Ep 33 - The Spirit of Wisdom Part 2

Ep 33 - The Spirit of Wisdom Part 2

• Isaiah 11:1-5 
• 2 Chronicles 1:7-12
• 1 Kings 4:29-34
• Daniel 1
• Daniel 5
• Daniel 6:1-3

Transcript

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Speaking the truth in love, let's grow in every way. Welcome to the Let's Grow There podcast. I'm your host, Holly Star Jackson, and I'm so excited to grow with you today. Are you ready? All right then, let's grow there.

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Hello there and welcome back to the show. We're still in our series on the sevenfold spirit of God taken out of Isaiah chapter 11. And this week we're continuing to talk about the spirit of wisdom or skillfulness that we see in that chapter. So we're gonna just review our uh verses for the series and then get into it. Isaiah 11, 1 through 5 says, Out of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot, yes, a new branch bearing fruit from the old root, and the spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. He will delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by appearance nor make a decision based on hearsay. He will give justice to the poor and make fair decisions for the exploited. The earth will shake at the force of his word, and one breath from his mouth will destroy the wicked. He will wear righteousness like a belt and truth like an undergarment. We also have read that in the Passion Translation the last couple of weeks, but I'm gonna skip that today for time's sake. I'm gonna be reading a lot of other scripture today, so um you can read that again for yourself if you'd like to in the Passion Translation. And then uh so the sevenfold spirit of God includes the following: the spirit of the Lord or the spirit of prophecy, which we learned about the first week, and it's the manifest presence of God, and then the spirit of wisdom or extraordinary wisdom, which is what we're continuing to talk about this week, then the spirit of understanding or perfect understanding, the spirit of counsel or wise strategy, the spirit of might or mighty power, the spirit of knowledge or revelation, and the spirit of the fear of the Lord. And I know I'm rushing through those, but like I said, I want to read a lot of scripture today, so um don't want to take a lot of time on that in this review uh part of the show. So the spirit of wisdom or extraordinary wisdom. I told you that I got uh started on this whole journey by reading the footnotes and the passion translation on this scripture, and this is what it says the spirit of skillfulness, Exodus 31, 2 through 4, which you remember from last week was the story of where Bezalel and Oholiaab um were equipped and called and appointed, and the Holy Spirit was on them. God filled them uh with his spirit of this spirit of wisdom or skillfulness to be able to make all of the creative things in the tabernacle for the children of Israel according to God's designs, all the things, all the creative things of sewing, of um, of sculpting, of creating the the ark and the curtains for the tabernacle, all of the parts of it, all of the parts of the um altar and the utensils and all of the decorative things that were in um the original tabernacle that God cre uh called uh they gave to Moses to have created for worship while the children of Israel were in the wilderness. And so that is the that is the example that the Passion Translation gives was that um portion of scripture in Exodus 31. And it says that it gives the equipping ability for music, art, business, writing, creativity, and wisdom for judicial decisions. Also, Paul prayed for the churches to receive this spirit of wisdom in Ephesians 1, 17 through 19. So the wiz wisdom here is the Hebrew word kokma, and I don't know if I'm saying that exactly right. I think I said it a different way last week, and I think that one was wrong. But anyway, it is the Hebrew word kokma, and in the um, in the strong's, I mean, in on Bible Hub, when you go and you look in the Strong's definition of this word and you look through all of it and you get down to the lexicon page, it says this it's a comprehensive, God-centered quality of mind and life that discerns what is truly right and acts accordingly. While fundamentally moral and spiritual, it embraces practical insight, technical skill, administrative aptitude, and relational discernment. Appearing about 149 times in the Old Testament, it undergirds Israel's worship, ethics, statecraft, and artistry. So today I want to look at two more examples of this in the Old Testament. And the first one is King Solomon, and it is in uh Second Chronicles 1, 7 through 12. I'm going to read that here in the New King James Version. It says, On that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask, what shall I give you? And Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me king in his place. Now, O Lord God, let your promise to David my father be established. For you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. Now give me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this great people of yours? Then God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked for long life, but you have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people over whom I have made you king. Wisdom and knowledge are granted to you, and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like. So I'm gonna tell you that every single time that wisdom is mentioned here, it is that same word that we find in Isaiah 11, the spirit of wisdom. It is that exact same word that made Solomon be the wisest king who ever lived. And the wisdom of Solomon is extraordinary. And people came from all over the world to learn from Solomon. The queen of Sheba came to learn from Solomon, and she said that of all the amazing things that she had heard and did not believe, when she came and saw Solomon, she said they pale in comparison to reality. So she said that Solomon was much wiser and richer and even more amazing than all of the stories that she had heard about him. And it's because he asked God for this wisdom. And this wisdom is the same wisdom that um, you know, is in the spirit of the Lord that rested on Jesus, which we saw um in John when he was baptized in the Jordan when the spirit came down, Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove and rested on him. And it's the same spirit of wisdom that rests on our lives when we're full of the Holy Spirit and his power. So it's it's very, you know, uh the definition that I read a while ago was that it was the equipping ability. I would say Solomon was well equipped with the spirit of wisdom to lead Israel and to, and we're gonna read another passage about Solomon here real quick before we move on to the second one. And he was he was so wise, and that's I mean, that's an understatement of all the things that he knew. Let's look at 1 Kings 4, 29 through 34. It says, And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding and largeness of heart, like the sand on the seashore. Thus Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt, for he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Hermon and Chalkal and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. Also he spoke of trees from the cedar tree of Lebanon, even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall. He spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. And men of all nations from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom came to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Again, that's the same word wisdom that we see in Isaiah 11, the same word that's used to describe the Holy Spirit as the spirit of wisdom that rested on Jesus and that rests on our lives. And I have to tell you guys, if you can't tell, I'm so excited about this spirit of wisdom because it's not just something we're reading about in these Bible characters. It's not just something that was available to Jesus, but it's available to you and to me. And a lot of times, like um, we we're we're experiencing some of it and we don't even realize it. My husband and I were talking about that this morning and in coming into the Christian television network a couple of years ago, and he he recognizes as we're as we're reading about this, I'm sharing this stuff with him, and um, and we're getting more understanding and more knowledge about it. He recognizes, he said, you know, that's exactly how I came to know what I know about the cameras, about the lighting, about all the things that I've learned, and especially in the beginning, when he um he has a great story. I really need to have him on the show someday, but he's not um he's not really cooperative with me when I try to get him to come on here. And our schedules are kind of crazy too to try to make that happen. But he there is just so neat the way that the first week that he came to work in the Christian television network in the studio, he um he was at the beginning stages. He had never been in TV before, he had never worked cameras or lighting or done any of those things before. And he had to learn everything like from the start, you know, like from scratch. And so he he was in the studio one day and the Holy Spirit told him to what's in he asked the Holy Spirit asked him, what is in your hand? What do you have? And so Dave's like, I don't know, I don't know what's here. I just got here, you know, I just started working here. And so he came and he started looking around, or he went and he started looking around in the studio and all the rooms and kind of checking out what all the equipment was that was there, and he found some different things and he started looking into them, finding out what they were, doing some research on it. And it was just like each step that he took, the Holy Spirit guided him, and he just knew what to do next. And he, I I'm not telling it as good as he does, but he would he, there was like this one piece of equipment that he looked up and he found out how to uh get it all connected and working. And this was like in the first like week or two weeks of him being in the studio. We worked he anyway, try not to give unnecessary details, but he he got this stuff figured out and he emailed his boss something and she was like, she responded right away and she's like, How did you figure that out? And he goes, he thought he was in trouble because she responded so quickly. And he's like, Um, I just like I just looked it up and I just you know, I just did this and and looked up a few videos and and I just put it together. And she goes, Most people that have been in television don't know how to use that much, less somebody who's brand new. So it was like that was just an example of something that happened in that first couple of weeks, and things just continue to happen like that as he applied himself and he would take a step and he would just like listen, he would pray, he would listen to the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit would guide and direct him. And looking back, you know, it's easier to see, it's easy to see looking back what you know how things unfolded, you know. Hindsight is 2020. And at the time, you know, he was just like uh some in a in a way he was kind of overwhelmed with so much he needed to do and learn and figure out, and so much of it he had to do on his own. And he um, but he just kept taking one step and another step and another step and looking back, he can see how the Holy Spirit equipped him, enabled him, and just made him take the right steps to to learn what he needed to learn and to get to the point that he can do all the things that he needs to do. And it's been it's been quite an interesting and fascinating journey, really. But um, anyway, we can see that the Holy Spirit helped him throughout the whole thing and gave him wisdom to have the ability to do things that he had never done before, things he had not studied, things he had not been taught. And I think that as much as we experience that without understanding what we're experiencing it, I feel like the more that we're learning about this and the more we're digging into it in the word of God and looking, looking these things up and finding the comparisons and finding the scriptures and the stories and the and the characters in the Bible and the verses that talk about this, the more our eyes are open to all that the Holy Spirit is and all that he brings into our lives. And the more the more exciting it is to me because it because it's not just available to Jesus. It wasn't just the it wasn't just available to Jesus, the Holy Spirit is available to all of us. And I already know the Holy Spirit, I already talk to him every single day. I hear from him every day. And so knowing that he wants to make all of this available to me as well. I mean, I was pretty excited this morning when I was thinking about it and praying about it this morning before um before I got ready for the podcast. And I was just telling David, I was like, you know, if we will truly partner with him and and believe all of this that that the word of God says about the spirit of wisdom. I mean, that's just one part, one aspect of what's available and what the Holy Spirit is and and brings to our lives. But just that alone, I I think I said it last week, but no wonder the Bible says that everything we put our hands to will prosper. No wonder it says we'll have good success because the Holy Spirit is the equipping ability to do anything we need to do. The sky is the limit, and there's literally nothing that he can't give us the wisdom and the knowledge and the understanding to do and to succeed at if we will look to him. And no wonder the Bible says to look to the Lord, to lean on him and not lean on your own understanding. Because even in my best on my best days, you know, all that I understand with my best, you know, wisdom and knowledge and and everything that I know, it doesn't even compare. It's not a drop in the bucket compared to what the Holy Spirit knows, to what he has um seen, to what he, you know, he he sees ahead. He knows the future, he knows everything, he knows how it all works together, and he he knows knows it all, and he's making that available to us if we will just take advantage of it. He is, you know, it's like he doesn't force it on us, he helps us, he leads us, he guides us, but he can only do so much for us if we don't partner with him, if we aren't aware of what he's trying to get through to us, get across to us, to, you know, if we lean on our own understanding, and which we do so many times, just because that's human nature, to just rely on ourselves, to rely on what we know or don't know, and to just kind of sometimes we just get in like uh, you know, just like on autopilot, and we just go through life and we just make decisions and we just think that we know what we're doing, or you know, or we pray about it, but we don't, we don't, you know, really press in and get the full picture from him. And we're missing out when we do that because he has the full picture and he has all perfect understanding, perfect wisdom, perfect uh equipping, ability to share with us and to give to us and to impart to us, but we have to receive it. We have to make time for him, we have to make time to seek him, we have to be diligent to not rely on ourselves, to not rely on what we know in the natural, but to rely on him. And so many times in the natural, you know, it's the way that he leads us, sometimes and often it seems like it's the opposite of what we should do, or the opposite of what would be good, or the opposite of what would be wise, but he knows, he knows everything. And when we obey him and trust him and follow him, he's gonna lead us in success, he's gonna lead us in along the best pathways for our lives because he is the spirit of wisdom, and he wants to share that with us. So um, Solomon is one of the, if not the wisest men who ever lived on this earth, and definitely one of the wisest men in the Bible. Of course, Jesus is the wisest of all, he operated in perfection, um, and he operated fully submitted to the Holy Spirit, to the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of the Lord, all of the aspects that we're talking about. And so, of course, he was the wisest, but in Bible characters, besides Solomon and Jesus, I feel like the wisest character in the Bible is Daniel. So he's the second person that I want to look at today and just look at a few chapters about his life. And um, spoiler alert, Daniel operated in the same spirit of wisdom, and it was what caused him to succeed, caused him to have favor, caused him to excel in life, even though he was actually living in um in captivity. He was in the in the history of Israel, he his life was while they were captives in Babylon. So he served foreign kings, and yet he succeeded, and he was the top of all of the men in the kingdoms that he served under. I think he served under um, he served under several kings. I think it was three or four. I didn't look up those kind of details today, but um, it's been a while since I studied the whole life of Daniel. But he served under several kings in Babylon. So let's go and look and let's read in Daniel one, looking to see how much time I've spent already. Um in Daniel one, I'm just gonna start at the beginning and read probably most of this chapter to set the stage for for Daniel's life. So it says, In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, King of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim, King of Judah, into his hand with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his God, and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his God. Then the king instructed Ashpanaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king's descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good looking good looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans. And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king's delicacies, and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king. Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishel, and Azariah. To them the chief of the eunuchs gave these names. He gave Daniel the name Beltashazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishel Meshach, and to Azariah Abednego. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank, therefore he requested for the of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and good will of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink, for why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endanger my head before the king. So Daniel said to the steward, whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Michael, and Azariah, please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance be examined before you, and the appearance of the young men who eat the portion of the king's delicacies, and as you see fit, so deal with your servants. So he consented with them in this matter and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days. Ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king's delicacies. Thus the steward looked away, uh took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables. As for the four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. Now at the end of the days, when the king had said they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. Then the king interviewed them, and among them all none was found, like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they served before the king, and in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in his realm. Thus Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus or Cyrus. So, wow. So they had this same wisdom on their lives, and specifically Daniel did, and they were found to be ten times better and wiser than all of the wisest men in the land, than all of the educated men in the land, than all of even the sorcerers and the magicians, the ones who could do the supernatural type of things. Daniel and his friends were found to be ten times better. Why? Because of this wisdom that God gave them. And the same wisdom that was on Jesus, that was on Solomon, that is available to us today. So I also want to look over at Daniel 5, and we're going to look at whoops. We're going to look at another story in Daniel's life. And I I want to encourage you guys to read the book of Daniel this week. Look at all of the wisdom of Daniel and how he just, I really like the um, and I know I mention it a lot. It's not my main Bible, but I really love the Passion Translation because of the footnotes that are that um are included in the Passion Translation. I learned so much reading those footnotes of like cultural things, historical things, and um like cross-referencing types of things and and stuff like this about um like the wisdom of God and stuff like that. So um in Daniel, I really like the Passion Translation of Daniel as well and the footnotes. It talks about how Daniel was so wise in his leadership and just in life in general, but there's just a lot that you can get out of that, and it's the wisdom of God. So I encourage you to read that this week. Maybe even read it in the Passion Translation and look at the footnotes, and you'll be blessed doing that. Um, so Daniel 5. Let's see. We might read all of this one too. I told you we're gonna read a lot of scripture today. So let's start at the beginning of Daniel 5. Belshazzar the king. So here is another king that Daniel's serving under. The last one was Nebuchadnezzar, and then I believe between that um chapter and this one, he also served under Let me see, Nebuchadnezzar, and then Okay, so from Nebuchadnezzar then to Belshazzar. Okay, so Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand uh for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the temple, which had been in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines drank for them from them. They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened, and his knees knocked against each other. He was terrified, and well he should be. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke sayings to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever reads this writing and tells me its interpretation shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck, and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. Now all the kings, quote unquote, wise men, came, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king its interpretation. Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, his countenance was changed, and his lords were astonished. The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came to the banquet hall. The queen spoke, saying, O king, live forever. Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance change. There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, your father the king, made him chief of the music magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Beltashazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will give the interpretation. Um before I go on, I want to mention that this last verse that I read in uh verse eleven in chapter five, where it speaks of understanding and wisdom, and uh I'm sorry, in verse 12, it speaks of an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving ribbles, explaining enigmas being found in Daniel. These are also part of the other um spirit, spirit of the Lord, other parts of the spirit of the Lord that we're gonna look at in the weeks to come. Um the interpreting dreams and uh riddles, that's one of the other ones that we're gonna talk about. So we'll probably visit Daniel uh again when we get to those. So then it goes on to say, Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are Are you that Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah? I have heard of you that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. Now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me that they should read this writing and make known to me its interpretation. But they could not give the interpretation of the thing, and I have heard of you that you can give interpretations and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Yet I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation. O king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father, a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor, and because of the majesty that he gave him Ah I lost my place. All peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished he executed, whomever he wished he kept alive, whomever he wished he set up, and whomever he wished he put down. But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was disposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. Then he was driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beast, and his dwelling was with wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the most high God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever he chooses. But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all of this, and you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords and your wives and your concubines have drunk wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know, and the God who holds your breath in his hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. Then the fingers of the hand were sent from him, and this writing was written, and this is the inscription that was written, Mini Mini Tikle Uparson. I'm sure I'm not saying those right. This is the interpretation of each word, Mina Mini, it God has numbered your kingdom and finished it. Tikal, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting. Perez, your kingdom had been divided and given has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians. Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple, put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be third ruler in the kingdom. That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain, and Darius the Mead received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. So that's the third king that Daniel will serve serve under while he is in Babylon. So wow, the wisdom of God in Daniel's life, it served him all of his life, through all of these kings' lives that he was serving under. And he was top, he was top in the land, in a foreign land, not even in his own land, not in the land of not in the land of God's people, not in the land of Israel, but in the land of Babylon. He succeeded and he prospered and he was wise beyond all wisdom of all of the people in those kingdoms. And that's just another, just one more example. There's so many um examples and so many scriptures that have this wisdom and the Spirit of God um on people's lives that show us what all is available, what all the Holy Spirit encompasses, and what he brings to our lives. And it is fascinating to me. I want to read one last scripture about Daniel before I close for today. In verse in chapter six, it says, It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps to be over the whole kingdom, and over these three governors of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss. Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And we know what that spirit was. It was the spirit of the Lord, the Holy Spirit. And the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. So again, this is the third king Daniel served under in captivity, and all three of them raised him to be in the top level leadership of their country, even though he was a foreigner and he was a captive. And we see this wisdom elevates us. It causes us to rise among men, not for our glory, but for God's purposes. It was God's purpose that Daniel rose to power, that it was God's purpose that Solomon ruled over God's people. Well, it was God's purpose that Joseph in the prison and in Potiphar's house succeeded. He was successful because he had wisdom, because he had the wisdom of God, because he was because that was God's purpose in his life. And even in captivity, even in prison, even in slavery, these men excelled, not just Solomon and being king, but these men in captivity, Joseph in in prison, in Potiphar's house, they excelled in those places because of the Spirit of God and the wisdom of God that was on their lives. How much more can you and I excel and succeed today if we operate in this wisdom, if we lean on the Holy Spirit, if we look to Him and we say, Lord, direct my past, enlighten me, give me your wisdom, open my eyes to see, open my ears to hear, open my mind to understand, and my heart to receive all of the wisdom that you have available to me. If we will do that, we will begin to see our lives go up another level. I know, I know that I am seeing it already. I am even just these last couple of weeks, I feel like I have begun to come up in things that, you know, and in hope. And sometimes that's the the uh very often the very first step is when you have when you're made aware of something, when you have revelation about it, you begin to be hopeful and you get your hopes up and you get excited because of what you can see ahead, because of what's available to you, because of what's possible. And I'm beginning to see possibilities that I've never seen before. And I hope that you are too, because um it's incredible what God has. The Bible says, what eye has not seen and ear has not heard, all of the incredible things that God has prepared for those who love Him. But our eyes are being opened to see and our ears are being opened to hear. And we are being made to see all that God has for us. And in the Holy Spirit, in wisdom, in understanding, and skillfulness, the ability to do things beyond the natural ability. This is why all of God's people, Christians, should be at the top of every uh, you know, they have they say there's seven mountains of influence, you know, government, media, family, religion, arts and entertainment, education, and um religion. Did I say religion? I think that's all seven of them. But Christians should not just be at the top of the religion one. We should be at the top of all of the mountains of the spheres of influence in this earth. We should be at the top even of media and entertainment, at the top of government. I think government, I think I said one of them wrong, uh uh twice. Uh government is one of them. We should be at the top of government. Daniel was. He was at the top of the governing, and yes, he was serving under a king, but that was still their government at the time. And Daniel was at the top of it. Joseph was at the top, underneath Pharaoh. And God wants us to be at the top, and he gives us the equipping ability to get there. He gives us the equipping ability to excel, to do better than those around us. But I I believe that Christians have not tapped into these things, that we have not walked in faith, we have not walked in understanding, we have not walked in revelation about this stuff. And as we begin to do that, we're gonna see things change. We're gonna see turnaround in areas, and we're gonna see more and more Christians who are filled with the Spirit of God, empowered to possess the land, to take dominion, to take authority, to take over in the land and to make things right, because that's what God wants us to do. That's what he's called us to do. He's called us to rule and reign in this life through Jesus. And just like he put Adam and Eve in the garden and told them to take dominion, to have dominion and to rule over the earth, that's the same thing that he is saying to us today. He wants us to take dominion, to walk in the authority that he's given to us. Jesus said, All authority is given to me, and he gave that authority to us. He gave us the permission to use his name of authority in every area of life and in this earth. And if we are doing anything else or anything less than that, then we're missing out. And, you know, for one thing, we're missing out, and that's sad. But for another thing, God's gonna say to us someday, hey, why what were you doing? I made all of this available to you. I was there, I gave you the spirit, the Holy Spirit, I gave you the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of skillfulness, and what did you do with it? What did you do with that spirit? What did you do with that wisdom? What did you do with what I gave you? And we're gonna answer for those things. And I don't know about you, but I want to hear him say, You did it. You did exactly what I put you there to do. You relied on me, you trusted in me, you received the Holy Spirit, you received my spirit, you received the spirit of wisdom, and you walked it out, and you did well. Well done. That's what I want to hear, and I know that's what you want to hear too. And so that's what we're gonna we're gonna hear as we continue to learn, to grow, and to keep applying what we know and what we learn, and walking in the spirit of wisdom, looking to the Holy Spirit in every area of life, in every aspect of our lives, and trusting Him. It's like I said, it's exciting, it's an adventure. I can't wait to see what all is ahead. And it it's um it's energizing as you begin to realize you you start to feel you start to feel invincible and unstoppable, and you start to feel kind of special, and you know what? You are special because the Holy Spirit, God's Spirit, lives in you. He is with you and He is empowering you. And so that makes you more special than anything else ever could. So anyway, I could go on and on, but I'm going to let you go for the day, and I will see you back next week. Maybe we'll do some more examples on the spirit of wisdom because I'm very into it right now, or maybe we'll move on to the next one. We'll see. I'll let you know next week. Have a great week. Go back and read Daniel, look into it, and read about Solomon too, and be inspired to be all that you can be in your areas of influence and your spheres of influence in your life. All right. Have a great day, guys.