
· It is one thing to have earthly wisdom and it is another to use it. If the Holy Spirit gives you something, use it, don’t squander it.
We encourage you:
· To have an active Bible reading plan, it will be helpful in gaining wisdom and understanding and it is required for the gift of spiritual discernment
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I have enjoyed our time this week and look forward to spending time with you again next week!