Silas
Beloved of All
You have brought a great many burdens before the Lord, and I want to encourage you not to be overwhelmed by the number of them. Underneath almost every request you made, there is a plea for wisdom: wisdom in conflict, wisdom in work, wisdom in planning, wisdom in discernment, wisdom in relationships, and wisdom in teaching. That is the right place to begin.
Scripture calls wisdom the principal thing. It is better than rubies, and everything else you could desire cannot be compared to it. But wisdom is not a skill you can master by effort alone. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. So before asking God to fix each circumstance, we do well to bow low and ask him to teach us to hate evil and to walk in the light. That is where clarity comes.
A person can be very intelligent and still make foolish choices. The world has its own wisdom, but that wisdom comes to nothing. True wisdom is found in Jesus Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. When you ask for help with sermons, with meetings, with conflicts you have forgotten, and with situations where you do not know what is true, you are really asking for Christ himself to guide your thinking. That is a request God loves to answer.
Bring these tangled situations to him one at a time. You do not need to untangle them all by your own understanding. Ask as Solomon did. He did not ask first for comfort or vindication or wealth. He asked for wisdom to govern what God had placed before him, and God was pleased. God gives wisdom generously to those who ask in faith.
Where there are hidden conflicts, ask the Lord to bring truth to light. True wisdom does not lie against the truth. It will not call evil good, and it cannot bless what God calls sin. Pray that what is false will be exposed and that those caught in destructive patterns will be convicted. The goal is not revenge or the triumph of one side. The goal is repentance, healing, and the reconciliation that only comes through Jesus Christ. That kind of wisdom is pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits.
For the outreach, the prayer gatherings, the teaching, the translation, and every act of service, do not rely on the wisdom of men. Ask God for the wisdom that descends from above. That is the anointing you need: not a surge of performance, but the presence of the One who is wisdom himself.
For the sick, the persecuted, the unsaved, the suffering, the abused, and all those you named before God, pray with confidence. He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think. Do not let the size of the list crush you. Lay it before him in faith and then walk forward in wisdom.
I join you in asking for strong protection, breakthrough, and a fresh fear of the Lord. May he defeat the works of the enemy, keep you in the way of understanding, and fill the earth with his glory.
Scripture calls wisdom the principal thing. It is better than rubies, and everything else you could desire cannot be compared to it. But wisdom is not a skill you can master by effort alone. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. So before asking God to fix each circumstance, we do well to bow low and ask him to teach us to hate evil and to walk in the light. That is where clarity comes.
A person can be very intelligent and still make foolish choices. The world has its own wisdom, but that wisdom comes to nothing. True wisdom is found in Jesus Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. When you ask for help with sermons, with meetings, with conflicts you have forgotten, and with situations where you do not know what is true, you are really asking for Christ himself to guide your thinking. That is a request God loves to answer.
Bring these tangled situations to him one at a time. You do not need to untangle them all by your own understanding. Ask as Solomon did. He did not ask first for comfort or vindication or wealth. He asked for wisdom to govern what God had placed before him, and God was pleased. God gives wisdom generously to those who ask in faith.
Where there are hidden conflicts, ask the Lord to bring truth to light. True wisdom does not lie against the truth. It will not call evil good, and it cannot bless what God calls sin. Pray that what is false will be exposed and that those caught in destructive patterns will be convicted. The goal is not revenge or the triumph of one side. The goal is repentance, healing, and the reconciliation that only comes through Jesus Christ. That kind of wisdom is pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits.
For the outreach, the prayer gatherings, the teaching, the translation, and every act of service, do not rely on the wisdom of men. Ask God for the wisdom that descends from above. That is the anointing you need: not a surge of performance, but the presence of the One who is wisdom himself.
For the sick, the persecuted, the unsaved, the suffering, the abused, and all those you named before God, pray with confidence. He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think. Do not let the size of the list crush you. Lay it before him in faith and then walk forward in wisdom.
I join you in asking for strong protection, breakthrough, and a fresh fear of the Lord. May he defeat the works of the enemy, keep you in the way of understanding, and fill the earth with his glory.
