Tapping Into Wisdom's Treasures
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Tapping Into Wisdom's Treasure
Do you often find yourself in pressure situations where you feel like you don't have the wisdom to make the right decisions? Pressure often pushes people into making poor choices. God's wisdom will keep pressure from pushing you around. Tapping Into Wisdom's Treasures will tea
David Shearin
David Shearin is the founder and Senior Pastor of Word of Life Christian Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The church has grown from 5 people to over 2,000 and continues to reach out through various ministries, including a weekly television broadcast, The Word For Living. In addition to pastoring, David minister's in churches, conferences and Bible Schools throughout the U.S. and in other nations.
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Tapping Into Wisdom's Treasures - David Shearin
Introduction
Do you ever find yourself in situations where you feel like you don’t have the wisdom to handle them? Have you ever made a wrong business decision? Wrong investment? Have you ever gotten involved with the wrong person? Or made an agreement with somebody that didn’t carry out his or her end of the agreement? Like you, I have felt lost and have not always known what to do in every situation or how to respond to every circumstance that has come my way. But I always confess that I know what to do. Why? God made Jesus wisdom to us. Just like the bay and the ocean are one. The same water in the ocean is the water that flows into the bay. The same life that is in Christ flows into you today as a believer in union with Jesus Christ. The same wisdom that is in Christ flows into your spirit and you can tap into it. You can draw from the wisdom of God that is stored up in the person of Jesus Christ. The Scripture says, Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
There is counsel in your heart. There is a wealth of wisdom, but you must learn to tap into and to receive that wisdom.
In this book Tapping Into Wisdom’s Treasure I will give you five practical ways to tap into the wealth of divine wisdom and knowledge that belongs to you in Christ. The Holy Spirit will give you access into God’s wisdom so you will be able to see the way that God sees your situation. God’s wisdom will show you what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and with whom to do it, so you can make the right decisions, get the right results, and God’s blessing will be on your life!
Chapter 1
The One Thing that Makes All the Difference
On that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask! What shall I give you?
2 Chronicles 1:7
What would you say if God asked you the question He asked Solomon?
Seriously. Consider it for a moment.
Imagine the Creator of the universe appeared to you tonight, woke you out of a sound sleep, and offered to give you whatever you want. As you shook the cobwebs from your head and rubbed your astonished eyes, how would you respond? What would you request?
Before you answer, let me give you a hint. There’s one particular request you could make that would outshine any other. It’s a request that, once granted, would abundantly enrich every area of your life. It would reveal solutions to your most perplexing problems. It would enable you to turn troubles into triumphs. And it would put within your reach every good thing you could ever desire—not just temporarily, but for the rest of your life.
What request could possibly cover so much ground? The one Solomon made in 2 Chronicles 1:10:
O Lord God…give me wisdom and knowledge!
That is definitely a very powerful prayer. When Solomon prayed it, God responded in a big way. He not only made Solomon the wisest man in the world, He turned him into the richest and one of the most honored kings in the Old Testament.
In light of that fact, you’d expect everybody who ever read the Bible to follow his example. You’d think believers everywhere would constantly be praying what Solomon prayed. But that’s not necessarily what’s happening. As Christians pray about the challenges of everyday life, Solomon’s request isn’t always the first thing that comes to their minds.
Instead, they’re likely to ask for other things. They might think about the financial challenges they’re facing and ask God for money or a better paying job. They might think about the unfulfilled dreams in their heart and ask Him for opportunity, or influence, or honor.
I don’t mean to imply that Christians don’t ever ask God for wisdom at all. Eventually, most of us get around to it. It just might not be the first request on our list.
Why is that? Because wisdom is greatly undervalued these days. Although we as believers know it’s a good thing, we don’t always think of it as the best or most important thing in life. Yet God says that’s exactly what it is. He tells us clearly in the Bible:
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; she will bring you honor, when you embrace her. She will place on your head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory she will deliver to you." (Prov. 4:7-9)
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding; for her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her. (Prov. 3:13-18)
Talk about a wonderful life! What more could anyone want than grace, glory, promotion, honor, long life, riches, happiness, pleasantness, and peace? That’s the kind of life we all dream of! And the Bible says it can be ours if we will do this one thing:
Get wisdom.
When we have enough of God’s wisdom and we live according to it we can, as the saying goes, Have it all! We can experience the fullest measure of what Jesus has provided for us through the plan of redemption. We can truly live the abundant life.¹
Direct from the Storehouse to You
But Pastor David,
you might say, I’m not like Solomon. I’m just a normal person. Could such extraordinary wisdom really be available to me?
Certainly!
God’s will from the beginning has been to make it available to all mankind. You can see that by looking at how God created Adam. He made him in His own image, put His own life in him, and endowed him with enough divine understanding and intelligence to exercise dominion over the whole earth. One of Adam’s first jobs was to name every creature in the animal kingdom. Think about the creativity and insight that required! It was a monumental task. Yet Adam was up to it because he had an absolutely amazing intellect.
Adam’s brilliance would have remained fully intact and the entire human race would have inherited it if he’d stuck with God’s original plan. But, sadly, he didn’t. Instead, he chose to sin. Through sin, spiritual death and mortality came, and much of humanity’s intellectual brilliance and creativity was destroyed.
That was a tragedy, no question about it. But, as you well know, it’s not the end of the story. Sin didn’t get to have the last word. Jesus did.
He came to earth and purchased our redemption. In His death, He was made to be our sin. He became what we were, died in our place as our substitute, and paid the sin-debt we owed but could not pay. Then, through His resurrection, He restored everything we lost. He became the first of a whole different breed, the firstborn of an entirely new race of humanity.
As the last Adam,
² Jesus became the Storehouse, so to speak, of everything God wanted mankind to be. All God’s divine attributes were invested in Him, then we were given the opportunity to be born again in Him so that in Christ we can be everything He is and have everything He has. As the New Testament says:
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him. (Col. 2:9)
For He [God] made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Cor. 5:21)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God. (2 Cor. 5:17-18)
In my book, The Master Key, we explored what it means to be a new creation
in Christ. We learned that in Him we have an entirely new