WISDOM IS PROFITABLE

Bible Texts: Pro.3:19-20, Pro.4:7, Jas.3:13-17, Jn.5:39, 2Tim.2:15, Jn.14:26, Is.58:8, Eph.1:18-19, Philp.2:13, Gal.4:19, Jn.15:5, Gal.5:22-23, Jn.10:10

Wisdom is and will always remain a profitable tool for the husbandman. The husbandman needs wisdom as much as the food he eats or the clothes he wears. Without wisdom, the husbandman will be defeated, frustrated and will struggle to be useful to himself, wife, children and the society. But what is wisdom?

Wisdom is searching to know, understanding what is discovered and doing what has been discovered and understood. This means knowledge, understanding and action.

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, by understanding hath he established the heavens. By knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew (Pro.3:19-20)

As the husbandman, you must not only seek to know, you must understand and act. It is your action or application of what you understood that makes you wise. It is the combination of the three forces of knowledge, understanding and wisdom that establishes your ministry as the good and godly husbandman.

Consider the word of God from Proverbs chapter 4.

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting, get understanding (Pro.4:7)

You must understand that there are different sources of knowledge that brings understanding and leads to action. But the source that is profitable to you is the one that comes from God through His word.

But who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy (Jas.3:13-17)

The wisdom, that is the action you take because of your understanding of what you know, that will profit you as the man, husband and father is the one which comes from the word of God and not from satan and the world. Any step or action you take that leads you to live in strife, envy, bitterness, hatred, malice, and all forms of ungodliness is of the devil and it does not profit you. But if what you seek to know, understand and act upon will lead you to live in peace with yourself, wife, children and others, and makes you bear the fruits of the Spirit of mercy, kindness, patience, compassion, forgiveness, hope, faith and joy, then that is the wisdom of God and it is profitable to you and to your ministry as the husbandman (Gal.5:22-23).

As the husbandman who wants to continue to grow in his assignment as the good and godly man, husband and father, you must give attention to the word of God by studying it with the intention to know (Jn.5:39, 2Tim.2:15). And as you get the knowledge, engage the Person of the Holy Spirit to open your eyes of understanding (Jn.14:26, Is.58:8, Eph.1:18-19). Thereafter, you engage the force of prayer so that you can be empowered to do exactly what God commands from His word (Philp.2:13, Jn.15:5).

The wisdom from God is better than the wisdom of man. The wisdom of God is enduring and profitable. The Bible is the way to access God’s wisdom for your profiting.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, I surrender my life to You and to the influence of Your word.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, give me understanding of Your word.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to act on Your instructions and commandments and build me up in godly wisdom.

FAITH CONFESSION

I search the Scriptures to know and I have understanding by the Spirit of God and I am acting on what God’s word commands by the Holy Ghost because that is what establishes me in heaven’s order of wisdom as the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.

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